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    Curious — Thoughts on Franklin?

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    Thread on testing & treatment research for COVID-19

    ACEP-AAEM Joint Statement on Physician Misinformation Joint Statement issued on April 27, 2020: The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) jointly and emphatically condemn the recent opinions released by Dr. Daniel Erickson and Dr...
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    18 months after the car collision

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    Thread on testing & treatment research for COVID-19

    What a fantastic question. I have that question too. We. Have. No. Idea. The answer matters. A lot. Hopefully the answer is very, very, very many.
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    Thread on testing & treatment research for COVID-19

    Good question. First, we need for it to be embraced across all levels of the public and private sectors. There is still way too much interference and resistance to widespread testing. Which is just so foolish. I could go on a rant but won't. Private sector is all over this. There are dozens of...
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    Thread on testing & treatment research for COVID-19

    I'm an exec at one of the larger global medical information and education orgs and have access to a lot of clinical data, research, and medical thought leaders. My significant other is part of senior leadership at a large healthcare system and she has access to what is happening on the front...
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    Thread on testing & treatment research for COVID-19

    That's the problem with the testing. On a per-capita basis we're very low because capacity still isn't there. Very frustrating. Latest study indicates that POSSIBLY as low as 1.5% of cases have been confirmed in the US. I'm having trouble swallowing that (it would mean north of 30 million cases...
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    Thread on testing & treatment research for COVID-19

    #1 - We need to have serological testing on a massive scale to see how widespread our exposure has been, and who has some level of immunity. Best news on several levels would be if it was far more widespread than we can currently confirm. #2 - We need to continue testing recovered patients over...
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    Will you get the COVID-19 vaccine when it is available?

    Yes, there are two strains, good point. Overall, it's (we think) relatively stable in the ways that lead to the need for multiple vaccines. Not like influenza A which has over a hundred known sub-clades. Anything could happen but what we know points to a virus we can handle with a vaccine much...
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    Will you get the COVID-19 vaccine when it is available?

    Absolutely. I'm getting a serological test as soon as they are widely available so I can understand whether I have already been an asymptomatic case. I know that Jefferson here in the SEPA area and others are doing extensive testing of recovered individuals to determine how long immunity lasts...
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    My opinion.

    Sure, you can find fairly comprehensive documentation through publicly available information https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/emergency-situations-medical-devices/faqs-diagnostic-testing-sars-cov-2
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    My opinion.

    Aw man, I don't even know where to start with this. So many misperceptions and inaccuracies in one post. False positives are relatively low with the current tests; false negatives are the greater concern. You've completely misrepresented the process for testing and approvals, or I should say...
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    My opinion.

    You and I can agree that the psychology of denying the crisis is very clear. Some folks HAVE to live in denial of this, as a coping strategy. Which gives them the added benefit of having someone to be angry at about it. It's not helpful to society but is very important to that individual. It is...
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    What is/ was the age of the oldest person you’ve ever known?

    When I was in high school, late 1980's, I had the opportunity to sit and have a conversation with a woman who was living on the Pine Ridge Reservation when the Wounded Knee Massacre happened. She was a small child back then, and close to 100 when we spoke. Nobody was exactly sure of when she was...
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    My opinion.

    Swine flu was a resurgence of the H1N1 strain which was so deadly in 1918-1919. First time around it killed over 50 million globally and the world sure as hell did burn. We don't want that again. Fortunately, the second time around there was fairly good herd immunity in the adult population and...
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    My opinion.

    Confirmation bias and denial are very strong protective mechanisms in the human brain. Most people have come around to realize the gravity of the threat, but not everyone is going to. Those that haven't come around by now probably will not ever. As long as they don't hurt the rest of us I've...
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    My opinion.

    Over 200 in the lat 24 hours. The original post in this thread has officially not aged well. There's still a lot we don't know, but the best case scenario continues to worsen
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    Coronavirus Thread (Merged)

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    Infectious disease Doc on Rogan today

    That will help protect you from a secondary lung infection from opportunistic organisms that take advantage of a weakened respiratory system caused by more serious cases of COVID-19, but will not prevent a primary lung infection from SARS-CoV-2
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    Fans Stay Home

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