#Mortality

Elaine Hyshka

ehyshka

Various policy responses can be debated, but it is misleading to claim that Alberta's illegal drug market has not become *significantly more dangerous* since illegal fentanyl started replacing diverted pharmaceuticals

Ciarán Murray

C1aranMurray

The UK is the worst hit country in the world on a per capita basis. There have been 60k excess deaths so far. There 50k excess deaths Dec-Mar 2017/18 according

Dr. Safa Mote

SafaMote

ThreadOn 2020 Aug 23, @SteveFDA falsely claimed that out of "100 people who are sick with #COVID19, 35 would have been saved because of the administration of [convalescent] plasma."Dr. Hahn

after hours

INTPnarcissist

Martin Scorsese films all have overarching themes/ vices the main character deals with which usually lead to their self-destruction(some movies deal with similar themes, some are more obvious than others)

Arwyn

Anianegwr

1/ The four main duties of government are:1. Make laws2. Ensure order3. Security4. Welfare of citizensI'd say that the UK state has done a decent job of the first three

Davin L. Phoenix

Davin_Phoenix

Recent snapshots of the Black experience during COVID-19 paint a grim yet unsurprising picture of how institutional racism magnifies the vulnerability of Black folks in so many facets of life.

Omar Wasow

owasow

A recent paper on infant mortality has been getting a lot of attention. A headline summarized: ”Black newborns more likely to die when looked after by White doctors.” There’s been

Covid19Crusher

Covid19Crusher

New Lancet report associates hydroxychloroquine and death, in total contradiction with previous research (Rosenberg, JAMA).Critical issue is indication bias: is HCQ slated for the most severe patients as regulators in

The Ruminating Sheep 🐏 🇬🇧

resurgentsheep

What will happen next? What do the statistics mean and how should they affect policy?These are the big questions facing the world not just the UKA sheep thread on how

Anupam Gupta

b50

Thread alert. Mumbai's #COVID19 story: A 1hr long video interview of @mybmc's IS Chahal with Dr Shashank Joshi and Dr Harish Shetty. Key takeaways from this @OneMDHealth video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vEDfCAQyvs The change

1Day Sooner

1daysooner

1/ This new article @DrMRosenblatt offers important concerns about challenge trials that should be taken seriously, but it misses a few key points:https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/23/challenge-trials-live-coronavirus-speedy-covid-19-vaccine

Lucy Coatman

lucy_coatman

How useful/necessary is the traffic light system on food REALLY? I recovered from anorexia, spent the past 3 years in Austria where this isn’t a thing. Hardly any problems. Move

Aaron The Pedantic 🦃

cha_neg

There seems to be a misconception going around that when you play in games with a high mortality rate, the player characters lack depth. I think people overestimate the utility

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

I felt it may useful to summarise the various intervention strategies available to us to manage the Covid-19 pandemic. So far, there are three basic strategies that have been considered.

Graham Neary

GrahamNeary

I've gone deep into the mortality numbers for Ireland and Covid-19. This is what I've learned.Thread. The death toll in Ireland from Covid-19 is officially 1,773. But this includes people

Essential MN

ReOpenMN1

Here's my take on the new MN COVID model: 1) the data is very old. Missing about 25-30% of the pandemic. Data ends April 25. 3 month pandemic, missing latest