#Epidemiology

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

It’s always really credible when an #antivaxxer points to a paper as conclusive data (“breaking #science news) using a screenshot of the abstract that cuts off the name of the

Tiffany Truong

CRRTiff

1/Speaking of staying at home ... let’s not forget that #AdvancingAmericanKidneyHealth (AAKH) aims to have 80% of people with kidney failure use a home dialysis modality or obtain a transplant

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boriquagato

this is exactly what many of us were predicting back in march.the knock on effects of lockdown are not just economic.it's going to kill more people than covid.this is an

Najla Alariefy

NajlaAlariefy

How should we create knowledge?We know "The Scientific Method" well: we ask questions then seek answers. But what about having many answers, and no questions?(Paper summary + more) "Here is

Merle Massie☆ ⛷🚜✒🇨🇦

merlemassie

Epidemiologists, biologists and chief medical officers spent all of January and February 2020 trying desperately to get people to listen. Then, we did. A thread on all the ways we

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fish_cakess

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el gato malo

boriquagato

anyone still presuming that a + PCR test is showing a covid case needs to read this v carefully:even 25 cycles of amplification, 70% of "positives" are not "cases." virus

Jeet Heer

HeerJeet

1. So I have a few thoughts on Richard A. Epstein, shoddy contrarian arguments about coronavirus pandemic, the anti-empiricism of Austrian economics, the popularity of dubious neo-Larmarckian biology among conservatives,

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ThatFoxxyBloke

Governments #COVID19 response. (Thread)330bn economy package, world leading.Furlough scheme for the employed.Self Employed scheme, covering 95%.Universal Credit increase and easier to access.4000 capacity Nightingale Hospital, built in 9 days. Glasgo

‏Ewen Bell

ewster

I need to do a quick shout out to the folks in Melbourne laboratories who are working hard to save a lot of lives.A thread. /1https://twitter.com/ewster/status/1248687920828936192 You may not be

Torr Leonard

torrHL

“As US’s premier gateway to China, California was, early in pandemic, seen as one of the most vulnerable states to the spread of virus.In Jan, 600 direct flights from China

Monica H Green

monicaMedHist

Okay, since @KevinMKruse now seems to have given his imprimatur to this piece in the @washingtonpost today about #nCoV2019 & past plagues, it seems time for a mini-thread about #medhist

David Yu @🏠

yuorme

Noticed yesterday that @IHME_UW’s #COVID19 projections for mean total deaths in the USA had dropped from 80k-95k in earlier models to just over 60k in their latest update. A

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

Let's talk about school closures re COVID-19. It's a tough topic, scientifically and pragmatically. It's hard to estimate the benefits precisely. And closing schools can have costs, such as health

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

In some children, #COVID19 takes the form of #KawasakiDisease-like symptoms. So what exactly is #KawasakiDisease? It's an illness caused by inflammation of the blood vessels in children < 5 yrs

Sherrill Stroschein

sstroschein2

Remember three weeks ago, when the UK government was mad at those unis who had moved online? Said they weren't following government guidance of "business as usual."Those dying now got