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7 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
what about the other 2 in 10 Image
x 283,000

which is

0.97 US deaths in the Vietnam war

or

19 x 9/11s

or

14,150 Benghazis
to be clear, this is just the deaths in Americans *under 65 years old*

whose lives this FDRLST author apparently does not think matter
anger tagging @FederalistPitch

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Seth Trueger Profile picture
9 Dec
this is an excellent point

some of my COVID vaccine thoughts (thread)
bottom line:
vaccine, good.

I will get vaccinated as soon as I can, which, as an ER doc, will be "soon"
the data we have is very good & very reassuring. I suspect the pfizer data will be published soon, but the fact that they prioritized the EUA, knowing the FDA would release it as part of the process, seems reasonable
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7 Dec
this is a very good thread--esp from someone not in health care--and makes a lot of great points about how bad ICU occupancy is
some things to add:
forget who I stole this from but hospital capacity is a lot like a tetris endgame -- you can be really full even when there is technically "space"
additionally, things don't happen instantaneously. even when there is space and everyone wants everything to move, things take time--turning over a room (ie cleaning), staff communication, patient transport
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26 Jun
At this point many physicians and scholars have discussed how and why COVID-19 disproportionately affected black and brown folk. @ezekielRMed #ShareTheMicNowMed 1/
They’ve said it better than I have: decades (centuries) of systemic racism that created packed housing, chronic illness, and the lack of capital that disallowed many to adjust. @ezekielRMed @uche_blackstock @dn_charles @CamaraJones #ShareTheMicNowMed 2/
So what do we do about it? Why aren’t the issues that spread COVID like fire through kindling as central to the field of medicine as sterile technique? (serious question) @ezekielRMed #ShareTheMicNowMed 3/
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27 Apr
@GitRDoneLarry Larry the stuff in that video is just wrong, even some simple facts like "we've never quarantined healthy people before"

it's happened countless times across history including in the US during the Spanish flu in 1918 and various other outbreaks of smallpox and plague
@GitRDoneLarry I absolutely appreciate that millions of people are hurting economically and it's hard because the models looked worse than what we've experienced but a big part of that is because the shelter in place is working well!

and despite that, over 53,000 Americans have died
@GitRDoneLarry these guys are extrapolating out their experience from their urgent cares which is not at all representative of anything; epidemiology is a lot more complicated than multiplying out numbers particularly as we have been so far behind on testing
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21 Apr
@PA_Sertraline @j_thePA say you have a seismograph (earthquake detector). I don't know how they actually work but I assume it's fundamentally some sort of mechanism with a spring that detects the ground shaking --> draws a squiggly line
@PA_Sertraline @j_thePA for our purposes, it's an "earthquake test"

squiggle line = earthquake detected

no squiggle line = no earthquake
@PA_Sertraline put it in the desert in the Nevada where I dunno I guess there are earthquakes and if the ground shakes -> spring bounces, earthquake detected

it SENSES ground shaking and says YES EARTHQUAKE because it is SENSITIVE to earthquakes
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14 Apr
more terrifying data we're probably undercounting covid deaths
oh look what I just saw
and for anyone else following along Image
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