#Respiratory

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

There seems to be a common fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of herd immunity, which leads to unhelpful cross talk. Herd immunity is not more (or less) a harmful concept

Aaron Engelhart

aaronengelhart

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/07/sciadv.abd3083 Paper looking at respiratory droplets emitted from people talking w/various masks.Takeaways:1) Chances are, the mask you wear blocked most droplets in this study. Every

Kimberly Prather, Ph.D.

kprather88

Modes of airborne transmission for SARS-CoV-2. The most common routes are short range and long range aerosol inhalation. Chance of being sprayed with a small number of falling droplets is

Cynthia H Rivas

CynthiaHRivas

My dad is one of 200k+ people that died of COVID-19. He was super healthy, didn't have any pre-existing conditions, & didn't even have gray hair. He still DIED after

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD

chr1styharrison

High BMI is NOT a risk factor for hospitalization, mechanical ventilation, or mortality in COVID-19, according to this large new study of 10,000+ people with the virus (CW: weight-stigmatizing language,

University of Leeds

UniversityLeeds

Our engineers and @LeedsHospitals have developed a fix to turn sleep apnoea machines into ventilators.Estimates indicate thousands of similar devices across the #NHS and rapid modification could significantly increase respiratory support availability

GSV Angry Prole

KAlmsivi

Some things have been really bothering me with the handling of COVID19 so I'm going to ramble on a bit - aimed at no-one in particular. Herd Immunity - the

Gautam Govitrikar DMD

Gautaamm

If I go a store or a chemist, I spend a few minutes updating them about what precautions they should take to protect themselves and hence their customers and then

Dr Benjamin Janaway

drjanaway

One general misconception is that 'we cure illness.' This is rarely the case, most treatments are about managing symptoms, postponing morbidity/mortality, and improving quality of life. This is true for

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

There is a typo in the abstract, it should read:"Unlike other professions where common sense, decency and a free market to negotiate one's job sets working hours, medicine is different....https://twitter.com/NEJM/status/12763041663

Bob Moran

bobscartoons

Thread:There are many issues worthy of serious debate in a civilised society. There are ethical questions and moral dilemmas for which we have no clear cut solutions; Euthanasia, abortion, welfare,

Casey Albin, MD

caseyalbin

A #tweetorial #medtweetorial @MedTweetorials1/3 AM: Pager Pager Pager Me [very groggily]: Hey, what’s up?Awesome overnight APP: Sorry to wake you! But, Mrs. Very-Small-Stroke-NIHSS-2-Had-Been-Clinically-Stable-All-Day just PEA arrested.Me

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

Thread@EllenBarkin is a funny lady.My brother showed me that leftists are not rational and are not swayed by facts or reality, but I'll explain what @realDonaldTrump did. Initially the World

Mark D. Levine

MarkLevineNYC

NYC’s “city morgue” is the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME), which luckily is the best in the world.But they are now dealing w/ the equivalent of an ongoing

Thiago Carvalho

CyrilPedia

So here's an interesting preprint from @carolilucas, @VirusesImmunity et al serially analysing "immune responses in 113 COVID-19 patients with moderate (non-ICU) and severe (ICU) disease."https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.110

Carlene Sinclair

iamcarlenes

So yesterday, an account that I don't follow indicated she wanted to message me. I obliged. But before I did, I checked her profile and realized she has 19 followers