#Disease

Michal Tal

ImmunoFever

At this point it's very clear that we need a lot more rapid surveillance screening of asymptomatics who could be contagious with SARS-COV-2. We are piloting such screening in lab

Jay Bookman

jaysbookman

According to a document compiled for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, but withheld from the public, Georgia is one of 18 states in the "red zone" for high caseload

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

Ok, here is a little #Tweetorial about #COVID19 and whether, outside of a controlled trial, we should be using different:1. rules for anti-coagulation/ lytics2. ventilatory settings in ARDS3. anti-virals/ anti-inflammatories

Drebonacci

Drestradamus

If we know that it says on the box of masks that they won’t prevent transmission of any “disease”, and if we know that “viruses” are actually a part of

Robyn Porteous

RobynPorteous

If you're calling to #EndTheLockdownSA without proper consideration & regulations in place to protect people (specifically the most vulnerable) & if you've ever suggested letting the 'virus run its course',

JamesWatson

JamesWatson210

GRAPHICLet's talk about plagues and bioweapons in China. Not in #Wuhan but in Harbin.What happens when one wicked man seizes control of a good organization?Meet Shiro Ishii. Founder of Unit

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

We're about to pass the deeply tragic milestone of 200,000 deaths from COVID in the US. What have we learned about COVID and our response to it over the last

Errol Webber For Congress (CA-37)

ErrolWebber

I received a set of responses to a Tweet I posted regarding @RepKarenBass @KarenBassTweets position on the application of social distancing and her expressing to desire of states releasing inmates

Will Ryan

wdryan2000

Re-opening of Primary Schools (Long thread): Of course, we want our schools to be open. We understand that this closure is far from ideal although - naturally - we encourage

Jaipreet Virdi

jaivirdi

Welcome to the COVID COHORT. Books by authors published in 2020 that you might have missed! Browse through the thread below for excellent reading materials and gift ideas. Support authors

Martin Kulldorff

MartinKulldorff

Pandemic absurdities: Firing people with natural immunity after Covid recovery, even though they are the least likely to spread Covid to others. 1/∞https://brownstone.org/articles/hospitals-should-hire-not-fire-nurses-with-natural-immuni

Kurt Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

I knew it. I knew in early June, before number started falling, that Trump would at some point start bragging about "deaths per case"as a sign of success. This number

el gato malo

boriquagato

this is the worst kind of revisionist apologia from USA todaysweden's strategy DID workit worked wellgathering up the sour grapes of the "experts" who advocated swedish panic and fermenting it

jenabbasi

jenabbasi

Severely immunosuppressed people can battle #SARSCoV2 for months. Some virologists are convinced the #variants emerged in this setting. My latest for @JAMA_current deals with how to care for these vulnerable

LindsayS

LindsayJS

So my daughter was almost killed on a bike this morning. We're in probably the most bike-friendly place in CA - Carpinteria. There are bike lanes on all the major

Cindy Ermus

CindyErmus

I wrote this piece for @STATNews to mark the tricentennial of the start of the Great Plague of Provence, the last of the great* outbreaks of plague in W. Europe.