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A photo 📸 thread🧵of Day of the Dead - when the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest.💀

Oaxaca, Mexico 2018
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Jan 27
In case you were wondering about COVID reactivating latent viruses....

I got bloodwork done yesterday after having Covid earlier this month (and developing cold / canker sores in my mouth).

I had never had them before. Image
"HHV (Herpes) reactivation was considered a positive polymerase chain reaction result taken at the time of COVID-19 infection."
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36880642/
Maybe it's time to lower the age minimum (currently 50) for the Shingles vaccine for those of us old enough to have had the Chicken Pox... 🤔

Shingles is the reactivation of Chicken Pox.

Multiple Sclerosis is the reactivation of EBV (Mono).

See the pattern?
Read 7 tweets
Jan 13
What if I told you there was a simple OTC that you could take during acute COVID that could help prevent a cytokine storm?

What if I told you there weren't more studies because the government won't fund the research because of... optics?

That thing is nicotine.

True story.
No one is suggesting taking up 🚬!!!

One week on a nicotine patch.

Early papers from 2020 make the connection.

Since then? 🦗🦗🦗

I wonder why 🤔
Read 8 tweets
Jan 12
Welcome to Covid 101 (Season 2024)

@NickGuthe and I both got Covid.

I took Paxlovid for 10 days. He couldn't stand the taste and stopped at 5.

He tested neg for 5 days and is now sicker than before, testing strongly positive.

This is NOT a rebound. There is no such thing.

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This is the natural viral cycle of Covid that has been constant from the beginning:

Days 5-8 were *always* the danger zone.

You either started to recover or entered the cytokine storm that put people in the hospital and on vents.

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A so-called "rebound" is likely an indication that you had a high viral load to begin with and would have ended up much sicker without Paxlovid.

3/
Read 8 tweets
Mar 13, 2023
In February 2021 Congress gave the @NIH $1.15 Billion to study #LongCovid.

They decided to start with an observational cohort.

Recruitment started October 2021.

Recruitment status as of TODAY:

13,365 out of 17,000 adults
2917 out of 6000 peds

Where did the money go????

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In April 2021 @NIH put out a call to scientists to apply for trials (how things should work).

No applications were accepted and clinical trials were put on hold.

As of TODAY:

- no trial protocol has been completed
- no trial sites have been chosen
- no trials have started

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The piece de resistance of RECOVER was to be (sadly not the clinical trials) a registry*

The registry was supposed to start recruiting Dec. 2022.

As of TODAY it is on hold (pulled?)

* @Survivor_Corps @ColumbiaMed @ChanZuckerberg @Sagebio started this in Summer 2020 fwiw

3/
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Dec 5, 2022
👉 Looking for some advice...

A 🧵...

From the beginning of the Pandemic @Survivor_Corps has led the way.

A few examples:

- Kicked off plasma movement in early 2020 (we saved hospitals and blood bankers a fortune b/c they never had to advertise. We did it for them)

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- Provided free and immediate access to Monoclonal Antibodies and other early Therapeutics through our portal GotCOVID.org (we did it way better and waaay faster than the US Government - they agreed)

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- Advised White House / CDC / HHS / NIH / Congress etc etc (all unpaid except for one HHS contract - Health Plus)

- Linked every major media outlet (and all the small ones too) with real people to tell their COVID stories (we basically act as unpaid bookers)

3/
Read 9 tweets
Nov 23, 2022
Let's revisit COVID testing.

Here's the story of my 14yo kid today... (his bff tested positive earlier today and they spent the weekend together)

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- 14yo presented with sore throat Monday. BFF tested positive = known exposure.

Tested negative on RAT (nose only)

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- Tested negative Tuesday on rapid antigen test [RAT] (administered via nose only)

3/
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