Dear @PublicHealth, did you consider having a local/state public health director lead mainstage talk about backlash?
Just doing our jobs led to us needing police protection many times during the pandemic. We did not have to go out of our way to utilize media to manufacture it.
Our families have been tortured, our lives threatened. Many of us have lobbied for laws to protect our privacy by unlisting our addressed.
A colleague described how her kids were beaten up on the school bus after she implemented a mask mandate.
But, you're highlighting a
person who sought media blitz, downplayed the harms of COVID among minority populations, used her platform against struggling local public health leaders, in a conference focused on equity.
Can you help me understand this decision?
Signed a local health director who's small children asked why I needed police guarding our home on multiple occasions #backlash

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Aug 10
COVID fatigue is real.
Long COVID is real, and currently cost our economy 50 bil a year. This number is expected to increase as repeat COVID cases lead to more long COVID.
I also expect long COVID to impact our children's ability to learn in school and succeed. Especially if
their parents are too sick or too fatigued to help their kids with school work.

We can't just stop at COVID fatigue being real and jump to "so let's give in to it".

We have to move to activism, "so let's decrease the rate of COVID in the community."

How? I have some ideas
We like to say that the fed gov abandoned us. This is only partially true in that they decided not to be the standard bearers, they pushed it all to the states.
However, they model good policies that we could copy.
Read 8 tweets
Aug 7
My plan is to thank everyone individually for the care and support you have shown my family.
First by helping me identify a trauma & grief therapist in Philly, secondly by helping ensure that my family have the resources to maintain treatment.
My Twitter community is priceless.
Last night, I talked to my 10 year old about the event that caused the life of her 9 year old cousin. Today, I will talk to you all about it.
The goal, education, with hopes that not another child is lost this way.
Let's discuss the #BlackoutChallenge
This is a challenge that is rampant on the internet. If you google, the majority of children to have died from this are 9 and 10.
The CDC suggest that over 80 kids have recently subcumbed to this.
As a mom of a 10 year old, I knew nothing about the resurgence of this challenge.
Read 7 tweets
Jun 26
"We don't have to count raindrops to know it's raining"

A thread on why this should never be a premise we base public health policy on.

Also... hating every moment in our new normal that makes a thread like this necessary.
My favorite T-shirt says "Epidemiologists count".

2 years ago I gave a lecture on how to count. My then 7 year old was shocked that I was giving a 3 hour talk to adults on how and the importance of counting.

But accuratly counting cases is core to epidemiology.
Specific to COVID, why does it matter? We all know COVID is still here.

Well, there's been a concerted effort to have people believe that COVID is no longer here, and/or no longer a big deal. And the way we continue down this path is to stop/undercount cases.
Read 10 tweets
Jun 9
Today is my first day of vacation since Dec 2019.
How am I spending it? Well, just trying to make schools safer for all.

Thread about #SROs in schools.
My concern about school safety has always been about way more than infectious disease spread.
School shootings, school violence, school to prison pipeline, school stress & anxiety, bullying, racially based macro and microaggressions, I've been trying to bring attention to this
Since my oldest daughter got arrested at school.
She was 15. I had been her parent for 3 months. We adopted her, and moved her to a new city. Her life literally changed overnight. But she didn't. Her trauma was still hers. The liberal affluent community we moved her to
Read 11 tweets
Apr 14
When my oldest was in 2nd grade, we got a personal email from a parent on the first day of school.
It included pictures of their daughter. She had a childhood cancer. They talked about her struggles over the previous 20 months, and how her doctor had finally given them the
green light to send her to school. They talked about how excited she was to attend school, especially since she didnt get to go in kinder or first grade. The parents ended their letter with a plea. A plea to parents not to send our kids to school with even a cold.
They explained that a cold for our child could lead to a hospitalization for their child. They asked us to think about the pictures of their child sick in the hospital, and let that influence our decision making about sending our kids to school.
Read 5 tweets
Apr 14
I feel this loss deeply. I feel the coldness of our neighbors every time I read a public death announcement. The "how many comorbities did they have' or "vaccination status" demands, I see written on public platforms.
I'm often left wondering if people realize that the deceased have love ones that could read their comments. Love ones that need support, not questions wrapped in judgement.
I also mourn for the parents who lost a child. To hear daily "virtually no kids die from this", when their child did. Their child who had a name, constantly dismissed by the world.
This pandemic has stolen lives and our humanity.
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