#Disease

OrderoftheGoodDeath

OrderGoodDeath

1. We’ve been receiving emails from hospice nurses & families in Los Angeles asking for guidance on how to care for bodies of patients & loved ones who have died

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Heard about the new variant? That it appears to be much more transmissible but not more lethal? That's true but no relief. Transmissibility is an *exponential* risk and thus a

Eva Frickel

FrickelLab

I’ve tried to keep this account to my area of science only. People who know me, know that I have strong political opinions. In the face of the pandemic, and

Adam Briggs

ADMBriggs

Just to unpack today's announcement a little.PHE has been operating for the past 7 years to provide a huge range of functions. Health protection is of course a key part

joyce b

joycebyers77

Covid compliance is a rich persons game. If you’re rich, you can be safe. If you’re not, you have to work at UPS, USPS, Instacart, Uber, etc. Gov’t money won’t

Valerie, RD, MPH

RDValerie

Short thread on proteinThere are 8/9 essential amino acids (depending on the source) that you must get from food. The others 11/12 are considered non-essential or conditionally essential, because you

Brent K Sugimoto, MD, MPH, AAHIVS, FAAFP

BrenticusMD

Pretty cool Pfizer #SARSCoV2 vaccine data from Dr. Susan Buchbinder of @BridgeHIV. Look at these incidence curves in the vaccinated (blue) and unvaccinated (red). Blue is so much lower even

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

There is a lot of nonsense about Zero Covid being an extreme position, only possible in repressive states (er..S Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Norway, Finland, NZ??) and our UK strategy reflects

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Just listened to a fascinating webinar by @ShabirMadh presenting the results from Novavax trial in South Africa and UK.So will turn this into a brief thread to give some context

Anshul

Anshul__K

NHS England have announced 55 COVID-19 deaths today. These deaths were spread across nine dates. This is down from 62 last Thursday - which included fifteen dates. Remember the orange

Stonekettle

Stonekettle

Trump told us the pandemic which has now killed more than 126,000 Americans was a hoax made up by his enemies to discredit him. 1/https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1278284552679624705 Then he told us it

Michael Baum

MichaelBaum11

I note that the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) has been debating the management of DCIS. I wish I was with you, I used to go every year and

Mheshimiwa MamaBora

NjeriThorne

So much mystery surrounds death in KE. Familes shouldn't let their loved ones' deaths be in vain. Let others learn from it. Raise awareness. There should be no shame in

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—Single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine was 72 % effective at protecting against moderate to severe illness in US, 66 % effective in Latin America & 57 % effective in South

Sanjiv J. Shah, MD

HFpEF

Case: 84 yo woman w/long-standing HFpEF admitted for volume overload. Baseline Cr 2.0 mg/dl. Diuresed 1L on hospital day #1 and Cr to 2.5 mg/dl. Inpatient team stopped diuresis.

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curexcomplex

Lets be real here, the vaccine isn't magically going to circumvent all checks and be mass available before Christmas. The trial will be properly finished. The post licensing studies will

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