#Prevalence

1/21 Sweden. This respiratory illness season's age adjusted all-cause mortality was significantly lower than both 2016/17 and 2017/18. Will our myopic focus on one cause of death optimize public health
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California banned outdoor dining in December. It was controversial.But there's an increasing evidence that the dining ban, along with the state's stay-at-home order, helped the state turn the corner on
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important study looking at pre-covid serum samples from the US and from sub saharan africa (SSA)it shows wide variance in pre existing cross-resistance, much stronger in SSAthis strongly supports:pre-existing resistancelasting
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Did you know:—in old-timey-times women got abortions w no constraints?—ads for abortion were so common in the 1800s they were blasé?—native women controlled their fertility & men had no say?Today's
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THREAD Covid and obesity. A 2012 BMJ Open study found that “Almost 60% of calories consumed in the period 2007–2012 came from ultra-processed foods. Consumption of ultra-processed foods was higher
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A thread about T2 diabetes for #WorldDiabetesDay I've been an NHS doctor for 19 years. During that time we've seen some amazing developments in diabetes care including some exciting technology
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1/ THREADI see a lot of misinterpretation/misuse of this set of 4 figures, and it's bugging me. (spoiler: it's the ORANGE figure that's causing the problem...) 2/ PURPLE: shows number
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In honour of Bisexuality Awareness week, heres some statistics about Bi week, why they matter and why we need to start funding/open more organisations for bisexuals. Open this thread or
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Top 20 of 2020 Thread: Has been a challenging year, but grateful to our research group that has worked hard, adapted and evolved to still push the field forward. This
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Type2 diabetes is on the CDCs list of covid comorbidities but Type1 is not. So I went through all the journal articles the CDC cites, expecting to see covid has
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At the start of the pandemic it was unclear whether infection with the novel coronavirus (#SARSCoV2) would lead to protective immunity, how long immunity would last, whether vaccines could be
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Some panic is setting in around Europe regarding the new mutant strain of #SARSCoV2 that has emerged in the UK.In this quick thread I'm going to review findings presented to
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Désolante tribune de Frédéric Jiguet, ornithologue réputé et reconnu du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, qui sort hélas de son rôle de scientifique pour se faire militant animaliste, avec toutes les approximations
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In reviewing the @dp4dc comments, something I'm noticing is a lot of people dismissing or undervaluing the privacy concerns we have with remote proctoringI'd like to use twitter expressly against
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A lot of people have asked why the CDC estimates close to 100M total US COVID-19 infections (28%) by Dec 1, while http://covid19-projections.com  only estimates 58M (17%).I believe there are
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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
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