#Health

Michael Walker

michaeljswalker

It's still not clear to me why mass antibody testing would be a game changer, other than for health-workers.Assumption seems to be that mass testing would limit extent of lockdown,

OR Health Authority

OHAOregon

OHA State Health Officer Dr. Dean Sidelinger speaking during today’s media availability: "Our latest update to the modeling shows troubling scenarios indicating rapidly increasing infection numbers – with potential exponential

Marquette Academic Workers Union

MarquetteUnion

@MarquetteU and @PresLovell told the @BSCofMU that they were committed to continue to hire Black (and POC more generally) faculty through the Race, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies cluster hires. Yesterday,

John Schmalzbauer

OzarksWatcher

Apparently, the Moral Majority once supported the wearing of face masks (to stop a disease that was not airborne). First ran across this when teaching about @anthonympetro's work on AIDS

Janet French

Jantafrench

The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) says health-care workers across the province have walked off the job this morning. No numbers or locations. AUPE represents 58,000 nursing and health

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KlNDOFABIGDEAL

a breakdown of “sociopathy“ for #horror fans! I noticed a lot of people explaining disorders for horror fans, so here’s my pitch in the tank as someone with clinically confirmed

Pamela Duncan

PorcelinaD

The number of Covid-19 deaths in Scotland fell in all settings in the week to 10 May.But the proportion of people dying in care homes remains stubbornly high at 57%

Alice White

_alicewhite

Worried that the excellent supply of neuroscience webinars might dry up this summer? Worry no more! Procrastinate with me and this growing list of cognitive, computational, clinical, developmental and molecular

Leana Wen, M.D.

DrLeanaWen

The U.S. has just reached 100,000 deaths from #covid19. What have we learned? A thread of 10 lessons: 1. This is an extremely contagious respiratory illness that spreads rapidly from

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

Thank you for saying this @AndrewNoymer. The "shield sensitive groups" strategy is also know as the "age-targeted" or "herd immunity" strategy. In the US, proponents are @MartinKulldorff & @SWAtlasHoover. 1

Asia Fields

asiakmfields

Coronavirus has spread to at least 137 long-term care facilities in Washington state, killing 221 people, according to state officials.This is the first time we've received a list of facilities.

Dr. Lynora Saxinger 🇨🇦

AntibioticDoc

Thought experiment: (But you have to promise to read this all the way through. It's not too long. Promise?)What if I told you that individuals who received the AZ-Ox

John Hayward

Doc_0

Yes, America should keep pouring money down the drain of a World Health Organization that still can't bring itself to condemn Communist China even as the DAMN WET MARKETS REOPEN.

Rae Lyn Fox

RaeLynFox

I keep seeing articles about the health risks of voting in person during a pandemic and how some people seem hellbent on making it hard for people to mail in

Vanderbilt LGBTQ Health

LGBTQ_Health

Happy #LesbianVisibilityDay! Today, we want to celebrate by sharing the stories of lesbians, past and present, who have contributed great things to medicine. [THREAD] As a doctor and trans woman,

Libby Copeland, author of The Lost Family

libbycopeland

It's the last day of April! Which means it's the last day of my tweets about the last 20 years of home DNA testing. Because it has been exactly twenty