#DrEricDing

BUCKLE UP—huge HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & #COVID19 meta-analysis of all useable trials & observational studies w/ 30,000—11,932 participants on HCQ, 8,081 on HCQ+azithromycin & 12,930 control. Result? Big fat null. Trials
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Good afternoon #PrimeMinister, Reading the @Telegraph article below has caused me significant angst. As a healthcare professional who has seen just what #COVID19 can do, I am struggling to understand
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Insulin was invented ~100 years ago, and its patent sold for $1.“Do you know the reason why [insulin is] $1,000 with insurance?” ~@AOCThere is no reason for insulin to cost
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CW: COVID-19 coronavirus death .....In the US the numbers are over 10x that of Canada and going up faster than last week https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/1245053326233931776 CW: COVID-19 coronavirus deathhttps://twitter.com/cbcalerts/st
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Thread: Wearing masks is our best defense against the #coronavirus.@WhiteHouse press secretary said today that masks are no longer required in West Wing. Many tweets also advise against masks.Result: Colossal
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Heart-wrenching—A mother in her 50s dies of #COVID19 after she had low oxygen. But there’s no ambulance, so her dead body is carried by motorbike—by her son & son-in-law, her
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Breaking—White House blocks a new order from CDC to keep cruise ships docked until mid-Feb (likely under pressure from politically powerful tourism industry in Florida)Hey cruise industry—nobody sailing your
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Overlooked—India’s overworked and underpaid crematorium workers, who often face caste-based discrimination as Dalits, are the invisible warriors of India’s #COVID19 crisis. The poorly paid & underappreciated undertakers in the ov
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HUGE. **Rapid** 15 min tests approved by @WHO—a bold & right step for #COVID19. Akin to home pregnancy tests, rapid antigen tests better than PCR where labs scares & lag
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I do not have a big following, nor do I desire one. This needs to be widely read. Please share. Social psychologist Dr Erich Fromm first used the term “malignant
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I've been avoiding writing about this because it feels too close to the bone at the moment. But important to discuss- so here goes. What's unfolding in India is absolutely
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THREAD: Lots of alarm over the 88% Mortalityamong #Covid19 patients on ventilators. The paper *should* say "Among pts on vents, mortality will range from 25-97%". This @JAMA_current study is a
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THREAD - Why I feel an impending sense of doom re #COVID19 in AmericaFrontline HC workers have been increasingly treated as a commodity by the corporatization of medicineThey continue to
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2021 will likely be another annus horribilis. A shift of strategy is needed. If no return to normal is possible early in 2021, https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1321860184990535683 than the only viable pandemic management
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I find it highly concerning that demagogues such as @DrEricDing find many emulators.German shooting star @CorneliusRoemer, for instance, changed his public CV three days ago to better fit the COVID-narrative.
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MAJOR UPDATE 9-APRIL-21 1/10The COVKID Project has revamped our data dashboards. This is what you will see on our landing page: daily average incidence rate (DIR) on the left,
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