#Disease

Olaoluwafimihan Bakre

Ola_fimihan

If you ask my mum any stupid question, the next thing she says is "Google is your Friend". We all got used to using the search engine for difficult questions

Dr. Joel C. Miller

joel_c_miller

A regarding facemasks (now required in Melbourne).We've been seeing 200-400 cases a day for about a week now. I've been wearing a mask in public for a while now. I

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

What is the relevance of viral load in #COVID19 disease severity? A very talented @YaleMSTP student @SilvaJ_C found that saliva viral load to be a better predictor of disease than

Ciara Henderson

CiaraHendTCD

#ZeroCovid is a #PublicHealth elimination strategy. It means that you resource #PublicHealth teams to play whack-a-mole to crush disease outbreaks when they occur. Act Fast - Save Lives. When outbreaks

Compound Interest

compoundchem

As we say #GoodBye2020, here’s a thread looking back at some of the graphics I’ve made over the past year (a lot of them #COVID19-related!) (1/13) The year started

Dr Siddharth Sridhar

sid8998

I feel most companies erred by pursuing protection against symptomatic #COVID19 as the primary efficacy outcome in vaccine trials. The confusing range of percentages across different #vaccines has adversely impacted

Stephen T Casper

TheNeuroTimes

While I certainly applaud journalism focused on epidemiologists, journalists might want to survey American historians of medicine for their opinions about how we are doing.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/upshot/epidemiologists-virus-surv

Canadian Mama

JackNationalist

THREAD: Abundant evidence showing Masks Are Dangerous!!People who wear masks get more respiratory virus than those who don’t.Dentists seeing an “explosion” of gum disease due to masks.Masks Cause:Impaired ImmunityHypoxia linked

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

Donald Ainslie Henderson, MD, MPH ’60, a leader of the international effort to eradicate smallpox – considered one of public health’s greatest successes – and a former dean of what

Dave Degner

degnerforiowa

Perspectives for Iowans: Total Iowa Covid-19 death toll is equivalent to the largest community in my rural county. If the entire city of Tama, Iowa died from a disease in

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Seeing stories of vaccinated folks getting COVID?Yup. Not newsHow common is this? Quick math says pretty commonProbably 60-100 fully vaccinated folks getting infected dailySo infections no surpriseWe should instead focus

Eileen Chong 张奕霖

eileenchongpoet

This makes me think of Victorian era chimney sweeps—usually young boys, who would be able to fit into chimneys, often naked—who would often get a specific cancer on their testicles,

Emily Burns😊 #SmilesMatter DM’s OK

Emily_Burns_V

1/6 Almost every action we are taking to “limit the spread” ends up in some way increasing it, or causing it to be spread primarily among those at highest risk.

Laurence Howe

laurencejmshowe

A short summary of a preprint on interpreting Mendelian randomization analyses with categorical exposures with @nm_davies @mendel_random and @tudballstats https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.14.20248168v1 (1.) Categorical phenot

Disposable Human

haveachattabs

So, Covid enters the prison…we warned of this. We lobbied to free people…yet not one precautionary or compassionate release across this whole damned country…wow, it’s really like we are disposable

Dr. Rob

Rob_Tarzwell

If you follow #medtwitter, #epitwitter or #covid twitter even cursorily, you've probably noticed a serious freakout over political interference in an obscure journal you've likely never heard of before: MMWR

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