#EPIDEMIC

Latest @ICNARC report on intensive care admissions and outcomes was released last night.Report includes 10,421 patients, with outcomes for 9,995 of them.A quick summary. /1https://twitter.com/icnarc/status/1281694384417890312 Daily admissio
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Public health, Pandemic misery, Profit mindset: A thread Everyone is surprised that Covishield or AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine is priced under $3 despite the R&D cost. It is sad that people find
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#LongCOVID is real and bad.Here is one of the most extensive and comprehensive long term follow-up of COVID patients (3762 respondents) with long lasting symptoms/complaints.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.24.20248802v2 via
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Latest results from RECOVERY trial: Azithromycin does not benefit patients hospitalised with COVID-19No improvement in 28-day mortality, duration of hospital stay, or progression to invasive mechanical ventilation/ death.https://www.recover
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This review of vaccination of COVID19 by Prof Raina Macintyre @KirbyInstitute is required viewingWell worth 34 minutes of your time, but watch at 1.75 speed if you are in a
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it staggers me that we're still having this argument. the truth is utterly simple and perfectly clear:anyone who still speaks of "cases" as "proven" by a positive PCR test at
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China, Cuba, and COVID-19: How communists prioritized power, silencing whistleblowers like Dr. Li Wenliang, and plunged the world into a pandemic https://cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2021/02/china-cuba-and-covid-19-how-communists.html 1/
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To anyone who wonders about the difference between CPTSD and PTSD, it goes like this:Losing your leg in a bear trap is a traumatic experience that may lead to PTSD.Having
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It's almost as if the virus is working for Johnson. Brexit and Covid are merging. There is no way of keeping the stories separate. Sensible discussion is going to be
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We are at a Sliding Doors juncture in the epidemic, partly fueled by misconceptions. The signs today suggest this could be about to get a whole lot worse.How this goes
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Ivor Cummins has just released a new video: "CRUCIAL Viral Update Dec 7th - Europe and USA Explained!" and as usual it's more rubbish. I did a thread on Ivor
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2010 article by Nancy Tomes on the 1918 pandemic chock full of resistance by churches, businesses, & public, conflicts b/w govts over who had authority & whether to order closures
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This is what I think happenedJust my analysisTrump was never wanted by the GOPBut he came as such a surprise they were unable to prevent him from gaining the nomination
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2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the first Pride march in recognition of the Stonewall uprising of 1969. But Pride feels a little different this year. To mark the occasion,
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A lot of discussion recently about transmission dynamics, most of which are extrapolated from viral loads & estimates. What does contact tracing/community testing data tell us about actual probability of
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Our letter in the Lancet today - outlines key recommendations for a sustainable COVID-19 strategy within the UK.https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32350-3/fulltextThanks to @dgurdasani1 for pulling this all t
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