My brother tested + for covid today. Took 2 tests to be sure. Watched him do the 2nd, sample line lit up immediately. Did a teleheath with his doctor. Doctor called both Binax tests "false positives" because the control line wasn't as bright. Wouldn't prescribe pax. He has asthma
I'm just fucking flabbergasted. I'm going to bring him a FlowFlex tonight so he can reconfirm it & call his doc back tomorrow to argue with him again.
"We have the tools"
Fuck off,
@ashishkjha
The FlowFlex I dropped off to my brother a short time ago turned positive within 30 secs.
But thank you, Dr. Two False positives.
Make it 3, Doc.
@PennMedicine
we'll be talking tomorrow.
@sarahhollowell
Companies that are demanding 100% of their employees return to the office in the coming weeks learned absolutely nothing over the past 15 months. Should be a huge 🚩 to quickly seek better opportunities elsewhere.
@ParentMishmash
This guy told my brother verbatim "you don't have covid, just a normal URI. Just rest"
My brother says I live with mom who is a cancer pt. She literally out at her radiation treatment right now. Worried about being around her.
Doc says "You're fine. You can be around your mom."
@bbalsam
@BryceGruber
What if, and hear me out here, we choose to *not* accept this?
What do you think covid 2-3x a year is going to do to your or your kids' immune system?
Well Leana, you do realize that a sizable chunk of Americans no longer dine indoors, go to the movies, travel in things other than their own vehicle, & avoid unmasked indoor crowds because we do not want to risk long covid, disability, or death.
Such arrogance.
@denise_dewald
With due respect, why stop at required masking? If your goal is to reduce covid19 to as low levels as possible, why not also stop indoor dining, travel, social gatherings, etc, until all your requirements are met? You are drawing the line somewhere—others draw it elsewhere.
@vet_dot
I'm sorry, that's ridiculous. I had mine two weeks ago. Anesthesiologist was all about me keeping my N95 on with the EtCo2/O2 cannula underneath it. He & the gastro were the only 2 wearing N95- also the only 2 on team that hadn't had covid yet... Go figure.
My brother got paxlovid this morning. Mom is still negative & without symptoms. Hoping it stays that way. Thanks for the suggestions/support.
Physician gatekeeping of this drug must end.
Physicians also need to be held accountable when giving factually incorrect info to patients.
@equalityAlec
@vet_dot
A thing that has directly killed at least 1,000,000 Americans (probably many more) in 2.4 years and is still killing 300-1000 a week is dead last on the list.... so yeah.
@snarkypeds
I had a colonoscopy last week. The only 2 providers on my care team that hadn't had covid yet were the gastro & anesthesiologist.
They were also the only 2 wearing N95s amongst the baggy blues.
What a coincidence... 🙄
@ASlavitt
Clean air "checklists" are bullshit
@ASlavitt
& you know it.
That is a policy goal that needs to be backed by an executive order, or better codifying, a minimum *legal* standard. Especially important for schools, where many school districts haven't invested a dime in ventilation
@DrLeanaWen
@PostOpinions
This reads like a gaslighting manifesto. Stick to your media and Brownstone grifts. You should never be allowed near a public health role again in your life.
@apoorva_nyc
IMO the biggest red flag issue in all of this is
@CDCgov
"burying" ventilation. This is an airborne respiratory spread pandemic. They steadfastly refuse to acknowledge that simple fact, and accordingly, refuse to set guidance that reflects it.
@anchorstine
@leviglenhue
@MikeJanela
@CircuitSwan
There's inherent unfairness in being sold a promise that with a college degree, you'll have a solid pathway to financial stability and a good career. Yet we had a generation that followed those rules, got themselves into a ton of debt to do it & many are underemployed & underpaid
@1goodtern
We hosted Christmas Eve for family & friends. I was encouraged to rethink requiring - RAT within 2 hours of arrival, along with my CT boxes & open windows on a 15 degree night.
I've spent the day helping a coworker get pax for an IC fam member infected at her superspreader Xmas.
@bbalsam
@BryceGruber
We're collectively sending kids back into maskless, mitigationless schools, then bemoaning the fact that teachers are sick en masse & covid checks into households every few months. Heck, there isn't enough sick time for covid 2-3x a year, even for us privileged with sick days.
@apoorva_nyc
@CDCgov
There is a big difference in requiring every classroom to have HEPA filtration and asking all schools to replace their HVAC systems.
