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Eric Feigl-Ding Profile picture
@DrEricDing
Aug 5, 2021 • 26 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X
⚠️”In last 10 days alone, before school has even opened, 4 school-aged children have been admitted to hospitals.” ~a Florida school superintendent begs @GovRonDeSantis for temporary mask mandate in schools. This FL kid was in pediatric ICU for 3 days⬇️ 🧵
2) Leon County School District Superintendent Rocky Hanna is calling on @GovRonDeSantis to give school districts "flexibility and autonomy" to act to protect students amid a surge in COVID cases that has taxed hospitals locally & statewide. @RonDeSantisFL
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3) Hanna on Wednesday morning specifically said he wants to temporarily mandate masks in schools for teachers and students pre-K through 8th grade "who are not eligible to receive a vaccine."
4) "It's never too late to do the right thing," Hanna said at a press conference surrounded by masked school employees. 
In a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis, Hanna made a personal appeal saying we "not allow pride or politics to cloud our better judgement."
5) “Over the last 60 days, I have stood firm in my belief that a mask mandate was the wrong course of action," he wrote. "With that said, I believe that new data and information as well as student instructional models compels us to rethink mask protocols.”
6) “School-wide mask wearing is a proven, mitigating strategy to reduce the spread of COVID-19."

The move comes after Alachua and Duval counties amended their mask policies in defiance of Gov. Ron DeSantis' executive order to make masks optional in schools.
7) Executive order 21-175 (Ensuring Parents’ Freedom to Choose – Masks in Schools) also allows the state to withhold funds if a district does not fall in line with the policy. flgov.com/wp-content/upl…
8) Florida has the most children hospitalized for COVID-19, according to reporting by the Tampa Bay Times. Between July 24 and 30, the state saw 32 child hospitalizations per day. tampabay.com/news/health/20…
9) On June 11, Hanna supported the optional mask rule when the positivity rate in Leon County was 2%. The positivity rate in Leon County on Monday was nearing 16%, according to the Centers for Disease Control. 

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10) Many other school districts in FL have had to rescind their mask mandates or else get their funding cut off by @GovRonDeSantis
11) When hospitals are full… we all suffer. Especially the children.
12) ICU doctor @WesElyMD explains the video… “in Covid pneumonia you can build up the same levels of phlegm that you do in cystic fibrosis.” — so yes, #COVID19 pneumonia in kids can be like this damnit. #DeltaVariant
13) I don’t post this for some “fear porn”. This video is personal to me - as a child I had open-chest surgery in which I was intubated & even lost part of my right lung🫁. I was catheterized too, plus had 2 drainage tubes in my chest to drain excess fluid buildup. But this kid…
14) 📍Kids and COVID—Dr Mark Kline at Children's Hospital New Orleans: "#DeltaVariant is every infectious disease specialist's worst nightmare. There was a myth—that children were somehow immune—It has become very clear that children are heavily impacted"
15) The IQ drop of ~7 points from ICU ventilated #COVID19 is astronomical. This study is prefer reviewed too - and comes from recent national UK 🇬🇧 testing data of COVID and no-Covid people. Even 2 point drop is huge—that’s ~lead poisoning IQ drop. And we see that in mild cases.
16) In case anyone thinks I sensationalized that… I did NOT. Just read the lay Sky News article yourself. The study wasn’t small - it was 81,000 people who were assessed cognitive decline, 13,000 who had COVID. news.sky.com/story/covid-19…
17) Covid’s long term effects on “brain fog” is notorious. Lots of data on this even last year, including increased risk of mental illness diagnoses. See detailed thread 🧵 below.
18) Why didn’t CDC or other govts warn us about brain damage and IQ declines??? I honestly don’t know. But we epidemiologists have known and highlighted this for 9 months! 👇
19 Please read this intelligence decline study yourself. It is incredibly sobering. Again, it’s *peer reviewed* and funded by UK’s leading dementia research institute, @wellcometrust and UK 🇬🇧 govt grants. #LongCovid brain damage is real. Please #vaccinate thelancet.com/action/showPdf… Image
20) Kids transmit too damnit. All those who said— “Kids are practically immune; Kids are “already basically a vaccinated adult”—are dead wrong.

Kids are just as likely to transmit as adults and daycare staff, even youngest kids, with #B117 variant—Pretty solid study . #COVID19
21) let this sink in — 1% of all #COVID19 confirmed cases in kids lead to hospitalization.

Is that really an “acceptable” level of kids morbidity that we will allow in society? Listen to Fauci here…
22) COVID has sextupled in 1 month in the US. Here is how it’s going…
23) Oh what the hell… @GovRonDeSantis is leaning into pretending not vaccinating is okay. What about the thousands hospitalized? Should Florida pay the hospital bills then? Should you be liable @RonDeSantisFL ?
24) Honestly I think DeSantis is too far gone— sociopathic moral emptiness.
25) while 11,000+ Floridians are hospitalized, Florida’s Governor goes out of state for fundraiser parties. All while ICUs are nearly full. Record surge. Complete moral emptiness. amp.detroitnews.com/amp/5481453001…
26) let’s check in how Florida is doing since the #DeltaVariant surge began….

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Mar 15
SICKENING—Trump’s DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown University Medical School—who is here legally on an H1B visa that doesn’t expire until 2027, and has committed no crimes. Trained in the U.S. at Ohio State, University of Washington, and Yale as a **transplant surgeon** (one of the most difficult surgical fields in all of medicine!!!), she is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants, which cannot be easily replaced. Her phone was seized at the border. A federal judge handed down an injunction against her deportation—but she was already deported on a plane en route to Paris. Brown’s kidney transplant clinic is now strained by her deportation.Image
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PROVIDENCE — A Rhode Island doctor who had traveled to Lebanon to see her parents was prevented from re-entering the United States at Boston’s Logan International Airport on Thursday evening, her lawyer and a colleague said.

