#Infection

Kate Allen

katecallen

GTA cellphone mobility data shows- movement dropped 1% post-lockdown- areas with more essential workers = more mobility- affluent core, people who can work from home = moving the leastOur story

Michael L. Barnett

ml_barnett

You have probably seen the record-breaking, terrible COVID-19 stats for Dec 2nd in the USDaily cases: 195,695Currently hospitalized: 100,226Daily deaths: 2,733You need to understand these numbers in contextIt makes them

Dennis R

DennisR38458475

Thread: Time and time again, we find ourselves having to debunk the same flawed arguments regarding #SARSCoV2 impact on children,Including mortality and transmissibility. I will say I do respect @NBSaphierMD

David Hamilton

davidghamilton1

Tasmanian devil news! A new study by @AustinHPatton in @ScienceMagazine (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6522/eabb9772) investigates the genetic makeup of devil facial tumour disease through time, finding that it has shifted from

Jason Abaluck

Jabaluck

My experience was:a) The med community was *terrible* on masks as of late March -- people I spoke with insisted, "We can't recommend something that wouldn't be approved by the

Thomas Oliver 🐝

thomasroliveruk

Neonicotinoids and why they need to stay banned #SciComm #ScienceTwitter #SaveTheBees #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis Neonicotinoids were banned by the EU in 2018 following multiple scientific studies which proved their severe detrimental

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Wow. A nursing home in Baltimore, oldest African-American one, did not lose *a single person* to COVID because as soon as they heard Trump say cases would soon go to

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

OK I'm busy trying to catch up with what I've missed on #COVID19 in children, which looks like a lot!People seem to be making a big deal out of some

Tony Breu

tony_breu

1/Why is tricuspid valve (TV) endocarditis more common in those who use intravenous drugs?The portal of entry for most bacteria is the venous system. If quick access to the right-heart

Saathi 1013

saathi1013

Here's how it works: a subculture lets bigotry slide because it takes forms that seem inocuous to the majority: racism in white subcultures, for instance. Misogyny in subcultures dominated by

The New York Times

nytimes

At the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in New York City, patients at some community hospitals were 3 times more likely to die as patients at medical centers in the

brenda goodman

ReporterGoodman

Let's talk about that Danish mask study--DANMASK. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817 A bit of background... I've been digging into misinformation and disinformation this year for an investigative project. So I've b

small robots

smolrobots

If you want a great example of a modern echo chamber on a national scale, the UK's response to the pandemic is a fascinating case study. All along, the government

Law-or-Fiction

laworfiction

Other than rare exceptional cases and whatever the sector, it is not lawful and an employer cannot insist on a worker having injected medical treatment.Apart from human rights issues and

david oliver

mancunianmedic

Little summary of current inpatients on my ward - every single one has Covid-19 because we are one of two "Hot" all covid wards28 patientsAge 67 -100 - median 8360%

Jim Stanford

JimboStanford

THREAD "Heartbreaking" is the only word I can find to describe today's awful #LFS jobs numbers: both the scale of job loss, and their painfully unfair distribution. 213K jobs

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