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MMWR reports that hospitalizations were 6 times higher and deaths were 12 times higher when the COVID patient presented with comorbidities - the most common being cardiovascular disease (32%), diabetes (30%), and chronic lung disease (18%) https://t.co/JPynBcJYfR https://t.co/kiBEIV38Sg
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Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
3 years 10 months ago
FDA has revoked it's emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19. "CQ and HCQ are unlikely to be effective in treating COVID-19 for the authorized uses .... (and)..in light of ongoing serious cardiac adverse events and other serious AE" https://t.co/TrzJQVzsv7
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Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
3 years 10 months ago
It is also important that I recognise the critical role of the @ACRheum and @eular_org to @rheum_covid as well as many other supporting organisations. Their contributions have been instrumental. We now also have corporate sponsors. Thank you all https://t.co/T15q5OwTLK
Dr Philip Robinson @philipcrobinson ( View Tweet )
3 years 10 months ago
My brush with COVID- heart-breaking and inspirational. A story about Larry and Jessica. https://t.co/zZTmwcmRe0
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Dr. John Cush @RheumNow ( View Tweet )
3 years 10 months ago
The first randomized clinical trial of convalescent plasma in #COVID19, reported by Li et al in JAMA suggests that high titer antibody against #SARSCoV2 may have antiviral efficacy https://t.co/6YIib2GXGX
JAMA @JAMA_current ( View Tweet )
3 years 10 months ago
I'm really humbled by the amazing ongoing effort to collect cases for @rheum_covid. So many ppl are working tirelessly to help including the steering committee, patients & the pt board, contrib. rheums & the CASC. Please continue to contribute cases. Thank you 🙏 https://t.co/cK4FZXquMp
Dr Philip Robinson @philipcrobinson ( View Tweet )
3 years 10 months ago
Another Italian COVID-19 dermatology report: 1,193 skin psoriasis patients on TNFi, IL17,IL23,IL12/23 & apremilast: 22 patients infected, of those 5 hospitalised, none died https://t.co/HpN908qsHd
Dr Philip Robinson @philipcrobinson ( View Tweet )
3 years 10 months ago
There have been 1,831,821 cases & 106,181 deaths from #COVID19, a 5.8% conf case-fatality rate. To put it another way, 1 out of 17 Americans w/ confirmed #SARSCoV2 has died. It is now the #1 cause of death in the US. The message is getting lost: this #pandemic is very serious.
Tatiana Prowell, MD @tmprowell ( View Tweet )
3 years 10 months ago
Increased severity of #COVID19 seen in bald men related to the androgens. @rheumnow
Androgenetic Alopecia Present in the Majority of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients – the “Gabrin sign” https://t.co/T9pHuBypHp
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k dao @KDAO2011 ( View Tweet )
3 years 10 months ago
#EULAR2020 Dr. Kimme Hyrich reviews the EULAR #COVID19 Registry "Most individuals with rheumatic diseases receiving immunosuppressive therapies recover from COVID19" @rheumnow https://t.co/EdVLUMyHhF
k dao @KDAO2011 ( View Tweet )
3 years 10 months ago
