I’ve tweeted about this over the past year & here I go again. Icteric serum (colored bright to dark yellow) in patient blood samples occurs when liver function is impaired & I’ve seen a marked ⏫️⏫️ in our clinical chemistry labs since Delta/Omicron ravaged NE Ohio. #COVID19 https://t.co/GFv4ud6XrX
— David Christopher 🏥🥼 (@MLS_Dave)
Dec 5, 2022
from http://twitter.com/MLS_Dave
1,124 people died of #COVID in the US the first 3 days of this month (December).
This is neither sustainable nor acceptable.
THE PANDEMIC IS NOT OVER.
Hospitals are full.
Winter isn’t even here yet.
#CovidIsNotOver #BringBackMasks #CleanAir #MaskUp #COVID19 https://t.co/rWbdMRPs21
— Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
Dec 5, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
People’s lives do not decrease in value as they age. I don’t want us to become comfortable with the current number of #COVID19 deaths just because 90% of them were in older adults. Many of these deaths are preventable, and we need to act now. https://t.co/q6xtzPYR2A
— Michael Osterholm (@mtosterholm)
Dec 1, 2022
from http://twitter.com/mtosterholm
🚨 1.1 MILLION dead Americans is not noise.
🚨 #LongCovid & #LongCovidKids are not noise.
🚨 4 MILLION Americans no longer able to work is not noise.
🚨 #COVID19 making folks more prone to other illness is not noise.
🚨 #HealthcareWorkers burnout & full ped ICUs is not noise. https://t.co/RfJHPLhuTl
— Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
Nov 24, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
So, after close to a month with #COVID19, including a rebound infection, I am finally negative on a rapid test. Clearly the 5-days-and-return-to-work guidance from CDC was useless in my case if you believe antigen positivity is associated with ability to transmit. https://t.co/lJwmHhj4ix
— Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves)
Oct 26, 2022
from http://twitter.com/gregggonsalves
Free #COVID19 tests (which there already weren’t enough of) are going away soon. The #pandemic response is so dystopian and unreal that it wouldn’t even make a believable disaster horror movie. Seriously.
https://t.co/NxzfACgO53— Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
Aug 29, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
Just a friendly reminder #CovidIsNotOver, we’re still experiencing a US death rate of a 9/11 per week, case rates are what they were at the start of the winter surge, millions are now too disabled to work, and #monkeypox & #polio have joined #COVID19 at the #BackToSchool party.
— Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
Aug 25, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
Y’all, it’s okay to say President #Biden isn’t doing what he promised on #COVID19 & that he has let us down.
It doesn’t mean we want fascism. It doesn’t mean we won’t still vote to preserve fair elections & human rights. It means we want better. And we should. Things are BAD.
— Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
Aug 15, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
You might want to reconsider that big summer vacation overseas — really want to go through this with the kids?
It’s #COVID19 + crazy spending choices by the airlines industry — profit-taking versus staffing, training, and retention of labor force. https://t.co/YbnFLxkZxX— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett)
Jul 15, 2022
from http://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett
Majority of folks venomously bullying and berating vulnerable and disabled folks for “fearing” #COVID19 pretty much all have a profile that says “CHRISTIAN GUNS BABIES GOD NRA PATRIOT” in their profile and that says everything you need to know.
— 🌈 Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
Jul 12, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
I’m not “living in fear” when I…
* Use oven mitts
* Wear a seat belt
* Purchase insurance
* Lock my doors* Wear a good mask during an ongoing disabling pandemic event, as a person who is already immunocompromised due to autoimmune disease
Politics makes people 🤡
#COVID19— 🌈 Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
Jul 11, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
The cautious are called weak by the anti-mask crowd.
But no. Weak are the folks who are so threatened by mask policies that they’d rather pretend the pandemic is over than contribute to its actual end.
#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #Masks #maskmandates
— 🌈 Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
Jul 11, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
A 19th-century Hungarian doctor realized handwashing was saving lives. He was met w/angry opposition from other doctors who felt they were being blamed for deaths. The right path was clear but he was met with serious resistance. The #COVID19 response to #masks has a similar vibe!
— 🌈 Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
Jul 3, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
It’s really messed up that life is now a choice between participating in a mass delusion that #COVID19 is no longer a threat versus being extremely isolated and darting like a scared animal among predators through stores I NEED to go to for necessities.
#CovidIsNotOver— 🌈 Cat Herding Science Nerd 💙 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
May 24, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
MASKS 👏 ELIMINATE 👏 THE NEED 👏 FOR LOCKDOWNS 👏
MASKS 👏 ARE HOW 👏 WE HAVE 👏 NORMALCY 👏 DURING 👏 AN AIRBORNE 👏 PANDEMIC 👏
#COVID19 doesn’t care how sick you are of the pandemic or how many precautions you’ve taken so far.
#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
— 🌈 Cat Herding Science Nerd 💙 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
May 23, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
An abusive narcissist will act as if they can’t do/understand something, so as to continue their abuse and gaslight their victim.
