I want
#Hydroxychloroquine
to work too BUT I need the President to stop giving medical advice. And just once, I’d appreciate a mention of drug shortages, it’s on the
@US_FDA
list.....and many patients, mine included, are having a tough time filling it.
From
@nytimes
why we should be very very encouraged/happy/relieved/excited by the current state of vaccine affairs.....in a few paragraphs:
#covid
#covidvaccine
#covid19
The reality of Covid is that you routinely test negative until you...test positive. This is what happened to White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
To everyone who has written 2 me,
@TODAYshow
@3rdHourTODAY
and
@msnbc
w questions, comments, or event just musings, I apologize that I couldn’t rsp in kind. Trying 2 keep up with this news cycle, my patients, my family & my 🐶 has been challenging!😌😷
Love love love getting private FB messages. And tbh I’m thinking maybe we wouldn’t have been compatible long before
#covid19
.
@PeterHotez
just know you’re not alone 💪
Not wearing a mask in public, when your own health agencies explicitly make this recommendation, gives license to others to not follow that guidance. It’s that simple. Good job.
Actually this is false. It’s one of the fake antivaccine talking points coming from the far right. Delta emerged in the setting of accelerated virus transmission among the unvaccinated in India, while alpha emerged and accelerated in the UK even before vaccines became available
‘I’m shaking hands continuously. I was at a hospital the other night where there were actually some covid patients and I shook hands with everybody. People can make up their own mind but I think it’s very important to keep shaking hands." – Boris Johnson
Starting my work day today w the 1st
#MECFS
lecture for the rheumatology fellows at NYU. It will begin w the trailer of
@unrestfilm
@jenbrea
thank u 4 all your passion & advocacy that’s helping enlighten docs around the world
#pwme
Today is the sixth year anniversary of the exact date that we picked up this little pooch from a barn in Pennsylvania. Happy Friday! Send me your dog pics, please!
For anybody wondering what the clamoring noise was during my segment on
@MSNBCweekends
@msnbc
w
@AlexWitt
-that was baby Rocky thrashing his conjunctivitis cone into furniture and frankly anything that stood in his way 😳😷!!
I know this will surprise no one but in 1 week I’ve had 2 patients I’ve clinically diagnosed w probable
#MECFS
. In their files, one ‘likely had an adjustment d/o’ and the 2nd, ‘underlying mood d/o is probable.’ 😡
Just finished taping
@DrOz
with
@jenbrea
the
#mecfs
warrior and creator of
@unrestfilm
. I am humbled again by her passion and dedication to educate @ this complex & devastating disease. If you haven’t yet seen the film, I strongly urge you to.
Looking forward to reading this but can’t help thinking about all the
#PWME
#MECFS
patients all around the world who’ve been waiting DECADES for recognition, validation, research funding, treatment….vs….gaslighting.
We need more research to better understand and treat the long Covid symptoms that are affecting millions right now. Comprehensive
@nytimes
piece laying out the whole conversation.
Here are the captions:
1. EPIC is ruining my life
2. Mychart messages aren’t meant to be an ongoing dialogue
3. You’re never really ‘done with work’
4. The more patients you see, the more work you have (I know, obvi)
5. I still love medicine
6. I would do it again 🤷🏻♀️
I know there are many more important things to talk about BUT I just had a 5 minute argument with my daughter about whether it was Wednesday or Thursday. She won. 😳
#GroundhogDay
stay safe everyone!
The sigh of relief as
@JoeBiden
talks about his
#coronavirus
#COVID19
task force. We have A LOT OF WORK TO DO. Cases have reached an all time high; hospitalizations up 64% since early October & deaths increased 21% in last 2 weeks. Not rounding the corner.
In July 1996, I started my internship
@nyulangone
. My first rotation was the
@BellevueHosp
MICU. I survived, barely, for 1 reason & 1 reason only-the nurses. So on this
#NationalNursesDay
I say THANK U-4 ur expertise, professionalism, patience & service 🙏
Shout out to the crew on our
@JetBlue
flight for their professionalism & assistance during a mid flight medical emergency. Diverting the aircraft is no small task. And also 🙏 to the hospitalist from Oakland who tag teamed this COPD exacerbation w me :)
.
