#Respiratory

Mary Salcedo, PhD 🦗🐞🐝+🐍

MarySalcedo

My new paper w/Jake Socha (@snake_flyer) is out!In "Circulation in insect wings" we discuss why insect wings need active circulation, the current field, and a confusing historyRead here: https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa124@ICB_jou

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update June 23: Trump sees nothing but good news in the Coronavirus.Unlike other world leaders with better health & economic results who aim to limit death & economic loss

Kʜᴀʀᴍᴀɢᴇᴅᴅᴏɴ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴛᴀsɪᴀ™

JVoluntaryist

The smallest thing that we can see with a 'light' microscope is about 500 nanometers. A nanometer is one-billionth (that's 1,000,000,000th) of a meter. So the smallest thing that you

JPFlorida🇺🇸 #ExonerateGeneralFlynn

APride7777

Hydroxychloroquine rated 'most effective therapy' by doctors for coronavirus: Global survey . But you do you.https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/2/hydroxychloroquine-rated-most-effective-therapy-do/ 2005Chloroquine is a po

stuart mcdonald

ActuaryByDay

Expert reaction to the “Barrington Declaration”, a recent open letter arguing against lockdown policies and for ‘Focused Protection’.https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-barrington-declaration-an-open-letter-arguing

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

I’m a virologist & #1 question I got today was whether to gargle & with what. If SARS2 seems to infect throat before spreading to lungs, might gargling protect people

DTinLacc

DTinLacc

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Carrie-Ann Lightley👩🏼‍🦽

CarrieALightley

This afternoon the inevitable happened. I had an accident in my wheelchair, whilst walking my dog, because a walker didn’t keep a safe distance. Lots of people offered to help

Amee Vanderpool

girlsreallyrule

Trump announces “hold” on money going to "China centric" WHO: “They missed the call. They could have called it months earlier...they should have known. And they probably did know.” This

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

There are two main ways to estimate the reproduction number for SARS-CoV-2, and I'd like to discuss the one that doesn't get so much attention... 1/ Most reported R values

Caitlin Rivers, PhD

cmyeaton

All proposed plans for reopening, incl ours, rely on testing + contact tracing. The US is at ~ 1M tests/wk. @ashishkjha thinks we need 3.5M/wk minimum. Others wants several times

🦑 Emily Willingham 🦑

ejwillingham

No, the study ****did not find that****. Not even their own extremely limited data (n=1 person for most tests) show that. And where is the outside scientific comment on this

Phil Kerpen

kerpen

This is a surprising result. Smokers are far LESS likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 that non-smokers and it looks robust across countries.Why might this be?https://twitter.com/KlausKblog/status/1249048902495592450 The US data from

Craig Watson

cdcwatson

Here's a tip for anyone recovering from #COVID19 I bought a decent SATS (oxygen) monitor on Amazon following the advice from a top respiratory doc. He said that a lot

(((Dr Aust))) #FBPE 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇪🇩🇪

Dr_Aust_PhD

We've been reminiscing today about the old 2007-12 science blogging days. Which reminds me. I get asked quite a lot of COVID stuff by friends/ acquaintances/ folk on Twitter/Fb. And

Meredith

thisismeredith

Some thoughts from my nights in a new COVID ICU:1) We are mostly being transferred patients with single organ (i.e. respiratory) failure from other ICUs to offload those units. These