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Jonathan Giftos, MD🗽🚵🏼‍♂️

JonGiftosMD

I am increasingly of belief that low-barrier bupe has to be available outside of formal treatment settings. This accepts, I think, that there will be diversion & sharing of medication

Satoshi Akima

ToshiAkima

"Cytokine Storm". The idiot's buzzword of the week. It makes you sound smarter if you say it often enough. When I first heard of it in 1994 it sounded AMAZING!

Aisha Shaikh

aishaikh

Effect of Finerenone on CKD outcomes in T2DMFinerenone decreased risk of CKD progression by 18%Finerenone decreased CV morbidity & mortality by 14%Published in @NEJM today https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2025845?query=RP@ASN

Michel Zeitouni, MD

MichelZedBay

#Thread 1/ Les soignants que nous sommes sont les 1er à vouloir trouver un traitement contre #COVID19. Mais il est difficile de tirer une conclusion sur l'efficacité de #Hydroxychloroquine #azithromycine

Sam Edwards

samedwardsmd

Our letter to the editor in @NEJM on the @CamdenHealth Hotspotting RCT is out today.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001920#.Xs8sLXg5gik.twitterA thread explaining our thinking. Our basic point is that RCTs are not the most infor

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

Here's a short list of things we do and don't yet know about #COVID19. 1. We don't yet know the true case fatality rate. (E.g.: if you catch it, how

V. James

GamerElefent

1.) It's not just "6 people" that have developed the coagulation disorder from the J&J and AZ vaccines. It's many thousands more.2.) The morderna and pfizer vaccine have WAY more

S. Holtsford

sholtsford

@HarozR @DonaldStader @MDaware @theNNTweet @jmugele @jeremyfaust @DonofrioGail @kathryn_hawk @andrewherringmd @KaylaPMHNP @nskarnik @jennak06 @maiasz @HillPharmD @justinberk @RichBottner @TheSchwarziee @rp_mccormack ERs can be 24/7/365 entr

Ranu Dhillon

RanuDhillon

THREAD1/ Overly focusing on how COVID19 may be amplified by protests misses the point that systemic racism against Black Americans - the target of the protests - is driving both

EBabady, PhD

EBabady

So interesting! How often do you, #asmclinmicro & #AMPath, get asked about Ct values? This manuscript is full of information and the Ct values data is fascinating.https://twitter.com/nejm/status/1253775720972644352 Ct value... an

Charles Holmes

CharlesBHolmes

Americans are getting a crash course in novel therapies for #COVID19. This is a hotly debated topic, even among physicians. As we saw with hydroxychloroquine, the decisions Trump/his docs make

Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan

crageshri

It’s Tuesday, so a good day to remind everyone there’s no genetic basis to races. Race is a poor proxy for ancestry & based on pseudo scientific views from the

Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

DoctorChrisVT

Fake news kills during a pandemic but wild 5G conspiracies may be less dangerous than the lowering of standards in mainstream science. Friday saw the most egregious example of this

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

So the President received 8 grams of Regeneron monoclonal antibodies as a therapy & while that seems like a huge dose, we've been here before...Ebola patients evacuated from W. Africa

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 38Still stable at @UCSFHospitals & in SF. @UCSF, 15 pts, 5 on ventilators (Fig on L). In SF: 38 new cases, 23 deaths overall (up

Craig Spencer MD MPH

Craig_A_Spencer

I'll be sharing updates here from today's (Oct 4) POTUS #COVID19 medical briefing: President 'has continued to improve', 'frequent ups and downs' The President has experienced two drops of oxygen