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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
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Prof. Devi Sridhar
devisridhar
Donald Trump's withdrawal of U.S. from the WHO ignores the key role the agency plays in outbreak prevention & response. Not only for COVID, but also for polio, malaria, TB,
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Susan Wilcox, MD
MiscSusan
Ok, I have to say something, especially as I keep getting pulled into in these posts. COVID-19 causes ARDS. I keep hearing the refrain that it is not ARDS because
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Ubadah Sabbagh
neubadah
Unprecedented statements from scientists & scientific institutions on the Trump administration's handling of the Covid19 pandemic and the 2020 election, a :Starting with the most recent editorial from @NEJM 1/n
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Dr. Rick Pescatore
Rick_Pescatore
CDC has 2 strategies for d/c of home isolation/return to work-a test-based strategy, calling for 2 consecutive -PCRs >24h apart,+a non-test-based strategy, which permits return 72h s/p fevers have abated+respiratory
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Ahmad Taqi
Ahmad_Taqi
Remdesivir for COVID-19. Single arm study, very difficult to make any conclusions from it, will have to wait on the ongoing RCT..https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007016 للأسف قد تكون هذه أسوأ ورقة عملية تنشر
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Navroop Singh
NavroopSingh_
An mRNA Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 — Preliminary Report | NEJM [Moderna Vaccine Phase 1 Trial summary]https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2022483 The mRNA-1273 vaccine was immunogenic, inducing robust binding antibody responses to
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
Dear journalists—please don’t let any pundits say Dexamethasone is some amazing miracle #COVID19 drug. does *NOT* work if not on O2 in RECOVERY trial. (even trends higher risk)cuts risk only
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Vincent Rajkumar
VincentRK
Astra Zeneca vaccine & blood clots. Summary.Rare form of blood clots plus low platelets. ~60% involve veins of brain. Almost all after 1st dose. Risk (UK MHRA): 1 in 250,000
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Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)
jeremyfaust
Two highly concerning papers now live in the New England Journal of Medicine regarding the adenovirus-based AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine.A small number of patients appear to have had serious clotting events with
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Ana Cabrera
AnaCabrera
In an unprecedented move, the New England Journal of Medicine on Weds published an editorial written by its editors condemning the Trump administration for its response to the #Covid19 pandemic
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA
KrutikaKuppalli
I am trying to understand all the hate towards @NEJM @GileadSciences and #remdesivir. Am I missing something? I agree the study is not groundbreaking but Remdesivir is not an FDA
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Eric Topol
EricTopol
The Remdesivir placebo-controlled randomized trial data.We've eagerly awaited the data; now published @NEJM https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2007764?articleTools=trueSignificant benefit for 27% time to recovery, across all sub
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Lia Launtz
LiaLauntz
I’m going to start a thread on some of the research into treatments for COVID-19. This is one article from the past week I found useful (following the very small
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Justin Mendoza, MPH
JustinDMendoza
Yesterday, activists got @moderna_tx to commit to making sure that their vaccine will be available to Americans "at not cost." This is a win for many, but I have some
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Ryan Radecki, MD MS
emlitofnote
I've seen a lot of irritation and frustration for @NEJM and their publication of an uncontrolled case series of #covid19 patients treated with #remdesivir – saying, "great, where's the RCT"?Well,
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