Roxanne Khamsi
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Some Covid Survivors Have Antibodies That Attack the Body, not Virus
Nytimes.com 83d 24 tweets
New research found ‘autoantibodies’ similar to those in lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients. But patients may also benefit from treatments for those autoimmune diseases.
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Roxanne Khamsi Super interesting reporting from self-attacking antibodies that might arise from infection 83d
Thumbscrew (Fujiwara/ Formanek/ Halvorson) celebrates Mary Halvorson’s 40th Birthday - Roulette
Roulette 93d 1 tweets
The collective trio will present new music from their forthcoming album, Never is Enough, plus a selection of tunes from their latest release, The Anthony Braxton Project, mixed in with other originals and covers developed over the past nine years...
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Roxanne Khamsi One of my best friends (and fellow) Mary Halvorson is giving a live jazz concert *right now* at and you can tune in here. Happy Friday! 93d
The inside story of how Trump’s COVID-19 coordinator undermined the world’s top health agency
Science | AAAS 95d 40 tweets
How physician Deborah Birx’s unreasonable demands for hospital data created a “debacle” at CDC
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Roxanne Khamsi “Birx was able to get data from every hospital on every case” in Malawi, the official says. “She couldn’t understand why that wasn’t happening in the United States” with COVID-19. This part of 's blistering new story says it all. 95d
The Medical Ordeals of JFK
The Atlantic 426d 2 tweets
The core of the Kennedy image was, in many respects, a lie. A presidential biographer, granted access to medical files, portrays a man far sicker than the public knew.
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Roxanne Khamsi JFK’s medicines. "steroids for his Addison’s disease; painkillers... anti-spasmodics for his colitis; antibiotics ...; antihistamines ...; and, on at least one occasion, an anti-psychotic (though only for two days)" h/t 101d
Pence’s Red Eye Raises COVID Concerns
WebMD 102d 1 tweets
The possibility that Pence has pinkeye is then more significant given the coronavirus outbreak now hitting the White House.
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Roxanne Khamsi Did you know that eye doctors in China were the first to spot Covid-19 and among the first healthcare workers to die from it? "Nearly a quarter of pediatric COVID patients had pinkeye from Jan. 26 through March 18" according to one study. 👀🩸👀👀 102d
In the race for a Covid-19 vaccine, here come the tortoises
Helen Branswell - STAT 116d 7 tweets
Anyone handicapping the so-called competition to develop vaccines would do well to keep an eye on the players who seemingly got a late start.
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Roxanne Khamsi Brace yourself for a complicated discussion in the coming months about which #Covid19 vaccine is best. foreshadows this perfectly 116d
The Core Lesson of the COVID-19 Heart Debate
Ed Yong - The Atlantic 119d 23 tweets
The new coronavirus seems so strange because it has our full attention in a way most viruses don’t.
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Roxanne Khamsi Strength in numbers? More like strangeness in numbers. sums up why #Covid19 feels exceptional... but might not be as odd as we think: 117d
What the Seat Belt Backlash Can Teach Us About Mask-Wearing
Medium 117d 1 tweets
Americans have long pushed back against safety measures with clear benefits
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Roxanne Khamsi When I was 5 years old I went through the side window of a car in an auto accident. I hadn't been wearing my seat belt but I survived. Others aren't as lucky. My trauma might be why 's brilliant article resonates so much with me 117d
Covid-19 Vaccines Could End Up With Bias Built Right In
Wired 118d 8 tweets
Some of the leading candidates might work better for the richest people in the world, simply on account of how they're made.
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Roxanne Khamsi NEW article from me: People in non-Western countries might fare worse with Covid-19 vaccines because of how they are made 118d
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Roxanne Khamsi In a study of around 1,000 people: - 34% of adults in the US have antibodies against Ad5 vs. - 89% in Nigeria - 96% in Côte d'Ivoire Read my article about why this might make #Covid19 vaccines work less well among people in the Global South 118d
Josh Freed: How we can survive a pandemic winter
Montreal Gazette 128d 1 tweets
Canada’s usual four seasons have been unofficially replaced with the only two COVID seasons that matter: Indoors Time and Outdoors Time.
