#Disease

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Great news—MOTHER TO INFANT ANTIBODY TRANSFER! New study demonstrates #SARSCoV2 IgG antibodies were transferred across the placenta to infant cord blood in 87% of pregnant women with antibodies. Potential for

Dr. Kohilathas

drkohilathas

Pfizer’s vaccine has headlined being "more than 90% effective.”.This is slightly misleading.90% is the relative risk reduction. But the absolute risk reduction of the Pfizer’s vaccine is approx 0.4%.The vaccine

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

New SARS_CoV_2 virus strain update. TL;DR - there is something to understand more, and it looks like the virus has tweaked its biology at least on transmissibility; Public health, scientists

𝗜𝗖𝗟 Turf & Landscape 🇬🇧🇮🇪

ICL_Turf

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Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️‍🌈

docfreeride

Got to talk with my faculty today about the (hoped for) return to face-to-face instruction Fall 2021 (maybe).We identified some *issues* that will be important in how we think about

Kris Held,MD

kksheld

Time for federal and state politicians,bureaucrats,and appointees to be held accountable for the past year’s COVID-19 response. Let’s start with a list of questions- please add yours.1. We shut down

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

The ten points of the Nuremberg Code1) The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. 1/nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code 2) The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for

Mike Thompson

MikeTPhD

Two different editorials were published in @CircAHA and @JAMAHealthForum on the push for home-based cardiac rehab (HBCR), so I figured I would do a quick #CQOSpotlight on the topic. I

Twitter Safety

TwitterSafety

After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020

John Bye

_johnbye

It's sad we still need to say this, but false positives are NOT driving rising cases.In the summer the False Positive Rate (FPR) at lots of labs was below 0.1%.For

Abdu Sharkawy

SharkawyMD

Thread. A lot of misconceptions exist re: "health care capacity" (HCC), what it means on both micro and macro levels. Let's break down how we actually define this and what

Alex Usher

AlexUsherHESA

1/ One thing people are finding it difficult to get their heads around in terms of pandemic statistics is the question of transmission statistics. Both "sides" (if you want to

U.S. Dept. of Fear

FearDept

Seems homeless citizens haven't been dying of COVID at the rate we might have hoped. Because none of them own houses in which we could lock them up, they've been

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

New data from Novavax vaccine just showed that UK & esp South African variants are more problematic in real world than lab experiments suggested. Implications are profound for 2021 and

Adam Jentleson 🎈

AJentleson

Democrats should not take a victory lap on this bill. It provides less than a third of the aid economists say is necessary and McConnell is getting all the credit-

Cenk Uygur

cenkuygur

On #MartinLutherKingDay don't be lulled into a false sense of complacency by quotes about love that every moderate trots out about #MLK today. He was a radical progressive

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