#Symptoms

.@NC_Governor: Good afternoon, thank you for joining. We wanted to share some critical updates on North Carolina’s efforts to fight COVID-19. @NC_Governor: As of today, North Carolina has 3,426 confirmed
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The grim "lessons" I have drawn from this case include: If you are a victim, and you want to be believed, you must take care not to develop a mental
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FOUR thing we must do: 1. Test widely. That means every person in the country with pneumonia, every sick health care worker, every person in nursing homes, all contacts with
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Please do not hoard masks needed for those in healthcare. Please DO sew/Etsy one or wear a scarf/bandana/anything to cover your nose/mouth. People can shed virus about 48 hours before
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This upset a lot of people. So maybe I should explain what I mean. 1) We are currently attempting to live “with” Covid- with sustained community transmission and continued lifting
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Okay, this is #Lemming territory:First, read this quote from the freaking President of Notre Dame University - part of the "invincibility" behavior:(more like #GroupNoThink)If everyone tested negative, we're fine, right?See
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Hey y’all, I’m gonna take off my romance author hat for a second and put on my oncology pharmacist one. I (literally) write the book chapter on colon cancer and
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Yesterday, @nytimes published an article titled "Coronavirus Reinfections Are Real but Very, Very Rare."I wish this statement were true. But it is not only inaccurate, it may lead to dangerous
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“Acclaimed epidemiologist Prof Salim Abdool Karim will lead an investigation into the coronavirus outbreak at St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban.” “Netcare management yesterday moved swiftly to deny that medical staff
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WHY BEING FATIGUED IS NOT THE SAME AS BEING TIRED. I regularly hear the word “fatigue” being used interchangeably with the phrase “being tired”. It is a common misconception that
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A few non-ED phyisican friends are being re-deployed to take care of patients in ED. They want to help but are understandably apprehensive. They have questions. Here’s my 10 point
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THE PROBLEM OF TARA: AN EXHORTATION-------------------------------------------------"Concerning autism, the sassiest shitposters of the Twitter age have judged alike: it is no good. Recently and everywhere one has heard the same sound
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Dear friends, acquaintances, family, everybody. Today I need to ask for your help on behalf of my dear friend Diego. Unfortunately, Diego has been fighting COVID for more than a
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After claiming last month that cases weren't rising (when they clearly were) due to errors in how he calculated the positivity rates, @carlheneghan is now saying that "while detected cases
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Homophobia is a hazard to public health. In socially conservative South Korea, patrons of gay bars visited by a COVID-19 patient fear being stigmatized or fired if they seek tests
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This paper is being pitched in media accounts as evidence that COVID-19 causes heart irregularities in half of those infected.I'm skeptical.https://academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging/article/doi/10.1093/ehjci/jeaa178/5859292?searchresult=1 My
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