#Mortality

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Gold_Wyvern

if another nation killed 1% of all Americans we'd be at war 4 months ago Over 407k US soldiers were killed in WW2. To be generous, let's round up to

Brief19, your daily roundup of SARS-CoV-2.

Brief_19

For weeks, we have URGED CAUTION about using medications not proven to benefit patients with covid-19.Hydroxychloroquine (HC) was touted by the US President. Use skyrocketed.New data out suggests the drug

Mig Greengard

chessninja

Yep. Trump too. And the clock is ticking. All they care about is keeping the confirmed case numbers as low as possible until election day. Getting caught after that will

Newman Nahas

NahasNewman

"Celebrities posting videos and selfies of working from home in opulent mansions is positively obscene and revolting." The cloaking of privilege in the guise of virtue has a high R0.

eugyppius

eugyppius1

thread. The West is out of shape. Only 12% of Americans are metabolically healthy. covid19 will be cruel to them. Their institutions are also unfit. The CDC cannot tie its

A. Adeni

AldrinAU

1/10 Just sharing an interesting #respiratory case. A 78yrs lady with #COPD, #cardiacfailure & elevated BMI was treated for cardiac failure, hypercapnoeic acidotic respiratory failure with #NIV(BiPAP) & diuretics. 2/10

Women's Law Project

WomensLawProj

Amid a maternal mortality crisis & the pandemic, the GOP Health Comm is kicking off a new session prioritizing ... abortion bans.Starting soon #StopPABans #AbortionIsHealthcare https://twitter.com/PPAdvocatesPA/status/138014024993912832

Rachel Clarke

doctor_oxford

Dear @borisjohnson,1. The UK has one of the worst #COVID19 death rates in the world2. 20k people have died already - probably double that 3. Lockdown was delayed4. PPE &

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yasminesucks

me reviewing jewelry cleaning vids, a thread; while the video may be satisfying it isn’t anywhere near as joy inducing as smaller pieces of jewelry are. this, coupled with the

Phil Booth

EinsteinsAttic

Only in #hospitals, where they are focusing the most effort, #testing & #PPE.Suppressing something where it is most acute is,, of course, necessary & some sort of indicator - but

Robert Schorr

Rob_Schorr_CBC

1/5. #WBTC1 #Conserve3. I’m Rob Schorr @ColoradoStateU. When WNS hit eastern NAmer, #bats mortality was obvious. When WNS hit western NAmer, mortality was much less obvious. Fewer cave/mine hibernacula in

Katie

ZiziFothSi

You ever have that thing where you’re feeling shitty, but feeling shitty in a way where people being nice to you will actively make you feel shittier, so instead you

Matt Meizlish

MattMeiz

1/n For my first tweet (!) excited to share this work by an amazing team of physicians & scientists: https://bit.ly/3jFvuZr Punchline: Neutrophils are central to the pathogenesis of severe COVID-19.Neutrophil granule

Andy Conway Morris 😷🧼🇬🇧🇪🇺

andymoz78

Thanks to science we have gone from identification of a novel, lethal virus to effective vaccines, falling mortality and at least one effective treatment in under a year.This was not

PalMD

palmd

I've been a doctor for 20 years. My patients come from a variety of backgrounds. I can tell you from experience and from data that the ultimate cause of the

Usman T. Malik

usmantm

From what I have seen of the numbers (and understanding we have extremely unreliable models and limited local data), the 'leaky lockdown' that IK and Pakistan are using seems to