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Apropos of no drug in particular: off-label prescriptions are common and despite what some people are trying to hammer here, the FDA issues guidance on the use of pharmaceuticals. When
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The controversial oxygen debate on Covid India: A thread. Though I live outside India, I have family in India and am writing this as people are losing loved ones and
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This is a strong, important & timely decision, esp in light of Facebook's enforcement mistakes around #ResignModi yesterday. There's some really important recommendations here. Facebook has 30 days to respond
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I’m a coordinator for a local cat foster organization and people message us daily asking if they can bring us animals. We can’t accept them, but when we suggest the
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Not so long ago, Donald Trump claimed that more white people die at the hands of law enforcement than African Americans. Is he lying? Rhetorical question; Of course he is.
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TW some of the tweets in this thread reference sexual assault, abuse, trauma, and sex traffickingFor starters, pornography and erotica and two different (but similar) things. Erotica is any artistic/literary
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Today we have a crossover piece with @theprospect & @theintercept. I wanted to quantify just how much the Federal Reserve's corporate bailout *announcements*- not spending any money- has been worth
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The government’s response to @CommonsScotAffs report on problem drug use, led by Kit Maltouse, is mostly a shoddy piece of work. You can read it at https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmselect/cmscotaf/698/69802.htm. Here are som
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morning chart.in the coming months inflation will likely pick up substantially -- big fiscal packages work! even so, average inflation since last January will remain below the Fed's new 2%
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1/ In our recent @JAMANetworkOpen article, we compare diversity of Internal Medicine workforce to that of a rapidly diversifying US population & med student body. CC: senior author @GoldenSherita.In this
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This anecdotal, observational thread is highly critical of infection control practices at Dublin Airport and highly praising of Doha Airport.Cool, lets see how that's all working out then, with a
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Well, after dismissing the observational trial of remdesivir for #COVID19 last evening. I wake to find a surprise that causes me to relook.@EricTopol, who is an experienced and thoughtful scientist
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1/ This is a lucid and very well thought out article on Covid-19 that touches on the key elements that must be addressed. It’s from a US perspective but Canada
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1/ Some of you may be wondering in light of the news about #Boris tonight, whether there is any data on ICU mortality rates. Hopefully this quick thread can combat
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*Beavis & Butt-Head style snickering*https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/1247896938181087237 In case you don't enjoy buzzard-circling around hyper-capitalist disasters: WeWork was/is a bullshit con. Another tech "unicorn" with
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What if we were to follow social science as we ‘follow the science’? A thread. In criminology, we know that when governments start casting around for folkdevils, it is to
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