Keep in mind Flu A LFTs are far less sensitive than SARS-CoV-2 LFTs—about half. A negative Flu A test doesn’t rule out infection. Flu A viral load peaks fast & declines quickly, making pre-symptomatic & late testing unreliable. SARS-CoV-2 has higher, longer viral loads & more pre-symptomatic shedding.

@DrEricDing Waiting 2 months seems too long—why wait? Surely the current administration can take action now, given that this issue has been intensifying over the past ~8 months. What specific steps can and should be taken right away?

Just adding that not all humidifiers are the same. In Colorado, for example, we found that ultrasonic humidifiers can indeed lead to poor air quality, leaving a fine white dust of calcium deposits on surfaces due to tap water minerals. But, evaporative and steam humidifiers avoid this issue by trapping the minerals as residue within the humidifier.

@seanpk

Is there evidence showing a difference in clinical outcomes for patients with high Lp(a) who achieve therapeutically reduced ApoB/LDL-c levels compared to those without intervention? In other words, are there any studies that specifically show Lp(a) risk can be offset by reducing total atherogenic burden while Lp(a) levels remain high?

@DrEricDing Is there a test, or just symptoms?

@elonmusk Is it still disinformation if it was mostly accurate at the time of print?

@Casey Amazing how many install iStatMenus first thing. Even more amazing macOS still does not natively have an option to show bandwidth/cpu in the taskbar

@affinitybyserif Please consider releasing a digital asset manager

@CFE_Contigo , @CFEmx estamos sin luz en San José del Cabo, nunca hubo lluvias ni vientos,cuando se restablecerá el servicio o qué es la situación? Gracias

@AdamPhilipStern That is insane.

@DrEricDing @ddiamond Dr. Ding: Any opinion on repurposing ACAM2000 to bridge the gap? Are you generally satisfied with the current administration's approach?

@DrEricDing Dr. Ding - Agree. Do you feel the current administration is acting with appropriate haste and urgency in response to Monkeypox? To my uneducated eye, the numbers appear grim.

RT @tastybits: No wonder best Japanese restaurants stopped allowing reservations from westerners. 6x increase in tourism to Japan right a…

@DrEricDing Surprising there is no special expedited track to safely test & deploy minor modifications to the mRNA to stay ahead. Seems odd we can go from no vaccine to distributing multiple working vaccines in < 1 yr, but can't "tweak the recipe" in > 1 yr.

@chrisconnolly @archillect Always wanted to photograph this place. Oh well!

@MonicaGandhi9 @eladgil You mentioned the 3 vs. 4 wk. gap between BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 doses 1+2, but not the 30 mcg vs 100 mcg doses. Given the similarity in vaccines, is that less significant than delay between dosing, wrt waning antibody immunity?

@DrEricDing Dr Ding-Q.. Wrt mRNA-1273/BNT162b2, why continue to vaccinate against the reference strain as opposed to an updating blend of strain-matched mRNA? By the time vaccines are updated for B.1.351 this fall, B.1.617.2/C.1.2 may then be dominant. Any way to safely expedite?

@DrEricDing @charles_gaba Dr. Ding-Don’t disagree, but there is a certain viciousness in your constant politicization and polarization of the unvaccinated, which may have the effect of fewer vaccinations. Why not turn the temp down and focus on educating risk/reward. Most want to make informed decisions.