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Just trying to survive and make this place a little less hellscape-y for my kids.
May 9, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
"It's startling how many of these children present and have a range of symptoms that we haven't fully appreciated. Some are coming in with heart failure after asymptomatic Covid infections," said Dr. Jeffrey Kahn, chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

But sure, keep on telling me that "kids do really well with it".

We really need to talk about long Covid more often.

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May 7, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
I have a question for #MedTwitter. Yesterday, I saw a large government-focused IG account suggest medical coding for miscarriage should be changed to something other than abortion. The account owner mentioned receiving "so many DMs" from people saying, "I was devastated to have a miscarriage, and it was like a gut punch to see the word abortion on my medical records." To me, this needs to be solved by eliminating the stigma around abortion. I see this as a societal failure, and it seems like it could be a slippery slope