HIV doc, researcher, policy wonk, Choco’s mom, Amy’s wife, past PI AIDS Research Consortium of ATL, past chair, HIV Medicine Assn (@HIVMA) #HIVTwitter
Jan 9, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
What to make of #COVID Ag tests still + at d 8,10,12, etc? There seem to be a lot of them - no data, just anecdotes. But also no data: predictive value of Ag+ for infectious omicron at these time pts. What advice do we give these folks? Don’t test? Isolate? Go to work?
2/ Good evidence that Ag+ = infectious virus for diagnosis. And @CDCDirector@RWalensky initially said the tests weren’t approved for ending isolation. She’s right, & there aren’t robust data on this (to my knowledge - but educate me, please!) We need these data! #IDTwitter
Jun 5, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
1/ My first patient with AIDS was a young Black man - young enough to be the oldest on a pediatric ward - with wasting, diarrhea, fevers. Dx=DMAC. He died without a official diagnosis of AIDS. I was on my first clinical rotation in medical school. It was 1982.
2/ My last pt w HIV/AIDS during training was a young Black woman who presented to the ER with “asthma” that did not clear in the “asthma room” and who had PCP on bronchoscopy. She had had only one relationship.
Deaths: 137 reported today
• Highest ever
• First time above 100
• Probably some wkend backlog, but all the same...
• When are we going to implement science-based policies in Georgia, @GovKemp? 2/
Cases back above 3k again (3639) after weekend underreporting.
It's notable that there's a difference of > 900 cases between the ELR+, upon which % poz is calculated, and the reported cases for the day. This leads me to think that % poz is being underestimated.