Leadership pretending #COVID19 is mild and they’re doing all they can is exactly this. That discomfort you feel is your gut telling you the truth.
— 🌈 Cat Herding Science Nerd 💙 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
May 19, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
I wanted to share a story of a patient I saw this week. Very fit man aged 52, previous marathon runner, suspected mild #COVID19 March 2020. Extensively investigated by cardiology in 2020 for symptoms of chest pain, dizziness and struggling to exercise 1/
— Binita Kane (@BinitaKane)
May 17, 2022
from http://twitter.com/BinitaKane
This isn’t normal, it’s ghoulish. If it was normal, @CDCDirector wouldn’t be altering maps to hide case numbers & community transmission. #COVID19 is causing chronic illness even in previously healthy folks.
The cost of pretending it’s over will be horrific.
#CovidIsNotOver https://t.co/Rv7PxYMXph— 🌈 Cat Herding Science Nerd 💙 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
May 16, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
It seems like everyone is coming down with #covid19 right now.
It’s NOT a scarlet letter.
But you DO need to know your risk, and what to do.So here’s an honest thread (with receipts!) on what this means for you. 🧵 https://t.co/D0h7hWFhHu
— Megan Ranney MD MPH 🌻 (@meganranney)
May 11, 2022
from http://twitter.com/meganranney
I’m really sick of this pandemic.
I want it to be over. I want to just walk out my door, no #mask, go about my business like I did in the past, and put #COVID19 behind me.
But it doesn’t work that way. The apparent difference between me & most people is that I understand this. https://t.co/NZfsP5RRLg
— 🌈 Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
May 10, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
Once upon a time, I was a firefighter. I ran EMS calls, too. This desire to save people still lives in me. It always will. So the way folks are putting themselves and each other in harm’s way with this pandemic is just so draining. Can we please stop now?
#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver— 🌈 Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
May 5, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
We are currently in the phase of pandemic where the @CDC doesn’t provide accurate data to assess personal risk of #COVID19 and ‘trusted experts’ are now telling us assess our own risks and live our lives. What happened to public health?
— Amy J Houtrow, MD, PhD, MPH (@HoutrowMDPhDMPH)
Apr 18, 2022
from http://twitter.com/HoutrowMDPhDMPH
I get a LOT of comments from “CoViD iS oVeR” ppl about the virus being endemic, so let me clarify:
Waves, spikes, variant unpredictability mean #COVID19 is still a pandemic.
Endemic #COVID would be more predictable and stable.
#CovidIsNotOver just because we all want it to be.
— 🌈 Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
Apr 5, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
I guess life now is just wondering what gifts the next round of #COVID19 will bestow and hoping I can recover enough between infections to blunt the damage. Working out & being strict about eating habits went from a quality of life thing to just plain survival. #CovidIsntOver
— 🌈 Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (@catladyactivist)
Apr 4, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
📍We have now hit 20 MILLION EXCESS DEATHS during the pandemic—quite chilling. It’s ~4x the confirmed #COVID19 deaths alone. ➡️EXCESS is far more reliable because it’s TOTAL minus EXPECTED based on pre-pandemic rate. Not testing dependent! #CovidIsNotOver https://t.co/6yg83BNvji https://t.co/VsYIyzirnn
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing)
Mar 29, 2022
from http://twitter.com/DrEricDing
Covid definitely affects the brain, as research has shown. I noticed that it can be hard to differentiate adult ADHD and “Covid fog”, so I started looking into a possible connection. Turns out after the 1918 pandemic, people began experiencing #ADHD-like symptoms, too. #COVID19
— 🏳️🌈 Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (they/she) (@catladyactivist)
Mar 24, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
Covid leaves 30-50% of infected w/post-viral complications (strokes, clots, heart attacks, vascular damage, new diabetes, nerve damage, POTS). Rethink dismissing poor outcomes w/pre-existing conditions, bc EVERYONE is one #Covid19 roll of the dice away from one.
#CovidIsNotOver— 🏳️🌈 Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (they/she) (@catladyactivist)
Mar 21, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
I miss the time before political parties became absolute cults where its members must only praise and never criticize their POTUS, no matter what that POTUS does (or doesn’t do).
#politics #COVID19— 🏳️🌈 Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (they/she) 🇺🇦 (@catladyactivist)
Mar 17, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist
Hospitals in dire situation in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 due to #COVID19 surge and under vaccination. Supply of oxygen cylinders dwindling due to high case numbers. The #BA2 subvariant is behind most of the new surge. Your reminder that #CovidIsNotOver.
https://t.co/gIps8CpoSw
— Eric Feigl-Ding 💙💛 (@DrEricDing)
Mar 5, 2022
from http://twitter.com/DrEricDing
I don’t share my #LongCovid symptoms & struggles for sympathy. I share my experience because I want to shed light on this and the devastating impact free range #COVID19 will have, as leadership tries to bury and downplay. Normal is alluring. But it’s not safe yet. #CovidIsNotOver
— 🏳️🌈 Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬🇺🇦🌻 (@catladyactivist)
Mar 5, 2022
from http://twitter.com/catladyactivist