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The intensivist
Madar_bhagat
My observations1. Tachycardia and thrombocytopenia in OPD is a bad sign. 2. Obese and diabetic can worsen any time in second week even if CT on 6th day has low
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Dena Grayson, MD, PhD
DrDenaGrayson
As I warned, Trump’s condition was much more serious than revealed. His condition was deteriorating faster and earlier in the course of illness than is typical in #COVID19. Thus, the
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Stacey - 1776 & MLK
ScotsFyre
Okay, I am putting this up because I am sick of COVID-19 panic porn that leaves the impression we have no answers. This is simply not the case. At the
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Laurie Garrett
Laurie_Garrett
This is from @Craig_A_Spencer who treated 100s of #COVID19 ER cases in NYC's peak epidemic. Here's what's weird about @POTUS treatment so far:- nobody has consulted the world's top expert
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Dave Blake, PhD
_stah
The president is on dexamethasone, a powerful corticosteroid, which is used to minimize the inflammatory portion of the immune response in more severe COVID-19. However, giving it now, 2-3 days
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Eric Meyerowitz, MD
EricMeyerowitz
Thoughts on RECOVERY preprint: dexamethasone as treatment for COVID-19 @AaronRichterman https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.22.20137273v1
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Conrad Anker
conrad_anker
Climbing at altitude taxes the human body. When life goes bad we have two “get out of jail” cards. O2 and Dex. May 1999 I participated in a rescue of
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JAMA
JAMA_current
1/8 Corticosteroids and COVID19*Three* RCTs and a new @WHO meta-analysis add to #RECOVERY trial data that corticosteroids reduce mortality in critically ill #COVID19 patientshttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/newonline 2/8 Corticosteroid
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👊🏽Thuggest💊Druggist🧪
thugdruggist
Decadron (dexamethasone) is one of the strongest steroids. This means it also has severe side effects. irritability mood swings insomnia fluid retention ankle swellingmuscle weaknessimpaired wound healing
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Carlos Osweda
COsweda
THREADYou know what's funny, @realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS?Funny as in "This sushi that sat on my front porch for a week in the summer heat smells funny."The science-worshiping Democrats are making
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE - Recovery trial results finally out - and hopefully puts nail in coffin. Out of 4700 people randomized... HCQ did NOT lower #covid19 mortality. It anything it was trending
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Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA
celinegounder
1/ What did we learn about the President's health today?- He had a fever and oxygen saturation level under 94% on Friday, which prompted his transfer to Walter Reed Hospital.-
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Chief Pharmacist
ChiefPharmacst
12 #VITAL_TIPS ABOUT SOME DRUGS1. Paracetamol is more effective on an empty stomach.2. Eating fatty food (eg Milk ) together taking ACT Antimalarial medications will increase it's absorption rate.3. Taking
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BK Titanji #ILookLikeAScientist
Boghuma
Where we are with #tocilizumab for #COVID19 . Neat summary in @JAMA https://ja.ma/2IJ8HPc . The fact remains that we need good RCT data. The observational studies so far are small,
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Adam W Gaffney
awgaffney
I'm so grateful for the lifesaving work done by the RECOVERY platform trialists: because of them we know that dexamethasone and tocilizumab save lives in severe COVID (and so use
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Samuel Brown
DrSamuelBrown
Some thoughts about the RECOVERY-DEX preprint. First, some more clarity about why it stopped--it hit the target sample size. Oddly, no discussion about alpha spend or what the DSMB reviewed.
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