#Mortality

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

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Treatment for #COVID19 has improved and there may be some 'mortality displacement' effect with a proportion of the most at-risk population having deceased in the spring epidemic. Both factors could

Ariel Karlinsky

ArielKarlinsky

@IHME_UW just released a report estimating excess deaths at about 2x total COVID deaths in the world. The details of the analysis are here: http://www.healthdata.org/special-analysis/estimation-excess-mortality-due-covid-19-and-scalars-repo

Christophe Fraser

ChristoPhraser

Discussions emphasising 'COVID19 is more serious than flu' will probably become moot in the coming days and weeks, and for many people already have, but in case you are engaged

The Greatrnk

greatrnk

COVID19 Deaths and mortality rate.How is Kenya fairing compared to other countries? A thread. I compared data from other countries' COVID19 deaths based on their first 32 days with Kenyan

Markku Peltonen

MarkkuPeltonen

Use of care and mortality due to corona in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Estonia; data from yesterday 26.4. Read the whole thread. (English)Fig 1. Number of persons in

Paul Burrer

paulburrer

#Iceland #COVID19 #TestingForCovid19 daily update 364260 Total pop 23,640 tested1,417 positive 4 deaths 6% of their TOTAL pop has been tested 5.99% of those tested are positive 0.28% CFR0.017% total

Paul Yowell

pwyowell

In this thread I provide evidence that fewer than half of the 6,112 excess deaths in Week 14 are due to Covid-19. Thus most excess mortality in the UK is

Fabrizio Zilibotti

FabrizioZilibo1

Lot of talk about mistakes of Italian authorities in the COVID crisis. Some were important (no red zone in Bergamo, reluctance to lockdown Milano, errors in some hospitals). But Italy

Tim Skellett

Gurdur

1/n A cautionary tale of bad #scicomm, in *four* sections, the fourth part being where I learn to take my own advice, the first part where I retro-implement doing so.

Emily Merrill

cam94509

For the idiots on #OPENAMERICANOW :https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/1727839/?fbclid=IwAR3EYaPfj8u6jICHhv99Mk9loKojz0CAzL5k8KA58vQL2mepwIPc-ZQ6Gr0On the 8th, Covid was likely THE leading cause of death in the US.THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH.

trevor steinbach

tcsteinbach

I love twitter, but I’m worried about the speed of misguided (but well-intentioned) theories for COVID.Every series describes patients that fit well within the definition of ARDS, and we should

ChristosArgyropoulos

ChristosArgyrop

Had some more time with the clinical trials EMPEROR-Reduced and DAPA-CKD and was able to compute various composite outcomes from the major SGLT2i trials. Just posting the results here :

Matthijs Korevaar

MKorevaar93

How do housing markets respond to a major pandemic? In a new paper, Marc Francke and I study historical outbreaks of the plague and cholera to answer this question. TL;DR:

Markku Peltonen

MarkkuPeltonen

Use of care and mortality due to corona in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Estonia; data from yesterday 12.5.Read the whole thread. (English)Fig 1a-b. Number of persons in intensive

Matt Walsh

MattWalshBlog

This is remarkable. Dr. Birx says here very plainly that anyone who dies “with COVID-19” is being counted as having died from COVID-19. She admits this is a “liberal approach”