#Mortality

Chad Loder

chadloder

Stanford skeptic Ioannidis is back with a new preprint.“People who die in nursing homes die in an median of 5 months, so it is likely that COVID-19 nursing home deaths

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

Many of us are about the news that remdesivir may not, actually, change mortality for #COVID19. Why?https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/health/coronavirus-remdesivir-who.html @KatherineJWu @ginakolata First: a prior series of articles about

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

HUGE EXCESS DEATHS—global #COVID19 death toll is 2x higher than official data—6.9 mil worldwide. Deaths:US —905kIndia —654kMexico —617kBrazil —595kRussia —593kLikely hit 1918 Spanish flu death count by end of pandemic,

Steve Forden

mammuthus

Worth a read. The apparent (unless James is missing something obvious and I don't think he is) lack of calibration in some of the epidemiological modelling is very strange. I

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

James White

DrOakley1689

See the hype today? 100,000! Has never happened before! Record!Except, in the first five months of the year *without* the celeb disease, we would expect...1,208,000 deaths in the US. Incl.

R I N A L D I

Rinalditt

The world will not end only by the authoritarianism inherent in our race, by the denial of ancient values, by the lack of commitment to the next generations and by

Alex John London

AlexJohnLondon

I just watched this hour long interview with John Ioannidis and his picture of where we are is strikingly different from the prevailing view. He compares COVID19 to seasonal flu

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 177Nice to re-start our Covid grand rounds today. Available here: https://tinyurl.com/yyw5myns . We covered a range of epi issues (the shape of the pandemic, changing mortality

Michelle Tandler

michelletandler

I believe this is a pretty risky pilot/study to launch. Namely, because the n is so small that a single additional infant or maternal death would represent a 170% and

Dave Ederer 🦔

DaveEderer

I've been studying Vision Zero for a few years, and I'm excited to see Atlanta finally sign on. Last year, 73 people died on Atlanta's roads. For a city of

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Thread1/9 Our @bmj_latest paper on the state of the UK National Health Service is out. We examined @NHSuk performance compared to other countries on 79 metrics.What did we find?https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6326 2/9

Matt Kibbe

mkibbe

What is the goal of the lockdown? It was flattening the curve, to make sure hospitals could handle critical patients without being overwhelmed. Honest modelers acknowledged a flattened curve would

Alex Hollingsworth

ajhollingsworth

Really excited that work with @ivanjrudik is forthcoming at AEJ:Pol. We wrote a non-technical summary highlighting our key findings. You can find that here: https://hollina.github.io/hollingsworth_rudik_social_cost_of_lead_summary_2020.pdf

chris connolly

chrisconnolly83

Latest ICNARC data out today. 3800 patients. 51% critical care mortality. 35% BAME. 70% male. 25% of those aged 16-39 died. This is not just a disease that’s killing older

Henry GRAVES Abrams 🪦⚰🧟‍♂️☯️

Seven16

What about me says that my politeness or bluntness invokes an ulterior motive? I literally have no expectations of other people 99.9% of the time, and when I do, it's