Unapologetic Retweeter, Assistant Professor, Nurse educator, Activist, Anti Genocide, Democracy junkie, wife, cat mom, Pisces, views are my own.
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Nov 2 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
#CovidIsNotOver This is my 15th semester teaching RN and NP students about Covid 19 pathophysiology. Not a lot has changed except for how much damage we now know the virus causes. It still baffles me that people don’t know it’s airborne, don’t know the risks. 1
Semester after semester I see my maskless students filter in, dutifully taking notes on how the Covid virus attaches to ace2 receptors in the nose, throat, gut, kidneys, liver and pancreas first, then later the lungs 2
Nov 5, 2022 • 32 tweets • 5 min read
I teach patho to nursing students. Every semester since spring of 2020, I have taught about Covid. And every semester to have to change my lecture to keep up with new data. I was teaching Covid this semester and I told them that if nothing else, understand the science 1/n
I explained how Covid attaches to ACE2 receptors in the nose, throat, heart, kidneys, and gut first. That’s why you see a runny nose, sore throat, myocarditis and acute kidney failure first. There aren’t as many ACE 2 receptors in the lungs, so Covid hits the lungs later.
