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I study the Immune system & its fight against Cancer in patients & mice @SchulichMedDent. Advocate 4 Science-based Medicine. "Nullius in Verba" Views R my own
Apr 9, 2022 13 tweets 3 min read
I am an immunologist who teaches about #COVID19 immunology at @SchulichMedDent , generally healthy with no co-morbidities and had 3 mRNA vaccines. Got #Omicron and still ended up in the hospital. Here is my COVID anecdote. It started mild for me with only some headache and head pressure, and minor fatigue. My wife had her symptoms before me. She had a sore throat, fatigue, cough, and some lower limb pains. My 5-year-old had no symptoms.
Jan 3, 2022 16 tweets 6 min read
I have been tweeting about endemicity for a while now but I'll explain it here for anyone who wants to better understand how this pandemic will end from an immunologist's POW:
This pandemic won't end by us eradicating #SARS_CoV_2 there are three main reasons for this: 1) This virus has animal reservoirs meaning it can jump back and forth between humans and other hosts. So forget about we will eradicate this virus or COVIDzero
2) Although our vaccines are very effective against severe #COVID19 they don't confer sterilizing immunity meaning...
Jun 15, 2021 10 tweets 3 min read
مصاحبه با دکتر عبدلی رو گوش کردم. سوالات خوبی پرسیده شد و جوابهای بعضا خوبی هم دکتر عبدلی در مورد پروسه تولید واکسن برکت دادن. نکاتی به نظرم اومد که به عنوان یک ایمونولوژیست که به تازگی در ایران عزیزی رو از کرونا از دست داده و متوجه کمبود واکسن در ایران هست مینویسم. ۱- به تمام محققین داخل کشور که شبانه روز تلاش کردن برای تولید واکسن خسته نباشید میگم.
۲- جدا از ایرادات پیش مقاله فاز حیوانی که مفصل این چند روزه مطرح شدن مسئله تایید یک واکسن بدون گذروندن فاز ۳ کارآزمایی بالینی حتی با وجود عدم کمبود واکسن یک اشتباه استراتژیک هست که رگولاتور ...