Our 🇮🇱 Ministry of Health COVID committee will consider a return to *mandatory* indoor 😷masking in the coming days.
In the interim, it is advising everybody to do so.
The #COVID19 🦠test-positivity rare
here in #Israel 🇮🇱 in the past 24 hours:
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The clinical trial results which prompted extending CRISPR treatment to kids for
🧬 Sickle-cell and Beta-Thalassemia🩸 bit.ly/3n4MwUO#openscience#scicomm
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.