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Nov 15, 2022

🧀Version 5.3 of my adaptation of a Swiss cheese transmission risk reduction graphic; applied to 𝙖𝙣𝙮 airborne virus 🧀Background and version history of the image up to this version, now updated on my blog: virologydownunder.com/the-swiss-chee

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Excess deaths in Australia in 2022 the worst in 70 years

Prof Brendan Crabb AC

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Excess deaths in Australia in 2022 the worst in 70 years

sbs.com.au

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Prof Brendan Crabb AC

@CrabbBrendan

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Much more than a single health issue, COVID-19 has set back human development like nothing else in many decades. This 2020/21 decline in life expectancy continues through 2022/23. It is unlikely to end itself any time soon. What happens next is up to us.

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How it's going nejm.org/doi/full/10.10

This will remain one of my all-time favourite internet videos 🎥

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A lie that won’t die is that lockdown caused an increase in youth suicide the actual data is somewhat suggestive the opposite maybe true … see linked threads in next tweet from adolescence psychiatrist and suicidologist

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Children committed suicide because of lockdown. RIP Mark Horton #thelockdownfiles telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/0

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For those outside Oz. We aren’t really scared of snakes spiders and creepy crawlies. It’s the birds that scare us.

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That's scary as hell.

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The Virologist

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Did flu come from fish? Genetics points to influenza's aquatic origin

Did flu come from fish? Genetics points to influenza’s aquatic origin

nature.com

Nature - Corals, sturgeon and other aquatic creatures harbour signs of infection by influenza and its distant relatives.

Gonna try waves once this sets. Teensy coaster Beach scene is the goal. Not with this one, it's a tester.

This comes highly recommended! It's like a horizontal 1:1 Weis bar.

Perfect. Ditto (if okay to do so) twitter.com/erinbiba/statu

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Hi Toby! Our most up to date information on births and newly registered pregnancies in the NHS (to October 2022) shows no decline in either... 1/

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A lot of people have been asking me about declining birth rates, so I've taken a look at the maternity services data from England (again!) Deliveries and new pregnancies continue to look pretty flat... 1/

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H5N1 strain in Cambodia had no genetic changes which are associated with an increased ability to infect people, CDC says. Both cases were bird-to-human

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#SNL aired their Thanksgiving special tonight. This is probably the hardest I have ever laughed at one of their skits. 😂 A huge part of Will Ferrell's genius is his ability to keep a straight face.

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🎥The town of Marinka in #Donetsk Oblast, destroyed by Russian invasion forces. Russkiy mir. 10 700 civilians lived here prior to Russian full-scale invasion in February 2022, 70% spoke Ukrainian language. #UkraineRussiaWar

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The Innovation | Medicine

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Gram positive / negative bacteria #microbiology #MedEd #MedTwitter #biology

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mark belan | scientific illustrator/visualizer

@markabelan

Australian university sector makes record $5.3bn surplus while cutting costs for Covid

Visualizing the Biomass of Life 🐷🐦🐞🐌🦌🦩🦜🐁🐠🦀🦔🪸 #biomass #science #poster #art #life #earth #infographic #design #illustration #illustratorsontwitter #scientificillustration #dataviz #data #dataart #dataillustration #infodesign #information #vizscicomm #scicomm #biology

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Why are people quoted in this article defining “success” of Australian universities in financial terms? Research and teaching outcomes are what define success, not profit.

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Department of Education figures reveal all but three universities reported a surplus, including $1bn for the University of Sydney

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I dream of having all the equipment I need AND getting good data. But it’s only a dream. #cartoon #academia #science

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My profile of

is out! It's not every day you get to peer into what makes such an unusual researcher tick, and I hope you enjoy the results:

yalealumnimagazine.org

Akiko Iwasaki and the fight against COVID

How a leading Yale immunologist reworked her entire lab at the beginning of the pandemic--and became one of the most prolific and visible COVID researchers.

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Terry Matalas is indeed Star Trek royalty. His work, bringing Star Trek: Picard Year 3 to life is an incredible gift to all of us who love Gene Roddenberry's creation in general and Star Trek: TNG in particular. TBH, we not-so-secretly think of Picard 3 as TNG Year 8.

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The who are doing what where?? 👀👀😁🚀

The Mandalorian and The Expanse

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Why it is always crucial to remain open-minded and wait for additional evidence before accepting every conclusion of a study....or dismissing it out of hand. Good studies are to learn from, not adjudicate. Peer review, on Twitter and elsewhere, should be constructive.

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A year ago @zalaly and colleagues published an important paper @NatureMedicine on 1-year increased risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes with #LongCovid nature.com/articles/s4159 It was met with skepticism

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Here is the brilliant ⁦

@ComposerBarton

⁩ conducting his Titan theme with all those wonderful nods to Horner in his arrangement. String section only. It’s been stuck in my head for over a year. #StarTrekPicard

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Just finished the movies & TV series' (not the prequel yet) of #MysteryRoad. Highly recommend if you're after a dive into the beauty, the people & a bit of the scary of the Aussie bush. Beautifully shot, scored, written & edited, in both formats.

Ridiculous talk. Read this and learn something. virologydownunder.com/sigh-yes-the-c

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#cookers were out and making noise along Swanston St Melb

Marion Koopmans, virology; emerging infections

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Isolation of sarbecoviruses that do not bind to the human ACE receptor. Authors conclude the zoonotic potential may be broader than currently thought biorxiv.org/content/10.110

Latest human bird flu cases in China raise concerns of potential outbreak

Latest human bird flu cases in China raise concerns of potential outbreak

straitstimes.com

Though human-to-human transmission is rare, the virus is dangerous for those infected by exposure to poultry. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Denis - The COVID info guy -

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‘Getting your booster dose is like recharging your phone when the battery is low’: Brett Sutton. Victorian COVID cases have fallen again in the last week but mutant strains — including the highly infectious Kraken strain — are on the rise. #COVID19Vic heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/ge

Next up on Cochrane Reviews, do submarine doors really work? We compiled studies comparing the use of screen doors to airtight doors used for 3 hours and then openned whilst underwater. Results were inconclusive! #ControversyGeneratesClicks

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I find that #cookers often don’t even read the full article … I’ve tripped up many a #cooker that way. They go awful quiet. If only they’d “do their research”. #DumbAngryFools

1. #Flu activity has dropped off dramatically since its peak around Thanksgiving, but this odd early season still can't seem to bring itself to an end. For the 6th week in a row it is hovering just above the epidemic threshold. A 🧵

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Hat's off to who did this 👏

vis.csh.ac.at

SARS-ANI VIS

A Global Open Access Dataset of Reported SARS-CoV-2 Events in Animals.

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In the United States, it's all the XBB.1.5 variant, now accounting 90% of new cases. Still no other variant showing gains (which is good). covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra

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Sadly, not at all surprising. Expected if anything. Not a new change. Hopefully lots of these people were vaccinated in this group and so protected by a safe & effective #measles #vaccine.

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Do Masks Work For COVID-19?

I can’t believe that in 2023 we are talking about #measles in the #USA Sad that one #unvaccinated person with measles has potentially exposed an unknown number of people at a gathering of 20,000 people in #Kentucky The

in #vaccine hesitancy has many dangerous effects

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Do masks work for COVID-19? It depends entirely on what we mean by 'work' My new piece

gidmk.medium.com

The question we’re still somehow debating

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Jeffrey Duchin, MD @DocJD@mastodon.world

@DocJeffD