#Disease

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

I drafted my thoughts about a #CovidZero speech for @joebiden, can anyone help with this? #DraftBidenSpeechMy fellow Americans1/ There is nothing we can’t do together. Today I am presenting to

David Fisman

DFisman

Place-based nature of COVID-19 transmission might point the way forward for Ontario, on getting as close as we can to elimination. Would need ramped up testing, better resourced contact tracing,

Bad COVID-19 Takes

BadCOVID19Takes

Context: Alex is being quite tendentious on both sides of this equation. TLDR: The main problem is comparing the odds of DEATH with the odds of fatigue and soreness for

Josh Powell

JoshuaCPowell

Important (ungated, for now!) new paper from DG Board Member @dadakim and @fulyafelicity on othering in COVID19, beginning with a sad global history of racialized othering in pandemics https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-o

Shiektal

shiektal

$CMLF / $CMLF and @sema4 - Deep dive on my largest position post merger announcement. I was expecting a more focused company, stagewise, as the target but am very excited

Raj Mehta, MD

raj_mehta

1/ Tweetorial at use of Race/Ethnicity in prediction models, specifically looking at eGFR based on CKD-EPI formula.eGFR = estimated GFRhttp://ckdepi.org/ 2/ First some background. GFR can be directly measured, traditionally

Health Nerd

GidMK

Ok, so I've had a read of this paper (which has been all over the news) that says quite explicitly that closing schools will probably cause more years of life

Maciek Boni

maciekboni

Hi #epitwitter our state-level analysis is up on medRxiv. We look at 11 data streams (cases, hospitalizations, ICU, vent numbers, deaths etc) available from DOHs in RI, MA, PA. Data

Eric Kryski

ekryski

This is profoundly frustrating! The federal #COVIDAlert app is 100x more effective, is FREE, provides instant contact tracing and LITERALLY all that is required is for @jkenney and @shandro

Carolina A. Miranda

cmonstah

Our rugged individualism has become a toxic individualism.Too often, Americans sacrifice collective good for individual gain. That was something I explored this week for the @latimes section devoted to culture

Richard McKay

RAMcKay

@guardian health editor @sarahboseley erred by uncritically reproducing the phrase ‘patient zero’ in reference to the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. 1/5https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/12/where-did-coronavirus-come-from-

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE - Recovery trial results finally out - and hopefully puts nail in coffin. Out of 4700 people randomized... HCQ did NOT lower #covid19 mortality. It anything it was trending

Mark Murphy

DrMarkMurphy

Caution From 43,998 participants, this Pharma press release was of just 94 participants who received two-doses of their #COVID19 #vaccine and had a blood test 1 month later.Here is

el gato malo

boriquagato

one of the striking features of covid has been how much it has been a disease predominantly affecting the very old.unlike flu, a notorious killer of children, it has left

Derek T. Muller

derektmuller

I think @HoffProf succinctly sums up my views, as do discussions with @jdmortenson & others in this & related threads. 1/25https://twitter.com/HoffProf/status/1295931941271801856 I want to teach in person in a university

Brad Crane

ASP_PharmD

My 1st Thread! Some of my comments/questions re: Pfizer COVID Vaccine. ***For the record, I am a pro-vaccines***Sources: > FDA Briefing Documenthttps://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download> NEJM Article https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.10

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