#Mortality

Nick Mark MD

nickmmark

Interesting preprint of the #LIVEAIR study of #lenzilumab in #COVID19:-double blind RCT n=502 hospitalized pts on suppl O2-lenzilumab associated with improved survival w/o ventilation: 84% vs 77.9% -larger benefit when

Jin Russell

DrJinRussell

In my last set of tweets on @MatthewHootonNZ's armchair epidemiological reckons, I emphasised that he does not have the skills to analyse epidemiological data. In his latest Herald piece, he

Delete MassSurveillance 🇪🇺 #StopCovid19

falsel_net

#SARSCoV2 is neuro-invasive. Is CNS regulation of peripheral catecholamine outflow disrupted in susceptible patients? CAT overflow leading to platelet aggregation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/22/coronavirus-blood-clots/ Co

Nora

nor_whal

i keep seeing people say ‘corona only has a 98% fatality rate, let’s go back to work and let it run its course’ here’s a few reasons why this is

Harold Pollack

haroldpollack

I found this 2013 post, where I proposed a set of quantitative skills every reporter should have to cover health care+public policy. These are roughly the skills I'd expect of

Caroline Morganti

ctmorganti

This tweet/replies below encapsulate the nightmare of Twitter, esp now. Spread of misleading info that confirms existing biases, to the point of suggesting a conspiracy.Just bc Republicans are incalculably worse

Samuel Brown

DrSamuelBrown

I love @Michael_Harhay 's fascinating paper about adult critical care trials. https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/suppl/10.1164/rccm.201401-0056CP I did some manual calculations trying to ask how often trials that aimed at mortality were nominally po

Ryan Buckland

RyanBuckland7

I started making a long thread that should've been a blog post about the Very Bad Take supposedly serious economics/political journalists have been writing about "the cure being worse than

hana riaz

hanariaz

Whenever I see the ‘Why?’ are people of colour disproportionately dying from COVID I see a scrambling for some pathological, biomedical explanation. quite frankly, like all patterns of health inequality,

Sam Bowman

s8mb

I have written with @pdmsero on Sweden as the Covid counterfactual – "Live free and die".https://thecritic.co.uk/live-free-and-die-swedens-coronavirus-experience/ We describe what we know now about Covid – that it is extremely

PoliMath

politicalmath

I've identified my #1 revelation in this crisis:People (all of us) take very complicated things and try to explain them in terms we can comprehendIf our rationalizations make sense, we

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

drsanjaygupta

I spoke to FDA head @SteveFDA about the decision to issue an EUA (emergency use authorization) for convalescent plasma to treat those currently infected. While promising, it’s been controversial because

Subhasree Ray

DrSubhasree

Vitamin K & #COVID19: Thrombosis is a major manifestation of COVID-19 that contributes to poor outcomes. Vitamin K plays a crucial role in the activation of both pro & anti-clotting

Bachman

ElonBachman

1\ An urban legend that refuses to die is the idea that "BIPOC patients are more likely to die in childbirth" and that this must reflect systemic racismThis idea is

Jonathan Ryder, MD

JonathanRyderMD

1/ While on my current GI rotation, I've been reading about Clostridioides difficile because, you know, #IDNerd. I ran across something I had not learned about before:A Hypervirulent Strain of

Levi Bowles

LeviABx

It seems like lockdown is not all or nothing, and there's likely a third path that could be beneficial both to epidemic management and individual's economic outcomes. Specifically, we need