#NEJM

Ade Adamson, MD MPP

AdeAdamson

This tweet got a bit derailed by the attempted coup yesterday...but Gil Welch, @BenMazer and me in this week's @NEJM where we explain how UV exposure CAN'T explain the rapid

Nana

NanaYBrantuo

Sharing some information I’ve been gathering from Black medical professionals on #COVID19 (disparities, vaccines, etc.) Here is a love letter from the @BCAgainstCOVID, signed by Black medical professionals from across

Amanda

AmandaLuvsRoses

Critical theory is infecting everything. I’ve seen threads covering the impact on education (k-12 and university), the military, and the federal government. This thread is going to highlight the impact

Dr. Amy Tan-*Racism is a public health crisis*

AmyTanMD

#COVID19 has sadly been a masterclass in longstanding, entrenched systemic injustices and inequities, & how they harm pop'ns that these systems continue to make vulnerable.How do we engage those who

Laurie Garrett

Laurie_Garrett

ATTN: After easing lockdowns amid Holidays, PM #BorisJohnson today put much of the UK on strict lockdown: no Xmas, no NYsEve. In a mere week the number of #COVID19 cases

BIDMC Infectious Diseases Fellowship

BIDMC_IDFellows

1/Featuring some highlights from @douglaskrakower 's PEP/PrEP talk at the advanced STD intensive course today!Let's start with this pretty slide on antimicrobial STI ppx after exposureARE YOU READY for some

Yinon Weiss

yinonw

In science, observations drive conclusion. In politics, conclusions drive observations.A thread about masks. This is not advice not to wear a mask. It is simply sharing information. Share it before

Calling Bullshit

callin_bull

In science, people tend to be most interested in positive results — a manipulation changes what you are measuring, two groups differ in meaningful ways, a drug treatment works, that

Laura Henderson

SixandLaura

1/ The k value, the dispersion of the R0 among cases, is low in SARS-cov-2, as it was in SARS 110-20% of cases cause 80-90% of new infections. *7/10 cases

Lauring Lab

LauringLab

Excited to share our latest, out in @cellhostmicrobe. Great work by @alvalesano. This was a real team effort with major contributions from @mt2fus @famulare_mike many colleagues from @UVA_ID and @icddr_b

Kyle Lamb

kylamb8

Reminder what the "experts" had to say about the science of masking from ~March/April. A thread-1-Dr. Fauci A veritable feast from former CDC director Tom Friedman, written the first week

Newman Nahas

NahasNewman

1/ The most important evidence regarding pediatric transmission comes from Iceland, and their study published in NEJM. Be suspicious of any expert ignoring this paper and discussing anecdotes instead. https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NE

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 177Nice to re-start our Covid grand rounds today. Available here: https://tinyurl.com/yyw5myns . We covered a range of epi issues (the shape of the pandemic, changing mortality

balajis.com

balajis

Going viralWhat if this coronavirus is the pandemic that public health people have been warning about for years?It would accelerate many pre-existing trends.- border closures- nationalism- social isolation- preppers- remote

Eli Van Allen

VanAllenLab

Interested to see how the forthcoming data behind the ‘TMB > 10 in all cancer types’ approval addresses a few key issues, having spent a long time thinking about this

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

After ~10 months of relative quiescence we've started to see some striking evolution of SARS-CoV-2 with a repeated evolutionary pattern in the SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern emerging from the UK,

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