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Mar 17, 2020 9 tweets 8 min read
Folks, this #CoronavirusOutbreak is no joke. I’ll give you occasional updates, tweeting from “Above the Hospital Bed,” about how serious #COVID19 aka #coronavirus can be. Think of this as #LatsCovid19Journal, my thoughts on #LivingWithCovid. [Thread]
A bit about me: I’m a generally healthy, 44-year-old male, 153 lbs. (surely less now), 5’7”, no drugs , rarely drink, no health conditions other than exercise-induced asthma, which I manage with an inhaler. #COVID19 #coronavirus #LatsCovid19Journal
I completed the NYC Marathon twice - not the greatest times, but I did - and even now that I can’t run much (knees post-40), each week I still walk 25 miles and go to at least 3 high-intensity interval training classes at the gym. #LatsCovid19Journal #COVID19
In my current state, #LivingWithCovid, I am constantly weak and winded. I’m hooked up to oxygen 24/7. Even with oxygen, the simplest tasks are extremely difficult. #LatsCovid19Journal
This morning, this ex-marathoner could barely walk the five feet from the bed to the toilet - and I had to pee as quickly as possible, chest heaving with the labor of breathing, because I was going to collapse if I stood too long. #LatsCovid19Journal #covid19
I’m usually a fast eater (bad habit, I know). Today it took my 90 minutes to eat my lunch - because I kept getting winded. Who DOES that? I’m so weak, the fork wobbled each time I lifted it to my mouth. #LatsCovid19Journal #COVID19 #CoronavirusOutbreak
To be sure, #COVID19 hits different people differently #ymmv. I gave it to my husband, and for him it was a low-level flu that seems to have almost run its course after about a week. #coronavirus #CoronavirusOutbreak #LatsCovid19Journal
But for those who get severe cases, like me, it’s been hell. I’ve had 10 days & counting, with no real improvement, of fever, fatigue, joint aches, chills, cough, respiratory difficulty. I have never been this sick in my entire life. #LatsCovid19Journal
To paraphrase @Beyonce, #COVID19 did not come to play with us hoes; it came to slay. Please keep me - and my very anxious family - in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you. #LatsCovid19Journal #CoronaVirusUpdates #Coronavirusnyc

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Feb 2
1/ THREAD. Good news: my #COVID19 antibody levels are literally off the charts. On a test where >0.79 is positive, my titer is >2,500.👇 Image
2/ But I believe the test I took, Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 S, measures antibodies to the spike protein, i.e., from vaccination. So I think I’d need to take a nucleocapsid antibody test to learn if I had Omicron.
bit.ly/3Glx7Xo
3/ I think I might have had Omicron in December 2021, but I never tested positive on either a PCR or antigen test (perhaps because I didn’t get tested until having had symptoms for 5-7 days).
Read 5 tweets
Jan 26
1/ Given recent precedent (noted by @katieleebarlow), there's no reason that a successor to Justice Breyer on #SCOTUS can't be confirmed in short order—and definitely before midterms.
2/ Of course, it's huge—and hugely important—that President Biden is getting a #SCOTUS pick. But note that it will slow down the confirmations of his pending picks for lower courts, plus new nominees.

(Totally worth it, of course, but I'm just noting this.)
3/ I don't think there is anything that Senator Mitch McConnell, who is no longer Majority Leader, can do to stop a #SCOTUS confirmation.

Read 7 tweets
Jan 26
2/ Check out this tweet from last week by @JeffreyToobin—quite prophetic:

3/ I think two of the leading contenders for Justice Breyer's #SCOTUS seat, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (D.C. Cir.) and Justice Leondra Kruger (California Supreme Court), would be difficult to oppose.

Read 43 tweets
Jan 25
1/ Interesting thread by @carlzimmer about his recent #covid19 experience. It also makes me wonder whether I had Omicron back in December, when I had a cough and cold symptoms.
2/ I had one PCR test and a few rapid antigen tests around the time I had a cough/cold symptoms, and they were all negative—but it’s possible they were too early or too late.
3/ My husband doubts I had Omicron because he never got symptoms or tested positive. But I’ve heard many stories now (like @carlzimmer’s) of one person in a household getting it and the others not getting it (or at least not showing symptoms).
Read 5 tweets
Jan 23
1/ THREAD. Here's the latest edition of "Judicial Notice," my weekly roundup of notable news in the legal world.

bit.ly/3GY9IME #appellatetwitter #SCOTUS #lawtwitter
2/ A quick note on the title of this post: it's a pun/literary reference, NOT an attempt to dismiss masking by equating it with "nothing."

For the past two years, I've been a spokesperson and poster boy for the importance of vaccines, masking, etc.
3/ Lawyers of the Week: Rudolph Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, and Boris Epshteyn

Judges of the Week: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil M. Gorsuch

Ruling of the Week: McDougall v. County of Ventura
Read 6 tweets
Jan 21
1/ Ellis George Cipollone—fka Browne George Ross, before former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and other WH alums joined—has just hired another former WH Counsel, Fred Fielding (who retired from @MorganLewisLaw in 2019).

bit.ly/3GTeH0X
2/ The article by @loveonlaw about Ellis George Cipollone hiring Fred Fielding notes that Tara Helfman, of counsel at the firm, will be clerking for Justice Gorsuch in October Term 2022.

bit.ly/3qPQumN #SCOTUS #appellatetwitter
3/ I shared Tara Helfman's hiring by Justice Gorsuch with readers of Original Jurisdiction back in September 2021, with this interesting tidbit: her #SCOTUS clerkship will be her first clerkship (see excerpt below).

bit.ly/33FCG5A #appellatetwitter Image
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