#Comorbidities

stuart mcdonald

ActuaryByDay

The latest @ICNARC intensive care weekly report has been published. A short thread to summarise, including a link to the full report. The report covers critical care admissions to 15

Frank Cacace MD FACP

GIMaPreceptor

1/Many of my colleagues and I have not been redeployed to the hospital during the #COVID pandemic. We have been doing the ambulatory care of pre/non hospitalized patients, helped w

Leora Horwitz

leorahorwitzmd

*Caution, non-peer-reviewed preprint* Posted on @medrxivpreprint is our 1st look at characteristics and outcomes of #COVID19 patients @nyulangone. Will update for publication. But, here is early data in response to

Michael Otsuka

MikeOtsuka

UK longitudinal study of 201 individuals with #LongCovid reveals a high proportion are relatively young & without pre-existing health conditions. Also reveals "almost 70%…have impairment in one or more organs

Dr. Chris Tufton

christufton

#JaCovid19 Update:THREAD CASE NUMBERS•The number of confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)cases has risen to 223 in the last 24 hours.• Included in those numbers are 27 new additions.• Of those

Andreas Gevaert

AndreasGevaert

VERY excitedto see our paper published @ESC_Journals #ESCHeartFailure: “Clinical phenogroups are more effective than LVEF categories in stratifying heart failure outcomes”Thread We all rely on LVEF for #heartfailure

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

88% of COVID places on vents died; but put into context, 100% of them would have died if NOT placed on ventilation. So could look at it as a 12%

Seth Trueger

MDaware

one of the challenges communicating about COVID & public health is the risk is a *social* risk much more than an *individual* (risk for most people) for example, I see

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Brazil’s largest health nonprofit warns—pandemic is getting younger in Brazil. @fiocruz_en says is facing health system collapse & the #P1 pandemic is now affecting younger age groups: 30 to

Terri Grills 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

_MommaShip

@shoffmanAB Thank you for asking for my input. As a 17yr foster parent (often for kids with medical needs), a former employee of Red Deer Public School, a homeschooler, and

Mohannad Abu Sultanah

MASultanah

In this thread I will mention some of the scientific facts regarding #COVID19Pandemic #COVID19 So that you understand this virus more -in a scientific way- 1. This Virus is a

Max Kennerly

MaxKennerly

This is horribly dishonest. "Only 6%" would refer to COVID deaths where the death certificate had literally nothing but "COVID-19." It means the pathologist / medical examiner was lazy and

Sasha Costanza-Chock

schock

Algorithmic Necropolitics: Race, Disability, and Triage Decisionmaking The algorithm that will decide who gets access to life saving care in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was laid out on Apri 7th

Subhasree Ray

DrSubhasree

Vitamin K & #COVID19: Thrombosis is a major manifestation of COVID-19 that contributes to poor outcomes. Vitamin K plays a crucial role in the activation of both pro & anti-clotting

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

I am re-activating my twitter and twitter is an unhappy place, perhaps unsurprisingly given COVID19. Organising my thoughts a little here: For the people who want to do armchair between

Health Nerd

GidMK

Recently, John Ioannidis, of "Most Published Research Findings Are False" fame, published a commentary piece on COVID-19 and global actionI thought it would be good to do a bit of