🧬"Recessive complete deficiencies of typeI IFN immunity may underlie ∼10% of hospitalizations for COVID-19 🦠pneumonia 🫁 in children"
👥It DID in these 12 youngsters
Great work as always by Prof Jean-Laurent @casanova_lab & Co in elucidating genetic susceptibility to SarsCov2. Direct link to the paper: rupress.org/jem/article/21…
COVID-19 is NOT "just like the flu."
COVID-19 is NOT "just like the flu."
COVID-19 is NOT "just like the flu."
"Cerebellar examination revealed impaired finger to nose, heel to shin, and rapid alternative movements. Gait was ataxic and he could not walk without help."
* in a previously healthy young man
Socialized Medicine:
Today I ended a week a of I.V.💉antibiotic Rx for a severe 🦠infection.
The Rx was at my home🏠by an MD & nurse. Due to my immunodeficiency my HMO didn't want me in a potentially-dangerous hospital setting.
Today I got the bill: 380 shekel (🇮🇱)
~90 US💲
"Socialized Medicine" gets a bad-rap by many.
To me it means kind, compassionate, expert care that is inexpensive and affordable.
The ~$90 included lab-workup, the I.V. antibiotics, and the at-home infusions themselves.