#Lung

Ahmed Al-Jaishi, #Epidemiologist

AAlJaishi

I often see comments saying: "let #COVID19 spread widely so we can reach herd immunity".**To those people**: NEVER, in the history of infectious diseases, has there been a situation where

SLANK

DabSquad_Slank

On 11/3/1979, a caravan of armed klansmen & nazis, supported by the ATF, FBI, & local police, drove through the Black community in Greensboro, NC & carried out a massacre,

Green Party Women

GreenPartyWomen

.@rebekkapopovic and @DrLizaSelley kick off our air pollution event by discussing their work -based on research from across the world- on the link between air pollution & COVID19 in the

Dr Moderate

centrist_phone

Is our treatment approach to covid19 dangerously wrong?Leading ICU doctors in covid19 hotpots (China, Italy, New York) are raising serious alarm bells.Aggressive ventilation may be needlessly killing thousands of people.A

Charles Swanton

CharlesSwanton

1/24 - Can we decipher order from cancer genomes? Our new paper “Pervasive chromosomal instability and karyotype order in tumour evolution” comes out in Nature today: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2698-6 @BCRFcure @TheCrick

Katsu

DeepFriedKatsu

Guess today is that day LMAO. I'll keep the whole thing in this thread.Warning: this isn't a light topic and may have some triggering things in it, so read at

Ed Ostrin, MD, PhD

phlegmMDPhD

There's an emerging theory that the profound hypoxia by COVID is due to a sort of hemoglobinopathy caused by direct viral protein binding to heme. I suppose anything is possible,

Dr. Rob Davidson #WearAMask

DrRobDavidson

As an ER doctor, I feel compelled to correct a dangerous & upsetting new talking point from @realdonaldtrump. Lately he's been "boasting" that while #COVID19 rates are soaring, *deaths* are

Dr. Spencer J. Septién

spencerseptien

.@BaOkDfDub you know... I did not listen, but I did hear about it. My understanding of their opinion is that inflammatory conditions of the heart are quite common in viral

Lou-Lou Mason

LouLouMason

HAI! Covid thread. Not had test bc NHS have stopped testing. I have severe asthma so high risk, so have to monitor & be prepared-am v good re listening to

Michael Baum

MichaelBaum11

I've been inspired to initiate a debate about the comparisons in outcomes between different countries in their efforts to deal with the corona virus pandemic, by this graph posted by

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Are we going to have to change our definition of "asymptomatic" COVID to distinguish between self-reported "feels fine" and actually no symptoms? About half of the "asymptomatic" cases on the

Danny Boy

Care2much18

There's a very unhelpful - and hurtful - conversation ongoing as to whether people are dying with coronavirus or from coronavirus. People involved in those conversations should step back and

EvolvingWild

EvolvingWild

The idea that the NHL could resume games, especially in a playoff scenario, is really just odd. So you have 24 teams, only "essential" people are allowed in the rinks,

david oliver

mancunianmedic

DEATH CERTIFICATON KLAXONI lot of rumour, myth and misinformation doing the rounds from people who have never filled out a death certificate mis-representing and insulting doctors who have filled out

Sweet Wreck

astridoverthere

Okay I'm getting real tired of this so here's a fucking thing that everyone with health insurance knows already: 99% of all adults have an "underlying medical condition." It's called