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UPDATE ON SARS-COV-2 (3/19/20)Here is a bullet point summary of today’s episode of This Week in Virology (TWiV). The purpose of this episode was to answer YOUR questions! I encourage
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On this day in 1945, the US committed one the worst atrocious in human history when it dropped a nuclear weapon on the center of the Japanese city of Hiroshima,
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Moving session coming up now post morning tea about oncology and end of life. @docranjana chairing a multidisciplinary panel - anaesthetist, palliative care physician, surgeon, Intensivist, geriatrician.I absolutely adore a
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The world is burning down and Dr Conley is worried about acne, blaming HCW, needing more evidence “to be sure”, gaslighting people with an opening statement about airborne transmission announcements
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(1/10) THREADThis is a photo of Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov, who successfully removing his own appendix in 1961. Rogozov knew he was in trouble when he began experiencing intense pain in
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The Czech Republic went from zero mask usage to 100% in 10 days, and in the process they halted the growth of new covid-19 cases.How? They made their own! They
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Let's talk medical masks, plague history, culture, and fashion!Let's start around the 17th century with everyone's favorite iteration of medical mask- The plague doctor! Now that I have your attention,
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I've seen many science-aware people going on about how masks are useless in spread of #COVID19 without really thinking about what the emerging evidence is. I've been wearing a #mask
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So I had my first 12 hour shift on an ICU (covid) Ward at a busy London hospital yesterday. Let me just first say that 12 hour shifts are tiring
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@KristinEDozier @LeonCounty @desloge @MaryAnnLindley As you’ll only listen to the CDC... You should be talking about OSHA, ADA, particulate size/behavior, contagion PPE, and test invalidation due to PCR threshold errors
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1- You sir are always respectful, I will try and be the same.A few points of warning.These are my opinions and my opinions alone.I am a member of the legislative
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1/ A thread about "frontline staff" in the #COVID19 pandemic: We know #healthcareheroes are more than just doctors & nurses; there's a whole team of people that work to care
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How many of you guys here have medical insurance covers? Have you guys read the fine print of your cover? For example, how many of us know that the insurance
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Pls RT/ This Chinese woman-Hexin Jiang from Florida, proudly filmed herself buying massive amounts of surgical masks from multiple US stores.“I feel so proud buying all the masks. I didn’t
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A nurse without an N95 mask raced in to treat a ‘code blue’ patient. She died 14 days laterhttps://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-10/nurse-death-n95-covid-19-patients-coronavirus-hollywood-presbyterian On the ward that she oversaw at Hollyw
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Hello @MatthancockSince you seem to think NHS staff are wasting PPE, let me introduce you to the official guidelines.https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-infection-prevention-and-control/covid-19-personal-protective-equi
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