Mason 🏃‍♂️✂️ on Twitter: "I'm predicting that we'll consider "80-90% of cases are mild" one of the gravest health miscommunications of this decade. "Mild" was a term initially used in Chinese materials to indicate that hospitalization was not ultimately required, even if careful monitoring was."

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1. Phil Garland‏ @philipggarland Mar 17
  
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  Phil Garland Retweeted Abraar Karan
  
  Yep.https://twitter.com/AbraarKaran/status/1236680333887668225?s=20 …
  
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  4/ Another surprise: the Chinese data where the 80% “mild” cases number comes from —that was not a “mild cold”. That was: you have a fever, possibly even a full pneumonia. Not your run-of-the-mill sniffles. “Severe” (which was ~15%) meant you were on oxygen or a ventilator.
  
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1. Ciarán‏ @fmd4cp Mar 17
  
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  mild organ damage
  
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1. Chana‏ @ChanaMessinger Mar 17
  
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  Not even! It meant no oxygen or ventilator - some "mild" cases were hospitalized!
  
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1. Dean Jens‏ @deanjens Mar 17
  
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  This, FWIW, is basically what I'm trying to plan for. That time in 2007 when I was so sick I had to take a nap on the way from my bed to the kitchen (in a 400 sq ft apartment), but for a week. But no hospitalization.
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1. Zach Alberico‏ @zachalberico Mar 17
  
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  Yeah, I remember reading in the emperor of all maladies that “well tolerated” for chemo meant you could be throwing up until the blood vessels in your eyes burst, but you don’t die. Not what most people would consider well tolerated.
  
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1. Persistenza‏ @PersistenzaPaga Mar 17
  
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  The doc responsible for reporting that in US media originally has stated that he regrets using that word now...
  
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1. Border St‏ @BorderStreetCo Mar 17
  
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  Even without that (important) detail it is upside-down communication: Hey, only 1 in 5, see! It's not going to be terrible 4 out 5...people... Because it could infect everyone, and the fact that it hasn't is apparently proof that it won't.
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1. Francis Jervis‏ @f_j_j_ Mar 17
  
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  Francis Jervis Retweeted francesca coin
  
  This may prove correct in magnitude but not valence. "Mild" may turn out to mean "effectively asymptomatic" in 80-90% of infections. Thread:https://twitter.com/fcoin/status/1239329290300334082?s=20 …
  
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  This is the English translation of a letter from Sergio Romagnani Emeritus Professor of Clinical Immunology and Internal Medicine to the Italian Newspaper Corriere Fiorentino 1/x https://corrierefiorentino.corriere.it/firenze/notizie/cronaca/20_marzo_15/dobbiamo-cambiare-rotta-ef23a500-669a-11ea-a40a-86d505f82a96_preview.shtml?fbclid=IwAR2QB3oI28NWqkb6qnR9XkmPtX6NjYwlb3R4kzWAwlGOCk1OTHYA0JEdsJY&reason=unauthenticated&cat=1&cid=QjQrtjRc&pids=FR&credits=1&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcorrierefiorentino.corriere.it%2Ffirenze%2Fnotizie%2Fcronaca%2F20_marzo_15%2Fdobbiamo-cambiare-rotta-ef23a500-669a-11ea-a40a-86d505f82a96.shtml%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2QB3oI28NWqkb6qnR9XkmPtX6NjYwlb3R4kzWAwlGOCk1OTHYA0JEdsJY …
  
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1. Kah Zuhl List‏ @kazoolist Mar 17
  
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  As I recall from looking at the definitions last night, mild basically means "no pneumonia (...yet)" but could encompass all the worst symptoms of a non-hospitalised flu. And moderate means pneumonia. Then the next level... severe? ... is hypoxia.
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