#Disease

Leo Reap

Leo_ReapDO

A hematology @tony_breu-style tweetorial: Why does lymphopenia occur in #COVID19?A normal WBC count and lymphopenia are seen in patients affected by COVID-19, but why it occurs has bothered me since

Melanie Simms

SimmsMelanie

I have seen an increasing discussion about how long recovery from COVID-19 is taking. I thought it might be helpful to outline my recover from (likely) SARS* in 2003. It's

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MalcolmOutLoud

1/9 Currently in the U.S. the CDC and the NIH have 1.65 million #Covid_19 cases with over 100,000 deaths. The numbers will climb as we get universal testing. I predict

Rajeev Jayadevan

RajeevJayadevan

Evidence that B.1.617.2 (India) is a not a fatal variant. No deaths occurred from an outbreak of 15 cases in a UK care home. This group, being frail, has high

Jusonne Cruz

JusonneC

Random learning 101 (a thread) Day 1Eisenmenger syndromeIncreased pressure of blood flow to the lungs is too much that it reverses the direction of blood flow to the shunt.Blood flow

🌶 Caitlin Spice 🌶

CateSpice

Thread: why gender transition isn't 'Conversion Therapy'Firstly, what is 'Conversion Therapy'?Most sources agree that it is the practice of trying to forcibly change a person's sexual orientation from non-heterosexua

Ⓥ Betty Berger 🌱🍔

Aaardvark5

Before I went #vegan I was a massive meat eater. I loved steak, chicken wings, lamb kebab. I ate meat practically every day of my life for over 30 years.

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

1/ Here's another way to think about @US_FDA emergency use authorization of convalescent plasma. This is OPERATION SLOWDOWN, *not* Operation Warp Speed. You want data on what works and what

Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D.

wormmaps

A quick thread about the evidence base for this claim about Ebola, which is perhaps troubling (1/4)https://twitter.com/OIEAnimalHealth/status/1265998821466742785 The 2014 outbreak in West Africa, the largest to date, was traced back

Niall Conroy

NICU_doc_salone

Five things I’ve done in the last year as a public health doctor that, like most of what we do, flies under the radar.... 1) Our surveillance system found disease-causing

Dr. Safa Mote

SafaMote

On Mar 24, we had ~800 #COVID deaths in the US. On Apr 4, when the count was at ~8,000, I predicted ~20,000 deaths by Easter Sunday, Apr 12.My prediction

Ashleigh Tuite

AshTuite

Trying to make sense of the daily reported COVID case numbers in Ontario is a source of great frustration right now. Particularly in the face of changes in who can

Alice Su

aliceysu

We found so many fascinating contradictions and shocking nuggets in our deep dive into China's wildlife industry and why its new ban is not enough to stop future virus outbreaks.

Jamie Schler

lifesafeast

THIS is what Twitter is all about. Thousands coming together to tell the wildest, most amazing stories of ancestors. So here are a couple of mine...https://twitter.com/lifesafeast/status/1387117957550071813 My great-grandpa Kalman was

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

Just a note: CoVid is a novel disease.That means it does not behave quite like anything else in human experience. It is very, very different. Inevitably, this will mean that

Romina Boccia

RominaBoccia

THREAD. The economic shock of COVID-19 is the result of public fear of contracting or spreading the virus and government-ordered closures of large sectors of the economy to enforce social