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Medscape: Unexpected Results in New COVID-19 'Cytokine Storm' Data

Moved from the post Covid thread. So, this feels a bit gossipy but The Guardian is reporting that Boris Johnson appears to still be having significant problems post-COVID19: [Personal editorial note: Why is it we can recognize this is true about horses but not about people? But I...

So, what's the benefit of a FitBit over a good ol' fashioned pedometer? I would think pedometers would be cheaper and avoid all the arm-waving. ;) I've been using a pedometer clipped to my underwear for years now. While it's not perfect (urinary urgency can make me jiggle my legs a lot), it's...

Here in my state of Oregon, the Oregon Health Authority reported at the end of July: While the situation is better than it was in March, my understanding is that testing capacity remains a problem throughout much of the United States, especially in states mentioned by @anciendaze .

Along with the well-reasoned theories already given, I'd say that nobody goes into medicine so they can tell their patients "I don't know what's wrong with you and there's nothing I can do to help you." I would think that ME represents everything clinicians most want to avoid in medicine: a...

For those who, like me, might be interested in the social historical contexts to epidemics and where SARS-Co-V-2 fits within them, you might find this long-ish piece from the Boston Review interesting: As they point out, HIV, polio, and TB (which @Jonathan Edwards has spoken about here from...

And...how do they plan to enforce this? What's to stop hospitals from just ignoring this directive and giving CDC the info anyway? ETA: Here's a WaPo story explaining this change in reporting, "[HHS general counsel Robert P.] Charrow was asked whether this course of action was legally viable...

Perhaps someone can tweet this to Dr. Paul Garner? I'm sure he'd love to have the RCP tell him to exercise right now. ;) Seriously, though, he sounds like he might be a good ally on this.

From Medscape: "For Experts Who Study Coronaviruses, a Grim Vindication"

I've been using plastic-coated twist ties in the masks that I've made. They seem to be working, though maybe not as well as the metal clips you can buy at Amazon or eBay. My home care worker has been washing the masks I've made her pretty frequently and they seem to be holding up. I just...

LOL - but as an epidemiologist, the more pertinent question would be, is it probable?

Scientists say a now-dominant strain of the coronavirus appears to be more contagious than original Particularly interesting given earlier discussions on this thread and others about the virus mutating. Scary.

Like @Michiel Tack in the Medscape CME thread, I'm baffled that the same guy who authored that CME--which is quite good--could have authored this piece of crap. WTF?!! Does Merck have some agenda that Medscape does not? I'm so confused by this.

Guardian: More cases of rare syndrome in children reported globally (link)

Science Magazine: Pepcid for COVID-19?:

Medscape: The Great Invader: How COVID-19 Attacks Every Organ

Medscape: Beaches, Lakes, and Ponds: Is COVID-19 in the water?

A really interesting -- and old -- piece in the New York Review of Books about an outbreak of cholera in Hamburg in the 1890s in which the intersection of politics, economics, and medicine created a public health catastrophe. Eerie similarities to how governments are grappling with COVID19. What...

So way way way upthread (like, maybe 50 pages ago??), I asked why the U.S. didn't just using the WHO test that others were using. For a couple of weeks I've come across various explanations for why we don't have enough tests such as this one in the Atlantic, this one at the New York Times, or...

As there is no central process for deciding what sort of ME research will be done, and if you're a social scientist whose work involves gender studies, it makes perfect sense to me that if you're interested in ME you might use whatever resources you have access to to examine how gender affects...