COVID BECOMING A CHRONIC DISEASE: ~10-35% suffer persistent symptoms, mostly neurological: autonomic nervous system dysfunction, sleep, pain, dizziness, cognitive difficulties. A study even 1/3 after hospitalization had memory problems. #LongCovid#COVID19
📌The neurological manifestations of COVID-19 are the most disabling and are the most significant long-term complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection which has major socio-economic consequences.
3) opioid peddling kickback scheme exclusively decided by Sackler family. Yet they just get a fine and only have to reorganize their company. Zero jail time.
😢I cry for El Paso—Inmates move hundreds of bodies into mobile morgues; National Guard now does grim task; Funeral homes turn storage closets to freezers; crematorium broke from overuse; convention center now a field hospital; lacking gravesites. #COVID19washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11…
2) we must take ACTION not just ourselves but convince everyone around you to act to stop pandemic.
3) And it continues. I don’t enjoy posting doom. I’m an epidemiologist— and a realist on the serious risks facing us. I share this to engage the Public to act and for our policy leaders to act. This is the fierce urgency of the now.
DISGUSTING—Just learned something worse than McKinsey consulting being paid ~$4 mil to give simple advice on #COVID19...
➡️@McKinsey concocted plan to give a kickback to every opioid sold and dispense—all while knowing it’ll cause overdoses & addictions. nytimes.com/2020/11/27/bus…
2) I have two main reactions—
First, McKinsey needs to fire members of its staff that proposed this dangerous kickback scheme. Do the right thing McKinsey leadership, and claw back their bonuses.
3) and second thing...
The meeting that approved this diabolically plane was **all Sackler family members**.
... just this week, Sacklers got no jail sentence in the big opioid settlement.