Dear #COVID19 Scientists,
Isn’t it nice to think about your pre-COVID interests??
Let’s see the diversity of pre-COVID interests...
In one tweet, write what you study in pre-COVID times (and maybe post a link to a paper your most proud of...)
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Ok I’ll start: Interactions between pathogens, vaccines and our immune system - to alter susceptibility to seemingly unrelated infectious diseases. Here, we discovered that measles causes immunological amnesia and increases death from other infectionshttps://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6235/694 …
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Replying to @michaelmina_lab
That was you? I had read that back when and found it very interesting. Small world.
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Replying to @zeynep @michaelmina_lab
In a similar vein, this research from 2012 suggests that the age cohort that had exposure to 1890 flu had stronger immune responses that triggered the bacterial pneumonia that actually caused most of the mortality in in the 1918 pandemic.pic.twitter.com/591TTkTDqn
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Just imagine if that attack rate/mortality distribution had applied to this one. ::shudder::
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