The FDA's @SteveFDA appears to have made a significant, erroneous statement about the efficacy of convalescent plasma for Covid-19 patients -- one echoed and amplified by others in the administration yesterday: https://t.co/X0CPEgSq1G— Drew Armstrong (@ArmstrongDrew) August 24, 2020
In yesterday's presser, the FDA commissioner said that convalescent blood plasma confers a 35% risk reduction.— Drew Armstrong (@ArmstrongDrew) August 24, 2020
“What that means is -- and if the data continue to pan out -- 100 people who are sick with Covid-19, 35 would have been saved because of the administration of plasma.”
But that doesn't appear to be the case. All the data appear to show are that a higher dose of blood plasma is better than a lower dose. There isn't a comparison there to a control group, at least in what the FDA has presented. https://t.co/X0CPEgSq1G— Drew Armstrong (@ArmstrongDrew) August 24, 2020
I have been criticized for remarks I made Sunday night about the benefits of convalescent plasma. The criticism is entirely justified. What I should have said better is that the data show a relative risk reduction not an absolute risk reduction.— Dr. Stephen M. Hahn (@SteveFDA) August 25, 2020
South Korea on brink of nationwide virus outbreak, officials warn https://t.co/OmFNfdA8UW— Dali L. Yang (@Dali_Yang) August 25, 2020
#IITBombay holds its 58th annual convocation ceremony in a virtual reality mode in view of the #COVID19 pandemic. pic.twitter.com/ESyAp3siGb— All India Radio News (@airnewsalerts) August 23, 2020
IIT Bombay holds its 58th convocation ceremony;— All India Radio News (@airnewsalerts) August 23, 2020
Awards Degrees to Students' Virtual avatars.@iitbombay pic.twitter.com/QGnercGhD2
In lieu of an illegal screencap here is a very good and very accurate sketch of this court hearing pic.twitter.com/t5r3Rq6SQq— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong) August 24, 2020
This made me wonder what all the courtroom sketch artists have been up to in lockdown, and of course they’ve just been drawing zoom windows. https://t.co/IZ28CETXvm pic.twitter.com/wCj6Vm6EnS— nic0 (@nic0) August 25, 2020
I think a lot of extroverts are remote work skeptics because they can’t imagine how anyone can live without the social nature of offices, never realizing how the status quo privileged them and was not some state of nature that everyone loves and simply must be— Adam Ozimek (@ModeledBehavior) August 23, 2020
This is how y’all look like when you don’t put the mask over your nose. pic.twitter.com/VKrcefZ4w5— neuron nerd dominic (he/they) #BLM #ShutdownSTEM (@djneuronnerd) August 23, 2020
The skilled defender is just jealous that hand sanitizer blocks over 99.9% of germs. https://t.co/dJvvgiauVL— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) August 24, 2020
This seems to be one of many great works by Korean cartoonist kicotoon. In this one, you have to find the coronavirus itself and the great Korean admiral Yi Sun-sin. Good luck. https://t.co/ExCwJysMYi pic.twitter.com/F8nRal8gav— Sam Kim (@samkimasia) August 25, 2020
Is your kid missing the feel of going to school during the pandemic? EPISD is selling surplus student desks to families and the general public for $3. Find out how to get a desk or two. https://t.co/9Qyn6tNgV8— KVIA ABC-7 News (@abc7breaking) August 24, 2020
Today in a Zoom class my professor casually mentioned her cat and one brave student spoke up: pic.twitter.com/C00eCYQydb— Sean Brewster (@TheSeanBrewster) August 25, 2020
