📍When I worry, I’m doing something but getting nowhere.
📍From Greg, I witnessed what I let defeat me in my own life.
📍Getting out of step with time, I lose.
📍When I stay connected to the NOW, I win.
🔸Large study of 4k treated pts vs. 105k not on Pax
🔸Robust 80% ⬇️ in death prevention in elderly
🔸Hospitalization 70% lower if >65 y/o
🔸No help in young?
2/ Mild Covid is biologically dangerous long after initial viral infection.
81 mild COVID pts:
Study revealed:
✔️Astrocytes (🧠 support cells for neurons) get infected
✔️Neurotransmitters are altered
✔️Neurons die indirectly
✔️Then we lose brain power
Our daughter fell off a high diving board headfirst to cement years ago. Though she had 2 cracks through her foramen magnum, her GCS was 15 & CT had no bleeding.
This 🧵 is to alert readers that methods of studies are critical to analyze. These authors set up an experiment that was designed to be as HIGHLY infectious as possible w a dose & delivery highly unlike what we see in society. They even got rectal lesions.
3/ There’s no doubt that respiratory secretions from prolonged close physical contact (kissing) are a way to transmit monkeypox. That is NOT the type of droplet transfer across multiple feet of physical separation we have to worry about.
2/ First, be clear that the vesicles & pustules of #MonkeyPox rash can be super painful.
The infection can include eyes and soft tissue super infections.
Stay clear of close skin to skin contact with anyone infected (contagious for duration of rash, ie, 2 to 4 weeks-ish).
3/ I highlighted this fascinating @NEJM paper for you...
Essentially the drug approval process for TPoxx, a med you’ll get if you get seriously sick with MPox, goes back 34 years to the HIV epidemic and also Small Pox.