#Infection

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

I don’t know who needs to hear this (it’s all of you) but on my husband’s ER night shift last night, they filled the last bed in the COVID ICU.Things

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Thread 1/nThere are two pieces of data out today that are very troubling and one may be related to the other.The first is that African-Americans are both getting COVID19 at

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

THINK LIKE A SCIENCE JOURNALIST: I’ve been having many discussions recently about journalism and science journalism in this pandemic. One of my main points: Context is king, caveats are central.Few stories

Gregory Travis

greg_travis

1/Time to dissect https://www.pandata.org/a-critical-analysis-of-the-covid-response/* "All prior knowledge indicates that epidemics are not driven by asymptomatic individuals"A: Polio has a 95% asymptomatic incidence. Virtually ev

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

(TINY THREAD) I want to explain in a bit more detail the reason there was concern about the (now disproven) claims made by the IHME authors last week that last

Mookjuice

mookjuice

I saw plandemic. There’s plenty of sites debunking it so I won’t make my analysis that extensive. She said Ebola couldn’t infect human cells before she started working on the

Ryan Radecki, MD MS

emlitofnote

The abstract and table are posted from the latest Didier Raoult article, a summary of their first 1,061 #covid19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.For anyone who was displeased with

OCD Ottawa

OcdOttawa

Fear, stress and worry are normal in a crisis.The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many changes. If you are someone who has a mental illness, anxiety disorder, or other kind

VeronicaM

_V5M1000

GOOD - SWEDEN STOPS PCR TESTS AS COVID19 DIAGNOSIS.Legal precedent set.The Swedish Public Health Agency has developed national criteria for assessing freedom from infection in covid-19.1-7https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/publicerat-mater

Dear Pandemic

DearPandemic

1/ Q: I heard you say on Facebook Live that the new #Covid_19 vaccine candidate from @moderna_tx is a "new type" of vaccine. Can you explain that?A: The vaccine candidate

The Other Mike Wazowski

karchmic

Yeah, this ain't it chief...1) Only preliminary evidence (albeit growing) suggests that there is a *reduction*, not elimination, of infection and transmission.2) We have little data to describe how effective

Tarun Shukla

shukla_tarun

While the risk of in-flight transmission of #coronavirus is relatively less, it seems now proven in studies that it can spread. Thread : On a 10-hour London to Hanoi, flight

Kevin Kniery

Kniery_Bird

Thoughts on femoral central venous access and arterial line access as first line access in high volume COVID hospitals? Less draping, faster, easier access, lower complications, maybe equivalent risk of

ClassicBeatz

IamClassicBeatz

Thought of the day: I've seen a couple of well meaning but clueless white people say that covid-19 is the great equalizer. That couldn't be further from the truth. This

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

A second thread to explain how the #COVID19 modelling works.https://twitter.com/peripatetical/status/1247402435858944002?s=20 (Stephen Hawking was once told that each equation in his book would lose him half his audience. If the whole

Oti Goodhind

otigart

Sp today. Death 288, out of hospital 98732. Infection rate at 0.8%Super numbers and today is the first day out for a walk for kids under 14 with a parent