Thread by @MonicaGandhi9

Sobering article on how there will be a wave of disability & death from other chronic diseases after pandemic (happened in 1918 too). Will be tempting to keep testing asymptomatic after vax, but must turn attention to other health conditions after mass vax
medscape.com/viewarticle/94…

White House reports 88,000 overdose deaths during this pandemic (San Francisco has had 3 times as many overdose deaths than those from COVID-19 during pandemic). Another sobering reality of this painful time.
healio.com/news/primary-c…

And great article about @DrLeanaWen about the epidemic of obesity in US & its increase in the pandemic: "concerning study in which 42% of people self-reported gaining weight since the pandemic began; average addition was 29 lb; 10% reported gaining >50lb"
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

By the way, not new. Same thing happened after the 1918 influenza pandemic. See this article about rates of heart disease that followed 1918. This was partially related to stress. Any state with low #covid hospitalizations now - turn to other diseases too
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

So, which states have hospitalizations that are low from COVID and can turn to other diseases too? 39 have rates lower than that of flu (<20 hospitalizations per 100K) and 14 have rates lower than 10 hospitalizations per 100K from #covid19 (including CA).