#Influenza

Russ

RussInCheshire

"A virus is far too small to be stopped by a mask"This is really simple.A virus IS too small to be stopped by a mask. But an influenza or coronavirus

Kimberly Blumenthal, MD, MSc

KimberlyBlumen1

1/ OK so 1 week after UK #COVID19Vaccine allergy was described, I need to reorient you to my world, the world where #drugallergy is the best field of #MedTwitter #AIMedEd

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

So, every so often I get people who come to my twitter after I debunked something and tell me all about how the effort was noble but the denialists won't

Peter Harling

PeterHarling

THREAD Infectious diseases have long shaped our culture—in ways you can trace through mentions of a disease in our literature. Here we see declining references to the plague in English

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

A thread of some of the misconceptions that fed the COVID hysteria. 1/ Little reporting of the sense of scale, that flu and seasonal influenza-like infections (i.e., colds) are massive

Jarita Bavido

JaritaBavido

It's a year this week since the first case of COVID-19 was found in Wisconsin. In July, I scoured the newspapers from the flu epidemic of 1918-1920. I've been wanting

LEON

Intuitive1966

Truths on masksDisposable medical masks (also known as surgical masks) are loose-fitting devices that were designed to be worn by medical personnel to protect accidental contamination of patient open wounds,

Jessica Pickett

pickettjessica

So in the past week, we've learned that asymptomatic patients may take longer (2 months) to develop fewer antibodies, which then wane just as quickly. Along with concerning implications for

John Drury

ProfJohnDrury

1/6Short thread on relationship between rising infections/new variant, public behaviour, and policy announcementstldr: Public behaviour really matters in mitigating infection spread; but it's not only behaviour that matters, since behav

Peculiar Baptist

PeculiarBaptist

Thread: Review of "A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers," published in The BMJ in 2015. Do we #WearAMask? Do we #WearADamnMask? Read

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

The best analysis of the C19 pandemic mass hysteria."[H]ow different political institutions and the state affect the development and extension of mass hysteria[?]""the size of the state exacerbates the negative

Stephen T Casper

TheNeuroTimes

Secondly, it is abysmal that the medical humanities and medical historians have (a) not had their expertise used more concretely as part of our strategy and (b) that STEM leaders

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

Today we are seeing tons of hype around the corticosteroid dexamethasone, prompted by this press release.It does indeed look like good news, but it is important to recognize the limitations

Jason Tidd

Jason_Tidd

Several Wichita bars sue over county's COVID order, claim masks are a "political symbol," that curfews violate their right to due process, and mass gathering limits violate their right to

Medical Macaroni

dawalelo

Why do we repeatedly need to ask for transparent #covid19 data. Health Ministry @mohfw_india has ‘urged,’ all states to retest with RTPCR, all those who are negative on less accurate

David

mitter81

Are you a mask bandit, sufferring from an irrational fear reflex?some lessons from history and a prescription of evidence, a thread.1-23, (with scientific evidence) 1/ even though we know from

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