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Lancet publication shows higher mortality & arrhythmias in a registry of patients treated with #Hydroxycloroquine .LIMITATION: This is not randomized data and cannot be used to assess the effectiveness (benefit)

ThreadAmazing at this point how little we know about #coronavirus:1. We have a range of R0 from 2.0 to 5.7; that is a massive range. 2. Do we know if

Thread:Irregular heart beats (PVCs) after heart attack were associated with death but the common sense approach of suppressing them increased the number of deaths/arrests from 26 to 63 or by

Thread:If you were designing the perfect virus what characteristics would it have?1. Spread frequently by people who look healthy2. Long latent period for pre-asymptomatic spread3. It’s Airborne including potential aerosolized

BREAKING: Of 408 homeless residents of Boston’s Pine Street Inn, 147 (36.0%) were PCR + for #coronavirus. Symptoms were not frequent: Cough (7.5%), shortness of breath (1.4%), and fever (0.7%)

A very small study of 4 patients coughing with and without a surgical or cloth mask showed neither was better than no mask in reducing cultured virus.Particles 0.04-0.2 μm can

Nature: "Shedding of viral RNA from sputum outlasted the end of symptoms. Seroconversion occurred after 7 days in 50% of patients (14 days in all), but was not followed by