#Infection

Gina Davidson

wornoutmumhack

If this row about the Louisa Jordan hospital actually means more people will know about the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, Elsie Inglis et al, the NUWSS, and the fight women had

j ohnny

homunsystem

i put a bandage on my nose to try to cover this funny patch where the skin is bad and either the bandage was bad or my skin was bad

Tim Harford

TimHarford

A friend of mine thinks it's too risky to go out, and asked me to do the maths for him. I did:https://www.ft.com/content/176b9bbe-56cf-4428-a0cd-070db2d8e6ff You need to make a lot of assumptions

Dr Vyom Sharma

drvyom

1/ Victorian lockdowns continue largely because #covid19aus transmission persists in health/aged care.Excluding these, our 14 day avg daily cases = 2.9If only we knew these settings were drivers of transmission,

rahlzle dazzle

drahcir_rahl

Every time I see some of the equate quarantine at home with losing a freedom it makes me cringe.Your freedoms don't allow you to harm others.You've no god-given right to

Peter English #FBPE

petermbenglish

A problem with privatisation of testing.Now that we are routinely testing lots of people - including care home staff and residents, and NHS staff - we are picking up positive

Mark

swinton57

Twitter is for observations and speculation right? And getting comments on your ideas. So here we go. Working in a forensic psychiatry service, plenty of our inpatients have a diagnosis

Parler: @PaulSchmehl #2020GOPLandslide

PaulSchmehl

Thread: This CDC report shows that people who are asymptomatic can spread the infection and later become symptomatic. So testing only symptomatic persons misses at least half the cases of

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Sweden has herd? Nope, sorry. Sweden's public health agency is discussing imposing new coronavirus restrictions on Stockholm after the city's health chief warned of "worrying signs of increasing

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Thoughts on seroprevalence in NYC. I'm not at all surprised by an estimate of 21% seropositive in NYC as discussed by @NYGovCuomo today (https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1253353516803993600). 1/6 I had previously been estimating

Rabih Geha

rabihmgeha

1/nfUnKy InflammationYup.You are reading this right.fUnKy Inflammation!A thought exercise...Who said learning medicine can't quirky and fun?!?Let's go Wait, what do you mean by inflammation?So glad you asked.There are many roads

Sohail

sohailabid

My experience with coronavirus, a few thoughts after recovery.1. We are already suffering from information anxiety when i comes to Covid-19 because of all the bad/worse news about the disease

Fiona // BLACK LIVES MATTER

Fiona_Butchart

Imagine if you went to the doctors feeling very unwell, in horrific pain and crying uncontrollably. And they told you you were crazy and sent you home.Sounds archaic, doesn't it?

Will Hazell

whazell

Public Health England has published its study into Covid-19 transmission in primary schools in the summer half term. The findings are encouraging. Of 12,026 pupil/staff participants in 131 schools, just

Dan Salt

danieljohnsalt

UK has not breached our ICU capacity once so the higher death rate vs Germany is due to: Higher infection rate Different demographics Environmental factors Existing health issues like obesityI

MikePed

ped_mike

1 of 2—Got denied service the first time due to covid. I was respectful and explained I’d just find a different doctor. Gave them my new patient papers and asked