#EPIDEMIC

James Kelm

jameskelm

Marking #WorldAIDSDay during the second pandemic I’ve experienced is a particularly strange experience. I came of age shortly before the advent of protease inhibitors, which transformed HIV from a death

Katie Herzog

kittypurrzog

I got surprisingly little pushback from my piece in Andrew Sullivan's newsletter from a few weeks ago. I really thought this one was going to explode some heads but every

David Fisman

DFisman

One last tweet for today...But I don't think the conceptualization risk-benefit with vaccines has ever been stated more clearly than by Ben Franklin. He had a son (Franky Franklin) who

Dan Diamond

ddiamond

SCOOP: HHS to get rid of the “X” waiver that limited which doctors could prescribe buprenorphine for opioid addiction.Physicians have clamored for this as opioid epidemic worsened. https://subscriber.politicopro.com/health-care/whiteboa

Saint Andrew

AndyMineo

Been watching this show “alone” w my wife. Definitely some lessons in here. 1. If it’s too difficult. Completely nightmare & no hope, people tap out. Naturally. 2. If it’s

Joel Smalley

RealJoelSmalley

Do interventions control the spread of SARS-CoV-2? If you believe that, I think you might have a hard time explaining why every European country from Germany and Switzerland to the

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. A thread on why we want to #FlattenTheCurve.Elsewhere, I've strongly endorsed the movement to flatten the curve, and with help from @k_thos have developed data graphics that illustrate the

Tara Ann Thieke

TaraAnnThieke

What the hell is the point of the world being your oyster if you have no pearl, no home? Why do we teach children that the goal is status and

katemessner

KateMessner

Usually, by the time a long-standing book series winds down, both the author and publisher are feeling ready to move on to other projects. But readers? Readers are another story....

(((Caitlin Hollander)))

effortlesslycat

(THREAD: 1/5) As a #genealogist, you have to be fairly emotionally insulated against tragedy. Otherwise, we'd all lose our minds early on, between high infant mortality rates, genocides, and epidemics.

Lucy Bernholz

p2173

Just had an amazing chat with a colleague within a foundation. They're talking about "post covid"... 1/x I said to them, "post covid?" 1st - until/unless every person in every

Richard Chu

richard_chu97

Bullish on the future of wearables in healthcareConsumer tech like smartwatches are showing promise in predicting COVID before symptoms showImagine a future where our health is continuously monitored, helping affected

C.Create

MylesFrancesca

I am finding myself increasingly frustrated with the cost of clinical placements. Ignoring financial instability of lockdowns, supervision on top of fees, personal therapy, books, memberships.. is making me seriously

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

Can we talk about the knock-on effects of #COVID19, yet?Provisional counts for drug overdose deaths in the US show an 18% increase - primarily #opioid-related - from May 2019-May 2020...

Hasnain Raza.

sasta_weeknd

WHY PORN SHOULD BE BANNED COMPLETELY:1. Porn can turn people into walking zombies :Now, we’re not saying that watching porn is going to turn someone into a flesh-eating, walking zombie.

Nick Hudson

NickHudsonCT

A quick summary thread on where we are:1. Public health guidelines, in the WHO's case, refreshed in late 2019, ruled out lockdowns & most of the mandated NPIs being deployed.2.

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