@DrNatalieTV
tells
@hodakotb
about her time working on a COVID-19 floor of NYU Langone Hospital in New York City, and the effects of coronavirus on the brain.
If you listen to anything today, listen to this: Katy, your words ring so true, from ‘being afraid of being alone w the baby’ to new moms need help, in 3 min you summed up new parenthood. It is not a walk in the park. And welcome 🙏🙏
“We’re running into issues of manpower...That led us to conclude: Why not graduate students who are interested in serving in hospitals now? They’ve completed their requirements and they’re prepared.”
@nyulangone
on early graduation 4 students. 🙏
Listening to
@JoeBiden
talk about the symbolism and significance of mask wearing: rational yet demonstrative, emphatic yet patient. Calling on all Americans, Republican or Democrat, to exercise personal responsibility and their civic duty. 😷😷
“Freedom of speech” is VP Pence’s justification for holding massive rallies. “It’s an election year.” Seriously? “Not a one size fits all.” You LITERALLY UNDERMINE EVERY EFFORT just put forth by your task force.
#covid19
#coronavirus
Everyday in my house is
#groundhogday
happy Xmas eve to everyone who is celebrating, please be extra extra careful during the holiday, take some time to reflect on the good things that still happen, and walk your dogs 😷🎄🙏
If
@realDonaldTrump
were my patient, in unstable condition + contagious illness, & he suddenly left the hospital to go for a car ride that endangers himself & others:
I'd call security to restrain him then perform a psychiatric evaluation to examine his decision-making capacity.
1. A quick
#flu
thread, from
@cdcgov
's weekly FluView report. Still almost no detected flu activity in the country. 14 positive diagnoses the week ending Feb. 13. Fewer than 1400 for the season to date. Last year at this time, there were nearly 175,000.
When
@TODAYshow
calls, you run. And I mean that literally, as our tape went to live and I went for a run...😳😷 thanks to a very supportive control room and my husband who rescued me with the 🚗!!!
“One of the most important messages that we’ve seen is really on the behavior front. That is attitudes about social distancing and mask wearing ... which influence the virus’s ability to spread.”
@DrNatalieTV
joins us with a coronavirus update.
You can take the girl out of York, PA but......what a FANTASTIC morning doing a ZOOM Q & A with the AP Bio class at YSHS, my awesome alma mater. The ??? the students asked were curious, smart and cogent, I’m a proud Yorkie today ❤️❤️❤️
#york
#Pennsylvania
Alumna
@DrNatalieTV
, a physician who regularly appears on
@NBCNews
, met with Mrs. Foy's AP biology class. She generously stayed for the entire session to discuss COVID-19 and answer questions. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with our students. They had a blast!
#YSProud
The director of the CDC testified a COVID-19 vaccine may not be available until late spring or early summer 2021. Then a few hours afterwards, President Trump contradicted the vaccine timeline.
@DrNatalieTV
joins us to help bring clarity to these these mixed messages.
Lockdown protesters have a moral duty to forgo medical care-Patrick Henry’s famous proclamation, carried by many protestors, is “give me liberty or give me death” not “give me liberty and if that doesn’t work out so well give me a scarce ventilator.” 👇👇
I cannot convey how urgent it is that
@CDCgov
put out very clear public health messages encouraging people with
#COVID19
TO REST.
#MedTwitter
we need your help. I am in conversation with
#LongHaulers
who are concerned that overrexertion is leading to permanent disability.
I think I speak for
@SRuhle
and myself when I say that fashion feedback comes with the territory, I’m most comfortable in jeans, and I appreciate the tone and spirit of your constructive complaint - so thank you.
It’s been an historic week-the 1st of our 21 mil healthcare workers have been vaccinated against
#coronavirus
#SARSCoV2
I’d like to take a moment to thank the 1000s of everyday folks who volunteered for the trials. We owe u a debt of gratitude 🙏 😷😌
Cases are going up in the U.S. because we are testing far more than any other country, and ever expanding. With smaller testing we would show fewer cases!
