#Disease

Aesha Datta

aeshadatta

I was probably 5 or 6 years old when I first came across the reality of death. My aunt (mother’s elder sister) came to visit for the first time in

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

Everybody makes fun of the people who will go into a clearly haunted house or an obvious murder basement but my least favorite "never saw a horror movie" real life

Michael Lin, PhD-MD

michaelzlin

Here's something that's at once good news and extremely disheartening. Valneva, the only Western pharmaceutical to produce an inactivated virus vaccine for COVID19, today announced they are *starting* their phase

ABC News

ABC

JUST IN: Travel data of passengers arriving in the U.S. from China during the critical period in December, January and February shows a stunning 759,493 people entered the U.S.https://abcn.ws/344ZVlb MORE:

Federico Andres Lois

federicolois

Say you have a completly harmless virus (IFR=0) that can spread at R0=3.3 and you can find via PCR for 19 days. How many deaths per million would you find

Tracy Shields

tcshields

Today's find from medRxiv: "SARS-CoV-2 viral load peaks prior to symptom onset: a systematic review and individual-pooled analysis of coronavirus viral load from 66 studies"(A #medlibs thread touching on #systematicreview

Shivangi 🏳️‍🌈

shivangayy

An uncle attempted suicide because he felt stuck in a job he hated, was living in a city with none of his immediate family members or friends, and was just

Shingai Ndoro

shingaiRndoro

This is a shocking & worrisome grovelling post by a Deputy Min. Here I do a #FactCheckingMakandiwa over a sermon he delivered online on Sunday claiming they were revelations from

Joanna Poole 💙

Jopo_dr

ARDS or acute respiratory distress syndrome is describe as severe hypoxic respiratory failure (measured by comparing inspired oxygen to arterial oxygen). It is a syndrome - not a diagnosis of

Marco Piani

Marco_Piani

#COVID19 worldwide 19 Apr update: trajectories, timelines, rate of growths (cases&deaths).China not included as:- the situation there is stable- keeping China within the plot requires squeezing the other trajectories- China

Heidi Chow

hidschow

I was just thinking how much support there is for a #PeoplesVaccine - to get there we need to break pharma monopolies by suspending patents and forcing companies to share

Intriguing_Ike

AkinolaIkeoluw1

Á ò rí’rú eléyì rí, a fií dé rù b’omo ni; unprecedented is just a word, there’s really nothing new under the sun!I am going to share with you snippets

Paula G.

MoonQuakerGirl

DEXAMETHASONE to treat #COVID__19 -Overview and Update *THREAD* Dexamethasone is the first drug found to reduce mortality in severely ill #COVID__19 patients. Dexamethasone is a corticosteroid that is used

David Graeber

davidgraeber

The first major activist movement in the US after independence were the Abolitionists & I wonder sometimes if they set the tone for US activism - it's peculiar characteristic puritanism

Jon Pyle

jonpyle

Some of the #hottakes I’ve seen from Pastors, religious leaders and other prominent Christians about the pandemic and church re-openings are not just absurd, they’re anti-Jesus. The term spiritual malpractice

Basim Ali MD

BasimAlee

I had a chance to present on an important topic today at the Breast Tumor Board at @AKUGlobal. The topic was: Screening for distant metastasis in newly diagnosed #breastcancer patients.