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Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

Jan 2, 2022 • 10 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X

https://twitter.com/tweetmommybop/status/1477475314070691843

Why you should #SwabYourThroat…. Negative via nose… Positive via the throat. #Omicron is very different from all other variants. We need to adapt to changing testing strategies.

P.s. This story made my day! 👇

https://twitter.com/tweetmommybop/status/1477475314070691843

@tweetmommybop

2) here was my tweet 🧵 yesterday morning that led @tweetmommybop to try out the throat swab rapid test after her husband has negative nasal results. RAT tests of Omicron are being compared using nasal tests vs Delta. I think they need to do throat swabs too with #Omicron

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1477296506931712002

https://twitter.com/jennyrohn/status/1475410068019585027

3) The throat swab positive while nasal swab negative testing story is becoming quite common. Here is another person with 3 negative nasal tests but got an immediate positive when she switched to a throat swab. 👇 #Omicron is different - we must adapt.

https://twitter.com/jennyrohn/status/1475410068019585027

4) It’s now becoming pretty clear that #Omicron is a very different beast. Saliva samples (hence throat swabs) are much better for detecting Omicron coronavirus. We need clear public health messaging (cough, CDC,cough) to adapt to this new reality. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

@UKHSA

5) LET THIS SINK IN—The 🇬🇧’s CDC for England (now @UKHSA) recommends taking a ***combined throat & nose swab** to test for #COVID19. ➡️However this is technically not authorized by the @US_FDA. Again, the FDA is a step behind 🇬🇧. Video how to swab 👇

@CDCgov

6) Speaking of the US being a step behind other countries — 🇹🇼’s CDC completely rejects the @CDCgov’s shortened isolation without any testing rule. It is quite a mess that @CDCDirector caused last week. CDC is worse off now because of it.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1477311536360267788

https://twitter.com/UHWI_JA/status/1303832342633607171

7) Look how Jamaica 🇯🇲 swabs both throat & both nostrils 👃… and this was done in Sept of 2020. Other countries like US needs to catch up with the oral swabbing.

https://twitter.com/UHWI_JA/status/1303832342633607171

8) Annoyed — I just took my kid to get tested this morning— the drive-through swabbing techs didn’t swab the mouth or throat or even deep in the nose 👃—merely swabbed front only. My kid’s dry commentary— “welp, that’s gonna be a negative already”. Kids are smarter than adults.

@michaelmina_lab

9) Listen to testing expert @michaelmina_lab— he also endorses swabbing your throat + nose.

https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/status/1475468989933490179

10) Remember not to eat or drink for 30 min before your throat swab, according to UK govt guidelines for throat swabbing.

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https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1854000943634731233

📍HARRIS IS STILL AHEAD IN PA—in terms of votes yet to be counted. She’s still +2 of what is needed to win PA, given the outstanding votes still remaining in PA cities, according to @CBSNews @NorahODonnell

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1854000943634731233

Harris has enough remaining in PA Philly suburbs to still win.

https://twitter.com/max_fisher/status/1854003472846446805

3) folks. The NYT needle is not reliable.

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Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

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Plastic cookware should not be used. Period. Especially BLACK PLASTIC cookware, that often mixes in toxic recycled electronic waste materials. DISPOSE OF ALL PLASTIC COOKWARE, especially if black colored plastic ones. Pass it on to your family.

Gift🎁🔗
theatlantic.com/health/archive…

2) Because optical sensors in recycling facilities can’t detect them, black-colored plastics are largely rejected from domestic-waste streams, resulting in a shortage of black base material for recycled plastic. So the demand for black plastic appears to be met “in no insignificant part” via recycled e-waste, according to Turner’s research. TV and computer casings, like the majority of the world’s plastic waste, tend to be recycled in informal waste economies with few regulations and end up remolded into consumer products, including ones, such as spatulas and slotted spoons, that come into contact with food.

3) You simply do not want flame retardants anywhere near your stir-fry. Flame retardants are typically not bound to the polymers to which they are added, making them a particular flight risk: They dislodge easily and make their way into the surrounding environment. And, indeed, another paper from 2018 found that flame retardants in black kitchen utensils readily migrate into hot cooking oil. The health concerns associated with those chemicals are well established: Some flame retardants are endocrine disruptors, which can interfere with the body’s hormonal system, and scientific literature suggests that they may be associated with a range of ailments, including thyroid disease, diabetes, and cancer. People with the highest blood levels of PBDEs, a class of flame retardants found in black plastic, had about a 300 percent increase in their risk of dying from cancer compared with people who had the lowest levels, according to a study released this year. In a separate study, published in a peer-reviewed journal this month, researchers from the advocacy group Toxic-Free Future and from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam found that, out of all of the consumer products they tested, kitchen utensils had some of the highest levels of flame retardants.

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Eric Feigl-Ding

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⚠️MASK MANDATE RETURNING TO ALL NIH PATIENT CLINICS—Effective November 4, 2024, masking will be required in all patient care & waiting rooms. Furthermore, testing for COVID, flu A, flu B, and RSV will be required for all inpatients & rooming-in visitors.
cc.nih.gov/patient-servic…

2) This means wearing a mask will be REQUIRED in all patient care areas, including waiting rooms. ➡️This change is due to an anticipated increase in COVID-19 and other respiratory virus activity in the community. 😷

3) I think people should stock up on COVID tests again. The Cheapest COVID test on the U.S. market is now as low as $1.50 with special promo code “COV20”… expiring Jan or March 2025.

store.pharmalynk.com/products/advin…

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Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

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⚠️CDC warning of “fast moving” situation—McDonald’s E. coli outbreak—1 dead, 49 sickened from an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers across multiple states. @McDonalds has now stopped selling Quarter Pounders from locations in several states. Still yet unknown exact ingredient contaminated. Results still pending. Some suspect it’s the onions, which is why it’s been pulled in some places already. But tracing the exact ingredient source requires tricky case-control studies that needs contact tracing. Nutritional epidemiology of these foods one of the most difficult since people scattered nationwide and lots of ingredients to investigate. Need to be vigilant. Updates coming.
cdc.gov/ecoli/outbreak…

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nytimes.com/2024/10/22/hea…

2) Wowzers - 10 people hospitalized!

The same strain of bacteria has sickened dozens of people in 10 states, although the C.D.C. said most people were from Colorado and Nebraska. One Colorado resident has died. Ten people were hospitalized, including a child who the health agency said has a complicating illness.

3) All of those interviewed said they had eaten at McDonald’s recently, and most said they had consumed Quarter Pounders. The fast-food chain told investigators it mainly uses fresh onion slivers on that item.
Food and health investigators are also trying to determine whether any contaminated beef has been sold to other retailers or grocery stores.

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Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

Oct 18

Reminder—50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, international study says
cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-…

https://twitter.com/ablackpolitical/status/1847259890609217866

We need to end the GOP scam of trickle down economics.

https://twitter.com/ablackpolitical/status/1847259890609217866

When it comes to the economy, Donald Trump plans to give another massive tax cut to billionaires and big corporations—and further drive up the deficit. All at the expense of the working class.