#Mortality

David Lewis

DG_Lewis

The lack of data – mainly due low levels of testing – means it is still hard to say just how widespread #COVID19 is across #Africa. @khoureld + I delved

Jason Van Schoor

jasonvanschoor

From a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy:1/ ‘I feel the pressure to give you a quick personal update about what is happening in

Saint Dunstan 🇬🇧🌲

ancestralwealth

A thread for skeptical discussion of the COVID-19 crisis...Not convinced by new levels of State restriction? Unnerved by the rapid unthinking obedience of bizarre new norms...?𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒖𝒆 𝑫𝒐𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓 - Tanya

Pat Donaldson

ptdnldsn

1/ Excess deaths in the time of Covid. A thread. Earlier today I saw and retweeted someone saying that States were hiding Covid deaths by misclassifying them as pneumonia deaths.

Health Nerd

GidMK

Lots of people are still comparing the COVID-19 death rate with influenza ("it's only as deadly as the flu!")This is very misleadingIf you compare apples to apples, COVID-19 is MUCH

Elaine Hernandez

e_hernandez8

Want to write about the effect of the pandemic on birth rates, divorces, and mortality? Ask a demographer. Protip: Demographers are rarely the loudest in the group. Here I’m elevating

Christopher Ó Ruairc

Rourke199811

this will not be a comfort to anyone but #spillover is going to be increasingly frequent, as a consequence of species (e.g. bats) being forced upon into new + different

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) As promised, here's my response to @francoislegault’s criticism of my coverage of the #pandemic. I’ve been on the health beat for more than 21 years. During this time, I’ve

Michele Goodwin

michelebgoodwin

Adding to @RBraceySherman's thread:-Abortions were legal in the U.S. until around the time of the Civil War;-About half of the midwives up until that time were Black women;-Drs sought to

Brittany Greenslade

BrittAtGlobal

Dr. Brent Roussin will begin his testimony at 9:30... Here's a little background on the constitutional challenge from earlier this week..Lanette Siragusa testifies in Manitoba courtroom that hospital staff were

Peter Manseau

plmanseau

Worth noting: The "Jesus is my vaccine" crowd at the anti-shutdown rallies already lost this fight--almost exactly 300 years ago. And the most prominent Christian clergyman in America delivered the

Los Angeles Times

latimes

The disastrous situation unfolding at San Quentin State Prison has become the latest of several cautionary tales that show how any effort to achieve herd immunity before a vaccine is

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

Last week, a press released provided initial and promising results from a large scale trial of the corticosteroid dexamethasone in hospitalized COVID patients. Today the authors released a full report:

Dr. Kohilathas

drkohilathas

Vitamin D, #Covid19, the elderly, obese and BME population - A THREADThanks to Dr John Campbell and @foundmyfitness Things to think about:Vit D reduces respiratory tract infections and severity.Those with

राम गिलहरी

Ateendriyo

Cluelessness takes AMAZING proportions with white people.You know why Indians have low #COVID2019 mortality? Because of Tonic Water. https://twitter.com/ChinaEatsDog/status/1248069116080029697 And our past struggles with..... MAlERiaaaaa

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

Fantastic white paper on the summary of the evidence of the impacts on COVID-19.https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/In this thread I've just cut and post their summary points. 1. According to the latest immunologi