#NEJM

Matt McCarthy

DrMattMcCarthy

UPDATE: A #coronavirus patient is considered contagious as long as they carry "replication-competent" virus. Based on limited CDC data, patients with severe immune impairment are thought to be contagious for

Deepta Bhattacharya

deeptabhattacha

Tangent: this study estimates the natural inoculum at only a few thousand infectious viruses. https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/12/573/eabe2555 Other estimates using different methods have landed in the same ballpark. https://www.medrxiv.o

Ms Love

mslove_TLB

TO THE SCIENCE WE GO!Why #Masks are useless & harmful. THREAD: #Covid1984 New England Journal of Medicine"We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any,

Matthew Herper

matthewherper

So, contrary to things I'm seeing on Twitter, $GILD has NOT shown a mortality benefit for remdesivir this morning. It's suggested one, and that's very different.PR: https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-releases

RealScientists | Counts

realscientists

We didn't create the Chain of Survival overnight, in fact it's taken centuries of innovation to make it from flogging patients or rolling them on wine barrels to high performance

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

There's a lot of talk about 'preserving healthcare' as a primary goal of pandemic management. That's not wrong, but it begs the question of what exactly we mean by 'preserving

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Some of the replies to this have made it clear people still think Covid tests are all painful, and would avoid them. That's *not true*. Thisis a swab for a

David Fisman

DFisman

I want to follow up on a thread I started but abandoned last night. I have been working on clinical prediction rules that predict death in folks with identified covid

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Today's announcement of ~95% efficacy in the @moderna_tx #COVID19 vaccine trial is amazing, auspicious news. 1/8https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/16/modernas-covid-19-vaccine-is-strongly-effective-early-look-at-data-show/ This coupled wi

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

I am going to make time later today to please write out the history of measles to this group as I think it will be illustrative. We do not test

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

Anaphylactic reactions may be more likely with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines than other traditional vaccines (1 in 100,000 vs. 1 in 1,000,000); likely a reaction to carrier used to protect RNA

Raghu Chivukula, MD PhD

chivukula_raghu

Trying again without typos:(1/n) While COVID-19 is indeed a humbling disease, this image almost certainly represents a measurement artifact rather than "happy" or "silent" anything.https://twitter.com/srrezaie/status/129

Gege

Pomquat

1/3 This news today abt how #TrumpKnew is troubling on a few levels.1: Trump should have trusted the American ppl to handle a crisis (see 9/11) & told us what

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:If a public health goal is detecting infectious ppl:The most sensitive #COVID19 test in the world, if used rarely (ie 1x/month) is:much LESS sensitive and LESS effective than

State of Utah COVID-19 Response

UtahCoronavirus

How can we be sure the COVID-19 vaccine is safe, given how quickly the vaccine is being developed and submitted for approval by the FDA? THREAD 1. The U.S. national

Francisco Marty, MD

FranciscoMarty_

Updated the #RECOVERYtrial topline results summary table of the #dexamethasone arm compared to usual care for treatment of hospitalized patients with #COVID19.Got additional information colleagues shared in Twitter.Thread with some

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