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Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬
lymanstoneky
Deaths in Santa Clara county, CA are running at 20% above last year: which is TWICE the mortality gap you'd expect from officially confirmed COVID deaths. WE NEED FASTER ALL-CAUSE
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Katy Byron
KABGreek
This week feels like a turning point in the world of disinformation. It started with the 'Plandemic' documentary going viral, with the platforms trying to take it down playing the
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Simon Ashworth
DrSimonAshworth
How should we consider #COVID19?This is primarily a vitally induced thrombotic disease spread by droplets Post-mortems tell us the virus causes endothelial damage and overt blood clots in both small
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Thomas Jackson
delirious_dr
I completely agree - but I also think the cytokine storm causing increased monocyte transmigration, hyper co-agulability leading to micro infarcts, the hypoxia, the big swings in sodium and glucose
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Leora Horwitz
leorahorwitzmd
9th On the topic of syncope, I admitted 3-4 COVID+ patients with presenting complaint of syncope (2 with head lacs), all early in course, with orthostatic hypotension without significant antecedent
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Mike Coudrey
MichaelCoudrey
THREAD: COVID-19 is nothing like the flu.The current death count factors in the decision from a high IQ President who mandated restrictions extremely early, as well as treatment options now
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Paul Bohm
paulbohm
Bad News: 54% of asymptomatic cases and 79% of COVID-19 symptomatic cases on the Diamond Princess had ground-glass abnormalities in their CT scans.https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ryct.2020200110 "And here is what really surprised us:
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Kassandra Bragg, RDMS, RVT
kbragg
POLIO has a 90% survival rate. One should not use survival rate as the benchmark on which public policy is decided. COVID is NOT a regular respiratory virus. The more
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Sundar Ramakrishnan
radnus0
In case you thought the Coronavirus was just a lung thing ... Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes. #StayHomeStaySafe https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-ra
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Kurt Eichenwald
kurteichenwald
This is an important thread. It is from someone who treats COVID patients who wants to get info out on what is happening. I will give one point up top:
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Jasleen Minhas MD
jasleenminhas
This past week has been emotionally burdensome. There’s a disconnect between my home in the US - where we’re hopeful, and may be turning a corner with #COVID d/t vaccinations,
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Peter Antevy
HandtevyMD
#COVID19 causes a hemoglobinopathy. More science needed into to the use of HCQ in these patients.http://web.archive.org/web/20200405061401/https://medium.com/@agaiziunas/covid-19-had-us-all-fooled-but-now-we-might-have-finally-found-its-secret-911823
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Chris Meadows
mrbrownsauce
To explain our rationale...COVID-19 seems to present as 2 phenotypes: initially high compliance with poor V/Q match and low recruitability, ‘dry’ lungs; versus subsequent low compliance, ‘wet’ lungs, potentially recruitable.
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Nick Mark MD
nickmmark
Lots of talk about funny hemoglobin and ‘happy hypoxic’ people with #COVID19. I think we can explain everything using plain old pulmonary physiology. Let’s dive into hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV)
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Leora Horwitz
leorahorwitzmd
In my 7 days on one of our (now 12!) non ICU #COVID19 units, I admitted 58 patients for COVID rule out, of whom 50 tested positive. Two died (DNR),
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Vinay Prasad MD MPH
VPrasadMDMPH
Ok, here is a little #Tweetorial about #COVID19 and whether, outside of a controlled trial, we should be using different:1. rules for anti-coagulation/ lytics2. ventilatory settings in ARDS3. anti-virals/ anti-inflammatories
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