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Dr. Shawna Pandya
@shawnapandya
Physician. Aquanaut. Dir. Space Med Grp @iias_nlc @PoSSUMAstronaut. VP Immersive Med @LuxsonicInc. Med Dir @OrbitalOps. Speaker @nsb_speakers & @Tedx. Skydiver.
Oct 16, 2021 • 62 tweets • 20 min read
This is such a perfect question Dr. Jon! I'm en route to the airport in an Uber right now, so let's dissect the challenges of space medicine while I have a little time. Space med thread!
🧵👇🏽: The first thing to know is that space is trying to KILL you. To qualify that a little more, when we talk about the hazards of the spaceflight environment, we talk about the "Big 5" - to borrow from our friends at @NASA_Johnson:
1. Radiation
2. Altered gravity
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Mar 15, 2020 • 21 tweets • 11 min read
Watching #Pandemic on @CNN right now - produced in 2017 about #SARS #MERS #H1N1 #HIV & other infectious diseases...and our failure to learn from previous pandemics is concerning. #unseenenemy Some very interesting points about the #ethics of forcible #vaccination (done in order to eradicate smallpox), the role of rumors undermining authorities, especially in the age of social media & the immediate leap to close borders after the + diagnosis of 1st #ebola case in #US.