Matthew Parish

lab rat, med student, liberal, CLE sports, caffeine-dependent & sleep-deprived, loathe pseudoscience/quackery

[Matthew Parish @mparish243]

William Osler (the eminently quotable father of modern medicine)

[Brianna Keilar @brikeilarcnn]

Across the country, election workers and officials risked their health so Americans could vote during a coronavirus spike. Tonight, many are in quarantine after being exposed to the virus.

[Ed Yong is not here @edyong209]

🚨🚨Here’s the big piece I’ve been promising: an Atlantic cover story about the US’s catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic. It’s a full autopsy of what went wrong, every unattended weakness & unheeded warning, every festering wound & reopened scar. 1/

https://t.co/568JBktc7M

[JAMA @JAMA_current]

The 1925 novel Arrowsmith tells of early interest in quinine derivatives for treatment of plague, and we read about the same rush to recommend them before adequate testing. It is humbling to realize history repeats itself and we haven't learned its lessons https://t.co/GXyMttZnVY

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Breaking via WaPo: Dozens of Secret Service officers and agents on site for Trump's Tulsa rally have been ordered to self-quarantine after two of their colleagues tested positive for coronavirus⁠—part of the fallout from Trump's insistence on the event. https://t.co/m1lMO93XLB

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Former DIA Director: Please, take your knee off our necks so we can breathe | Task & Purpose https://t.co/WNVtRp9Diq

[nature @Nature]

Recent NEJM and Lancet retractions: “This whole event is catastrophic — it is problematic for the integrity of science, it is problematic for medicine, and it is problematic for the notion of clinical trials and evidence generation.” #hydroxychloroquine
https://t.co/Wwv9lyge0L

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I know the past few months have been hard and dispiriting. But watching the heightened activism of young people makes me hopeful. And if we can keep channeling our justifiable anger into peaceful, sustained, and effective action, this can be the moment when real change starts.

[Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦 @Neuro_Skeptic]

Reasons to Worry Less About the Explosion of Preprints, by @hildabast https://t.co/bbtri7C4Y7 With no preprints, dodgy research could just go straight to a predatory journal, which would delay it by a matter of days. Or, sadly, it might make it into a legitimate journal.

[Matthew Parish @mparish243]

https://t.co/Pt25rzAJgQ

[Allison Wrabel @craftypanda]

So you’re saying we just have to make it to February?

[Dr. Tara C. Smith @aetiology]

My latest @SELFmagazine: what's up with the "person tested negative & then was reinfected with coronavirus" stories? A: probably nothing. Thanks to @angie_rasmussen and @TheMenacheryLab for chatting! https://t.co/qnivZauP5G

[Josh Walker @Josh_Waka]

@RadNucPhD @HenningWillers @rweichselbaum @MohammadKhanMD @subatomicdoc What is the evidence that we won’t deplete everything except for alveolar macs and make the symptoms worse? Some minimal animal data to demonstrate a plausible mechanism seems like a prerequisite for this study. 2/2

[Brandon Dyer @BrandonADyer]

@rweichselbaum @MohammadKhanMD Would love to hear the statistical justification for 5 patient enrollment and how you will *try* and figure out if the intervention did anything. With great potential for confounding factors and a single arm intervention I am shocked this made it through an IRB.

[David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon]

@palmd @Dr_al_assadi @MohammadKhanMD He’s citing 100 year old experience treating bacterial pneumonia pre-antibiotics era. No preclinical data at all. No IRB in the planet souls approve this.🙄

[Holly G @_love_holly_]

“Just visiting family” is why my aunt is in the hospital on a ventilator barely alive. Why is this not clicking for yall?

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

Yesterday I tweeted criticism of Trump, and I dropped a F bomb. Some have complained in the replies about how this vulgar display of uncontrolled emotion, as well as me expressing my political opinions, hurts my credibility.

My response? Fuck that.
https://t.co/KMj7KcjT7v

[The Darkest Timeline Numbersmuncher @NumbersMuncher]

Average deaths per year from the flu (past 9 years) in the US: 37,461

Deaths from coronavirus in just the last ~6 weeks after incredible lockdowns/isolation across the country: 40,000+

There are not strong enough words for the idiots who keep screaming this is "just the flu."

[Jon Cohen @sciencecohen]

A stunning tour of how the novel coronavirus damages different parts of the body. Great graphic by Val Altounian, too.

https://t.co/8cj8cSBQ5K

[Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. @neoavatara]

@morningmika @Oprah @DrPhil @DrOz Her voice is the reason we have those two clowns in the first place.