#Opensafely

Freddie #StayHome O'Connell

freddieoconnell

I was early to #PhysicalDistancing and #Masks4All, and I remain pessimistic about some of the effort to #OpenSafely.But I still wrestle with the merits of a general mask mandate. Sudden

Ben CatchYourCough Goldacre

OUR NEW PAPER.Factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 MILLION adult NHS patients.Largest study of its kind ever, anywhere.The power of UK /

What's my COVID-19 risk?This is a very rough & ready estimate of the risk of dying from COVID-19 in the UK during the period up until 25th April 2020.It's based

New preprint *NOT PEER REVIEWED* from the @opensafely team which we would love comments on! We looked at whether inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), used in asthma and COPD, might influence

Really pleased to see our latest @OpenSafely paper on ethnic differences in #COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation, and mortality in 17 million people during the first two waves of the #coronavirus pandemic

New data from PHE suggests 10,400 deaths have been saved by the vaccine up to the end of March, using a 31 day lag between vaccination and a mortality endpoint.

Daniel Westreich, PhD

Hi friends: @MaartenvSmeden, @edwardsjk, and I have some concerns about the OpenSAFELY preprint (available at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v1.full.pdf) We’ve summarized our thoughts in the form of an open acc

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

I hate to sound like one of those “elite intellectual” types but if state governors don’t learn to understand (or remember from 2 months ago but whatever) what a time

M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS

1/ Many lawmakers are citing preventing preventing "deaths of despair" (drug use, overdose, alcoholism, suicide) as the rationale to reopen prematurely. @meganranney & @drjessigold have written a must-read piece in

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

COVID 19 Update May 22: The most dangerous current effect of the pandemic may be denial.Denial this was bad. Denial it has killed significant number of people. Denial it might

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

COVID Update May 23: 2 months ago, with things heading off the rails & we launched #StayHome , experts told me that if we were successful at reducing the death

Juliette Kayyem

THREAD FOR YOU: How do YOU open safely? We’ve spent much time on criteria for govs/institutions, we may have left out group most likely to effectively minimize risk, you. How?

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

COVID Update May 25: State of the Union: as expected the early May openings are increasing hospitalizations.Topics: the spread, science, the politics, the globe.1/ State of the spread in May:

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

COVID Update May 30: Looking ahead at June.I did this as May started and may as well do again. 1/ The phases of the COVID crisis are easy to spot

Farzad Mostashari

1/ Do we make sure virus activity is low before reopening?These policy experts say it's fundamental to #OpenSafely That seems so obvious you may ask "who'd disagree? what's the alternative?"I

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

COVID Update May 27: COVID-19 is the disease of the middle aged in some ways more than even of the elderly.As we open up & go back to work, it’s