#Mortality

Margaret and Helen 🌎

HelenPhilpot

Dear Lord everyone. I need you to help me spread this message. People are spreading false information about the number of COVID deaths and Americans are believing it. Thread... Hospitals

David Dowdy

davidwdowdy

In the past week, COVID cases have fallen in the majority of countries across the globe (see below for weekly change). But not all countries are locked down.A thread on

Michael George

Mike_aka_Logiqx

This thread considers the headline COVID-19 figures (hospitalisations and deaths) in the context of community prevalence.It also covers “died with COVID, not of COVID” and the plausibility of high “false

John Roberts

john_actuary

An interesting, often asked, and very reasonable question is regarding the level of forward displacement (ie how many people would have died soon anyway.) Let's take a look using the

Andrew Bostom, MD, MS

andrewbostom

1/ Incoming Chair of Microbio & Immun, Tel Aviv U: “History will judge the hysteria” Sweden correct, draconian lockdowns wrong, & caused “ongoing destruction” & “inability to admit this mistake,

Rev. Miranda

revmirandah

Okay. Re: Ash Wednesday. I’m going to delete my other thread, because I definitely have a goal of never writing anything that about which someone could reasonably ask, did Covid

Ewen Harrison

ewenharrison

@GlobalSurg 3: Global variation in postoperative mortality & complications after cancer surgery, published in @TheLancet16K patients underwent surgery across 82 countries.Better postoperative care & facilities could significantly im

Alan Levinovitz

AlanLevinovitz

Myopic focus on mortality and hospitalization rates downplays the harms of COVID-19. There are people who tough it out at home but can’t care for their children or do their

Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)

jeremyfaust

This Spring, I noticed my colleague @Cleavon_MD tweeting about young people dying of COVID.Many people of color.I wondered if these sad cases were statistical anomalies. Must be that these were

PLC

Humble_Analysis

Four days ago, Oxford University published a report on US state government responses to Covid-19, showing a wide divergence in relative stringency with that divergence growing over time as 1/2

Jonathan Engler 😀

jengleruk

Doesn't @RCPath have anything to say on this? Even if it is to rule out what looks obvious.Why are we seeing:- moderately elevated all-cause mortality- mirrored excess in Covid deaths

Dr. Simon ツ

goddeketal

16/ One of the main measures is #StayHome . Social pressure, policies and fear make people stay inside most of the time. Both a lack of sun exposure and social

Joel Smalley

RealJoelSmalley

I saw @wesstreeting getting hysterical on the back of a question from a bedwetter in @bbcquestiontime last night. He dribbled all the usual nonsense out including overhwhelmed hospitals and "long

Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)

jeremyfaust

No time to write threads lately, but I must now.A 41-year old Congressman-elect from Louisiana has died of COVID-19.But this kind of thing has been happening all along.This is the

Roman Link

RomanMLink

Please check out the preprint of my upcoming shared first-author paper with Peter Hajek. We studied the death of thousands of young trees in a tree diversity experiment during the

AJ Kay

AJKayWriter

This NYT article cites staffing shortages—not bed availability—as the primary reason SoCal hospitals are full.What they fail to mention is that mandated school closures are estimated to have removed at

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