#HEALTH

Salim Jiwa

realreporter

#bcpoli Hospitals bursting at the seams.A thread about current situation.VGH clogged up. 48 covid patients plus 17 in ICU. 8 on ECMO - blood circulated out of body since ventilators

peter kilmarx

PeterKilmarx

THREAD on #ContactTracing. Slow progress, workforce challenges, and lack of coordination implementing a critical intervention to reopening America. Many aspects are "All over the map," except there is no map

Seth Kaplan

Seth_Kaplan

MDH will no longer report raw numbers of current hospitalizations & current ICU cases. Only new admissions.This means we can no longer report positive news of ICU cases declining or

Stéphane Helleringer

helleringer143

We have a new pre-print out @socarxiv on the pressing need to conduct frequent mobile phone surveys to monitor excess deaths due to the #COVID19 pandemic in low income and

Nicola McEwen

McEwen_Nicola

UK gov proposals on #internalmarket due today. More considered response to come but press release says: “in total, Northern Ireland will be receiving 157 powers, Scotland 111 powers and 70

bao ✸

xiaolongmeow

a reminder to artists to please not blame themselves for their art not getting enough interactions—the tw/tter algorithm is just extremely shitty and relies on trends, which is why art

Erick Barrera

ErickEBarreraM

Establishing a healthy media diet is important for your level of media literacy. We expose ourselves to new information every single day when we open our social media accounts.Open thread:

Miriam van Gool

MiriamvGool

What is the role of children in #transmission of #coronavirus #SARSCov2? The scientific jury appears to be still out, though thankfully more data & studies now surfacing & debated. Below

Wesley Yang

wesyang

There is tremendous pathos in Biden’s run: a man suffering from age-related cognitive decline, practically assured not to survive his first term if he wins, and yet stubbornly persistent at

diane #ForAll straub

didikins4life

What does the 2020 Dem Platform say about #COVID19? Time to acquaint ourselves with the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. A platform is guiding principles of a party/goals, vision, mission, promise. Only

Beth Matthews

BethMatthewsz

If you’re going to the beach and there’s nowhere to park, don’t illegally use a farmers field...especially when they are spreading slurry. Only in Cornwall It’s a bloody brilliant

Rachel @ home 🌲🏔🏞🌦

wholemilk

So we have >900,000 cases. 38,000 (thirty-eight THOUSAND) *new* cases. 46,000 deaths. 14,000 recent deaths. It's more than 4x the next country. Call your congresspersons, call your governors, for the

Paul Yowell

pwyowell

In this thread I provide evidence that fewer than half of the 6,112 excess deaths in Week 14 are due to Covid-19. Thus most excess mortality in the UK is

Joshua Hind

joshuahind

I love data. I want it. This data in particular is desperately needed for medium-term planning (at home and work). But to be useful the data must be: 1) accurate2)

Darcy Anne

Dragonfly_Darcy

Article goes around showing how kids are "losing their childhood" to the pandemic, their social-emotional development is being disrupted, they've lost their community.Homeschooling parents lose their minds, get offended at

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

HELL YEAH! The editors of NEJM (most prestigious medical journal in the world) has effing had it with the Trump WH destroying the CDC and FDA and muzzling the NIH.