#Mortality

Thread: Fall ArmyWorm (FAW). We are definitely having a good season rain wise no doubt. But a worrying sight of infestation of FAW in maize has been continuous, from emergence.
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Coughs make aerosolsIt's long been time for ward staff to upgrade to FFP3 around coughing patients and those with COVIDThe urgency for this is dramatically increased by the new variant
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While we don't fully understand the role of children in transmission, we know that children get infected & transmit (older children likely with same or greater efficacy as adults). With
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Was locking down Australia the right decision to minimise COVID-19's impact? Lets see. Please stop reading if you have a emotional take on COVID management. I understand ! #COVID19au #COVID19Vic
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1/ Interesting data from Colorado yesterday.Colorado is the only state (as far as I know) to report the number of deaths from people who were infected with #Covid when they
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1st January 2021 and Ebola, a thread In December 2013 West Africa was hit by an outbreak of Ebola. Between then and January 2016, 11,323 deaths from Ebola were recorded,
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Today's covid denialists are tomorrow's openly eugenicist "these disabled people are a drain on society"Literally. 13 years after the Spanish flu, the very first people the nazis targeted were disabled
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Sweden update.Some good news on cases - 14,570 new cases over the weekend compared with 15,911 last weekend.1,449 in hospital (46% increase)160 in ICU (28% increase) https://twitter.com/johnmcclean_ie/status/1326152847193497606 http://c19.s
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This paper finds nursing home residents comprise 57% of all COVID-19 deaths in Spain, 53% in Italy, and 45% in France.https://ltccovid.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Mortality-associated-with-COVID-12-April-3.pdf Same paper also quotes a U.
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Before the pandemic, the average fatality rate among patients admitted to intensive care in Canada was 9%. New data shows that 31% have died of all #COVID19 patients admitted to
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Clinical Trial Challenges in the COVID-19 era. A Thread Logistical challenges: enrolment window is short- need to fast track all procedures (writing, IRB, regulatory approval, funding application)- drug needs to
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Mid of March 2020.Countries went into lockdowns to mitigate the harm of the Covid acpocalypse which otherwise leads to millions of death and collapse all health systems around the globe.After
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Very excited to share this work by the heroic team - @carolilucas Pat Wong @sneakyvirus @tiago21bio et al on “Longitudinal analyses reveal immunological misfiring in severe COVID-19”. A thread on
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What time is it?Death time. It appears that excess deaths may be peaking. Data next week should give us true confirmation of this. But as projected two weeks ago, falling
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For those of you who don't understand why so many of us medicos are questioning the drug Itolizumab the company Biocon and Ms. Kiran Shaw let me explain.#ThreadAlert Issue 1.
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1/ this thread is a repudiation of Fauci’s absurd pronouncement that we need 90% for herd immunity. He’s simply a vaccine salesman. Start w reading this by Doshi of BMJ.https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3563
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