#Fever

I’ve seen a lot of things over the last year about COVID tests and how we shouldn’t trust positive tests. Well don’t trust the negative ones either! I tested positive
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The BMJ tonight reporting:Doctors in Norway have been told to conduct more thorough evaluations of very frail elderly patients in line to receive the Pfizer BioNTec vaccine against covid-19, following
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Tips from an ICU nurse to treat (mild) COVID at home: a thread. First, purchase a pulse oximeter online or from your local drug store. There are several trustworthy brands
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Consider that decades of zombie movies have reinforced the idea of a pandemic being a binary thing: you either live, or you become a zombie. No in between. Zombie movies
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Happy #NationalWomenPhysiciansDay to my amazing female physician friends and colleagues who serve in medicine. Today honors the birthday of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree
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There's been a lot of talk of vaccine hesitancy/people waiting to get the vaccine "until it's been tested on more people." Here are the facts: [1/6] 2 vaccines have been
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In the unlikely event that you're like 19 and considering listening to professional revisionists like Paul Krugman: the US went fully out of its mind fascist for like three straight
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I'm just about ready to throw in the towel. This is a total casino. The way I see it, the world's wealthiest investors are sucking capital out of the system
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The first question is whether the right endpoints are being studied. Contrary to prevailing assumptions (including those of a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner8), none of the vaccine trials
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My thoughts re: today's news of the Pfizer/Biontech (thread):->43000 enrolled, but prelim data based on 94 instances of COVID infection, 90% of whom were in placebo group-this days after the
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To state the obvious: Part of the explanation why fever dream conspiracy theories are so rampant in the Catholic Church right now, is that many Catholics do not believe they
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Today 457 years ago, one of the greatest astronomers of all times, Galileo Galilei was born! Galil was born in February 15th, 1546 AD in Pisa, Italy, where he lived for
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Very positive vaccine news: Israeli HMO Maccabi reports just 20 positive coronavirus tests out of 128,000 people who had their second Pfizer shot a week or more ago. None of
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1/5 Lots of talk today about “being over the peak” and what that means for how quickly we can relax restrictions on social contact. But there are still 26,000 covid-19
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The US had more time & resources to prepare for COVID-19 than anyone & chose instead to let it spread beyond control. How that fact alone hasn’t brought things to
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Something to consider when comparing the school test positivity rate (which has been low) with the broader NYC test rate:The school rate only includes tests done in school. If you’re
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