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Jun 17 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
New 🧬genetic loci linked to #COVID19 🦠susceptibility
♂️ ♀️ with gender specificity
- Results from a huge 🇪🇸 Spanish GWAS study
academic.oup.com/hmg/advance-ar… #bioinformatics #openscience #scicomm #immunology #virology #snrtg #genomics Image
🦠🧬'...variants in 3p21.31 and 21q22.11 loci only among males ♂️; and variants in 9q21.32 near TLE1 only among females ♀️'
Evidence continues to accumulate that:
at least *⃣ for some *⃣ , susceptibility to severe and fatal 🦠COVID may lie in the genes🧬.
Whatever may, or may not - be in your genes,
please 💉get vaccinated💉.

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. 🦠COVID is not over ❗️
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One of the most devastating and heart-wrenching of the
~7,000 known rare diseases
A novel mutation🧬identified in
*⃣ "Epidermolysis Bullosa"*⃣
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⚠️Potentially dangerous
new 🦠#COVID19 variants🧬
▪️The pandemic won't end until we prevent this phenomenon
❗️Get💉 vaxxed to shield & protect the immunocompromised
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. "NOBODY is safe from the virus until
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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.
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🧬"Recessive complete deficiencies of typeI IFN immunity may underlie ∼10% of hospitalizations for COVID-19 🦠pneumonia 🫁 in children"
👥It DID in these 12 youngsters
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