#Disease

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

India reports another 400,000+ cases, 4000+ death dayA sustained level of horriblenessAnd its not correctTrue number surely closer to 25,000 deaths, 2-5 million infections todayLots of ways to estimate but

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Heart problems - Of 1,216 #COVID19 patients, 667 (55%) had abnormalities in their scan, & 1 in 7 participants had what researchers described as "severe abnormalities”. Similar even excluding if

Howard Berkes

hberkes

10 years ago today. 29 dead at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine in WV. Excessive coal dust. Inadequate ventilation. Uncontrolled methane. 10 yrs later, it's still a misdemeanor

Ian Birrell

ianbirrell

'People have every reason to be confident and calm about all that kind of thing… all the coronavirus, and any threats from disease,' Boris Johnson, Feb 2020. 'We can turn

Amy Myers Jaffe

AmyJaffeenergy

I’ve been thinking about what the COVID-19 current impact on oil demand tells us about future oil demand. Barrel counters looking at auto use too in weeds. Expanded disease vector

Paul Nuki

PaulNuki

1/ Super interesting new info coming out on Exercise Cygnus, the 2016 dry run for a UK outbreak, since its formal publication was forced least week. Raises some important questions

Dr. Theresa Tam

CPHO_Canada

1/6 As we consider the broader impacts of #COVID19 on the health of Canadians, I am reminding everyone that it is vital to maintain health visits for you and your

John Hayward

Doc_0

I'm old enough to remember when we were told desperate measures were needed to "flatten the curve" - keep hospitals from being overrun. That was the only objective put before

Justin Hart

justin_hart

"...we will see more deaths because of social distancing."Take a moment and watch Dr. Knut Wittkowski, former head of Rockefeller University's Dept of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Research Design.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGC5sGdz

Lucy Seton-Watson

LucySetonW

1/2The issue about how to treat critically ill Covid patients in intensive care is important because it points the way towards developing treatment that works. Anyone interested should read: https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/220301/

Noah Goldberg

Noah__Goldberg

Martin Shkreli, aka Pharma Bro, has applied for early release from federal prison so he can "perform research on a coronavirus disease treatment." “One company is prepared to begin working

Emerican Johnson - Self-Declared Antifa

EmericanJohnson

Refusing to admit that capitalism kills millions every year is genocide denial. If someone dies from lack of food, shelter, or healthcare in 2020, it's murder. Starving someone to death

Mark Boulton

markboulton

You know, I'm ok about my daughter's going back to school. I try my best to make good decisions – weighing up the risk against the damage to their wellbeing

Aaron Ginn

aginnt

1/ A new interview from Sweden's Anders Tegnell.- They approached this pandemic like other pandemics- Hospital system was never overloaded- Immunity does exist- Skeptical of masks + contact tracing -

WorldCoffeeResearch

WCoffeeResearch

What can we learn about pandemics from looking at the history of plant epidemics? This week we’re going to dive down on coffee leaf rust, the most dastardly of coffee

Danny Boy

Care2much18

A very serious British Academic said this about the UK death toll:"Many people who die of Covid would have died anyway within a short period"Talk about fundamentally missing the point.