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, who lives in Providence, has been working at Brown Medicine’s Division of Kidney Disease & Hypertension since last July, and she [has] been part of the transplant service at Rhode Island Hospital, according to Dr. George Bayliss, the organ transplant division’s medical director. She has been studying and working in the United States for about six years, he said Friday.

The US consulate in Lebanon had issued her an H-1B visa, which is given to people in specialty occupations requiring expertise. The visa was valid through mid-2027, said Thomas S. Brown, an attorney representing her and Brown Medicine.

Alawieh was detained when she returned to Logan airport, and family members are afraid that she is about to be deported to Lebanon, he said.

“We are at a loss as to why this happened,” Brown said. “I don’t know if it’s a byproduct of the Trump crackdown on immigration. I don’t know if it’s a travel ban or some other issue.”

He said her phone has been seized and he has not been able to contact Alawieh.

Bayliss said a lawyer filed a petition with the US District Court in Massachusetts, and Judge Leo T. Sorokin issued an order saying Alawieh should not be moved outside of Massachusetts without 48 hours notice. But he said that message apparently did not reach immigration officials in time, and a plane carrying Alawieh left for Paris.

“This is outrageous,” Bayliss said in an interview. “This is a person who is legally entitled to be in the U.S., who is stopped from re-entering the country for reasons no one knows. It’s depriving her patients of a good physician.”

A US Customs and Border Patrol spokesperson, Ryan Brissette, was not able to immediately answer questions about Alawieh on Friday evening.

Bayliss said Alawieh graduated from the American University of Beirut medical school and came to the United States for a nephrology fellowship at Ohio State University. She then landed a transplant fellowship at University of Washington and had a residency in the Yale hospital system before starting at Brown Medicine last July, he said.

“She’s really a very humble and able person,” Bayliss said. “She takes care of her patients. She is talented and thoughtful and a great addition to our division.”

Bayliss said Alawieh went to Lebanon to visit parents and planned to be gone for two weeks. He said she texted a colleague at 6:30 p.m. Thursday saying she was back in Boston, but then her family heard from immigration officials.

Dr. Paul Morrissey, surgical director of the organ transplant division at Brown University Health, said Alawieh works on getting people in Rhode Island on the list for a kidney transplants, and that’s a crucial job at a time when there has been a lot of focus on the need for kidneys and their equitable distribution.

He said Alawieh should not have had any problem traveling out of the country with an H-1B visa.

“It’s an unfortunate set of circumstances,” Morrissey said. “It’s putting a strain on our office. Her work has been exceptional.”

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3) There is a new Trump ban against many countries, including tourist visa bans against all countries in the red and orange lists. This list is still tentative. And it shouldn’t have affected people with existing visas, such and the Brown kidney transplant surgeon Image
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Mar 14
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again… once upon a time, liberals did have our own “Leftist Joe Rogan”… his name was Joe Rogan…

Here he is advocating for socialized medicine, healthcare for all, and supporting labor unions to protect workers.
2) Recall, Rogan was once pro Obama and pro Bernie Sanders, and pro Yang Gang, and anti Trump. It’s sad he has since failed to the dark side. But like Vader… maybe he can be redeemed someday and come back to the light.
3) *Fallen, not failed (above).

Joe Rogan was also pro gay rights and pro DACA and pro helping inner city communities that suffer economic and social injustices. It’s sad what he has become. I feel we should try to pull & welcome him back someday. Everyone can be redeemed.
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Feb 26
BREAKING—FDA suddenly cancels meeting to update next season’s flu vaccines, with zero explanations. Any delays will jeopardize next year’s vaccine supply chain. Image
2) Folks who follow me know that I’m no bullshitter. I criticized past pandemic response right and left, and have called balls and strikes without bias. And I often say things that doctors & epidemiologists are whispering among themselves but don’t say publicly. (Cough cough) ⬇️
3) While I don’t recommend hoarding… I think stocking up on flu antivirals, which you can obtain prophylactically (preventively) from doctors if you ask nicely why you’re high risk, can be a good idea. I know many doctors, epidemiologists and virologists who do for their family.
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Feb 26
Doctors are debunking RFK Jr’s claim that 20 hospitalized measles cases in Texas are there for mainly quarantine. Doctors on the ground say the 20 kids hospitalized are having trouble breathing. Oh and they are all unvaccinated against measles, which RFK Jr neglects to mention. Image
2) RFK Jr told Trump today there’s now 2 measles deaths.
3) RFK Jr is a tear with his FDA today. A dark Darwinian future lies ahead for America.
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Feb 26
BREAKING—Reports coming in about potentially *2 measles deaths* in Texas, not just one, according to an HHS briefing to the White House today.
2) Earlier today, one measles death in an unvaccinated child was reported in Texas. Image
3) It seems to be RFK Jr who said it in an official Trump WH cabinet meeting today. Not saying he doesn’t lie, but he is now HHS Secretary
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Feb 21
Woke or biology? There are actually more than the basic “male” XY & “female” XX sexes. Why? Because biology also creates people with single X chromosomes, or extra chromosomes like XXX, XXY, XYY, or XXX+, plus many 🧬genes. 👉All I’m asking is— please be kind to others. Thanks🙏 Image
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2) “The most frequent SCAs include Turner syndrome (45,X), Klinefelter syndrome (47,XXY), Trisomy X syndrome (47,XXX), and Double Y syndrome (47,XYY).”

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3) “The phenotype seen in SCAs is highly variable and may not merely be due to the direct genomic imbalance from altered sex chromosome gene dosage but also due to additive alterations in gene networks and regulatory pathways across the genome as well as individual genetic modifiers.”
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