ID physician and epidemiologist interested in global health/health disparities. Enjoy 🧗🎷. Opinions are my own. Retweets not endorsements.
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Alfonso Hernandez-Romieu retweeted
insightful commentary on #vulnerable populations including #Latinx for #COVID19 in #CID by @vcantosl and Paulina Rebolledo @EmoryInfectDis
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Nature.com on the long scientific path to developing today’s mRNA vaccines; marked by years of careful work, discoveries, and major milestones. h/t @EricTopol
nature.com/articles/s41578-0…
Alfonso Hernandez-Romieu retweeted
Congratulations to @CarlosdelRio7 for well deserved recognition of all the ways he leads in #publichealth #globalhealth @GradyHealth and @EmoryInfectDis
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A counterpoint to the alarm bells that are sounding over novel SARS-CoV-2 variants.
Is it possible that we are misinterpreting differences in human behavior as differences in the biological fitness of viral variants?
A thread to explain this hypothesis...
Alfonso Hernandez-Romieu retweeted
Latin America has some of the highest #COVID19 death rates in the world. Why? NEW Editorial discusses how the health crisis initiated by COVID-19 turned into a humanitarian crisis in the region that needs global attention hubs.li/H0zrkt30
Alfonso Hernandez-Romieu retweeted
VACCINE EFFICACY 101: A biostatistician's primer
Ten tweets to cover:
- How is vaccine efficacy calculated?
- Distinguishing between infection, disease, & severe disease.
- Measuring reduced infectiousness.
- Vaccine efficacy vs. effectiveness!
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Thanks @gsmartinmd for highlighting our work in @CritCareMed! journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/…
Time to intubation and HFNC were not associated with mortality in #COVID19. It was a pleasure to work with the whole team on this, esp @alfherrom @sauldy2
A brief explanation
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Conventional timing of intubation and use of high-flow nasal cannula is safe and effective in #COVID19
From @EmoryCCC @alfherrom @MaxAdelmanMD @MaxHockstein @CraigJabaley
@MCSCritCare @davidmurphymd
journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/…
Alfonso Hernandez-Romieu retweeted
Just one additional point - although I have been advocating a lot for distributed at home tests, my hospital life is as a medical director in a high complexity CLIA lab. I am not anti CLIA or qPCR. Just really see their downsides when used for wide scale public health testing.
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This piece is piercing.
It is beautifully written and heart-wrenchingly told. Please read it.
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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BREAKING: Risk of #COVID19 hospitalization in 77,590 persons with #HIV by antiretroviral type:
TDF/FTC: 10.5
TAF/FTC: 20.3
ABC/3TC: 23.4
Other: 20.0
per 10,000 (Febr-April 2020)
WANTED: Randomized trials of TDF/FTC (Tenofovir/Emtricitabine)
doi.org/10.7326/M20-3689
Alfonso Hernandez-Romieu retweeted
1/ A TaskRabbit contractor in San Antonio told me he stumbled onto a warehouse where people were repackaging non-medical Chinese masks so they could pass for medical use and be sold to Texas.
So began my latest journey into the world of COVID profiteers ..
Alfonso Hernandez-Romieu retweeted
Most common issues I see in scientific writing:
- Doesn’t explain why the problem is important.
- No clear takeaway message. (How would the reader explain it to a colleague?)
- Sentences too long/complex.
- Doesn’t offer intuition for results.
- Over-stated conclusions.
Alfonso Hernandez-Romieu retweeted
I think Trump is confusing COVID with Schrodinger’s cat - even if you aren’t looking for it, it most definitely still exists.
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Did we forget Sweden? Cuz I as sure haven’t. It was supposed to be that “miracle strategy” country the world should emulate. So here is the damn comparison with its Scandinavian neighbors (Norway best because they are formerly-conjoined sister countries).
Lesson: don’t do herd.
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This is an *amazing* reading list spanning 163 years of history. Heroic effort by Gillian in putting this together.
In this moment of painful and complex reckoning with the realities of ongoing racism a question that kept cropping up was: How did it come to this? To help answer that question, we compiled a century-and-half of @TheAtlantic’s writing about race in America theatlantic.com/education/ar…
