#Morbidity

Dr. Spencer J. Septién

.@BaOkDfDub you know... I did not listen, but I did hear about it. My understanding of their opinion is that inflammatory conditions of the heart are quite common in viral

Oren Jacobson 🔯

Thread on right-wing twisting of CDC #COVID19 data:Over the weekend, right-wing skeptics have jumped on CDC data exploring deaths from the virus. Specifically, they’ve started arguing just 10k deaths have

Prime Minister Netanyahu toured the command center of the task force on cutting the chain of infection at IDF Home Front Command HQ in Ramla and held an assessment and

Correct, we don't have "gating criteria"—our core concept is that the conventional gating criteria falsely assume that everyone is at equal risk of morbidity & mortality from #COVID19. The evidence

There is no trade-off between saving lives and saving livelihoods and economic growth. The impact of a pandemic on the economy is thought to work through several pathways - and

Gabrielle Colleran

ProfSuperJunior

Non Ebola morbidity & mortality goes up 4 fold during outbreaksWe don’t want to see this for all our patients during covid-19 pandemicHaving paid a FORTUNE to rent the private

James Todaro, MD

1/ An unknown side effect of lengthy lockdowns may be decreased crossover immunity to COVID-19.Research on SARS-CoV-1 suggests that lack of exposure to the common cold coronaviruses could actually worsen

I had a similar discussion in a forum recently and this was my opinion. A thread..As long as we started monitoring COVID in Africa from Feb 2020 then there will

*IMPORTANT NEW RESEARCH FINDING* Just published Systematic Review by Honarmand et al, 2020:“Patients with ARDS had higher prevalence of cognitive impairment than mixed ICU patients at ICU discharge”.This finding is

Catching up with #medtwitter and some rather smug reactions from UK docs to US docs being up at 3:30 am and effects on burnout. But is the UK system really

Dr. Maurice Sholas

As we analyze the differing black folk morbidity & mortality for #COVID19, I got my first assertion that “we” are dying because we are fat & don’t take responsibility for

This scar from the BCG vaccine just might mean reduced mortality/morbidity from COVID-19. Studies still ongoing but interesting correlation. See thread. https://twitter.com/quicktake/status/1245228409007083521

Dr Benjamin Janaway

One general misconception is that 'we cure illness.' This is rarely the case, most treatments are about managing symptoms, postponing morbidity/mortality, and improving quality of life. This is true for

Prof. Devi Sridhar

Problems w/ herd immunity:1. Don't know how long immunity lasts. Antibodies go after

I've been inspired to initiate a debate about the comparisons in outcomes between different countries in their efforts to deal with the corona virus pandemic, by this graph posted by

Durie 🇯🇲🇨🇦

There’s a reason why, back in April/May, behavioural scientists were advising people to switch off the news periodically. I’ve told people don’t check updates more than once per day. There’s