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Achievement unlocked: no longer on oxygen! We tapered it down gradually after I was extubated last week, and last night while I was asleep they cut it off entirely. #coronavirus #COVID19 #CoronaBoy
My blood oxygen has remained in the 90s throughout the taper and even after the shutoff - so discharge before the end of this week looks like a very realistic possibility, per my nurse this morning. #coronavirus #covid19 #CoronaBoy
I’ll be discussing all this later today with my doctors/care team at @nyulangone and deferring to their professional judgment. I also want to hear from them about the degree to which I might still be contagious. #coronavirus #COVID19 #CoronaBoy
The care here at @nyulangone has been excellent - but after two-plus weeks in the hospital, I’m increasingly interested in going home. #coronavirus #COVID19 #CoronaBoy
P.S. Look ma, no nasal cannula! Or non-rebreather mask. The mask I’m wearing here provides no oxygen; it’s just to protect staff and patients. #coronavirus #COVID19 #Covid_19 #CoronaBoy
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Not an #AprilFoolsDay Joke: after 17 days at @nyulangone, including 6 days on a ventilator, I’m being discharged! Here’s my final hospital bed selfie. #coronavirus #COVID19 #coronaboy #LatsCovid19Journal
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Here at @nyulangone, a top academic hospital, they’re also engaging in research to help learn more about how to fight diseases like #coronavirus/#covid19; I’m participating in 2 studies. #coronaboy #LatsCovid19Journal
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David Lat
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Cf. when my husband was contacted by @NYULangone for medical consent after I was intubated.

"Congratulations! David is eligible to be part of a special FDA drug trial - because he's experiencing life-threatening lung failure & hooked up to a ventilator."
Specifically (emphasis added): "You are agreeing to the emergency use of clazakizumab... based on a small number of patients who developed similar LIFE-THREATENING PULMONARY FAILURE [from] COVID-19."

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"In these patients, a drug similar to clazakizumab showed promise as an effective treatment for PATIENTS WITH RESPIRATORY FAILURE WHO WERE LIKELY TO DIE."

He agreed; I got the drug (along w/tocilizumab).

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David Lat
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These are very conscious choices. Before he was a Twitter star and @realDonaldTrump antagonist, @gtconway3d was known as one of the best brief writers at Wachtell Lipton.
When I was a junior associate and he was a partner, I drafted part of a brief for George. I fancied myself a good writer - I won a brief-writing prize at @YaleLawSch, served on @YaleLJournal, clerked for a top judge - but GTC made my draft ten times better.
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Want to understand why we're dealing with the scepter of serious #Coronavirus #COVIDー19 outbreaks in the US?

The @realDonaldTrump admin's profound mismanagement.

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The public health approach to stopping an infectious disease is about "contact tracing."

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Contact tracing is painstaking work. It involves identifying all of the known or potential contacts of someone who has the disease in question, finding them, and then isolating them--and then rinsing and repeating.

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