#Disease

Sek Kathiresan MD

skathire

Wow, highest documented seropositive rate I have seen in world!200 random sample Chelsea, MA32% test positive antibody J. Iafrate @MassGeneralNews pathology Nearly a third of 200 blood samples taken in

Dr Philip Lee

drphiliplee1

Ok, R, what is it and why it's important, thread. For the uninitiated, R0 is the basic reproduction number for a disease. This is basically how many people one infected

NephroPOCUS

NephroP

1/ #Nephrology #POCUS case study:Dr. X is rounding on an ESRD pt who initially presented with dyspnea after missing a dialysis (HD) session; underwent dialysis in the hospital. Pt asymptomatic

Nico Pitney

nicopitney

A partial list of warnings that Trump and senior admin officials received months or years before impeachment:https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1244992608423890955 In Jan 2017, a week before Trump takes office, Obama staffers run a

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ Hoo boy. Dr. Anthony Fauci has some advice for us.#Sars-Cov-2 is just the beginning. We're in a "pandemic era" now, friends.What's the solution?"Living in greater harmony with nature."Ooh. I

Darren Markland

drdagly

For the entire summer of 2020 I have been endorsing the idea of enjoying the weather and getting outside. It’s always been with the caveat that come fall we will

Wendell Potter

wendellpotter

Here’s an interesting irony: Everyone around Trump who gets #COVID19 may be in big trouble if they get their wish & gut Obamacare. Why? In the future, COVID will likely

Jill Elaine "PATTERN-CRACKIN' MOB BUSTER" Hughes

JillEHughes

The journal which initially published the hydroxychloroquinine #COVID19 study out of France is the most respected infectious-disease journal in the world. When I write exec reports on ID, 50% of

Flo Craig

flocraig_

Today is #PSCAwarenessDay. I have PSC and sometimes it can be tough, both physically and mentally. As not many people know about PSC, and as I become a bit more

Ryan Lutes

ryanlutes

Why, given the massive increase of COVID cases in schools, are teachers being directed by @HRCE_NS to attend schools in person in order to teach virtually. Teachers at @SJAMschool and

Jim Geraghty

jimgeraghty

The evidence that COVID-19 came from either the Wuhan Institute of Virology or the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control and NOT the Huanan Seafood Market is circumstantial. But is a

Jonathan Fuller

JonathanJFuller

This response by @mlipsitch to my @BostonReview #COVID19 piece (https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/jonathan-fuller-models-v-evidence) provides a fascinating (and philosophical) look inside epidemiological thinking at a time when understanding th

Marion Holman

holmanm

1/7 The pharmaceutical industry have managed to turn a drug, which in the opinion of many experts should never have been approved by the regulatory authorities, into the biggest financial

ChristosArgyropoulos

ChristosArgyrop

Had some more time with the clinical trials EMPEROR-Reduced and DAPA-CKD and was able to compute various composite outcomes from the major SGLT2i trials. Just posting the results here :

Jonathan Kay

jonkay

some Dutch COVID-19 data. i know it's unpopular to make this point (bcuz it's associated with lockdown opponents), but unless you've got hypertension/diabetes/obesity or other comorbidities, death risk for men

Augustus

Augustus709

Why the lack of GOP outrage over COVID deaths?It's their worldview. They care about deaths when they can identify & blame a perpetrator, like immigrants, Muslims, Asians.But, when death is