I typically limit the personal details I share on Twitter, but in the service of #PublicHealth and sharing important information, I have a personal story to share about my family's experience with #COVID19. 🧵

1/20 Last weekend, we drove to see close family members and stayed with them in their home for 24 hours. Both of them are adults who have been fully vaccinated with the #Pfizer #vaccine. My partner and I are also fully Pfizer vaxxed.

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I was grateful for the opportunity to discuss the impact of #ExtremeHeat on behavior & #MentalHealth with @kare11 on behalf of @HennepinHC on Friday.

A brief #tweetorial on some other important details that weren’t able to be included in the segment.🧵

google.com/amp/s/www.kare… Hotter temperatures are associated with changes in behavior such as increases in violence, aggression, & impulsivity. #ClimateChange is increasing temperatures & it is predicted that we will see more violence & conflict as #HeatWaves increase. 2/9

psychologicalscience.org/observer/globa…

🗣 Calling all #HealthProfessionals! These brave MN med students are speaking out about the injustices against the #Indigenous community from the #Line3 project, which has global #climate & #EnvironmetalJustice implications.

Here are several ways they say you can help:

1/8 1. Add your voice as a health professional to the petition calling on @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris to #StopLine3

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

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I have a few thoughts I'd like to offer about #vaccine acceptance. To my fellow (esp White) clinicians who are asking, "What are your strategies for convincing #BIPOC communities to take the #COVID19 vaccine?" this thread is for us…
1/19 First, I'd suggest that this is an unhelpful question & is racially problematic. It centers the holder of the mistrust as the target of the problem & intervention, not the system & history that caused the mistrust in the first place.

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