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1/17It's been 2 weeks now since NYT reported up to 90% false positive due to "cycle threshold settings".PCR cycle threshold topic is cruical.As tweets usually have just a half-time of
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Quite shocked to see so many usually reasonable commentators complaining about the UK lockdown being enforced and arguing their right to wander around outside. In Spain, we've been indoors for
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So I took Mom to see a very specific type of provider today @UFHealth. However, as I sat in the lobby I couldn't believe the office was blaring Fox News
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I've seen a lot of people asking this question. It is a valid question & shouldn't be dismissed outright. However the answer to this is a little nuanced than straight
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1)”Covid 19 is beginning to lose its virulence as the Coronavirus is mutating & could die out on its own without a vaccine, according to Prof. Matteo Bassetti, an Italian
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First experiences with the #COVID19 #AntibodyTest - here is what we found:Observation 1: Getting immune to #COVID19 ATTENTION: right after the infection the test will still be negative even though
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1/ "Ending Medical Reversal" is an essential book for medical students, physicians, and anyone even peripherally involved in medicine; for everybody else, it's merely highly recommended. #bookreview #meded 2/ @adamcifu
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Dozens of frontline NHS workers anonymously messaged me today. Thank you Dr Nishant Joshi for bravely speaking up for them all about lack of protective equipment & absence of tests.
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Disclaimer first- I'm exploring data, so don't read into this as any confirmation or expert info. I'm looking at our rates of cardiac arrests in #EMS during #COVID19 More codes
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Dr. James Bradner tells @MIT course: "We're not remotely out of the woods."Even w/ vaccines, he says we'll need better drugs. There are 770 compounds in development +300 plus in
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1) On Saturday, Quebec’s chief public health officer confirmed what was probably obvious to all by now in this province. There is now community transmission of the #coronavirus not just
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#Covid19 is a public health challenge. There is no cure, no vaccine, no magic wand to erase it. The only way to slow down the spread is to follow quarantine
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Daily reports tell us what happened last week, 2 weeks ago, 4 weeks agoThis is why folks are worried about what's nextToday's 7 day moving avgs167K cases, 3600 new hospitalizations,
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Today, we are publishing our weekly report intended to provide a narrative around the statistics and data that are routinely published on COVID-19.Read the full report here: https://beta.isdscotland.org/find-publications-and-data/population
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This Sun was my last day of >5 weeks of attending on our inpatient COVID teams @sloan_kettering. Caring for patients w COVID+cancer has been one of the most humbling experiences
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Some thoughts from planet science at this point in the pandemic. The first thing to note is that science is the exit strategy (@JeremyFarrar's great pithy phrase) - clinical science
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