#Disease

williamdpaiva

williamdpaiva

Interesting data from Denmark. Their Infect Disease Agency SSI estimates 30-80x higher number of CV patients. If true, their Case Fatality Rate drops from 4.5% (285 dead/6318 diagnosed) to 0.15%

Victoria Cob

VictoriaCob2

My workload is off the scale at the moment. This is an interesting time to work with street homelessness. We can offer everyone accommodation which is a dream come true

Catherine McBride

CeeMacBee

Evans-Pritchard: Early results from the Italian bio-lab Meleam shows 38% of Italians tested randomly for antibodies across 9 regions have been exposed to covid19. If validated, the disease has spread

Nisheeth Sharan

nisheethsharan

REALITYCHECKA doctor of repute with experience in Public Health & Adm shared the following insights on #Corona yesterday.1. 78% of #Covid19 infections are asymptomatic. Which means people get infected with

Fergal Bowers

FergalBowers

The World Health Organization's special envoy on Covid-19 has said the world cannot wait for universal testing, or a vaccine to "come out of lockdown" and people will have to find new

Francesca Marina 🌻🦋

Chescamarina

‘Physical health’ problems that present as ‘mental illness’Some have been misdiagnosed and sectioned because of misdiagnosis or not knowing what physical health problems can mimic mental illness.It’s really important that

Tom

_groke

feel like starting a thread of all the pieces i’ve read about the additional effects of covid-19 over the pneumonia, cos it’s neverendinghttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088915912030489X link from this thread https://twitter.com/sci

Zachery Tyson✍️🇺🇸

ZaknafeinDC

Thread: A man has many faces, but we usually only see one of them. I had always known my father simply as “dad”. To me, he was at once fearsome

Lauren J. Young

laurenjyoung617

In Feb. 2019, I pitched a story about Valley Fever. Now, it's here. In our new @scifri Methods feature with @KVPR, we take you to the Central Valley of California

Elaine van Dalen

elainevdalen

How to easily memorize large amounts of medical information? Make it rhyme! Medical poetry was popular in the Classical Islamic World and many copies survive today. A small thread on

Babaolowo is Zaddy

TheEnyola

Is 5G tower installation connected with the spread of Covid-19?This was the question that danced through my mind as I listened to various audios messages currently in circulation, buttressing the

Kenneth Lam

drklam

Wrote an editorial on coronavirus and geriatrics a week ago that hasn't been picked up by any major news outlet; I guess this is what social media is for /1

Raj Mehta, MD

raj_mehta

1/ A tweetorial on false positives & transposing the conditional!Or why interpreting type 1 error can be so confusing.This is a common topic that overlaps in medical testing, data reporting,

Steven Tong

syctong

Today at #VIDS_JC with @justin_denholm ID registrar / fellow Chris Kiss presented “Discontinuing β-lactam treatment after 3 days for patients with community-acquired pneumonia”https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-

chris connolly

chrisconnolly83

Latest ICNARC data out today. 3800 patients. 51% critical care mortality. 35% BAME. 70% male. 25% of those aged 16-39 died. This is not just a disease that’s killing older

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

A view of COVID from here: April has started pretty cold and drab in London, but there is a real sense of anticipation as pub gardens, gyms and shops open