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Roxanne Khamsi “Canada’s usual four seasons have been unofficially replaced with the only two COVID seasons that matter: Indoors Time and Outdoors Time.“ 128d
Three Star Science Writers Discuss the COVID-19 Beat—and How the Media Will Cover a Vaccine
Slate Magazine 130d 13 tweets
“The moment I learned it was a coronavirus, something shifted in my head.”
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Roxanne Khamsi This conversation really opened my eyes to the collective nature of covering this pandemic. The matter of #airborne transmission isn't just a science story, it's an accountability story 130d
The West Has Never Felt So Small
The Atlantic 130d 12 tweets
With fires raging up and down the West Coast, and the pandemic restricting travel, the instinct to bolt has nowhere to go.
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Roxanne Khamsi Did you know that fires now burn so hot that they sterilize the topsoil? I didn’t until I read ’s new article. As she writes: "A renewing force has become an obliterating force." 130d
How the Coronavirus Attacks the Brain
Nytimes.com 131d 57 tweets
It’s not just the lungs — the pathogen may enter brain cells, causing symptoms like delirium and confusion, scientists reported.
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Roxanne Khamsi #Covid19 behaves stealthily in the brain and is up to no good there. New research from , reported by 130d
The Pandemic Is an Intuition Nightmare
Ed Yong - The Atlantic 131d 122 tweets
As the U.S. heads towards the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.
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Roxanne Khamsi "Stay-at-home orders dominated March. Masks were fiercely debated in April. Contact tracing took its turn in May. Ventilation is having its moment now. 'It’s like we only have attention for only one thing at a time,' says " writes 131d
Americans living in Canada — fax or email your vote
thestar.com 137d 1 tweets
There are more than 625,000 American citizens living in Canada who are eligible to vote in U.S. elections and they must make the effort to do so, Deni...
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Roxanne Khamsi Only 33,000 of the 625,000 Americans living in Canada voted in the 2016 election. C’mon folks. We can do better. 137d
Former NASA Astronaut Says Getting Stopped by Police as a Black Man Is Scarier Than Going to Space
PEOPLE.com 137d 1 tweets
"It's when I've been stopped by police officers that I didn't even know... I was starting to sweat and just holding the steering wheel really hard," Leland Melvin said
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Roxanne Khamsi "Leland Melvin has logged more than 565 hours in space [...] and traveled around Earth at 17,500 miles per hour — but none of that compares to the fear and anxiety he feels while being pulled over by a police officer." 137d
Biogen conference likely led to 20,000 COVID-19 cases in Boston area, researchers say - The Boston Globe
BostonGlobe.com 146d 17 tweets
A new study shows the Biogen conference held at Boston’s Marriott Long Wharf hotel in February played an even far greater role in spreading the coronavirus than previously thought.
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Roxanne Khamsi There were more than 80 versions of the #Covid19 virus that entered Massachusetts between January and early May — but the Biogen conference outbreak seeded 20,000 cases, not just 99 according to new estimates. via 146d
Some People Get Covid-19 and Never Feel a Thing: Why?
Undark Magazine 147d 9 tweets
Scientists are studying a phenomenon called "disease tolerance." Understanding it in humans, if it exists, could revolutionize medicine.
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Roxanne Khamsi In her latest article, flips the script on how we think about infections like #Covid19. Really fascinating read in 147d
Objectivity Is a Privilege Afforded to White Journalists | The Walrus
The Walrus 150d 8 tweets
Under the banner of diversity, racialized people are told to bring ourselves and our perspectives. But, if we bring too much of them, we get held back
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Roxanne Khamsi Objectivity Is a Privilege Afforded to White Journalists, writes in — so many important points here 148d
Reckoning with Our Mistakes
Scientific American 152d 4 tweets
Some of the cringiest articles in Scientific American ’s history reveal bigger questions about scientific authority
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Roxanne Khamsi It is a rare thing for a publication to hold a mirror up to itself and examine its flawed history. This dive into the problematic moments of 's past by and Dan Schlenoff was quite the reckoning. I recommend it for its brutal honesty 150d