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Jessica Bunin, MD

jessica_bunin

MICU Day #7: Disclaimer: I am an Intensivist, not an ID doc. What follows are lessons learned from 7 days of caring for COVID patients. There are no RCTs or

Andrew Lee

andrewleedr

Musings today: The problem I think with the current approach to COVID19 is we are approaching it the wrong way round, from the wrong end of the telescope.1/... COVID19 is

Dr. Saskia Popescu

SaskiaPopescu

A few thoughts on the “airborne" conversations right now…First, I ultimately think this comes down more to scicomm & our ability to communicate nuanced situations & data. How we approach

gracie

kurtsatlantic

IMPORTANTstuff that we need to pay attention to BESIDES THE CORONAVIRUS: a thread 1) the great barrier reef has been dead since 2013 2) the fear of us dying due

Matthew Schneier

MatthewSchneier

A few months ago, I did something unusual for me: I published a piece that was deeply personal—about poetry and patience, nominally, but really about my father, who contracted COVID-19

Timothy B. Lee

binarybits

The slogan "flatten the curve" represented a massive conceptual mistake.https://www.vox.com/2020/5/6/21241058/coronavirus-mitigation-suppression-flatten-the-curve People (probably including me) shared images like this. The idea was that by

Abhishek Kumar

ShakeKumarMD

My 1st *Tweetorial*! We investigated cost-effectiveness of adding SABR to standard tx for pts with oligometastatic dz. Manuscript out in #RedJournal!TL;DR – Adding SABR was robustly cost-effective under a wide

Crick Watson MD

CrickWatsonMD

I realize y’all follow me for snarky #Bachelor content and probably don’t care about my personal views, but as a gay physician I can’t stay silent any longer. If I’ve

Victoria Reid

VMRvictoria

I own a tiny gift shop next to a beautiful state park. My whole livelihood (& identity: I am the 4th generation to own a business started in 1964) is

Geli Blanco

gelibeans1

At 4am today, I entered the second floor comfort room in one of the laboratory buildings at RITM. As I was washing my face to wake myself after being on

Phil Kerpen

kerpen

Large study from Scotland finds exposure to children is protective for adults.They looked at 300,000 NHS workers in Scotland.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.21.20196428v1 Conclusion: Increased household exposure to young chi

Robert M Califf

califf001

Memorial Day is different this year--as we remember the Veterans, 3 cemeteries come to mind. This is the American Cemetery in the Ardennes, where my Dad was deployed in WW2

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

ONS

3,912 deaths involving COVID-19 occurred in England and Wales in March 2020. Of these, 86% (3,372) of deaths were “due to COVID-19”. We use the term “due to COVID-19” when

Brett Kelman

BrettKelman

Tennessee’s coronavirus stats went wonky today because both the Nashville and state governments separately changed how they present data. I know many of you attempt to follow this closely, so

Donna ⭐️⭐️⭐️

truthseekerd

A tribute to the pathetic @GovWhitmer lack of leadership. This makes no sense to fighting the Coronavirus-I suppose unless you’re a dem-communist-globalist 1. Can’t buy baby seats...non-essential-what if you have

Divya Ramani

DivyaRamani17

Must-read about how knowledge gaps in medicine are replaced by patriarchal narratives: one of the most problematic aspects of medicine that extends into healthcare. This is why I studied medical