#Infections

Karam Bales

karamballes

1/ Thread : Gaslighters out in force today as a small group of MPs and lobbyists use the media to try pushing the UK down the GBD route.Worryingly looks like

Jolie McCullough

jsmccullou

1/ In August, a Texas man was sent to stand trial while he had the coronavirus. The man, the court and jurors didn't know of the infection until after deliberations.The

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

Transparency, worst case scenarios, & why govt is treading a dangerous path over #COVID19.This is the longest thread I've ever posted.But I think it may be among the most important.Please

WuidQ: Washington University ID Questions

WuidQ

Q: (1/2)35/Farmer from Missouri AML s/p HSCT 6m ago. GVHD on steroids. Admitted with sepsis. (-) travel. CXR clear. WBC 7K . ANC 1.5K. Eczema like lesions on leg. (See

Free Spiritus 😷

freespiritus

At the last press conference Dr. Henry described an aerosolized virus but did not call it one. Why?CDC says the main way COVID-19 infects is through aerosols.The #bced plan has

Dr. Haryax Pathak

HaryaxPathak

Hey #MedTwitterAs promised, taking this thread further, I'll highlight a few more aspects about #COVID19.A) TRANSMISSION and SPECIFIC PRECAUTIONSB) WHAT IS SUPER-SPREADING?C) WHAT IS R0?1/n https://twitter.com/HaryaxPathak/status/133080

Warwick Mansell

warwickmansell

New: teachers’ extraordinary work during Covid-19 undervalued, says academic group, as it describes government’s September re-opening plans as “unrealistic”. https://www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/147101/teachers-extraordinary-wo

mdholte, MD, MA (education)

mdholte

Covid-19 infections are starting to overwhelm hospitals. We have patients waiting in our ED hoping to get ICU beds, we have refrigerator trucks outside hospitals. We need every medical professional

Dr. Tara C. Smith

aetiology

Didn't have a chance to discuss this yesterday, but I think it emphasizes again just what is still unknown about "asymptomatic" infections: a thread. (Link to research paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0965-6.p

Laura Lopez Gonzalez

LLopezGonzalez

Scientists confirm AstraZeneca #COVID19vaccine shows no significant reduction in mild to moderate #COVID19sa in South Africa against new variant but the jab could still show efficacy against serious cases of

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

The conclusion to draw from 4 years of post-truth is that the crackpots are occasionally right, people with axes to grind overstate the ‘occasionally’ into ‘almost always’ and people who

Michael Wilner

mawilner

Exclusive: The FDA's Stephen Hahn tells @McClatchy that emergency authorization for COVID-19 vaccines will not be automatic: “The bottom line is we can’t determine at this point, despite the very

Phil Kerpen

kerpen

Netherlands: "Based on reports from municipal public health services (GGDs), children aged 0-17 years only represent 1.3% of all reported patients with COVID-19, although they comprise 20.7% of the population."

Dan the Gnome

brewergnome

So this article's been going around! It can be a bit scary. First and probably the most important thing: This doesn't change what we do. We still vaccinate or shield

Principal Scientific Adviser, Govt. of India

PrinSciAdvGoI

1/n “..There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has

myPharmacy

myPharmacyng

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women According to @WHO ,in 2018, up to 311,000 women died from the disease- but there is also good news.Here’s

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