#Disease

Dr Asha

DoctorAsha

While everyone is focusing on the 70% deaths among Black Americans, let me tell you why its equally important to pay attention to the right side of this graphic ,

Hameem Jan

HameemYJ

I m starting a thread where medics working in pandemics hotspots of Europe can post/share guidelines & clinical management of #coronavirus cases As #Kashmir braces 4spike in cases while internet

Randy Hillier

randyhillier

“It’s a fool’s errand,” Dr. Neil Rau, an infectious disease specialist with the University of Toronto, says. “We’re not going to win with that strategy.”https://www.660citynews.com/2020/07/09/health-experts-covid-strategy/ “

Jason L. Salemi, PhD ☕

JasonSalemi

An epidemiologist's primer to DIAGNOSTIC TESTING- sensitivity & specificity- positive and negative predictive values- likelihood ratios- pre- and post-test probabilitiesSound familiar?Sound really confusing?In this I'll try to t

No Duane, No Gain💯

duane_der

So after a long struggle with Covid-19 in my family and having taken care of my Dad, aged 68 with underlying conditions and my Mom with even more underlying conditions

Dr Martin Character Matters

MartinRemains

Why, in the middle of a pandemic, are people getting on a plane and travelling overseas for holiday? These are not normal times. These are dangerous times. You may be

Dr. Cecília Tomori

DrTomori

Many of us have been very concerned about @CDC guidance for mothers and infants in the hospital setting. Brand new update (while still not WHO) provides a much more nuanced

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ Last week @mlipsitch - a Harvard epidemiologist - wrote a blistering @washingtonpost piece attacking any plan for herd immunity. Letting people at low risk for #Covid become infected “could

molly ⛈

onlyoulwt

hi today is #WorldIBDDay. this is the face of someone with an invisible illness. i was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in december 2018, i’d been suffering with symptoms for 2

Nancy Burridge

NancyBurridge

1/29I received this email from a former General Motors analyst with years of experience in discerning truth from numbers. During the course of his career, he saved GM millions of

Ke11y11

ke11y11

China is the new Germany. The EXACT same thing that happened then, is happening now. A weaponized pandemic. There was no Jewish Holocaust, it was Typhoid Pandemic that was obviously

Argonaut. 🇲🇾

hzlmshmn

I have been reading tweets saying, our past efforts staying at home become worthless as the MCO is loosened. Let me tell you why loosening the MCO now is actually

Bill Miller

BillMiller_Epi

A few summary thoughts about test performance. 1/https://twitter.com/OSUPublicHealth/status/1245816635803480067 First, keep in mind that no diagnostic test is perfect. Clinicians always have to interpret the test in context. Tests can be

(((Charles Fishman)))

cfishman

US Coronavirus Update, Sunday, April 5, 2020~ The percentages keep slidingFatalities First• Total US covid-19 deaths, Sun, April 5: 9,633• Increase in the last 24 hours: 1,226 (+15%)--> 4th day

Simran Kaur Dhunna

simran_dhunna

Yes this is in Canada. My dad runs his own cab company, and is one of the most hardest working people i know and whom i look up to. This

MarzBar

MarzBar05927002

1/7 Where is all the outrage for them KNOWINGLY with holding cures for all disease for 40 years & millions died unnecessarily?Where is all the outrage for man made knowingly