#Clinical

1/4 As a number of us anticipated black folk are being recruited excessively as subjects for coronavirus vaccine clinical trials, including college presidents at Xavier and Dillard imploring their students
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Interesting Covid-19 read for all surgeons:“Clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients undergoing surgery during the incubation period of #Covid19”. All pts developed pneumonia and mortality was 20.5%. @AmCollSurgeons @AcademicSurgery @me4_so
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Let me make this very clear:The false negative #covid19 results is not the governments or the @HSELive's fault.Indeterminate results are common. Especially when we have limited data on a brand
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Jersey press conference with health bosses (and no politicians). Live tweets as we go along in this thread...•Health DG thanks all healthcare workers for their ‘boundless dedication’•Reminder of stay at
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My take on TXA in TBI following an excellent review by @Kumait_Allawati @SameerSharifMD @Bram_Rochwerg & colleagues. disclosure I'm a co-author Study objective? What is the efficacy & safety of TXA
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We are witnessing an entire nation become collectively dehumanized. When we refuse to treat the disproportionate loss of black life with urgency, we dehumanize. When we react to each other's
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Me: “I’m very sorry, I was absolutely going to wear my mask but I forgot, I will breathe away and down...”Mat the Myotherapist (wearing a mask): “Kate, if there’s a
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Welp, another new (bad) HCQ/azithro paper, this one controverting the dumb original Gautret/Raoult paper.Can we at least stop saying that HCQ is "best available evidence" now that we have conflicting
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We've drafted a framework for clinical neuropsychology in the context of C19 - very much a starter-for-ten - please contribute ideas! Especially re: links to organisations and resources specifically relevant
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With the increase in testing going on, we’re now seeing people testing positive now in May, who tested negative in March and April. These are not due to failure to
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Statement from an HHS Spokesperson"We have been, and continue to, negotiate with Pfizer for additional doses. At no time did OWS turn down an offer from Pfizer for any number
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Im not sure why the QT narrative is so dominant but: “Camouflaging** has been proposed as an explanation for the missed/late diagnosis of females w ASC, as part of the
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It hurts to see the place I grew up--the place that I still consider home, in a lot of ways--seemingly intentionally sacrifice itself to this thing. When the governor acknowledges
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In my first year, I wouldn't speak in Hindi because I assumed that English would be more commonly understood. That was misconstrued as "attitude". I'd been here for all of
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1/x You'll be hearing a lot about the term "case fatality rate" in COVID-19 discussions. It's the reference indicator often used to compare how lethally bad COVID-19 is relative to
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What are the limitations of observational registry studies? One major issue is confounding by indication. How physicians act is not the same as a Randomized Clinical Trial testing a therapy
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