#TheLancet

Madeline Hawke

madelinemidwife

A short thread regarding the @MidwivesRCM partnership with a for-profit weight loss company, which I believe is not only inappropriate and alienating women of size, but also potentially harmful... /1

Michelle Kelly-Irving

shell_ki

When you work on #HealthInequalities you get asked (a lot!) whether socially patterned health differences are caused by geneticsThis "genetic essentialism" question could be naive, but we need to answer

Sachin M. Shetty MD

sachinmshetty

(1/n)There is a mischievous msg being circulated saying the death rate (other than #COVID19) has come down everywhere now that Drs have closed outpatient. As a Dr., I’m happy if

Chao Song

chaosong

1. Lots of news reports emerged recently suggesting China under-reporting or faking COVID19 cases. Unfortunately, most of these reports did not discuss much scientific evidence. This long thread is my

Catherine Offord

ce_offord

The latest in @TheScientistLLC’s investigation into the enormous influence #Surgisphere has had on policy and research around the world. This installment: Latin America’s #ivermectin crisis.https://bit.ly/37IbGjy One of the (many)

Jacy Reese Anthis

jacyanthis

Most people have seen the scary math on how unprepared humanity is for #COVID2019, particularly US medical infrastructure (e.g. masks, hospital beds, HT @LizSpecht). But I don’t think most people

Genesis Health Consulting

GHC_Ideas

Q2: What must be true when we think about kids returning to school? #covid19 Please include A2 and the chat hashtag #GenesisPlayCafe in your response 1 Several papers and guiding

Rosewind

Rosewind2007

“Shutting down spaces & de-platforming individuals is the single most effective tool for dealing with these sorts of malign actors It is the one thing that absolutely works. It cripples

bhattsamir@gmail.com

DrSamirBhatt

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31357-X/fulltext#coronavirus-linkback-header Have deaths from COVID-19 in Europe plateaued due to herd immunity? There has been quite a bit of discussion regarding herd immu

Alex Stevens

AlexStevensKent

The government’s response to @CommonsScotAffs report on problem drug use, led by Kit Maltouse, is mostly a shoddy piece of work. You can read it at https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmselect/cmscotaf/698/69802.htm. Here are som

Christian Althaus

C_Althaus

Im gestrigen #10vor10 behauptet @srfnews, dass die von der Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force kommunizierte Infektionssterblichkeit die Dunkelziffer nicht berücksichtigt. Das ist leider falsch. (1/9)https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/

Simon I. Hay

simonihay

Congratulations to Prof. Stein Emil Vollset (@IHME_UW)) on “#Fertility, #mortality, #migration, & #population #scenarios for 195 countries …: a #forecasting analysis for the #GBDstudy 2019 @TheLancet doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30677-

Helen Ward

profhelenward

There is evidence from other countries and previous epidemics that testing and tracing are key interventions early in an epidemic and even more as we start to get control in

Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

DoctorChrisVT

Infant formula is a £50 billion industry. It’s growing because manufacturers are using the kind of marketing techniques you might expect from the tobacco industry to exploit COVID fears.Here’s our

Eric Topol

EricTopol

1. Some hard facts to explain why Testing, testing, testing is not enoughIn our @RockefellerFdn action plan we called for 35 million tests/week, scaling up over the next 6 months

Judith Rietjens

JudithRietjens

Come see - @JAMAInternalMed made a patient page about #advancecareplanning ! https://ja.ma/2oNuTOJ There is some good and some bad news here 1/ The good news? The fact that this patient