Stephen Kissler

skissler.bsky.social

29 July 2026 16:16

I'm excited to share a preprint that's been years in the making: the idea took shape during the COVID pandemic. Anecdotally, people would sometimes spread COVID at work but not at home, and vice versa. Why? One explanation would be if infectiousness is fleeting...

Dr Mike Ward

schroedinger99.bsky.social

26 July 2026 08:20

More fat as proportion of body mass, circulatory and hormonal differences, and age profile (women live longer) spring to mind. Again, age probably plays a role alongside social roles. Women are a bit more likely to be active during the day in un-conditioned homes than air-conditioned offices.

Dr Mike Ward

schroedinger99.bsky.social

26 July 2026 08:20

But I don't pretend to know what the relative contributions of all these factors might be to the quite dramatic difference you cite.

Dr. Dominic Royé

drxeo.eu

26 July 2026 08:20

🙂‍↕️ yes here academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic... by the way, the heat-related deaths are estimated by using exposure-response with DLNM see also theconversation.com/cuantas-pers...

Democracy SOS 🫘💙

democracysos.bsky.social

26 July 2026 08:12

You don't know what you're talking about. After an online meeting with Fauci likely under direction from Trump, all scientists shut up about the lab leak theory, not because the scientists didn't believe it. The market event was the first documented superspreader outbreak. That is all.