Eric Topol
physician-scientist, author, editor
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South Africa begins second phase of reopening of schools
Medicalxpress.com 5h 1 tweets
Thousands of South African students are returning to school Monday after nearly four months when their classes were closed to combat the spread of the new coronavirus.
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Eric Topol Another country with a very high case growth like the US rate reopened schools. It didn't go well in South Africa Data and links provided by <-thanks 5h
Exponential Growth explained for the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Epidemic
YouTube 113d 2 tweets
Oxford University Mathematician Dr Tom Crawford explains exponential growth in the context of an epidemic such as that for COVID-19/Coronavirus. Beginning wi...
Fauci is sidelined by the White House as he steps up blunt talk on pandemic
Houston Chronicle 7h 13 tweets
WASHINGTON - For months, Anthony Fauci has played a lead role in America's coronavirus pandemic, as a diminutive, Brooklyn-accented narrator who has assessed the risk and issued increasingly blunt warnings as the nation's response has gone badly...
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Eric Topol This is what happens when you tell the truth by 12h
A Coronavirus Vaccine Won’t Work if People Don’t Take It
Nytimes.com 13h 3 tweets
We need to start convincing skeptics now.
Eric Topol The text to back it up, by 13h
Experience
Experience.arcgis.com 112d 15 tweets
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Eric Topol A new US record Over 15,000 new cases in 1 day. Florida. That's more than the countries of Peru, Chile, Mexico and Pakistan combined yesterday (The same day Disneyworld opened) 13h
Feverish
Corona Data Donation - Blog 54h 2 tweets
Remember the goal of the Data Donation Project? When we conceived and launched the project about three months ago we thought that we could use the daily donations of resting heart rate and daily step count to detect the onset of fever in donors...
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Eric Topol Your wrist and covid. In Germany, they call it the "national fever curve" Resting heart rate elevation and step count decrease is a signal via In the US, you can join 14h
Working memory capacity predicts individual differences in social-distancing compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
PNAS 37h 8 tweets
Before vaccination and other intervention measures become available, successful containment of an unknown infectious disease critically relies on people’s voluntary compliance with the recommended social-distancing guidelines. This involves a...
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Eric Topol Why do some people give up on physical distancing amidst the pandemic? "a limitation in one's mental capacity to simultaneously retain multiple pieces of information in working memory" 31h
Machine learning for COVID-19—asking the right questions
The Lancet Digital Health 33h 2 tweets
COVID-19, caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has put health-care systems worldwide into crisis.1 The speed with which health-care resources have been consumed has in some countries exceeded supply of...
Eric Topol "What remains to be seen is how many of these applications will prove to be clinically useful." #AI for #COVID19, and for all of medicine by Simon Walsh exemplar of 33h
Clinical characteristics of 82 cases of death from COVID-19
Journals.plos.org 34h 1 tweets
A recently developed pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 bursting in Wuhan, China, has quickly spread across the world. We report the clinical characteristics of 82 cases of death from COVID-19 in a single center. Clinical data on 82 death cases...
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Eric Topol Another new autopsy series of 82 people who died from #COVID19 that again demonstrates the prominence of cytokine storm and the hyperimmune response 34h
Tissue-specific tolerance in fatal Covid-19
medRxiv 8d 9 tweets
Successful host defence against a pathogen can involve resistance or tolerance, with implications for prioritising either antimicrobial or immunomodulatory therapeutic approaches. Hyper-inflammation occurs in Covid-19 and is associated with worse...
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Eric Topol "We conclude that death in Covid-19 is primarily a consequence of immune-mediated, rather than pathogen- mediated, organ inflammation and injury." Autopsy series confirming the path to reducing fatalities 34h
Cities — try to predict superspreading hotspots for COVID-19
Nature.com 44h 2 tweets
Tracking how people move around urban areas can pinpoint where disease might transmit fastest and farthest.
Eric Topol On superspreaders of covid: we could do a much better job of preventing and predicting if we had the data by 's Bouffanais and Lim 35h
Florida reports 188 new coronavirus deaths, a single-day record for the state
CNN 37h 4 tweets
The coronavirus pandemic has brought countries to a standstill. In many places, as countries reopen, Covid-19 cases are on the rise. Follow here for the latest.
‘Huge hole’ in COVID-19 testing data makes it harder to study racial disparities
Science | AAAS 53h 2 tweets
To fight the raging U.S. pandemic, researchers need to better understand its uneven burden
Eric Topol "The lack of data speaks a lot to whose lives we value and whose lives we don’t”— on the pathetic lack of testing and relevant data for underrepresented minorities by 38h
The Lancet Coronavirus
Thelancet.com 171d 31 tweets
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Eric Topol First reports of Kawasaki-like #SARSCoV2 multi-system inflammatory syndrome in adults 21 yo in London, 45 yo in New York City 38h
Daily Virus Death Toll Rises in Some States
Nytimes.com 3d 5 tweets
In several states where the virus has surged in recent weeks, the death toll is edging up. That may end a long period in which the national toll has steadily declined.
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Eric Topol Tomorrow's nytimes front page highlighting the state of the states, particularly those which reopened the earliest. And the accelerating pace of deaths in many states (along with other unfavorable stuff) 46h
Incidence of Stress Cardiomyopathy During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic
Jamanetwork.com 56h 4 tweets
This cohort study compares the incidence of stress cardiomyopathy among patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome at 2 Ohio hospitals during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic vs prepandemic time points.
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Eric Topol How do we know that people are "crying from the heart" in the US pandemic from the stress? Because the incidence of "stress cardiomyopathy" [weakened heart muscle] has gone up 5-fold by and colleagues 56h
School Superintendents Confront COVID-19—“There Are No Good Options for Next Year”
Jamanetwork.com 4d 2 tweets
This Medical News story discusses the challenge of minimizing the risk of COVID-19 in kindergarten through 12th grades while maintaining prepandemic educational standards.
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Eric Topol More by Why don't we do this right: prospective study, testing, contact tracing, assure safety? (ie science) 's assertion that the greater public health threat is keeping schools closed is unproven, may be wrong 56h
U.S. Coronavirus Cases Hit Another Daily Record
Allison Prang - WSJ 59h 3 tweets
New coronavirus cases in the U.S. rose by more than 63,000, another single-day record, as hospitals in Texas, California and other states strain to accommodate a surge of new patients.
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Eric Topol If March 13th was a national emergency, what is July 10th? 59h
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)—Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Jamanetwork.com 3d 26 tweets
This narrative review discusses what is currently known about the pathophysiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, management, prognosis, and prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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Eric Topol At today is an outstanding review article on the pandemic: pathophysiology, epidemiology, dx and tx by Joost Wiersinga and colleagues 3d
Home - Long Covid
Longcovid.org 12d 2 tweets