#Covid

Tim Pool

Timcast

Fauci is a good dudeWe definitely want to listen to him and take his instructions seriouslyHe's also not an economist and the crisis we face is not just COVID19 There

Daniel Bier

FT__Dan

I am... perplexed by this quote from Paul Offit in this piece by @taraparkerpope. 95% vaccine efficacy doesn’t mean that “95% of people are protected.”https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/well/live/covid-vaccine-side-effects-faq.html 95

Dan Thomas

dan26wales

More observations based on experience with Covid and palliative care over the last week1) Some clinicians dislike uncertainty, they want a binary active treatment or palliative care decision (opposite of

Tom

_groke

feel like starting a thread of all the pieces i’ve read about the additional effects of covid-19 over the pneumonia, cos it’s neverendinghttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088915912030489X link from this thread https://twitter.com/sci

Cleavon MD

Cleavon_MD

7/24/2020 #COVID Update. I've worked two weeks here in Yuma, Arizona so I can discuss what I'm seeing. The first shift had a few hypoxic super sick COVID patients, but

Dr. KakoliGDastidar

kakoligdastidar

1) ICMR - Flawed policy in Covid testing. Only tested symptomatic foreign travellers. Did not test non symptomatic foreign travellers. No community testing. Prior to March 20. In April policy

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Montreal observed its lowest number of #COVID cases in four weeks on Saturday, despite the ramp-up in testing in the city’s hot spots. Yet despite this positive trend, I

Brian Cummings 💉💉

B_inShortsville

Small sample size, 100 recovered CoViD patients, median age 49, 2/3 NOT hospitalized, 80% with myocarditis, or other cardiac symptoms. From the Journal of the American Medical Association:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/full

Sparrow/Liz (semi-hiatus)

UntoNuggan

[covid vaccine]I know that the character limit is annoying, but I really wish that when people tweet about the rare chance of vaccine complications or catching the virus after being

Dr. Shay-Akil McLean, BA, BA, MA, MA, Ph.D.

Hood_Biologist

You can’t rush the end of a pandemic. Viruses can’t be reasoned with nor negotiated with.The pandemic will not end until the conditions required to end the spread of the

Pat Donaldson

ptdnldsn

1/ Excess deaths in the time of Covid. A thread. Earlier today I saw and retweeted someone saying that States were hiding Covid deaths by misclassifying them as pneumonia deaths.

George Hale جورج هيل

georgehale

Just got the J&J vaccine — a free and (so I’m told) effective shield against COVID-19 that remains out of reach for the vast majority of people. Today, even people

juIia

scholarschism

absolutely floored to learn that the icelandic translation of dracula was really a canon-divergent fanfic and no one realized for 113 years is this the part where i go “wow,

Laura Dodsworth

BareReality

I'm having a data day, to counter the Graphs of Mass Destruction. Let's have some balance. This is a useful collection of charts that offer a wider perspective.https://swprs.org/covid-the-big-picture-in-7-charts/ Talking of

Kyle Lamb

kylamb8

Below is an example of a death certificate from the Nat'l Vital Statistics System (NVSS), a CDC branch that is in charge of D.C. collection/reporting. This is a quick explanation

Tom Dolphin 💦🧼🙏💦 WASH YOUR HANDS

thomasdolphin

I think it's probably not right to claim the NHS "coped with the first wave of covid".Yes, we avoided a triage situation of choosing between covid patients for the last