Sarah

I've just seen some staggering data on how badly infections are affecting urgent care here *now*.

It's hard to comprehend.
It's hard to get your head round it.

You need to see it to believe it.
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Rates of infection with other pathogens after a positive COVID-19 test versus a negative test in US veterans (November, 2021, to December, 2023): a retrospective cohort study Our results suggest that a positive test for COVID-19 (vs a negative test) was associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infecti...

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Hopefully, the shuttering of the Long Covid Office and gutting of the VA will not prevent this huge body of work🤞🏻

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Deaths attributed to the common cold are so rare that they are not captured in most public mortality databases.

On the other hand, while deaths due to COVID have dropped precipitously since vaccination, COVID is still a cause of death in over 47K US death certificates in 2024.

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YouTube video by The Daily Show Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap | The Daily Show

Investing in poor people earns greater dividends than investing in corporations. We have got to stop framing this as a solely moral argument when it is actually a logical one.

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I also enjoyed that brief moment when I thought they were actually going to do something.

Which would be outrageously stupid so yep, they probably will.

Right! I wonder how they are going to square this with all the vaccines the army demands.