In addition to case series that are being written and talked about, I can tell you that as a provider who is seeing and caring for
#postcovid
#longhaulers
, the
#CovidVaccine
is making a lot of people better. Now to understand why.....😷🧐
The time when healthcare workers will be candidates for
#COVID19
vaccination is nearing 🤞will I take it? You bet-1st the
#DSMB
evaluates, then the
@US_FDA
independent comm evaluates-if we get to the end, & we’ve dotted the i’s & crossed the t’s: game on 😷
1-
The average American who gets
#COVID19
will not be medevac’d to the hospital.
Nor will they receive the
#Regeneron
#monoclonal
#antibody
within 24hrs (or at all?).
Nor will they be discharged to their home which has been converted to a mini hospital.
This morning on
@AliVelshi
@msnbc
Contributors, doctor
@DrNatalieTV
on the front lines of hospitals.
@curefinder
virologist & science expert.
They’ve been working round the 🕰 to keep us informed & Speaking Truth to power.
Let’s show them some ♥️ & FOLLOW these heros RT pls‼️
On the
#newyorkcity
subway this morning-not 1 cloth mask in sight. All surgical. Pretty impressed by this upgrade, New Yorkers def got the memo. But! Of all places to upgrade to an
#N95
#KN95
or
#KF94
this would be it.
@CDCgov
My soon to be 89yo home bound mama just got her
#johnsonandjohnson
#COVID19
#vaccine
and I could not be happier. Kids get 2nd dose of
#Pfizer
tomorrow so in 2 weeks we will be a fully vaccinated household. Here’s to science 🙏 and happy Friday 💪
Cast of
@SchittsCreek
#SchittsCreek
I know you don’t remember me; I embarrassed myself fawning over you at
@TODAYshow
a while back. CONGRATULATIONS and thank you for the hours of pure and simple belly laughs of entertainment 💪
@MayoClinic
I was just reviewing your website for a talk I’m giving next month. I will be telling all those in attendance not to use your website as a reference for
#MECFS
. Change your treatment guidelines please.
When our Survey respondents
first spoke to a healthcare professional
about their symptoms of ME,
they were commonly advised
to maintain or increase activity.
Almost 9 out of 10 deteriorated
having followed this advice
compared to less than
1 in 10 who were told to rest.
Dr. Fauci: “no one is at fault, but u have a societal responsibility...We r all part of the process. The outbreak is a dynamic, global process. We can be pt of the solution or pt of the problem by propagating the pandemic-the only way we end it is together”
I just left an ER shift, and it hit me.
Healthcare providers will be respected for tirelessly working to save lives, not accused of falsifying diagnoses or profiteering off a horrible pandemic.
We will have a partner working with us, not against us.
It already feels so good.
If you are 1 of the 32 million ppl in the US who has a
#penicillin
#allergy
documented in ur med record, you’ll want to tune in to
@TODAYshow
at 8-new report from
@JAMA_current
outlines recs. Studies show only
@5
% have a true allergy and need to avoid 😌
A short list of ‘vulnerable patients:’
>/= age 60-65
Immunocompromised/suppressed
Organ transplant recipient
Current malignancy
Significant CVD
Poorly ctrl’d HTN, diabetes
Chronic lung disease
Severe chronic kidney or liver dz
Pregnant women
#COVID
@WFKARS
Wow. I remember having this conversation with my then boyfriend on our 3rd date-it would have been a dealbreaker had HE not been ok with me keeping my birth, professional, ‘only last name I will ever need or have’ last name……..
Is this:
A) about to chart round with your fellow on a verrrrry busy rheum service
B) trying to read through a 25 page VRBPAC
@US_FDA
briefing document or
C) A and B
😳
Not sure if this more mom at the end of the day after making all the beds, meals, walking the dog, grocery shopping....or prosecutor in the court room. Maybe it’s both 💪
I love my job(s). But boy do I ❤️ coming home to my babies. My daughter, as I’m heading upstairs to change: “Dad, I wish I was in Harry Potter.” Cute right? Same person who said she and her brother were discussing me & decided I was outdated 🙄😉