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Medical & science writer. Contributor @Fortune @TIME @SciAm. 25-yr Emergency Medicine physician. Book: Runaway Medicine. Pls send tips!
Dec 14, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
Covid virus found all over the body.

An NIAID autopsy study of mostly older, unvax'd ppl who died from COVID revealed SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in 79 of 85 body locations (including the brain, heart, ovary, testes.) Virus persisted up to 230 days after symptom onset in 1 case. 1/ “Our data indicate that in some patients SARS-CoV-2 can cause systemic infection & persist in the body for months…”
 
"Others have previously reported SARS-CoV-2 RNA within the heart, lymph node, small intestine & adrenal gland. We replicate these 2/4
Dec 12, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
Hard to fathom. Amazing revelations here regarding #FTX ‘s collapse from @JohnJRay ,who is overseeing #FTXbankruptcy & has 40 years of legal & restructuring experience. “Nearly all of these situations (bankruptcies & corporate failures) share common characteristics, ranging from gross mismanagement, excessive leverage, failures of internal controls, failures of external checks as a result of audit firm failures, or insufficient board 2/