Yes, most people are vaccinated, but COVID — “I think it’s here to stay,” says Corey Monroe from Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates. So he and others keep reaching out, addressing fears, connecting people to resources. Hear how they do it: https://t.co/HaPlIeq9SG
— Civic (@sfcivic)
Oct 23, 2021
from http://twitter.com/sfcivic
Classic epidemiology of respiratory viruses. If you thought kids didn’t contribute to transmission you were misinformed. https://t.co/gEFiyfFybw
— Eli Perencevich, MD MS🧼 😷 (@eliowa)
Oct 23, 2021
from http://twitter.com/eliowa
Of all the groups pushing back on vaccine mandates, the police might be most surprising. As I understand it, enforcing reasonable limitations on individual liberties in the name of keeping their community safe is kinda the essence of their profession. https://t.co/Y1dJ0kiDmD
— Bob Wachter (@Bob_Wachter)
Oct 23, 2021
from http://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter
My 17yr old daughter just said “if one person dies from a prop gun in a movie set, everyone talks about its safety relentlessly but when kids die from mass shootings in schools, it’s not a big deal. It’s unbelievable💔” – how about no one should die from gun violence?
— mAki (@barefootchic)
Oct 23, 2021
from http://twitter.com/barefootchic
MrsAware: do I have to wear real pants or are sweats ok?
me: it’s still COVID, sweat pants are real pants
MrsAware: everyone else isn’t acting like it’s still COVID
me: that’s why it’s still COVID
— Seth Trueger (@MDaware)
Oct 22, 2021
from http://twitter.com/MDaware
If anyone ever asks you what Twitter is like, you can show them this tweet and and they’ll understand as well as if they’d been here a decade. https://t.co/LnapByqisG
— Eric Nelson (@literaryeric)
Oct 22, 2021
from http://twitter.com/literaryeric
At #UCSFMHP2021: takehomes from @MonicaGandhi9 & G. Rutherford’s Covid updates:
1) Boosters now key; waning is v. real
2) Don’t know duration of post-infection immunity, but can’t count on it
3) Oral antivirals=big deal & will improve
4) Pandemic will get better but won’t go away— Bob Wachter (@Bob_Wachter)
Oct 22, 2021
from http://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter
Devoid of context, the Rangers’ tweet seemed like a benign statement against bullying, no?
But by removing all mention of LGBTQ+ youth from an initiative specifically aimed at helping that group, they doubled down on a persistent and outdated message. https://t.co/gVt0tKs9Xb
— Levi Weaver (@ThreeTwoEephus)
Oct 22, 2021
from http://twitter.com/ThreeTwoEephus
COVID Update: Vital. We now have enough vaccines to vaccinate every adult in the globe by the end of the year.
Everything we have should go towards getting those into arms ASAP— particularly with some troubling hints of new mutations. 1/
— Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉 (@ASlavitt)
Oct 22, 2021
from http://twitter.com/ASlavitt
29 million people in the U.S. are uninsured.
17 million of them are eligible for Medicaid or a health plan on the ACA marketplaces.
At @HLTHEVENT #HLTH2021 yesterday, I spoke with @CMSGov Chief @BrooksLaSureCMS about getting more people covered.
https://t.co/XTayF0EWUV— Zeke Emanuel (@ZekeEmanuel)
Oct 21, 2021
from http://twitter.com/ZekeEmanuel
The 1st randomized trial of a booster (3rd) shot in 10,000 people, placebo-controlled, shows 95.6% efficacy, with 5 cases (Pfizer vaccine) vs 109 in placebo group, Delta variant, broad benefit across age groups https://t.co/TQpF35d8Jk https://t.co/3RkqvXNfsU
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol)
Oct 21, 2021
from http://twitter.com/EricTopol
#SeditionHunters have worked for months to understand the order & organization under the seeming chaos of the Capitol attack. New analysis suggests: U.S. democracy hung by a thread for critical minutes. And we owe an immense debt to the men and women who fought to preserve it. 1/ https://t.co/qmdjUhTlkt
— capitolhunters (@capitolhunters)
Oct 21, 2021
from http://twitter.com/capitolhunters
Some news: OSHA has informed S.C., Ariz., and Utah that they intend to take over workplace safety enforcement in those states, b/c the states haven’t implemented COVID safety regs for health care workers. It’s a big deal, and a preview of the looming vax fight. I’ll explain. 1/x
— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson)
Oct 19, 2021
from http://twitter.com/jamieson
All US regions–hi & lo vax–now have similar case rates. Delta’s hi Ro is likely creating relatively = population immunity (⬆vax/⬇cases≊⬇vax/⬆cases). If so, problem is ⬆vax regions will get boosters, while places w/ hi case-derived immunity will get progressively vulnerable. https://t.co/oZXUlWJ72J
— Bob Wachter (@Bob_Wachter)
Oct 19, 2021
from http://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter
Glad the @US_FDA is giving thumbs up to mix-and-match.https://t.co/pW6ce65URV Particularly for J&J recipients, it’s the right call. For Pfizer/Moderna, it offers a bit more flexibility, without much evidence of a meaningful difference. Overall, nice to see the FDA moving faster.
