#Infection

Westley Ohman

westleyohman

Something about a certain road paved with good intentions. I (nor USPTF) am not aware of any evidence that screening for PAD reduces costs, anxiety, or amputations in any population.

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beegyan_

I think labs in Nepal should not routinely report the CT value. Instead, they should provide it to treating doctor IF required. There is no standardisation across the tests, and

Hasan Zaidi

hyzaidi

I’ve been intrigued by the Covid-19 modeling the federal govt has been talking about, which both Imran Khan and Dr @zfrmrza say Pak is well below. No details have been

Dr Gaetan Burgio, MD, PhD.

GaetanBurgio

I have seen few headlines on the repurposing of Ivermectin, a old FDA approved anti-parasitic drug, against #COVID19 infection. The claim is low dose of ivermectin kills #SARSCoV2 in cells.

el gato malo

boriquagato

update: before you let someone try to scare you with US case counts, please remember this:"reporting case counts without reference to testing levels is tantamount to lying."US cases are not

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

There are *so* many things wrong with this, starting with the implicit suggestion that an individual paper in @TheLancet carries particular merit greater than the body of scientific work as

The Slothmare Before Christmas

CaseyExplosion

Some years ago I contracted glandular fever. It was probably one of the sickest I've been in my life. The worst thing was my throat swelling to the point where

Waqar Aatif

AatifWaqar

Fake News Thread Collection of fake news which went viral in the last few days . I'm sure you've come across at least few of them.Fake News 1: Muslim man

Sandeep kumar

drsandeepkumarr

Testing makes it crucial, beyong the ICEBERG analogy or phenomena in case of #Covid_19 major virus shredders are people are positive but have mild or even no symptoms.This group spreads

Medical Axioms 🇺🇸

medicalaxioms

You know those adult patients who get admitted “all the time” and “every resident knows them”?I will tell you something you don’t know. 1/ Most of those “frequent fliers” weren’t

Emma Storey

emmastorey81

Just a quick thing on #coronavirus football attendances in Germany as I’m seeing a LOT of inaccurate reporting following today’s Boris announcements... (quick thread) YES the #Bundesliga has obtained an

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mattzollerseitz

One thing that occurred to me as I was settling my father’s estate Is that Covid makes everything take longer. Under more ordinary circumstances, I would’ve had a ton of

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sailorrooscout

Let’s talk. Breakthrough infections (infections in vaccinated individuals) are to be expected. Why? The vaccines are not 100%. Never have been. Otherwise, our vaccine trials would all have reported 100%

G Raghuram

UntergrundmannG

Thread: Is India "flattening the curve"?Working with data of other countries and the exemplar cases of China and South Korea for 80+ days, I realized that it's rather difficult, if

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

There is lots of high-quality data on COVID-19, but we haven’t always done a good job of explaining what it really means, or put the data in context of a

TXinTimeOut

TXstillWatching

I brought ccr5-delta32 mutants, -rh blood types, and using ccr5 antagonists as possible treatment back when Pradhan published the "Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to