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
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
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.👇
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).
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
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).