#Severity

Dr Eleanor Janega

GoingMedieval

I am the god damn plague/Renaissance police and I will be issuing citations anytime I see these takes on the TL. No. Absolutely not. I rebuke all of this. In

Benjamin Rome, MD

bnrome

Alright, we finally have some data from the ACTT-1 remdesivir trial, published as a prelim report in @NEJM Some initial thoughts https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007764?query=featured_home The randomization was stratified by sev

Katherine Cross

Quinnae_Moon

This @zeynep article is an important read and illustrates a criminally underrated perspective on the pandemic: accepting the severity of COVID-19 while calling for more thoughtful mitigation.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/closing-

Rajeev Mundra

RajeevKrMundra

My Thoughts on Covid1 If you intensely exercise >3 times/week2 Exposed to hard sun light for 20 mins/day3 No junk food4 Eat vegetables5 Vitamin D > 406 Low Stress7 Wear

Mike, #Raðljóst, 🐗

Geoelte_Spinne

A few people have reacted with a bit of hostility to this. So let's examine it.Did Johnson have coronavirus? Yes. He tested positive.Did he have full on covid-19?Two possibilities.....https://twitter.com/Geoelte_Spinne/status/1249374705565544448

sanjay nagral

sanjaynagral

When will u give up a hospital bed for someone sicker than u? if assured that when u need it u will get it. This needs 'collective' trust in the

Arian El-Taher

areltah

Black American children have the highest rate of infant-mortality, preterm-births, & low-birthweight — relative to all other races in the US.Research by James Collins MDuncovered that racism/racial-stress (via allostatic load)

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Ok, was trying to stay off Twitter until Saturday but this question of children masking outdoors (in camps, etc.) keeps coming up. Let's discuss #outdoortransmission. Viral particles disperse quickly in

whatSfOrsUPper?

FuckSci

Alright - here's where I'm at currently: Trump is going to win the election. The fact that he's a sizable dog is mind boggling to me. The same folks who

Stefan Kertesz, MD

StefanKertesz

1/great piece by @CarlynZwaren addresses how we misconstrue associations between substance use and homelessness. The stories we tell, often enough, are “my addiction made me homeless”https://filtermag.org/drugs-homelessness/ https://twi

BPD Tweet

BPDtweet

BPD is impulsive behaviours and an inability to ‘think before I act’ and ‘learn from my mistakes’ time and time again #BPD #EUPD #MentalHealthAwareness BPD is extreme & rapid mood

The Sunday Times

thesundaytimes

Doctors and scientists are racing to solve the medical mystery of long Covid, and with good reasonIf the first act of the pandemic was the tragic death toll, the second

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

There are at least 4 possible reasons why some people with COVID have little or no symptoms.1) A rapid immune response that conquers the virus2) Pre-existing cross reactive immunity3) Genetic

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Since the start of the school year, the two demographics that have been observing the sharpest percentage increases in positive #COVID19 test results are elementary and high school students,

Max Kennerly

MaxKennerly

Lloyd's a billionaire and Senior Chairman at Goldman Sachs. He could easily employ a team of actuaries, biostatisticians, economists, epidemiologists, hospitalists, infectologists, and statisticians to price out various cost/benefit sce

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Okay, new paper out in @TheLancetInfDis. Yes, this guy was reinfected. Yes, he got sicker the second time around. No, it doesn't mean that this is common or that reinfection