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The pandemic exposed the true character of people. It has been both stunning and fascinating to watch.
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Covid killed 1400 people in the USA 🇺🇸 yesterday. Still not a mask in sight.
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Hundreds of thousands of Novavax shots are going to expire and be thrown away. By now everyone who wanted it as a primary series got it. Are you going to open it up to all as a booster or new primary series, or are you going to be anti-vax and let it expire?
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At the gastroenterologist today as part of my #LongCovid clinic work up. He said he sees an endless stream of post-Covid patients with all kinds of GI inflammation and nerve damage. Could the “Covid is mild” folks actually talk to real doctors for a change?
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I don't care if my students are smiling. I care that they don't get sick and die while attending my class.
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Nosedive. We’ve taken a nosedive on life expectancy and it is largely based on behavioral choices.
Historians will be baffled. You mean to tell me they chose death over a mask? Yes, yes they did.
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1/ Just had my 26th PCR test for COVID-19 in my nearly-complete 1st year as dean of . So far I am batting 1.000 (or 0.000 depending on your outlook; I take 1.000 as avoiding infection). Hoping to hear a resounding 0 for 26 by later tonight or tomorrow morning.
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1/ Someone born in the United States 25 yrs ago had a life expectancy of 76.1 years.
2019 = 80 yr
2020 = 77 yr
2021 = 76.1 yr
Failures to properly and rigorously address COVID-19 at so many levels has set America and the world back dearly.
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Novavax only for unvaccinated. BA.1 vaccine only for fully vaccinated.
Way to overcomplicate and ensure there is a vaccination drive campaign failure.
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They are not eligible for the new vaccine. They must have the primary vaccine series first. At least that is what has been approved for now.
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Again, the *capital of Mississippi* does not have running water anymore. Not just for a few days — INDEFINITELY.
This isn’t on front pages nationwide because the city is 80% Black. The New York Times doesn’t even mention it.
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LATEST: 180,000 people in Jackson will be without safe water for drinking or even brushing their teeth "for an unknown period of time," Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said in an emergency press briefing tonight.
He warns: "DO NOT DRINK THE WATER."
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Completing the indoor air quality revolution by cementing infrastructural protections and source control into law—including occupational health and safety law—would have ended not just COVID but flu season, and yielded lessons for managing airborne diseases of any kind. 3/10
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Moderna's IP suit against Pfizer/BioNTech is bad for public health. Both have had huge windfalls. Moderna got billions in US funding. The suit would push mRNA vaccines into a near monopoly & stifle innovation. The public loses. Both companies should waive IP & transfer technology
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Electron microscopy demonstrates that SARS-CoV-2 hijacks nanotubes, tiny bridges that link infected cells with neurons, virus able to penetrate neurons despite the fact that they are lacking the ACE2 receptor bit.ly/3veubZI
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Masks Do Irreparable Harm to Kids
Over Two Years of Masking in School, My Toddler Swelled in Size, Her Teeth Fell Out, and She Began to Tell Me No to Every Damn Thing
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Important thread from , a world expert on neuro-psychiatric complications of illness. Wes makes clear that the science of brain problems in Long Covid is persuasive & increasingly concerning.
Cognitive dissonance for me as I sit on an airplane on which ~20% are masked.
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My daughter's the same age as Wen's & has been in daycare since 5 mo old (still masking). Her speech is the best her school's ever seen. Per this anecdote, I conclude masking = excellent speech. Or maybe because I read to her every night instead of writing tweets/Op-Eds?
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The fact that felt the need to terminate the subgrant to #WIV due to substantial noncompliance (WIV refusing to produce records and documents, a condition of the subgrant that EcoHealth failed to enforce) is huge news, but who is reporting it?
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This is smart--some airplane flights should be mandatory masks, some movie matinees, museums should have a masked day or masked hours every week--that's inclusive and a way forward.
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Beginning September 7, we will require audiences to wear masks at all Wednesday matinees. This is in addition to the mask requirement at Friday evening performances currently in place.
The other six weekly performances will follow the Broadway League policy of masks optional.
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The mass erasure of death + disability (and acceptance of it) is a lot scarier than the prospect of "wearing masks forever" IMO. It's a daily struggle not to become complacent, and the divide between those engaged in this and those who have given up (knowingly or not) is so deep.
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Been denied service or treatment by your insurance? Fill out pro publica’s form. I just did.
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The good people at @propublica are putting together a project about health insurance denials. They are collecting stories. They came to the right corner of twitter for stories. You can tell yours at the link below. propublica.org/getinvolved/in
The average IQ of the world is at least 50 points lower than I would have ever guessed prior the pandemic and the average EQ (emotional, empathy quotient) is less than half.
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Biden’s administration just bought 60 million more vials of Moderna. But only 3million vials of Novavax. My local pharmacy tells me they have only 10 vials of the Novavax vaccine. That’s all they were shipped. Tell me it’s not all about the money.
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As someone who had a horrible reaction to Pfizer and just received my first dose of Novavax yesterday with no complications, thank you. 👏🙂
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And it's actually a diversion to make this about the woke versus Wen, which is what is happening.
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CDC: it’s safe for everyone to work in the office unmasked and without testing.
Also, the CDC: we have everyone work from home because it’s not safe for us to work in the office.
Also, the CDC: we failed at doing our jobs but if you give us more money we will do a better job.
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This article in 2015 makes for infuriating reading today. You have Simon Wain-Hobson and warning that creating bat coronaviruses capable of infecting human airway cells in lab was insane. Wain-Hobson:
"If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory."
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As my colleague Jeff Siegel at U of T has been saying for a long time, providing clean indoor air is a fundamental issue of health and social equity. It’s reasonable to ask for equity at the start line in a meritocracy. That means safe, healthy environments to learn in
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Amazing that not even the White House has the precautions like this.
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Agree.
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Minimizers: y'all need to lose the term "Covidian." It's not funny or clever. Over a million in the US have died of SarsCov2so far. 2 kids in every school have lost a parent or caregiver to it. Millions more are disabled. If you use the term, YOU are the brainwashed cult member.
My tweets today will focus on substantive reforms needed at the CDC.
But first, can someone help me understand why Walensky and CDC employees continue to work remotely when CDC guidance says workers can go back to work sick?
Anyone?
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40,000 ppl/yr die in car crashes, so we invest heavily in safety infrastructure/measures: stop lights, speed bumps, air bags, seatbelt & carseat mandates, driver assistance packages, speeding tickets, etc. We're losing 4x that number from Covid and have decided to do nothing.
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Got the Novavax booster Aug 9 and experienced absolutely no pain or flu-like symptoms. Had significant reactions to both Pfizer & Moderna. I chose Novavax because it targets an anatomical component of the virus that is the same across all variants. $NVAX
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A great piece from . Biden’s messaging on #COVID19 is self-defeating and is not helping anyone. Stop Telling Americans That They’re “Tired of Covid”
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The person in the photograph runs a federal bureaucracy based in Atlanta, from her home in Newton, Massachusetts. "culture needs to change" 🤔
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GREAT NEWS! Forbes has featured Macon in their latest article, "A Weekend Guide To Macon, One Of The South’s Best Kept Secrets!"
Check it out here:
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I want to state that I agree with most of the article below. This may well turn out to be the biggest scientific scandal of our lifetimes and the silence of us scientists on this may come to be viewed as a huge moral failure in the future.
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Except the virus doesn't operate on popular opinion, like our nation's health agency seems to. Again. We lead in per capita deaths from #COVID19 in the G-7. Close to 500 deaths yesterday. ~40,000 in the hospital. Lots of disruption with people out sick everywhere. 2/
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