#Mortality

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

0/ Thread on how mass-media-induced fear of COVID irrationally transformed our priors.I have talked a lot about the mass hysteria that was created...https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1239995212572876802?s=20This thread gets more at th

Tom Wenig

tdwenig

Prepared for Your DeathThinking about the fact that you will die is a wise move for anyoneA thread http://afterdeathsite.com/2020/10/20/prepared-for-your-death/ You are in good health. Maybe you are even young. Why

I’m Aladar, the jerkasaurus

itatiVCS

Hello all! Its #EarthDay2021 and I am here to tell you about the latest savanna paper news! this is a 2021 paper by Adam Pellegrini, a superstar in savanna

Matt Malkus

malkusm

1/ @BallouxFrancois - I am curious if you have examined other aspects of the 1889 Russian flu pandemic, which you mentioned here. There are several similarities to #SARSCoV2 which I

Saman Nematollahi

TxID_Edu

1/18I bet you are wondering, what's all the fuss with #candidemia? Why do we care? How to diagnose? How to treat? Get ready for a thanksgiving treat!Inspired by @DxRxEdu 2/In

Vivek Murthy

vivek_murthy

If an EUA for #COVID19 vaccine is managed like today’s convalescent plasma announcement, we are in trouble. We need to know the process for evaluating safety/efficacy is based on science

Stop the Steal - Stu Cvrk

STUinSD

Thread – Virus-related Thoughts from the ‘Net1. Regardless of where the below missive originated, the stated facts below are irrefutable. Just google the numbers, even though google censors sources and

Erick Erickson

EWErickson

So much of the distrust on the right towards experts comes from the left trying to use "experts" to advance their agenda. Whether it is abortion or climate, the left

Prof Bunny Hugger 🌍🌹🌱💙 #ClimateAction

JKSteinberger

Oh hi there! I have a small favour to ask. It's my birthday (for real), I have 2 busted knees and am on lockdown same as everyone else. Can you

Benjamin Rome, MD

bnrome

Alright, we finally have some data from the ACTT-1 remdesivir trial, published as a prelim report in @NEJM Some initial thoughts https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007764?query=featured_home The randomization was stratified by sev

Khanoisseur 🐶🤦🏻‍♂️🌎

Khanoisseur

Other countries that administer BCG vaccine also reporting fewer coronavirus deaths:Hungary: 77Saudi Arabia: 47Thailand: 33South Africa: 24Taiwan: 6Sri Lanka: 0https://twitter.com/khanoisseur/status/1248832685591662598 New York Institute of Technolog

Patrick Fitten

Patrick_Fitten

#ThreadWhen Dr. Peter Phillips would've got his diagnosis the first thing that probably flashed before his eyes would have been his own mortality. As Jamaicans would put it - his

Jonah Rubin, MD

JonahRubinMD

Correct Answer: LIES! In the ICU, parenteral nutrition (PN) is *NOT* associated with increased infection risk compared to enteral nutrition (EN).But it wasn’t always that way...#Medtwitter #Medstudenttwitter #nutritionmatters #ICUNutritio

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

I've seen arguments aired that #SARSCoV2 will 'weaken' because it 'pays a cost' by hurting its host. I'm afraid this is too simplistic and in fact incorrect. We cannot predict

John Cherian

jjcherian

Ok, so what's wrong with the confidence intervals in this preprint? Well they publish a confidence interval on the specificity of the test that runs between 98.3% and 99.9%, but

JD Long

CMastication

Any of you all want to share something you learned while analyzing COVID / Coronavirus data? Were you surprised? Did something defy your intuition? I caught some shit for encouraging