#Infections

Ian56

Ian56789

There is zero evidence that wearing a mask in a community setting reduces viral transmission.OTOH there is plenty of evidence they will do harm & if used improperly will actually

渡鴉

DUYAformhell

This is a CT image of a patient with pneumonia from an article on "e-cigarette pneumonia" in the United States on September 6, 2019, which will be used to further

Gummi 🤖

gummihaf

“What’s up with Iceland?” - this graph has caught the attention of several of my friends abroad and there are probably things others can learn from the Covid response here

Zain Chagla

zchagla

#idtips #idmeded day 4. Staph aureus bacteremia. You will deal with this in inpatient medicine / surgical / critical care / emergency specialty. Want to know the secret why ID

Awais Saleem

awaissaleem77

Watched Zafar Mirza's interview last night. @OwaisTohid asked some very pertinent questions but the answers by health minister didn't inspire much confidence. Here he talks about curve flattening in five

Shawn Moen

SmallDogFred

With talks of reopening plans afoot this week, along with stories of workplace infections & good and bad tales of support by owners, I want to share some thoughts on

BIDMC Infectious Diseases Fellowship

BIDMC_IDFellows

1/75M with ESRD on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis admitted with 1 wk of abd pain and cloudy PD effluentVS stableWBC 5k, 78%NEffluent: WBC 1537, LDH 55, Glc 20Empiric tx choice?#MedTwitter

Brett Mitchell

1healthau

My thread in response to an article in The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/ppe-unmasked-why-health-care-workers-in-australia-are-inadequately-protected-against-coronavirus-143751There are a few things that need to be teased out a

Swan

AndySwan

Makes no sense that a virus this contagious would take 2-3 months to reach USA. No sense that first “community exposure” would happen outside of ATL/CHI/NYC/LA, travel hubs of the

Pearce Korb MD, MHPE, FAAN

drpearcekorb

The Science of Reopening with #COVID is important to me because a) I'm a scientist b) I'm a working doctor & c) I don't want people to get sick or

Atomsk's Sanakan

AtomsksSanakan

1/HThere was a recent effort to champion Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) as a non-expert who speaks uncomfortable truths experts don't want to hear.That's misguided, as we can see by examining how

Lindsay Brown

Lidsville

Amy Tan: in BC we should be keeping an eye on the variants, actually doing the genome sequencing, not just assuming (as we are) that everyone has a variant. Which

Dylan Morris

dylanhmorris

New preprint on how temperature and humidity affect the infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses. Key finding: the virus remains infectious longer at low temperatures and extreme relative humidities.https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.16.

Lizzy Lang🇳🇦👩🏻‍🔬👩🏻‍🏫👩🏻‍🎓

Lizzy_Lang7

Let's talk some science of SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes covid-19. So what is it? It's a respiratory virus that can infect the upper and lower respiratory tract (nose, throat,

Paul Romer

paulmromer

The Public Should Ignore Both Skepticism About Testing in Wuhan and Recommendations for Repeated Lockdowns; and Scientists Should Take CareA thread that will lead to this ... 1/ Conclusion: When

Matthew Noah Smith

MattNoahSmith

Here's a Covid-19 meets Occupy Wall Street thread, a thread about how spectacle is important for politics. It's a thread about how the state needed to *occupy* public spaces in