Clear air can be achieved without impossible cost.
We're choosing to be too lazy & cheap to do it.
It should right up there with masking, testing.
@MomtoRox
@germanfrancie
Montmo- respectfully, there are options. While an earloop KN95 may not match an N95, it still offers very good protection... in many colors. And someone wearing good respiratory protection in nearly empty gas station is not a high risk environment.
@chrislhayes
The irony of them also (correctly) noticing the abject increase in all-cause mortality, but incorrectly attributing it to the "clot shot" instead of the systemic, neuroinvasive vascular pathogen we are letting the population get infected with repeatedly...
@VidyaSzym
@nursekelsey
Yes by all means take the word of anti-mask, minimizer who's an outpatient internist/gerontologist over someone working in an ICU everyday.
@Bob_Wachter
@NewYorker
@emmaogreen
Seriously. You goaded your wife into catching covid, which turned into long covid.
I kept my at risk wife safe for 3 years & when she finally got covid after needing to return to in-person work, I had antivirals in her in less than an hour.
You really need to sit down & shut up.
@grok_
That is likely going to require a legal challenge to overturn. Hopefully someone with disabilities challenges under ADA (though it should have to come to that as all are at some risk).
@sublimepilgrim
@snarkypeds
@AndiLou12
@CDCgov
@CDCDirector
@HealthNYGov
@POTUS
I don't understand how society at large is ok with this. At the 11th hour we opted to keep our daughter home & enroll her in an online program. Every day we find out more & more about new ways this virus causes hosts long term harm even in "mild" cases.
This isn't sustainable.
@sarasunbrina
@jeremyfaust
There's a reason we vaccinate kids for flu prevention & reduction of disease severity- it kills ~200 of them in the US every year.
Isn't it possible that vaccines are good & provide better protective immunity without risk of serious disease outcome?
But you're a denialist, so..
@JeffSharlet
Don't understand the American Beauty hate I keep seeing here. Yes, Spacey is slime, but the movie... I've always found it a compelling work of art.
@alicetweet
You can't be serious.
I worked 25 hrs/week, which is about all one can do carrying 18-20 credits/semester in a tough STEM major. That didn't touch tuition. That was for simple living expenses & books.
@CNN
might want to rethink this commentator...
@bbalsam
@BryceGruber
I don't have the answers. I wish I did.
But it's going to take either a critical mass of people says no, this isn't the way its going to be or a critical mass of essential services being shutdown because we continue on this path & there isn't adequate an workforce.
One of the few people I saw still wearing a mask at tonight's Phillies game was pregnant. Was happy to see her taking this extra layer of precaution. Hopefully she also is under the care of a wise OB that told her not to delay vaccination.
@pbleic
Like so many other risk/ben analysis for covid right now, this does not factor long covid at all. If paxlovid has any benefits on reducing risk of LC, that could change the calculation for a substantial swath of at risk population.
@JamieApody
@6abc
About time somebody pushed here. I can empathize with the guy struggling, but be a man and don't denigrate a reporter doing his job.
Take some accountability for being below a replacement level player.
@robscotingram
@DataDrivenMD
Brutal analysis. Yes, that's where the overwhelming majority of deaths are.
The disruptions for working age parents & their young children is also not sustainable. People don't have the sick time to be down for 1-2 weeks 2-3x a year. That's the path we're on.
@laurieallee
I work for a relatively small (~100) tech & manufacturing co consistently rated as one of the top small employers in the Philly metro. Only staff in building FT are manufacturing line/supv staff. Our CEO has said we're never all coming back. Have retained almost all staff.
@ahmcguffin
@sarahkliff
@charles_gaba
If they are refusing a person without proof of insurance, it needs to be reported to the state health agency where you are located. That is absolutely not permissible.
@nursekelsey
The Catholic Church
Our wedding in one was our last official act to appease our families, which consequently, cannot stand that our daughter is not baptised.
@nypmetro
None of these people should be entitled to medical care. None. This pandemic isn't some mystery any longer. We know how it spreads. We know how to stop it.
These people do not deserve the right to infect a healthcare provider.
@LawyerMomTO
@ProfAlisonK
@DFisman
@drmwarner
@IrfanDhalla
@SharkawyMD
Paramedics in most health systems have the pulse (pardon the parlance) of what is happening in their local hospitals. Trust their clinical judgement. If the treating paramedic's assessment revealed signs of a serious, uncontrolled reaction,they would opt to transport vs home mgmt
@ColinKinner
I just hope in the end she doesn't feel that I stole part of her childhood.
