#Trials

Danny Braggadocious

danzu72

And so it begins. This is not me, I'm waiting for human trials to finish.

Maneesh

Maneesh312

We know these are desperate times and everyone wants to do everything within their abilities to save their people. But, convalescent plasma should be avoided by all means now, as

C. Michael Gibson MD

CMichaelGibson

Lancet publication shows higher mortality & arrhythmias in a registry of patients treated with #Hydroxycloroquine .LIMITATION: This is not randomized data and cannot be used to assess the effectiveness (benefit)

Kemi Badenoch

KemiBadenoch

I don’t normally share private WhatsApp chats. But we must expose the anti-vaxxer disinformation being peddled within the black community about vaccines. It is risking lives and leading to views

Kenneth Rockwood

Krockdoc

Great question. Most key trials preceded the Clinical Frailty Scale. @GrahamEllis247 will know best, but here’s my read. (A 7-part thread; forgive me.) Back in the late ‘70s (when I

king of Confesssions Keith

KaConfessor

A lot of you have heard people talking about the Nuremberg Code, but what is the Nuremberg code, and what role does it play in as far as Covid-19 vaccines

John Mashey

JohnMashey

f1/ Trump keeps pushing people to (Hydroxy)Chloroquine. I’ve been collecting & annotating credible information from @UCSF experts on COVID-19, as it appears, in the subthreads ofhttps://twitter.com/JohnMashey/status/1245825681306431491 CV1-This t

Matthew Gertz

MattGertz

Dr. Oz, on Fox & Friends, says the VA study on hydroxychloroquine shows that "we don't know" if it works and "we are better off waiting for the randomized trials

Rhys Davies

Quinnfeld

#WorldCupOfAntibiotics SEMI-FINAL 1Who's afraid of Clavulanic Acid? #WorldCupOfAntibiotics SEMI-FINAL 2In the spirit of OVIVA and POET2 trials, we're going to find out which is better - IV or PO? Rumble!

Peter B. Bach, MD

peterbachmd

In @TheLancet - study today compares outcomes for Covid patients who got usual care or chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine with or without a macrolide antibiotic (e.g. azithromycin). Main finding - these treatments appear

Margaret McCartney

mgtmccartney

why be so bothered about unintended consequences? it sounds good, it sounds like it might work. People have good intentions, care deeply, want to do something useful. and yet: when

Jeskai Angel

JeskaiAngel

Thread:The Bible has much of a positive/encouraging nature to say about suffering. A few examples of the kind of passages I’m thinking of:“Blessed are you who weep now, for you

Jewhadi™

JewhadiTM

I had a splenectomy when I was 18. I had an autoimmune disorder (ITP for short), that caused my platelets to attack each other. My blood stopped clotting. Having my

Laura Kuenssberg

bbclaurak

Latest press conf - Hancock defends govt performance on PPE, says doing everything they can + in direct talks with factories making kit, not all suppliers can provide at scale

Kay is on Patreon

KTildenFrost

Okay, so I AM NOT A SCIENCIST but I do play a science editor at work, so here's a few things I've managed to put together with some internet research.

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Some thoughts from planet science at this point in the pandemic. The first thing to note is that science is the exit strategy (@JeremyFarrar's great pithy phrase) - clinical science