#Diagnostic

Matthew Noah Smith

MattNoahSmith

Below is a very bad article on Covid testing. It has poor thinking by *MDs* about testing. And yes I, someone who is not a medical doctor, am claiming that

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

1\But but... you ran it to 40-45 cycles? This is an argument that needs dissection. The protocols you see in EUAs are speaking to the Camera time not the Call

iMED

iMedEducation

Why is fever considered to be ≥ 100.4 F? A wonderful Tweetorial by @JennyShihMD, reviewed by @AvrahamCooperMD and @AdamRodmanMD. 100.4 comes from a single study in 1868 (https://archive.org/details/dasverhaltendere00wund/page/n6/mode/2up)

Martin Stervander

nesospiza

World, meet the #NewBirdOnTheBlock! Today we formally describe Calandrella cinerea rufipecta ssp. nov.—a vulnerable #African #relic species, and evaluate #species delimitation in #larks. Read #OpenAccess:https://doi.org/10.3390/d121104281

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Science asked me to -briefly- reflect on what happened in 2020. So, a thread on this year in science, the breakthroughs and breakdowns and where my head is at at

Deputy Dawgly

DDawgly

1) Professor Christian Drosten has admitted he FABRICATED the 'SARS-CoV-2 virus' & the test to detect it:"We aimed to develop and deploy robust diagnostic methodology for use in public health

GeorgeJulian

GeorgeJulian

New @ScotLDO research looking at (premature) mortality rates of learning disabled children and young people. Gut churning stuff. Mortality rate 12 times higher for those who are learning disabled. 12

James Todaro, MD

JamesTodaroMD

1/ Growing research demonstrating importance of protective T-cells against SARS-CoV-2 combined w/ prior research on influenza viruses suggest that nasal mucosa T-cells may explain the rising number of "positive" PCR

Gretchen Winter, MD 🌼

gretchemaben

Next up for tweet-ucation is “Fundamentals of Neurocritical Care for the Medical ICU”! #CHEST2020 First up is "Acute Ischemic Stroke" with @drdangayach #CHEST2020 Every 4 minutes someone dies of a

Monty

xiphmont

Good 'morning' all. Up late today, because last night's Windows machine debugging ended at... about 8:35am.But it was a happy ending! So the kids got my old workstation, Fishcore, rehabilitated

Jazz J

JazzLeighJ

Covid cases are sentencing ppl incarcerated to death &long-term disabilities due to conditions of WA state jails &prisons. @snocounty jail has a history of being a place ppl end up

Dr. Ardath Whynacht

ArdathJean

Halifax journos need to stop using Simon Sherry as their sole mental health expert. I have major issues with this article. “The making of Nova Scotia’s mass killer” / THREADhttps://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/local/the-making-of-no

josh grubbs

JoshuaGrubbsPhD

Just saw that a commentary I wrote is now live.The original paper (Lewczuk et al., 2020) is a really interesting work that was actually a pre-registered replication of a previous

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

Lockdowns have an impact, whilst in place they reduce transmission & new infections, they buy time, protect health systems & save lives. Lockdowns do not change the fundamentals of the

Maya Forstater

MForstater

Excellent briefing from MBM on the strange tale of how "cross dressers" got included as a protected characteristic in the Scottish hate crime bill Some thoughts and pictures...https://mbmpolicy.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/hate-cri

kary

paperkary

I'm not a journalist or a scientist. I am a person who had Covid-19 and experienced / learned some crazy things about the ever-changing science, policy, and tech. And lack

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