Immunodeficient life:
I broke a tooth 🦷 while eating a sandwich 🍞with cherry 🍒jelly because a pit in one of the cherries was missed and not removed.
It is now badly 🦠infected
- I am on 3⃣ 💊antibiotics with high 🌡️ fever.
Tomorrow 🏥I have to have the abcess🩸 drained.
Antibiotics will be changed from oral to I.v. if the fever fails to resolve by tomorrow.
I'm told hospitalization is a real possibility.
From a pit, in a cherry, in jelly.
Immunodeficient life means:
getting emergency ☎️ phone calls from your GP,
immunologist, and infectious-disease specialist
at 10PM⌚️on a Saturday night.
These scenarios are unique to the
⚠️immunocompromised & immunodeficient⚠️.
If you are as such, please do EVERYTHING in your
power to avoid 🦠 Sars-Cov-2 infection:
💉vaxx ➕😷 mask ➕strategic social-📏-distancing.
Kudos to teams at:
Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine,
Osaka, 🇯🇵 Japan,
for saving the life of this critically-ill patient. #openscience
A majority of the children mounted effective humoral repsonse following 2 doses; increase to near 100% following.
Caveat: these study authors recommend a 3-dose regimen in immunocompromised pediatric patients.
Kids do ⚠️NOT⚠️ have de-facto immunity to 🦠Sars-Cov-2
*⃣ especially immunocompromised kids *⃣
I have read recent case-reports of *fatal* COVID in kids with ▪️Primary Immunodeficiency, ▪️autoimmunity, ▪️rheumatic disease, ▪️cancers, ▪️sickle-cell, ▪️transplants, and more...
▪️ High-profile man on Twitter tweets an article he had no part in writing - gets 100s of RTs & likes, and "thanks."
▪️ Woman who authored the paper after year(s) of hard work, tweets it and gets NO RTs, 1 like, and no "thanks."
F-CK that. #womeninstem#academictwitter#scicomm
Misogyny and sexism are alive and well.
This is not a 'one-off.' I see it every day.
Man = hero.
Woman = almost zero.
🙏KUDOS and respect to this brave gentleman for consenting to the publication of this video and giving a glimpse into one of the many ways in which 🦠Sars-Cov-2 is affecting the🧠brains of those it infects. #openscience#scicomm
Protect yourself from 🦠Sars-Cov-2,
please.
It's messing up 🧠 brains.
This patient could not have wound up in better hands:
National Institute of Infectious Diseases
“Lazzaro Spallanzani” IRCCS- Rome, 🇮🇹 Italy
👍 great job treating this patient,
sequencing and monitoring🧬the 🦠strain,
...and saving her life #openscience#scicomm
I have found only a handful of reports in literature of
🦠Sars-Cov-2 induced🧠 meningitis. I thought there would be more. Caveat: it's exceedingly rare, but it does happen.