#COVId

Aris Katzourakis 💙 (for UCU NEC)

ArisKatzourakis

SHORT THREAD: On covid and the sunk cost fallacy. Many arguments against pivoting to maximum suppression of the virus are based on some version of the sunk cost, or ‘concorde’

Bob Moore

BobMooreNews

One thing that El Paso has refused to do, for unknown reasons, is provide the community with weekly trends in positivity results on COVID-19 testing. This leaves the community flying

Howard Liu, MD MBA

DrHowardLiu

“In order to address the suffering within the ‘soul of America,’ we have to address mental health as part of health care, not separate from it." - @PJK4brainhealth on the

Joseph Allen

j_g_allen

THREAD on positive #COVIDー19 developments(I try to keep a runny tally in my head - helps get through the days, knowing there is a light at the end)1. Therapeutics are

Tyler Black, MD

tylerblack32

Canadian Suicidology:Summing BC and Alberta, 2020 has seen a 14.8% decrease in suicides from 2019 to 2020 (+/- 8.6%). In Canada, there has been no "COVID effect" increasing suicide rates,

Dr. Jason Johnson

DrJasonJohnson

Polling has consistently showed that African Americans are more skeptical of taking the #Covid_19 vaccine than other groups of people in America, but the reasons for this aren't just based

PresidentElect-IrishBluEyedRN💛

Lisa38367494

Thinks that make THIS Nurse go hmmm [PART 1]1. HCQ was basically marked as the Devil's drug earlier this year after it was suggested that it could not only TREAT

John August

johnaugust

My mom died yesterday. She was my first proofreader, biggest champion and fiercest Scrabble opponent. She won money on Jeopardy! and sang at Carnegie Hall. She was remarkable. I’ll love

Carrie with a ‘C’

avecleschapeaux

Yes!I ask every single patient, “are you planning to vaccinate when you can?”I’ve made some progress in hearing (and directly addressing) pt concerns & fears. I tell them I’m recommending

Nilmini W 😷

Minimalneg

1/ It's gloomy news today. There are many plusses to our COVID response, and we must not lose sight of those. It's been a tough time on many - those

Matthew Noah Smith

MattNoahSmith

Below is a very bad article on Covid testing. It has poor thinking by *MDs* about testing. And yes I, someone who is not a medical doctor, am claiming that

Paul Harkin

paul_harkin2020

Imagine you were due to finish your employment this today (schedule 5:30pm but will most likely work til 8pm) and start your new job on Monday in another part of

Bijan Salehizadeh

bijans

Spent some time today going through late-phase protocols and reported data for major COVID-vaccine programs trying to understand primary/secondary endpoint definitions. Summary: great consistency in definitions of mild/moderate/severe but..

Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)

jeremyfaust

Breaking: Moderna's vaccine trial is live in the New England Journal of Medicine.Frontline insta-analysis by @Brief_19's @macacharya and me is here: https://brief19.com/2020/12/30/moderna-vaccine-phase-iii-trial-results-released-in-

Natasha 🚜🌾 🌈 ‏ نتاشا

nuts2406

The word ‘only’ is highly problematic, but it is a word that is now used quite commonly to underplay the effect of COVID.‘The fatality rate in India is ONLY 1.x%,

Health Nerd

GidMK

The authors of the Great Barrington nonsense have produced a website called "collateral global", claiming to document the collateral effects of COVID-19 lockdownsI thought I'd have a look at the

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