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Jan 14, 2022 22 tweets 7 min read Read on X
Memesday! Time to discuss the power of memes. Share your favorite pandemic meme—🧵

📌They are (usually) funny
📌They make a point without saying it
📌They expose irony or hypocrisy
📌They say what many think but can’t aloud
📌All the above gets memes shared more than dry science
2) I could say a breakthrough case is not the same as a unvaccinated cases and explain hospitalization and death rates… or a meme makes almost the same point. 👇
3) I could talk about needing a vaccine passport for flying… or this meme dog could do it better…
4) this was not what I meant when I told y’all to swab your nose and your mouth…
5) this A FEW GOOD MEN meme is harsh reality of what people out there do…
6) everyone’s an armchair epidemiologist these days…
7) school reopenings for vulnerable families.
8) Not a pandemic meme, but a funny Jan 6th insurrection meme…
9) this one is kinda harsh. Some don’t like it’s so brutal. But T-cell expert @fitterhappierAJ assures it is accurate.
10) the CDC according to some meme lords out there after their no-testing-early-isolation-exit rule
11) Everyone has a chance to be booster for school reopenings… except the youngest kids under 12.
12) We don’t want to do COVID mitigation cuz it’s too hard they say…
13) but but but…
14) The @CDCDirector on her isolation exit policy…
15) I love this one… protect yourself to protect HCWs.
16) This #Omicron meme below was the most viral meme I’ve ever posted… 👇
17) The injustice of criminal prosecution of drug crimes…
18) someday when we look back…
19) what you see depends what your lens you use to see.
20) #omicron travel bans…
21) I love this one. not an meme, but an actual ad for polio vaccine decades ago.
22) A video is worth a 1000 science tweets sometimes. 👇

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Jan 27
⚠️PFAS IS BACK—recall the EPA plan to ban dangerous forever chemicals from drinking water ➡️Well, Trump WH just cancelled it… once again allowing big corporations to discharge PFAS into rivers. PFAS cause cancers & many diseases. Does this make American healthy again? Image
2) “There really isn’t a system within the human body that isn’t affected by PFAS. They are toxic in many ways, but they’re also very long-lived. They’re designed not to break down in the environment or not to break down to heat and chemical stress.”
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3) CDC also just got banned from seeking any advice or input from the WHO — CDC can’t communicate or even enter any WHO building anymore. Perfect way to politically isolate CDC from outside science.
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Jan 27
NEW—CDC officially ordered by Trump WH to cease working with the @WHO, effective immediately. This is the first time in almost 77 years since WHO’s founding after World War 2. This is a dark day. Image
2) the memo said the stop-work policy applied to “all CDC staff engaging with WHO through technical working groups, coordinating centers, advisory boards, cooperative agreements or other means — in person or virtual.”
3) It also says @CDCgov staff are not allowed to visit @WHO offices.

CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal

apnews.com/article/cdc-wh…
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Jan 22
🛑JUST CANCELLED—Trump HHS has just cancelled key meetings of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB) & CDC’s Environmental Public Health Threats meeting—➡️all because of Trump WH’s new blackout of all HHS external comms. My god. Image
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2) Trump WH is literally blocking all of this… including all CDC science reports and all FDA public alerts!
3) CDC’s bird flu tracker now frozen / muzzled today too. Worst possible timing.
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Jan 22
NEW—Trump WH has blocked all CDC science reports (eg MMWR) & suspended all CDC / FDA / NIH external communications of all HHS agencies until further notice... including all FDA & CDC Health Alert warnings & all social media. Public health be damned.

Gift 🎁 link below. Image
2) Gift 🎁 link:
wapo.st/4aqfN44
3) These horrid action endangers not only the public health in US, but Trump’s actions withdrawing from the WHO also endangers the whole world.
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Jan 21
Dear Hispanic-Americans who voted for Trump…
3) Dear Congress- don’t let a dictator usurp you…
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⚠️BREAKING—ICU Hospitalized human bird flu case in Canada now officially confirmed as H5N1. Worse, it is the same 2.3.4.4b virus clade (variant group) as the one found in BC🇨🇦 poultry and in Washington state🇺🇸! The hospitalized teenager (with no pre existing conditions) had no animal contact, does not live on farm, had “deterioration quite rapid” and now critical in ICU with ARDS. Canada officials says infectious period is 2 days **prior to symptoms** (ie asymptomatic transmission) and infectious up to 10 days.Image
2) Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg confirmed that the individual has avian influenza H5N1
canada.ca/en/public-heal…
3) details…

⚠️BAD UPDATE—BIRD FLU HOSPITALIZATION IN CANADIAN TEEN

Summary 🧵 of the live press conference with Canada’s British Columbia health officer.

📌The teen is in intensive care.
📌Condition is ARDS
📌Teen was healthy prior; no underlying conditions

bsky.app/profile/dreric…
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