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Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)
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One of the facile errors respecting pediatric Covid vaccine statistics?Citing "absolute risk reduction."ARR has vastly different implications depending on disease; whether *eventually all people will get it unless vaccinated* (end
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Two highly concerning papers now live in the New England Journal of Medicine regarding the adenovirus-based AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine.A small number of patients appear to have had serious clotting events with
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Let's start over. (This thread will review the timeline of early events of this crisis, and then towards the end, I will add my analysis of what went wrong)COVID-19 is
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2020 will be the deadliest year in modern American history.We will see >3 million deaths for the first time ever.In fact, well over that number.Join me for a thread on
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Q: Why have so many SARS-CoV-2 models failed?A: Failure to account for asymptomatic spread.My collaborators @biomathematicus+@JacobBAguilar are among the world's great minds on this.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.18.200
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I love this time of year.An influx of newly minted physicians ready to learn and make a difference!#TipsForNewDocs has become a tradition.Well, I've got something that'll make your year(s) smoother.A
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There was a non-covid twitter debate recently (I didn't see it) re: a tension pneumothorax.The apparent crux was that diagnosising tension ptx should never happen via imaging because by then
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There’s one metric that can help us know when it is safe to re-open. This evening, @CarlosdelRio7 and I propose what that is in The @WashingtonPost. It is tracking all
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