Thread by @kawaiilovesarah

[COVID and schizophrenia thread 🧵]

did you know that the strongest risk factor for dying of COVID is age? probably.

did you know the SECOND strongest risk factor is schizophrenia diagnosis? let's talk eugenics bc i have schizo & covid and i don't want to die out here.

2/ JAMA did a 7k patient study and CONFIRMING another study that found obvious association between schizo and fatal covid prognosis.

interestingly, other mood disorders did NOT show this correlation, including other SMI class illnesses.
how is covid "detecting" schizophrenia?

3/ JAMA reports if you're schizophrenic, your odds are 2.7x greater for dying of COVID than any other risk factor except age. other studies (re: Frontiers) reports 3x higher in a separate test group.

so i am THREE TIMES more likely than you to die of covid, and i'm turning 30.

4/ this is where it gets complicated, because the studies start speculating on reasons why COVID can detect this diagnosis. and the short answer is "it can't". which means this is human decision-making?

what does that sound like to you? when you're more willing to get rid of me?

5/ multiple comorbidities plays into it. reduced immunity from antipsychotics plays into it.

accessing medical care keeps coming up. but this is insidiously blamed on the *patient* - we're not "seeking" care. i find that hard to believe. consider that antipsychs are common

6/ among homeless populations and prison populations. this plays back to the carceral pipeline conversation i was on about yesterday.

when schizophrenics go to the hospital, they are not believed. they are arrested and given tertiary care, and start homeless/prison cycling.

7/ in fatal ER cases of COVID in Korea, USA and France, schizophrenics were over-represented EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. (5x higher in Korea, 3x higher in France, 2x higher in America)

that's not a biology problem, that's a TREATMENT problem. that's people choosing who gets to live.

8/ there is no compelling reason other than eugenics as to why schizophrenia is the SECOND highest fatality indicator after a core biological factor (age).

an article said my "insight is compromised" and that's why this happens -- we don't know to get treated. that's bullshit.

9/ i do not see nearly enough people talking about this. i did see the #MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy -- where are all the schizophrenics upset that we're being sacrificed to save more normal people? why am i worth less than you?

read this insanity yourself: theconversation.com/covid-19-and-s…

10/ frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/…

11/ @Mad_In_America @MadMediaPod @DisabledAcadem @djnontario @DisInHigherEd @SchizoScientist @CouragePhD @DisVisibility @AcademicChatter

schizophrenia can't be /detected/ by the virus.
WE are detecting it and choosing which people to save.
don't sacrifice me to save you. 😭🤍