#Acute

British IMA

BritishIMA

"Should we meet up this Eid?" Dr Billal Patel (@Billal72073638 Consultant Cardiologist @BlackpoolHosp) responds to this question. This Eid don't go visiting Practice social distancing Encourage others to protect those

Amit Thadhani

amitsurg

All respiratory patients irrespective of whether COVID or not are being diverted to COVID hospitals for treatment. There are no ICU beds available in most of these hospitals for this

Rebecca Saxe

rebecca_saxe

We posted a preprint today: “The need to connect: Acute social isolation causes neural craving responses similar to hunger.” Lead author @livia_tomova. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.25.006643v1A thread on what we did,

Roger Galligan

RogerGalligan

More clarity on False Positives . My calcs w/ 99.25% Specificity (& assume 80% sensitivity & prevalance of 2.2% in tested cohort) -> Positive Predictive Value of 70.58% and Positive

Parveen Kaswan, IFS

ParveenKaswan

Do you know India has 9 species of #vultures.They are ecosystem doctors. But in recent years we have lost 90-99% of vulture population in India. Eg white-backed vulture faced a

Eric Garland

ericgarland

This is weird. How did he know in advance how he'd be doing, what treatments he'd be getting, how people would be "bipartisan"...and why did he get into the hospital

Susan Mills

Priorhockey

Shared with permission from another LTC family:Hi everyone. The past few months have been horrific for our family. We were denied visitation with my mom even though she had cancer

Faisal Islam

faisalislam

Troubling chart from PHE’s National Influenza Report - maybe missed because of the title of the report - Of 611 new “acute respiratory outbreaks” in England last week (way above

Dr. Darien Sutton

DoctorDarienMD

When I see these reports of hospitals becoming full it reminds of my clinical time in Queens, New York. I get post traumatic stress when I remember how, in March,

Jarvin Tan #MoveforMH

Jetlax

Benzos and COVID-19?Benzos don't cause respiratory depression in therapeutic doses or overdose, unless taken w/ CNS depressantsData on benzos on people w/ comorbid respiratory conditions like pneumonia, COPD are conflicting#psychiatryofpandemics

Adriaan

A_van_der_graaf

Today we're sharing an analysis of the genetics behind two important COVID-19 genes: ACE2 and TMPRSS2. A thread on what we have found 1/9https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.22.20074963v1 @LifelinesNL @serenasanna1 ACE2 and TMPRSS2 are

Mick Crawley

crawley_mick

This is an ideal time to learn about the grass genus Poa (Poaceae). These are the species with leaf-tips shaped like the bow of a canoe (x10). The 2 common

Nathan Stall

NathanStall

Today #Ontario enacted a new emergency measure providing hospitals with the authority to transfer patients who no longer require acute care (so-called "alternate level of care" or ALC patients) to

The Immunologist

eclecticbiotech

A thread on antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) in #coronaviruses. While developing vaccines, treating patients with convalescent plasma, and considering immunity passports, we must first understand the complex role of antibodies in

John Ziegler

Zigmanfreud

Since May 8th, USA virus deaths have had a daily high of 1,871 and a low of 750, with most days in the range of 1,300. That is a remarkably

Arthur Chu

arthur_affect

I heard an analogy ago from a grief counselor that's stuck with meJust going along with the general way we think of mental illness (including acute mental distress, "mental injury")