#Severe

Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

xandvt

If you’re frustrated by this lockdown it is worth remembering that there is an alternative. Our country has had a year to build an effective system for testing to identify

Dr David Berger #CovidIsAirborne STOP KILLING HCWs

YouAreLobbyLud

1/ Australian Academy of Science Press Release at 20.40 on Jan 14th"statement on the pandemic, vaccines and misinformation"A 'suck-up to government', incorrect press release. I'll show you how @Science_Academy itself

Meg Tirrell

megtirrell

Novavax gives us first vaccine efficacy data we’ve seen against B117 (UK) and B1351 (South Africa) variants, from trial results just reported.In UK the news is good: 89% efficacy in

Uri Shalit

ShalitUri

As we all know COVID-19 hospitalizations have taken a heavy toll on many healthcare systems. In our new work we try to quantify how heavier patient loads might lead to

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

drsanjaygupta

@JNJNews has officially submitted for emergency use authorization with the FDA. Last week we got the results for its Phase 3 Covid-19 vaccine trial. Here’s a thread on what we

Eric Topol

EricTopol

Back in September, we wrote a @nytopinion on the need to focus on severe infection events prevented by Covid-19 vaccineshttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/opinion/covid-vaccine-coronavirus.htmlYesterday JNJ presented their Phase 3 data stre

Yoong

yoongkhean

Ku Li should read about how vaccines work before releasing statements like this, which can be damaging if public refuse to get vaccinated or have vaccine hesitancy.First, any vaccine’s aim

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

@JNJNews vaccine results are in! While not as efficacious as Pfizer or Moderna it’s still great news—it was 85% efficacious at preventing severe disease requiring hospitalization. Not a “knockout punch”

Kevin Sabet

KevinSabet

There is no doubt we need to overhaul the way we treat addiction in this country. People should not be jailed for their addictions. THREAD https://www.newsweek.com/four-takeaways-after-more-states-legalize-marijuana-opinion-1546900 But beca

Caroline Allen

CarolineLDNvet

This story is a microcosm of why I left private vet practice. The final straw was a morning surgery in which 3 brachycephalic dogs (frenchies/pugs) presented in severe pain with

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

1/ This paper is the first significant evidence that recent infection with a common cold coronavirus could have a functional cross protective effect against severe COVID-19. “Recent endemic coronavirus infection

Nicky Whiffin

nickywhiffin

Super excited to share our new preprint!Using exome sequencing data from ~10k patients with severe developmental disorders (DD) from the DDD project we decipher 3 distinct mechanisms through which ‘non-coding’

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Ok, let's do thought experiment. Why is #COVID-19 terrible and wreaked havoc? Because it can cause severe disease in some (vulnerable) unlike its cousins- the coronaviruses that cause colds. Say

💧Vince O'Grady

vogrady2132

As a result of listening to The ABC News breakfast this morning and the complete mischaracterisation of the Victorian second wave and the inane questions asked by the stand in

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

Even if everyone follows the new restrictions over Christmas, it still isn't enough. Modelling showed that if 50% of us meet one other household the R number will increase by

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Wonderful news about the Johnson&Johnson vaccine! Let me explain (and also let me tell you I was just on an interview with Dr. Paul Offit, who believes - like me-

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