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4 Oct, 11 tweets, 1 min read

Everyone calm down. This Suburban comes with negative pressure (obviously)

Also WTF is going on?

When I was a junior attending, I had a young patient with bad pulmonary hypertension who was on IV Flolan. She was getting super agitated about wanting to smoke a cigarette and was threatening to pull out her IV and leave AMA, so I wheeled her down to the smoking shelter myself

And I sat with her while she smoked 2 cigarettes. I didn’t know it at the time but I was practicing harm reduction....

Also yes we used to have a smoking shelter

But still this COVID joyride is something else. I wonder if the secret service officers in the suburban had to sign consent. Maybe they are in the vaccine trials? Maybe they got antibodies?

Must have been a mad game of Rock Paper Scissors before that little trip

Someone should have seen the dex-induced mania coming...

Also tomorrow's press conference will be one not to miss

Reporter: Dr. Conley, can you explain what happened yesterday in the COVID-mobile?

There’s no way this is not an acid trip right now. Nothing anyone says or does will dissuade me

OK I promise this is the last question I will ask (not), but can someone please tell me if Kayleigh was in the Suburban?

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