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@MarkedByCovid
Covid justice and remembrance, by & for those most harmed. - IG, FB, Threads, LinkedIn, Bluesky: @MarkedByCovid - Email updates: https://t.co/q5P5uZrNzY
Jan 31, 2023 • 20 tweets • 14 min read
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Yesterday, @WhiteHouse announced they will let the #Covid19 public health emergency expire.

This move will cause more death and disability, and deepen inequities in our health system.

@MarkedByCovid co-founder @kdurquiza released this statement:

docs.google.com/document/d/1l2… "With an average of 500 people a day still dying from #Covid in the U.S. and countless more struggling with #LongCovid, this continues the federal government’s refusal to take the pandemic seriously, protect people, and listen to the Covid bereaved."

nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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Aug 3, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
‼️FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Today, @WhiteHouse and the @HHSGov released reports laying out existing resources and plans to address long-term effects of #COVID19.

#MarkedByCovid is gravely concerned with...

[FULL STATEMENT: docs.google.com/document/d/1Ev…]

👇🏾 ...the missing input from COVID bereaved and the lack of urgency around Long COVID–a condition affecting 1 in 5 Americans who have tested positive.

From @kdurquiza: “There is no federal plan to reckon with the 1 million + lives (and counting) lost to Covid-19. 👇🏾
Aug 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Thanks to @michelleko2d, MD-PhD -- #MarkedByCovid Advisor & Assistant Public Health Sciences Professor at @ucdavis -- for capturing some gems from today's Teach-In!

Check out the thread below for details.👇🏿
Apr 29, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Sure, let’s keep using @CDCgov's calm green "Community Level" map that overemphasizes hospitalizations & deaths instead of the "Community Transmission" map that clearly demonstrates (high & growing!) infection rate.

That totally helps ppl make "informed decisions" about risk.🙄 In highly vaccinated #SanFrancisco, 7-day positivity & average daily case rates are growing significantly, despite decreased testing -- both are close to or above their highest levels throughout the entire of the pandemic, outside of the massive omicron surge.
Apr 29, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
🧵from @FenitN's piece in @washingtonpost is important but would benefit from some edits:

"Covid deaths no longer overwhelmingly among unvaccinated as toll on elderly grows"

[#MarkedByCOVID commentary in brackets]

washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04… "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose* not to get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time...

[*Note: inaccurate language that blames victims; cultural & structural barriers to vaccination remain.]
Sep 17, 2021 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
… and we’re live!💙💛💙💛💙💛
Sep 17, 2021 • 5 tweets • 19 min read
Our wonderful friends at #RamisHeartMemorial are holding a ribbon-cutting for the FIRST permanent national #covid memorial TODAY!

Learn more & watch live here - facebook.com/Covid19Memoria….

And if you can, donate here to support this grassroots effort - gofundme.com/f/ramis-heart-…. PlsRT:@Lets_Reimagine @CPDAction @covidgrief @katherinefugate @roserivermemor1 @Survivor_Corps @WidowsYoung @FacesOfCOVID @dianaberrent @TinaOchoa_CA @missinmycomfort @VP @POTUS @LongCovidNYC @NuLife4Real @itsmefi @Tara_Swanigan @KaitlynForShort @karleeg @kdurquiza @jritzsullivan
Sep 8, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
🧵ICYMI: @DCodeDemocracy's @AnnMRavel & @MarkedByCovid's @kdurquiza talk about how to fignt #vaccine #disinformation and end #Covid_19 in @CNN's Perspectives:

cnn.com/2021/09/01/per… In May 2020, just before AZ's infection rate soared, Gov @dougducey encouraged residents not to stay home. "I want to encourage people to get out and about," Ducey told listeners of a popular radio show. "If you don't have an underlying health condition, it's safe out there."
Sep 7, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
"To say that we’re on the brink of disaster offers hope that the people in charge can take steps to keep us from plunging toward an abyss. It suggests that the situation is at least temporarily sustainable, that maybe you can keep hunkering down and doing what you’ve been doing👇🏾 ...and everything will be fine. But it is not sustainable, and it is not fine. The health care system is not approaching some kind of cliff, while still functioning—what is happening right now is killing people like Daniel Wilkinson. People who do not have to die are dying."
Dec 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It's been eight months since Congress passed the CARES Act. Since then, millions have gotten sick, hundreds of thousands have died, and countless families have struggled through this crisis alone.

We need a second relief bill and we need it NOW. actionnetwork.org/forms/2012_ema…

(1/4) (2/4)There's no good reason for this hold-up – Mitch McConnell has been gatekeeping a second relief for every single family in this country for months and the effects have been devastating.
Oct 3, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD RT: My dad #MarkUrquiza was an actual warrior, @IvankaTrump. Your father killed my father. I know you know who I am and what I think. I saw you nod at me when you and your caravan of vectors walked past me at Tuesday night's debate. (1/9) I practiced restraint to show respect to you, your Dad, the rules @debates, and @ClevelandClinic set before us, @JoeBiden, and democracy. I had a copy of my Dad's obituary ready to hand to you. (2/9)
Oct 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
RT THREAD: At the #DNC I spoke of two Americas. We see it on full display this evening. #POTUS was taken to a hospital out of "caution" to monitor is reported symptoms of low-grade fever, chills, cough, and low-energy. On June 11th my Dad woke up with the same symptoms (1/4) My dad was told to come back if he couldn't breathe. Five days later on June 16th, my mother rushed him to the hospital as he gasped for air. His ICU doctor said he wished he would have come in sooner to the hospital. (2/4)
Aug 23, 2020 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
We caught this amazing piece in the #Austin-American @statesman about #HonestObits and were reminded that we have a story to share with you about an #HonestObit that was rejected by the #SanAntonio @ExpressNews...

statesman.com/opinion/202008… Image .@ExpressNews claimed that they could not run the #HonestObit bc it included opinions, criticized elected officials, and editorialized; they stated it would detract from the journalistic integrity of the paper and offered to run it as a paid advertisement instead.
Aug 18, 2020 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
@kdurquiza is not alone. We're a growing movement and have already had the enormous honor and privilege to sponsor multiple #HonestObit -- obituaries that call out politicians for the needless death of loved ones. @itsmefi wrote this #HonestObit for her mom, "Isabelle was a giant, powerful in her kindness. Like thousands of others...she should still be alive today. Her undeserving death is due to the carelessness of politicians who undervalue healthcare workers..." markedbycovid.com/2020/07/12/hon…
Aug 13, 2020 • 5 tweets • 8 min read
Today should have been #MarkUrquiza's 66th birthday. So we planned a National #DayOfAction to demand a coordinated, data-driven approach to #COVID.

Get involved by participating in the #MarkedByCOVID tweet storm, started by a supporter in Florida - RT below or create your own. Governors @GovRonDeSantis, @GregAbbott_TX, @dougducey, and @POTUS were late to close and early to re-open, needlessly jeopardizing lives along the way including #MarkUrquiza's. #MarkedByCOVID
Jul 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
❗️We want to work with YOU to plan a Day of Action on August 13, which would have been Mark's 66th birthday and is traditionally back-to-school season. Image We hope to see #vigils and #ofrendas wherever people have been #MarkedByCovid to honor the lives lost, raise awareness of the severity of the pandemic, and urge our elected officials to make science-based decisions and open #OnlyWhenItsSafe.
Jul 18, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Don't even try to share #JohnLewis' light after all of your #DuceyFails, @dougducey.

Less than a year ago (Dec 2019) Lewis remarked in the House on impeachment of @POTUS... “When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something. Our children and their children will ask us, ‘What did you do? What did you say?’ For some, this vote may be hard...