I think I'm doing what's best for her, but constantly question myself.
@EricTopol
Time to issue an EUA for 6 to 11 year old kids. This vaccine is safe and remarkably effective. We're not hitting 75-80% uptake without getting kids vaccinated.
@AlanaKitari
@AmandaMarcotte
Get some help, Alana.
I mean that sincerely. Yoy are probably a nice, caring person.
Your timeline shows that you have really gone down a propaganda rabbit hole & are a victim of misinformation warfare.
@LauraMiers
This would be so much easier for me as an adult without a kid that I am trying to protect. I'm not worried about peer pressure or getting bullied at the office like they would need to deal with at school.
@danaparish
These doctors need to be named & shamed. Enough gatekeeping.
My wife tested (+) for the first time Weds afternoon - headache was her only symptom at the time, & I was picking up her pax less than an hour later. Severity of symptoms has *nothing* to do with prescribing criteria.
@CDCDirector
Still no emphasis on ventilation being on of the most important mitigation needed for safe schools. You still refuse to acknowledge aerosol or AIRBORNE spread.
You also still haven't answered how to keep kids safe at lunch with no masks.
We need better CDC leadership.
@eliowa
We were locked in on finally sending our 10 year old back.
We are very much rethinking that. The anger is off the charts.
She needs to be back. But here we go, again.
@kprather88
@SaskiaPopescu
@cdc
@WHO
Prime example- my workplace is making good faith efforts to keep employees safe from covid. They were fixated on plexiglass at workstations & around cubicles. But were ok with people over 6ft apart being unmasked- all off of CDC guidelines. Had to educate them on aerosol spread.
@Doctor_David
@DrPStewart
Worked as a medic in a super rural (Amish) area of Central PA... getting called to a farmhouse for an unwell person meant you were about to earn your pay for that shift.
@michaelmina_lab
@TheAtlantic
@jabarocas
The rage that
@jabarocas
feels can be boiled down to- why should healthcare providers continue to risk death, permanent disability, & their sanity for a society that is not only indifferent, but callously in support of worsening covid's impact.
@hmackayDN
@detroitnews
Hannah, I hate to break it to you, but yoy have some flat out scientifically incorrect information here. You really need to talk to a few other experts in this area & vet what the quoted expert told you because they are simply wrong.
@erichhartmann
@ProfEmilyOster
@TheAtlantic
I am diametrically opposed to everything you just wrote Erich- I will never forget the callous indifference towards human life you & your ilk showed during this.
No matter how long I live, there will never be a going back.
You're either on the side of life or that of the virus.
@ruthreplogle
@MsEsco_in_6th
Nobody wants to talk about the learning loss from absenteeism after you infect a generation of kids with a virus that dampens their immune system causing more frequent/prolonged illnesses.
@GMB
@AllysonPollock
My God, how irresponsible to have one of the biggest covid denialists on your show.
The Easter Bunny would have provided more factually correct information. You should he ashamed.
@LauraMiers
"you can’t unlearn what you’ve learned about this virus"
The number of times I've uttered that phrase to my wife, best friend, therapist is staggering.
I know what I know; I can't ever pretend I don't.
Ignorance really is bliss.
@huntereastin
@sunriseseachday
@Uppercut_x_Slut
@chrisderose
Not so sure about this. I don't think late80s/erly90s kids knew home much their parents struggled. In my own house hunting, I found what my rents paid for our houses in 86 & 93. I got MAD.Then mom told me what they were making & the interest rates on the mortgages & I almost died
@luckytran
Just a covid safe meteorologist here *now raging*, that works at a company that makes rain gauges that COUNT THE RAINDROPS to determine how much & how fast the rain is falling.
@kelcsimpkins
Married, w/ an 11yo daughter. I feel this too. Simply treading water. Exhausted. Trying to maintain adequate job performance. Trying to keep everyone healthy. It feels like there's little hope & joy in anything; just trying to not lose what we have rather than looking ahead.
@MeetJess
Staff member probably has no sick time, needs a paycheck, and since we're totally incapable of structural supports or changes for the better... yeah.
@ProfEmilyOster
@j_g_allen
The best way to keep schools open so that instruction can happen is to make schools safe & healthy environments. That includes ventilation, upper room UV, and masks when needed.