🦠Sars-Cov-2 severity and mortality has - sadly - been particularly high ⬆️among individuals with Down Syndrome.
Insightful commentary on how and why:
nature.com/articles/s4157… #WomenInSTEM #openscience #itrtg #iot #immunology #scicomm
Some earlier background on vulnerability of individuals with Down Syndrome to life-threatening COVID-19 science.org/content/articl… #openscience #scicomm
Infections and immunodeficiency in Down syndrome
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
*⃣ Down Syndrome is classified as an
"Inborn Error of Immunity" 🧬
due to its inherent features of immune-dysregulation.
Please protect yourself and the very vulnerable immunodeficient: 💉get vaxxed💉.

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Fatal ⚠️Inborn Error of Immunity🧬
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🧠Encephalopathy and
sudden-onset ⚠️Parkinson's* ⚠️symptoms
...in a 31 year-old man
e-jmd.org/upload/jmd-210… #WomenInSTEM #iot #snrtg #openscience #scicomm
Not "just like the flu"
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🗓️ Published 7⃣0⃣ years ago today
The Primary Immunodeficiency world's seminal paper
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Not the first Primary Immunodeficiency described as many think - the 3rd in fact - but the most impactful. It launched major interest in the study of these rare immune disorders.
Authored by the late Dr / Col Ogden Bruton, a legend in the Primary Immunodeficiency world. Image
One of my personal heroes: The late Dr / Col Ogden Bruton (right).
The immune disorder he IDd bears his name: "Bruton's Agammaglobulinemia."
(photo: circa 1954 at Walter Reed Army Hospital where he practiced as a pediatric immunologist) Image
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AND the immunocompromised
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The immunocompromised, immunosuppressed, and immunodeficient are taking a beating from this virus.
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