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Oct 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
📍CHOLERA EMERGENCY—More than 60 people have died in the last 5 days (17 died just yesterday) of #cholera in a major overcrowded Haiti prison. People are reportedly “dropping like flies” while sharing just buckets for toilets. What a humanitarian disaster.
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2) “Without immediate evacuation and medical attention, more than three thousand people face near certain illness and may die.”
3) The cholera outbreak that began on Sunday, October 2, has now reached one of the world’s most notoriously overcrowded prisons, creating a lethal engine for the resurgence of cholera that had been thought vanquished from the country.
4) how outbreak started— on Sunday, October 2, two new cases of cholera were confirmed along with “clusters of suspected cases and deaths,” by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in Haiti. paho.org/en/documents/e…

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Oct 11
📍HIGHEST FIREARM HOMICIDE IN 50 YEARS—from 2020 to 2021, the % of homicides from firearm increased from 79% to 81% resulting in the **highest % for gun homicide in more than 50 years**! Age 25-44 also has the worst rate of gun homicide. #EndGunViolence
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2) An increase of 8.3% gun homicide in just one year is also absolutely insane if you think about it. In just one year!

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3) African Americans by far had the highest rate of dying by gun homicide. Often more than 10-20x higher rate than non Hispanic Whites.

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Oct 10
Concerning—US just spent $290 million on anti-radiation pills used to "save lives following radiation and nuclear emergencies". Nplate is designed to fight acute radiation syndrome (ARS)’s uncontrolled bleeding. Official claim it’s “Long-standing purchase”businessinsider.com/us-spends-290m…
2) Nplate is designed to treat patients suffering from acute radiation syndrome (ARS), which occurs when a person's entire body is exposed to a high dose of penetrating radiation, reaching internal organs in a matter of seconds, per HHS.
3) The drug stimulates the body's production of platelets, fighting symptoms of ARS which include uncontrolled and life-threatening bleeding due to a loss of those platelets.
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Oct 7
Major COVID drug bites the dust—Merck’s #COVID-fighting antiviral #molnupiravir failed to prevent #COVID19 hospitalizations/deaths is a large trial of ~25,000 people, despite drug shortening recovery time & lowering viral load. Damn—COVID19 is a tough nut.
statnews.com/pharmalot/2022…
2) Yes #molnupiravir did improve recovery a little— but if you look at the chart, it was mostly just around the 7-12 day mark that the drug had biggest effect, and then the drug seemed to stay parallel and even converge with the placebo group beyond 2 weeks. ➡️benefit didn’t last
3) for the combined endpoint of HOSPITALIZATIONS/DEATHS… no obvious subgroup benefit. There was even a borderline increased risk in the immunocompromised (P for subgroup interaction=0.06, bordeline). Not sure if that is real or bad luck but it’s not good.
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Oct 2
I hate this—Congressional stock trading scandals, from suspiciously trades at start of #COVID pandemic to members of Congress failing to comply with disclosure requirements, have prompted calls for reform. But they are “fake” reforms—thanks @waltshaub
time.com/6218708/congre…
2) “To say the bill is weak, however, would be an understatement. The bill is dangerous. It would undermine what little ethics we have in our federal government.” ~@waltshaub
3) it “bill would replace the government’s strict blind trust requirements with a regime that would permit fake blind trusts, like one Trump invented. Backing a bill that would allow fake blind trusts—Trump’s greatest scam—should shock us into paying attention.” @waltshaub
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Oct 2
OF COURSE FLORIDA… Facing a Dire Storm Forecast in Florida, Florida Officials Delayed Evacuation until it was too late. Downplay the risks… people die. Welcome to Florida’s failed leadership… again. #HurricanIan

By @FrancesRobles et al.
nytimes.com/2022/09/30/us/…
This is indeed DeSantis’s fault… how do we know? almost ever Florida official hails its state’s Dear Leader DeSantis for his “leadership”.
Meanwhile FL Governor DeSantis is blaming victims for not evacuating despite no evacuation order given until it was too late. What leadership hogwash.
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Sep 30
⚠️Geeeeezzz—2 healthcare workers who wore full PPE (N95, gloves, gown, goggles) got #monkeypox in 🇧🇷 after visiting monkeypox patient. Despite **washing hands**, the 2 female HCWs both positive days later. ➡️They didn’t sanitize the clipboard & sample box! wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28…
2) However, “From the time they entered the patient’s home to the end of the interview, the HCWs did not wear gloves; after the interview, both HCWs sanitized their hands with 70% ethanol and donned latex gloves to collect samples.” ➡️that’s also a mistake. Room contaminated.
3) The other clear mistake was they should have doffed the contaminated gloves and PPE immediately after leaving the patient’s house. They should not have worn the PPE while traveling back to the lab. The vehicle they were in probably got contaminated - later exposure.
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