#MEDICAL

Black Disability Collective

BlackDisability

Happy Friday everyone! I want to encourage everyone to practice mutual aid today instead of only engaging in capitalism on Black Friday. Black folks, please drop your pay apps or

Oakland Abolition & Solidarity

OaklandAboSol

Some PRISON 101:Yes, some people inside resist being tested."But why avoid the test if they are so concerned about COVID as you claim?"1. A positive test often means getting put

Alex Kotch

alexkotch

I'd like to recount how my governor, @andrewcuomo, has led New York during the pandemic:1. Didn't act while the virus initially took hold & made New York the global epicenter

Iron lady

princesszymarr

This perf. Oil biz has to be one of my lowkey source of sustenance this year.I remember when i wanted to start then, I spoke with my amazing sis and

Cab Davidson #FBPE

gnomeicide

So a few rambling thoughts in a thread I'll be returning to in between work this afternoon. Why vaccination for Covid-19 is, in world history, completely unprecedented. (1) We've had

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

BAYES' THEOREM: The basic reason we get so many false positives to COVID19. The disease is so rare that the number of false positives greatly outnumbers the people who truly have the disease:

Manish Shah

mnshah

I'm thrilled to see @peerwell among a group of start-ups that saw a "tsunami" of growth in 2020. Thx to @yangbness1 for the shout out & @shelbyjLiv for including us. https://www.businessinsider.com/healthcare-startups-poi

WRISK

WRISK_project

This is an interesting study but it by no means establishes that men born to overweight women are more likely to be infertile.Sadly that hasn’t stopped @MetroUKnews printing a horrible

Zeke Emanuel

ZekeEmanuel

W/ this Admin AWOL on providing clear direction, it’s been hard to decide what’s OK as we open up. There's no right answer; you just need to know the risks.

Maestro ☈ayo

maestro_rayo

1\n How to estimate how dangerous an infectious disease is? What is IFR and CFR? Why, on each side of the fence, they are pulling their eyes out. A thread

Ed Henighan

TheProject_Ed

Quick thread on 'inclusive language'.Sample of recent of straight-faced 'woman' substitutions I've seen from various ostensibly serious organisations:MenstruatorChestfeederBleederPerson with (uterus/vagina/cervix/ovaries

charlieclarkyxe

charlieclarkyxe

1. Very few people are getting tested. We have capacity to test over 1000 per day but only about 300 - 400 people are getting tested per day. There are

Kevin Bass, MS

kevinnbass

I love how @ChrisMasterjohn’s arguments for why RCTs are not necessary for health interventions is that RCTs are not used to make decisions in everyday life, so why should we

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lemongarb

Disability/chronic illness life is not being allowed to enjoy a hobby or talent without someone rushing to tell you how to monetize it and when you say you're not interested

Durakov

SashaDurakov

I've come to believe that a thing called "anti-psychiatry" does not exist, or that the name is a misnomer 99% of the time. Psychiatry is usually formulated as the "healing

Tristan D Rutland

TristanRutland7

Pathological medical history quiz time! #pathtwitter #medicalhistory1/ During the black plague, doctors use to think it was transmitted by: 2/ Verrucous carcinoma is a variant of Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Previous

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