If smoking turns out to be a risk factor for COVID severity then I'd like to give a huge shout to our boys at the CDC for withholding information linking "vape related" lung illness to weed cartridges 


-
Show this thread
-
"Cases involved in the outbreak of lung illness were first identified in Illinois and Wisconsin in April 2019." August 28, 2019:pic.twitter.com/9qEQF9UTUb
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
That's Rolling Stone, and they're 100% sure. Here's CDC saying on October 1st that *some,* possibly many cases are tied to THC carts:https://time.com/5692387/vaping-related-death-toll/ …
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
Major networks never reported this phenomenon correctly because the CDC wouldn't back them up in the moment. Oddly enough, though, there *were* some big busts of garage concentrate manufactures in this time period.https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/12/us/wisconsin-huffhines-thc-oil-vaping-trnd/index.html …
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread
This episode had the potential to return many people from e cigs to regular cigarettes - months before an outbreak of viral pneumonia.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.