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Abraar Karan
AbraarKaran
1/ Has anyone seen data on the testing specs for rtPCR (sensitivity/specificity) in asymptomatic/presymptomatic #covid19 patients?This is critical-- but if there is low sensitivity/high false negative in this patient population,
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Jason Weatherald MD
JasonWeatherald
To the new incoming Pulmonary Medicine fellows, welcome to the specialty! Here are my 10 tips for success. Inspired by @AndrewJSauer’s tips for cardiology fellows.Please feel free to add to
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Mark Hoofnagle
MarkHoofnagle
So Remdesivir, some good news, some bad. Not a game changer, but it may help COVID patients requiring supplemental O2 *before* they become critically ill. Some regional confounding in the
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Matthew Cortland, Esq
mattbc
Allowing society to preferentially kill disabled people by denying medical care on the basis of disability (through, eg ventilator rationing policies) will, ultimately, result in the loss of more "lives
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John Mandrola, MD
drjohnm
Giving talks in which you don't have a slide deck already made is illuminating. Look what I found out about publication bias> It was "discovered" in 1979 by Rosenthal https://content.apa.org/record/1979-27602-001How
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Mark Hoofnagle
MarkHoofnagle
NEJM with a well performed and convincing study associating the (extremely) rare clotting syndrome seen with the AZ vaccine with development of platelet factor 4 antibodies and a HIT-like syndrome.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMo
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An Leavy
an_leavy
Thanks to David for sending me this link to the summary prepared by the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) on the investigations done regarding NSW school cases
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Blair Lewis
blair0lewis
The MSM ought to be ashamed of themselves for telling viewers.“Hydroxycloroquine will kill you”.Right now, it has the most evidence that it’s the best working therapeutic to combat Corona Virus.
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Leora Horwitz
leorahorwitzmd
I have turned down several press requests to talk about Trump's treatment because I am not his doctor and don't know the situation. But the questions people asked made me
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Adam Brufsky
breastoncdoc
Thread on the #hydroxychloroquine study for Dr. Topol:(1/8) Assume for a minute that what is going on is that the virus is hijacking autophagy pathways in cells to live and
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Councilor Alicia Bowman
aliciafornewton
As an elected official in #NewtonMA where much of the @BostonCollege campus is located, this video upsets me. @BCFootball players do not live in a bubble. #COVID19 is real and
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Holly '7 Cats' Brockwell
holly
This is the most 1% question I've ever seen: how can I invest my money to make loads more while I'm dead but cryonically preserved and waiting to be brought
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Ranu Dhillon
RanuDhillon
1/ W/Ebola in West Africa, there was a term 'Ebola business' that referred to the idea that Ebola was either made up or overblown & used as a way to
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Jonathan Ball
JonathanKBall
1/nToday, I read a #COVID19 #Vaccine piece repeating that the Oxford team were 80% confident that there vaccine would work. This had previously struck me as an odd figure, and
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Sarah Hudson
sarahhudsonuk
My top 10 learning points from the #ESCCongressA thread for cardiologists/general physicians1) Post acute MI, transfuse if ≤8g/dL Evidence: REALITY trial- not yet published – summary reported https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/cli
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Bloom Lab
jbloom_lab
Lots of recent discussion about #SARSCoV2 re-infections, with 2 pre-prints describing possible examples. To contextualize these re-infections, I'd like to discuss the following papers, which document same-season re-infection with influe
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