#MALARIA

1/ Today is #WorldMalariaDay. Every year, 400k children die from a preventable disease. Right now malaria-endemic countries are rightly focused on the threat from #COVID19. But it is important that

Steven Sinofsky

More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study https://apnews.com/a5077c7227b8eb8b0dc23423c0bbe2b2 #science The thing about this is if it happened to be a "cure" it was totally for random

Professor Karol Sikora

ProfKarolSikora

We are seeing some initial evidence that the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine can help speed the recovery for some patients.Early days yet and lots more work required but a positive sign.The

Maxvayshia™ 🇦🇺✨

I remember 2 years ago when i came on here to boast about being Malaria free for 9 good years and counting. I had my shoulders up. I got praises

A few things you need to know about Malaria:If your genotype is AA you are at risk of severe malariaGenotype AS offers some sort of protection against malariaGenotype AC also

I woke up today and remembered a 5-year-old boy I saw as a medical student many years ago, "ordinary" malaria that we all know almost took that boy's lifeHe was

Malaria is one of the leading causes of death among children under five in the Democratic Republic of Congo. What makes the situation worse – corruption. A short thread.#WorldMalariaDay #EndMalaria

Most people in the US don't grasp that, without huge public health effort, malaria would be endemic in much of the US. There's a reason the CDC is based in

I am all for scrutinizing politicians' finances but the "Trump is recommending hydroxychloroquine because he has a stake in Sanofi" take is a stretch. It's more likely he sees a

Maggie Haberman

“Mr. Trump first expressed interest in hydroxychloroquine a few weeks ago, telling associates that Mr. Ellison, a billionaire and a founder of Oracle, had discussed it with him.”https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-malaria

Kenneth P. Vogel

NEW: If hydroxychloroquine becomes an accepted coronavirus treatment, several companies stand to profit, some with shareholders & execs connected to TRUMP.Trump himself has a small interest in @Sanofi, which makes

1- In public health, focusing on behavioral change instead of structural change is like haggling over pennies. I've posted about public health lessons from #HIV history in addressing #COVID19, but

NEW: As Trump pushes chloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19, companies whose shareholders and executives have ties to @realDonaldTrump stand to profit. with @peterbakernyt @katierogers @maggieNYT @JesseDrucker https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/p

Zeal A. Jacobson

Here’s a THREAD related to the pandemic1. I stumbled on Sigmund Freud while writing a certain article about Nigeria & ever since, I’ve been intrigued by psychology. I then read

Hydroxychloroquine News

You can't make this stuff up. It appears that the Cuomo family has been treating themselves for Covid-19 with zinc and ... wait for it ... a certain malaria drug.H/T

President-Elect CivilDrivel

Is #CCPVirus actually airborne Malaria?(mini thread) Malaria feels just like the flu in many respects. The NIH even has a white paper on distinguishing between the twohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3778896/ Malaria causes lung