anahad oconnor

@anahadoconnor

New York Times reporter & certified health and wellness junkie. All the news that's fit to tweet. Views are my own.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    18 Dec 2018

    Studies show that hunter gatherer groups across the globe generally have phenomenal heart and metabolic health. Yet they eat a variety of diets. And while they get a lot of exercise, they don't burn many more calories than average Americans.

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    7 hours ago

    Dr. Fauci spent much of his career studying H.I.V., and he said that the disease it causes is “really simple compared to what’s going on with Covid-19.”

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  3. 8 hours ago

    Trump’s Halting Walk Down Ramp Raises New Health Questions

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    8 hours ago

    Hidalgo County Texas reached 1000 cases. Some of those saying "It's a hoax" are now getting concerned. Getting sick and tired of people saying "If you are healthy bla bla bla..." I Don't give a 💩 This demographic is NOT healthy. It's the unhealthiest.

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    15 hours ago

    New on the coronavirus vaccine tracker: Sinovac is testing an inactivated virus vaccine. They just announced an update on Phase I/II trials: neutralizing antibodies+no severe adverse reactions. Tracker: Sinovac release:

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    Jun 13

    If you find a mask oppressive you are really going to hate an endotracheal tube

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  7. Retweeted
    Jun 10

    I want everyone to see and hear this incredible black woman sitting in the rain in Georgia with her son for 3 hours to vote. And then I want you to ask yourself why in this day and age - with America having the ability to put a man on the moon & land a space shuttle back on earth

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  8. Retweeted
    Jun 10

    Vitamin D and COVID-19: not a straight forward issue. As usual, more is not necessarily better, and there is a dose-reponsive curve to be figured out.

    My latest: Studies explore whether there's a link between vitamin D deficiencies and Covid-19 severity.
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  9. Retweeted
    Jun 10

    A Single Session of Exercise Alters 9,815 Molecules in Our Blood

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  10. Jun 10

    My latest: Studies explore whether there's a link between vitamin D deficiencies and Covid-19 severity.

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    Jun 9

    This drone footage shows a long line of voters waiting to cast ballots in Atlanta on Tuesday. Georgia election officials, poll workers and voters have reported major trouble with voting in Atlanta and elsewhere. Read the latest.

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  12. Retweeted
    Jun 6

    A series remembering and honoring the nearly 600 Health care workers in the US who have died from COVID. Many stories of people who were dedicated to helping others and kept working, even while understanding their risks.

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  13. Retweeted
    Jun 4

    Now available for your listening pleasure is a podcast where Dr Kara Fitzgerald CV delves into CV-risk assessment questions including lipids and lipoproteins - we are both northeasterners so the conversation is just shy of warp speed

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    Jun 4

    1/ Perhaps the most powerful image of a patient's heart I have every witnessed, out in . As dramatic as this image is, the back story was even more gut wrenching. What broke him was not his disease, but our health system. I still get angry thinking about this.

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    Jun 3

    THREAD: As a former Op-Ed editor I am reluctant to weigh in on my alma mater. But the decision to publish calling for troop deployments to quell unrest falls short of sound journalistic practice.

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  16. Jun 3

    Completely agree

    Running this puts all black people in danger, including staff members.
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    Jun 2

    Agree. Watch this if you have not seen it. This is wisdom.

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    This is mandatory viewing. You won’t regret it.
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  18. Retweeted
    May 28

    Out in , how impacted prescriptions for and 10 most common drugs in 🇺🇸: **~0.5 million more Rx for given over 10 weeks compared to 2019! Led to 64% 📉 in long-term HCQ fills** Other major findings 👇

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  19. Retweeted
    May 28

    Autopsies of African Americans who died of in New Orleans reveal hemorrhaging -- the O2-absorbing alveolar trees utterly destroyed, and lungs filled with blood and clots. It's as if they drowned in their own blood. NO, this is not "like the ".

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    May 28

    2.5 months into shutdown, 47,000 people tested positive across NY, NJ, and CT in past 2 weeks. 13,000 new cases in NYC alone. Who are they? -Essential workers -Immigrant communities -Nursing home residents -People who can't afford distance

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    May 28

    “"We have a system in which it’s very easy to prescribe a medication off label,” or for a medical condition for which a drug has not been specifically approved, Dr. Warraich said."

    I discuss the findings in more detail in this phenomenal piece in by . We had a 🔥 team led by and a great collaboration with .
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