#Medical

Preprints have completely transformed the medical publishing landscape over the past four months. All the promised benefits and all the feared risks of preprints have come into stark relief against
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Ethicists are quoted re:#COVID19 as saying things like "in a public health emergency, medical #ethics shifts from clinical ethics (priority to worst off, patient autonomy) to the #publichealth #utilitarian value
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It's so fucking weird that like 60 years ago scientists were able to make a vaccine for measles, say "it'll stop measles from killing you," and then distribute it so
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Going to make a thread of the questions I'm being asked most tonight. PLEASE check my timeline as a lot of people are asking the same questions. 1. What's the
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1/9 Currently in the U.S. the CDC and the NIH have 1.65 million #Covid_19 cases with over 100,000 deaths. The numbers will climb as we get universal testing. I predict
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Some of y’all freaking out about the misconstrued “disinfectant” comment would be shocked to hear some of the ingredients in our vaccines and cancer treatments This isn't even a
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BREAKING: Explosion at Sina Athar Medical facility in Tehran, Iran, as per initial reports. VIDEO # 2: via @yes_itsmyturn #Tehran #Iran VIDEO # 3: No confirmed reports of casualties so
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#Thread#Bharat specific problems.A friend runs a hospital in a town in Maharashtra.His staff is on WhatsApp all the time, receiving "news" (essentially rumors) from district.New patient entering OPD, hospital is
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I think some clarity on how the state is including cases from the Cummins Unit would be useful, given how much it is being discussed on this website. (1/X) The
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If DEMOCRACY is all about DISCUSSION, DEBATE ... during a time when the country is fighting an unknown, extremely STRONG enemy (virus), did the GOI even discuss the sourcing of
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Please go through the draft health data policy which, if brought in, would ask Indians for information on sexual orientation, caste, religious and political beliefs among other things. Go to
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Do you know as a man,You can have pregnancy symptoms when your wife/babe gets pregnant.Nausea. Bloating. Tummy pains. Backache. Tiredness.Some men will even start craving firewood jollofrice at 3am.It is
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[THREAD]The face shield initiatives from the Philippine Science High School Main Campus. Mr Andrew Tuazon was one of the first members of the nationwide volunteer group 3D Printing for a
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Not a single American family should be forced to fight for their home against big banks without a lawyer by their side. Not a single worker should be forced to
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Just had a fascinating conversation with my smartest friend who is also anti-Trump. He says he gets his news from CNN, MSNBC and the NY Times. So I tested him
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This is becoming my default review template (#SysRev or otherwise) -- lots of links because I want people to have all the resources at their fingertips. You can't say I
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