#Acute

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

A resident of rural Snohomish County, "Jean" had COVID-like symptoms in late Dec 2019 and has subsequently tested positive in a serological assay. This may have been COVID-19 infection, but

Dr. Farbod FRCEM

EmergencyBod

A short thread on a medical term that is really important for the public to understand.DNACPR/DNR/NFRPlease #medtwitter feel free to add to/embellish as needed.Let's start:Do Not Attempt CardioPulmonary Resuscitation: Firstly

Naomi O'Leary

NaomiOhReally

Ireland typically runs a hospital bed occupancy level of 95%, and over 100% in the winter, with people lying in corridors. Our health system would be the quickest to be

Harvard Toxicology

Harvard_Tox

Please don’t inject bleach or drink disinfectant. Bleach injections cause hemolysis (where your red blood cells that carry OXYGEN break apart) and cause liver damage, and many disinfectants can cause

Victoria Yan

victoriacyanide

First-in-Woman Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of Orally Administered #GS441524: A Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Treatment for #COVID19. A 1/7https://osf.io/am5s8/ Part 1 of the study: 750 mg GS-441524 was orally administered as

Hannah NG+

hannahfleche

If you're responding to someone being reported as a covid19 death with something like 'it wasn't covid it was a pre-existing issue' go ahead and do us both a favor

Dr. Jenn Conti

doctorjenn

Tonight at Target, woman *yelling* at manager that she has a medical exception to not wear a mask. Me rolling by for the action: “Hi im a doctor. That’s not

John Lichfield

john_lichfield

Weekly French vaccination thread.It has been a good week – the best yet.France broke its record on each of the last 2 days – 545,000 shots on Thurs and 549,000

Iron Spike

Iron_Spike

I think a lot of Americans have lost sight of the fact that the purpose of government is to collectively solve problems that individuals can't, and that vision of government

Jayson P. Smith

_jaysonpsmith

finally took the weekend to read What Belongs To You & i am wrung the fuck outcongratulations to all of you who successfully make eye contact with @GarthGreenwell these sentences

david oliver

mancunianmedic

HERESY WARNINGRe Care Home Covid Deaths Once a particular narrative, framing, received wisdom takes hold in media/public consciousness it is hard to shift or challenge and ands up looking heretical

POPCoRNetwork

POPCoRNetwork

Are you a peds provider caring for adult pts in a COVID-19 world? Last admitted an adult as a 3rd year med student? In this #POPCoRNtweetorial, we will lay the

Paul Yowell

pwyowell

In this thread I provide evidence that fewer than half of the 6,112 excess deaths in Week 14 are due to Covid-19. Thus most excess mortality in the UK is

Damian Roland

Damian_Roland

What can we do to improve care & experience for children and not break the workforce this winter? A thread (needed more than 3) Please note this doesn't cover at

Jared Dyer, DO

DrJaredDyer

1/Pulmonary embolism is a commonly encountered condition; however, how comfortable are you with the acute diagnosis and treatment of the disease? Let's take a walk through the guidelines. #tweetorial #MedEd

Farid Jalali MD

farid__jalali

Folks - if your covid patient is doing well respiratory wise but suddenly starts to become delirious and agitated and hallucinate -> tachypnea - it is due to SEROTONIN excess