#Mortality

RiverRising

The12fthOfNever

Why opposition is trying to create a "vaccine scandal" -> 1. Canada maintains its AAA credit rating as Finance Minister prepares to present pandemic gap budget2. Pandemic infection+mortality rates spiralling

Kate Carpenter

katebcarp

I'm going to tweet some key moments from the #historiansimagine webinar, but I'm also told that the recording will be available in about a week, and that it's also being

Rupert Pearse

rupert_pearse

Routine NHS services under big pressure as COVID hospital admissions rise. We cancelled most surgery in the first wave including many cancer operations. Public, patient groups & doctors arguing strongly

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

There has been a lot of discussion of the Swedish approach to coping with the #COVID19 pandemic, and of whether their strategy of more voluntary restrictions and a more rapid

Jordan Schachtel

JordanSchachtel

The sunk cost fallacy explains a lot about where America & the world is at with the COVID situation right now. People just can't bring themselves to admit that COVID

Blair Gilmore

BlairGilmore13

Lots of interesting data in the StatCan database dealing with mortality. Here's the death counts for Canada & the Provinces.Few things jump out: 1) The usual pattern for death is

Major Trauma Service

UHCW_MTC

Bariatric trauma: a thread. Morbidly obese patients (BMI>40) have 6 x mortality after trauma. They have chest injury, pelvic #, extremity # and TBI or abdominal injury compared to

Daniel George

drdanielgeorge

A research team I’m part of just published data looking at the ‘diseases of despair’ crisis over the last decade (full article is free and available online). A brief summary

Aaron Ginn

aginnt

Japan's COVID strategy:1/ "Though many countries around the world have imposed substantial behavioral restrictions — so-called “lockdown” measures — while conducting massive testing and isolation, Japan has managed to contr

Katie Phang

KatiePhang

“...since Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign official with no medical or scientific background, was installed in April as the new HHS spokesperson, there have been substantial efforts to align

Jennifer Gunter

DrJenGunter

Well, actually. No.You are incredible uniformed or a liar. Which one is it?Neither here nor there really, because I am about to take you to school.https://twitter.com/repdlesko/status/1285295914509373442 First point @RepDLesko Medical

DocTalk

DocTalkSports

1/ Alright, this heady stuff even for me (@ProfDFrancis is a bit of a groundbreaker in the cardiac community, his work on biventric. pacemakers is next-level, really cool). He approaches

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

Up to now the most recommended action to take when a person exhibits COVID-19-like symptoms has been to quarantine until s/he develop serious respiratory problems, and then take them to

Don Robotham

dondee_don

An interesting question: why did a small country like JA have this outsized global cultural impact. Some thoughts: a) JA had most extensive oppressive large slave plantation regime; b) long

Michael Hobbes

RottenInDenmark

Weird how everyone with expertise in epidemiology, the CDC or the "damning" slide presentation in question doesn't agree with this account of events.https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1341866668528717824 This is the slide

Ember November - #WearTheDamnMask

ember_november

Hi @jkenney.My largest client just canceled 3 months of work with me, and several other contractors, because of Covid outbreaks.Remind me again how keeping everything open is better for the

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