#Morbidity

Joe Pierre, MD

psychunseen

1/7 I've commented on this in various places over the past few days, so I'll summarize here:The VA data show that the suicide rate among Veterans with a mental health

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

I've seen arguments aired that #SARSCoV2 will 'weaken' because it 'pays a cost' by hurting its host. I'm afraid this is too simplistic and in fact incorrect. We cannot predict

Qaali “Hurricane” Hussein, MD, FACS

QaaliHussein1

Dear #MedTwitter, As physicians, we have a vested interest in public health. When we identify issues which directly affect our patients and increase morbidity and mortality, we speak up. We

MI Shelter In Place

MichiganMichele

I see comments about poverty and obesity/ comorbidity rates in these comments and feel the need to talk a little about systemic racism in the US...https://twitter.com/queenchristina_/status/1248000279980670977 It's so complicated. Systemic

Sylvia K. Alston

SylviaKAlston

My 15 year old son is a track star. Legitimately, the thought of watching the video of #AhmaudArbery made me physically ill. So I didn’t. Cause I felt like I

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

Why does it matter when a state or local area misclassifies or under-reports COVID cases or deaths like Florida or Iowa with outbreaks?It’s not to embarrass the state.https://twitter.com/aslavitt/status/1266213763604152321 We know

Vishal Bhavsar

DrVishalBhavsar

I have a new open access paper on mood, suicide, and violence out today in European Psychiatry @EurPsy . Here is a thread if you’re interested! People using mental

Rabih Geha

rabihmgeha

1/The base rate…a double-edged sword.A mini-tweetorial on this crucial concept in clinical reasoning. 2/What is it?The base rate is the relative frequency of a diagnosis within a clinical context.Example:In the

Aniruddh Desai

bebdoAD

1Standup Comedians are hate filled adults with a traumatic childhood grown infested with mental morbidity.Their being given a platform is a way to outburst vague grievances against the political and

Dr Gabriel Scally

GabrielScally

This is a serious answer. Firstly the numbers testing positive are relatively small. Too high, but enormously lower than the number of new cases was in March. 1/6 https://twitter.com/RealDeniseWelch/status/1300004160851542016 It

Peter Corless 🌎☮

PeterCorless

We keep getting conflicting reports re #coronavirus overall mortality and morbidity. Are we going to see 100k's die or millions? In my spreadsheet here (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K_jLQVedAK_-3nHdok7aoyYMY19qj1OtfaMTaguAOME/edit#gid=

Dr Rajiv K Singal

DrRKSingal

As I went through the painful exercise today of cancelling elective surgery with @des_lam @janeharwood41 and the @MGHToronto surgery leadership team a few thoughts come to mind #COVID19: 1. I

Graham Martin

Graham_P_Martin

Scientific debate around Covid-19 on Twitter and beyond has become increasingly polarised & unpleasant in recent weeks. It’s not a great look. Ironically, I think it’s less down to scientific

Dr Benjamin Janaway

drjanaway

Allison Pearson once again demonstrates profound and motivated ignoranceVaccines are FOR those without the infection and are proven to save lives. When did you last have smallpox dumbass?*Pearson's razor: If

Maarten van Smeden

MaartenvSmeden

Let's talk about the "risk factors" for COVID-19 for a moment1/n We talk about risk factors all the time. Not just in the medical scientific literature: you will find risk

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

'Infection blocking immunisation' to #COVID19 lasts for longer than might have been anticipated at the beginning of the pandemic (~1-2 years on average). 'Symptom reducing immunity' likely for far longer