— Bob Wachter (@Bob_Wachter)
Oct 18, 2021
from http://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter
.@ZekeEmanuel on Gen. Powell death due to Covid complications: “Colin Powell had three important risk factors for Covid. One is his age, 84. He’s at the very high end, and we know those people are much more vulnerable. Second, he had cancer, and third…” (1/2) #AMRstaff
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports)
Oct 18, 2021
from http://twitter.com/mitchellreports
Something special is happening in Barcelona. It started last month when some parents organized a bike ride to school for just five kids. Now entire neighborhoods are joining. They call it Bicibús – or Bike Bus. https://t.co/qIxsQEervG
— Zach Klein (@zachklein)
Oct 18, 2021
from http://twitter.com/zachklein
Yes, Colin Powell was vaccinated. But he also had blood cancer, which devastates the immune system.
What his tragic death illustrates isn’t the futility of vaccines but the importance of everyone else getting vaccinated to protect society’s most vulnerable.
— Tim Requarth (@timrequarth)
Oct 18, 2021
from http://twitter.com/timrequarth
According to the @CDCgov seatbelts reduce the chance that a front seat passenger will die in a collision by 45%. Vaccines reduce the chance of dying from COVID by 1100%. 49 states mandate seatbelts. Why don’t more states mandate COVID vaccines?
— Jonathan Reiner (@JReinerMD)
Oct 18, 2021
from http://twitter.com/JReinerMD
I agree it’s really interesting how AY.4 took off in the UK, whereas here in the US it started going up but then declined or remained about the same, will need to watch this closely, this from https://t.co/3cUD4uW0ID https://t.co/H0QAl8U67L https://t.co/8YtNmLexhk
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez)
Oct 17, 2021
from http://twitter.com/PeterHotez
NEW: there’s been a lot of chatter about why cases, hospitalisations and deaths are much higher in the UK than elsewhere in Western Europe.
I think a lot of the commentary has been overly simplistic, politicised and at-times flat-out wrong.
Let’s see if we can do better:
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch)
Oct 17, 2021
from http://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch
A lovely, fair-minded, nuanced portrait of the amazing @MonicaGandhi9. I have no idea how she does all she does. Whatever it is, it’s always driven by passion, empathy, & science. We disagree at times, but that’s fine – I always learn from her. I’m proud she’s my @UCSF colleague. https://t.co/pXN5J9ZbCN
— Bob Wachter (@Bob_Wachter)
Oct 17, 2021
from http://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter
In case you needed any reason to support the Red Sox this year. https://t.co/3G2K88PWx3
— David A. Bell (@DavidAvromBell)
Oct 17, 2021
from http://twitter.com/DavidAvromBell
Charcuterie boards ain’t shit but bougie Lunchables
— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot)
Oct 17, 2021
from http://twitter.com/michaelharriot
Great summary by @HelenBranswell and @matthewherper of today’s meeting
The idea of “one and done” for J&J or boosting it only with J&J (rather than mixing with mRNA as 2nd dose) didn’t go over well today https://t.co/0CPRi4I1Bl https://t.co/ZvVY9C2baV— Eric Topol (@EricTopol)
Oct 15, 2021
from http://twitter.com/EricTopol
New #CDC data shows #unvaccinated adults have a:
6 times risk of testing positive
19 times risk of hospitalization
11 times risk of dying from COVID
Compared to #FullyVaccinated adults in the US.Joining @AnaCabrera at the 1PM hr EST on @cnn
— Saju Mathew MD MPH (@drsajumathew)
Oct 15, 2021
from http://twitter.com/drsajumathew
This is 8 hours of an astronaut floating in a colorful galactic sea accompanied by ambient music. Relaxing and mesmerizing. https://t.co/BA8JA3QVVZ
— kottke.org (@kottke)
Oct 15, 2021
from http://twitter.com/kottke
Elegant scientific work attempting to quantify the full complement of immunity generated after Covid vaccination. Among the many intriguing findings, “vax generates memory B cells that are better at cross-binding variants than infection at 6 months.” https://t.co/MnoupRjj6D
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD)
Oct 15, 2021
from http://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD
Today’s @UCSF Medical Grand Rounds – my conversation with @ashishkjha – was all you’d expect: smart, engaging, authentic, nuanced, practical, and fun. I called Ashish the Walter Cronkite of Covid, and I meant it. Well worth a watch. https://t.co/R5ZDRV5Yl5
— Bob Wachter (@Bob_Wachter)
Oct 14, 2021
from http://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter
Sooner or later, being a country of dumbfucks was gonna catch up with us.
https://t.co/xsu97j69X8
— Dave Pell (@davepell)
Oct 14, 2021
from http://twitter.com/davepell