#TheLancet

Just published @TheLancet is the Oxford Phase 1 #SARSCoV2 vaccine trial with very encouraging safety data, neutralizing antibody and spike protein specific T cell responsehttps://www.thelancet.com/lancet/article/s0140-6736(20)31604-4 And an

NEW hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine study with 96,032 coronavirus patients from 671 hospitals across six continents (!!!) finds exactly what everyone should expect by now:- no benefit- cardiac toxicity - decreased

Italian Paediatric Hospital saw 3000% increase in Kawasaki disease among children during Coronavirus a new study in The Lancet has just revealed.Hundreds of these cases are now occurring in children

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽

This thread is such a great articulation what so many of us who are trying to change our institutions struggle withhttps://twitter.com/karlitaliliana/status/1249890783798251521 This thread also reminds me of @choo_ek's great opinion

Just out @TheLancet: The children with Kawasaki disease from #SARSCoV2A unique report from Italy comparing this to pre-#COVID19:the incidence has gone up 30-fold and it is more severe, with more

Does smoking & vaping protect against coronavirus? Very likely. Three studies of confirmed cases showed that ~90 pct of patients were never-smokers, while only ~10 pct were smokers & ex-smokers:

Covid reinfection in a 25 year-old man in Nevada, as confirmed by virus genomic sequencing; 2nd infection more severe @TheLancetInfDis https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30764-7/fulltext This is the 1st USA d

Just out: COVID-19 vaccine trials primarily assess prevention of virologically confirmed disease; NOT infection or transmission. An “effective” vax confers protection from disease but might not reduce spread...1/5https://twitter.com/the

The progress on the science front to fighting COVID continues to be at like the 95th percentile of reasonable expectations, even as the political/societal response has, uh, not been.https://twitter.com/TheLancet/status/1285207186591887360 h

That areas with some of the highest death rates also had strict lockdowns (Spain, New York) indicates that we are unlikely to find lockdowns had a very large impact on

This paper is a mess in my view. https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2820%2931180-6 The propensity model has very low likelihood of capturing the indication bias, and the fidelity of the data (huge registry with

Stefan Marciniak 💙

There has been debate as to whether the B.1.1.7 variant (first found in Kent) is ‘just’ more transmissible or if it also causes more severe illness This paper adresses this

Dr Sumaiya Shaikh

Sputnik V has 91.6% efficacy against COVID-19 & 100% against severe covid. 5 countries producing domestically incl. India & China. Aka GAM-COVID-Vac, it’s made of recombinant (S protein expressing gene

A new study @TheLancetPH today questions the higher B.1.1.7 lethality in a small sample of hospitalized patients with viral sequencing, before there was resource limitation https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)

Ok, here is my problem with @ICMR numbers, According to a recent @TheLancet paper, the mortality rate of COVID-19 in China for symptomatic cases was 1.38%, if we compare it

Joanna Poole 💙

A useful discussion on immunosuppression in lung transplant patients - by no means a study. The DRAWBACKS are this is a single centre, a few patient case reports. But they