#Pneumonia

stuart mcdonald

ActuaryByDay

There’s been a bit of an unpleasant and inaccurate narrative over recent days that the majority of COVID-19 deaths were people who were “at death’s door” in any case. That

ChristosArgyropoulos

ChristosArgyrop

Let's analyze the dialysis case from yesterday. We need to know : a) the SAR (Secondary Attack Rate) of COVID19 for household transmission (pt had largely sheltered in, so could

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

1/17 What a week. Broader recognition of how serious the US failure is. Not enough action on what needs to get done. The virus has the upper hand and won’t

GeorgeJulian

GeorgeJulian

New @ScotLDO research looking at (premature) mortality rates of learning disabled children and young people. Gut churning stuff. Mortality rate 12 times higher for those who are learning disabled. 12

Dr Dominic Pimenta 💙 *Please* Just Stay At Home

DrDomPimenta

A thread about how COVID-deaths are recorded. (Full disclosure: I have personally written death certificates, and also overseen and investigated causes of death to countersign them, including COVID death certificates,

Danny Boy

Care2much18

Does anybody - at all - care about facts?No, Ireland do not have "the highest Covid infection rate for healthcare workers". I'll have to check again but we're not even

John Roberts

john_actuary

The latest update from @ICNARC on COVID intensive care activity has been published, summarised here on behalf of @COVID19Actuary. We've now passed a sobering milestone with more admissions (12,115) in

Lakshman Swamy

laxswamy

THREAD PART 3: COMPLICATIONS! Patient interpretations of ICU jargon @Saramerwin1 & I are writing for @CritCareGame- feedback welcome! Must be concise to fit on the cardsPt-centered clarity more important than

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

To really understand what is going on we have to start with this tweet of 6 months ago:https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1264146918927667200 What this means, is that ~ 50% of the population, with regional

H i s t o r yK E

HistoryKE

#HistoryKeThread MawingoThe name of Gabriel Prudhomme (pictured) wouldn’t ring familiar with most Kenyans. Not with many historians, either. But Gabriel was a European living in Kenya in the 1930s. He

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update June 23: Trump sees nothing but good news in the Coronavirus.Unlike other world leaders with better health & economic results who aim to limit death & economic loss

Kaitlyn Sadtler, PhD

KSadtler

By July of 2020, 16.8 million people in the US had #COVID19 -- and didn’t know it. Read our pre-print @medrxivpreprint (1/13)https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250570v1 We called out for volunteers that never

Milhouse Van Houten 😀

Milhouse_Van_Ho

What's suppressing Ontario's "second wave"? Cases (positive test results) are still at record highs despite weeks of new restrictions, yet ICU occupancy and daily new deaths are low.Signs point to

Dr Jenner’s House

DrJennersHouse

Welcome to...The Dr Jenner's House Vaccine Preventable Disease Advent CalendarOver the next 24 days we'll be telling you about 24 different infectious diseases, all of which can be prevented by

Joanna Poole 💙

Jopo_dr

Essential reading for intensivists: things you didn't even dream were going on in your ventilated patients' lungs. With credit to @robertpdickson who does some very clever translational work on lungs

Matt McCarthy

DrMattMcCarthy

UPDATE: COVID medicine has changed substantially over the past few months. The questions we're grappling with today are very different than the ones we were dealing with just a few

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