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We’re delighted to unveil…the

artappraiser — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 04:10:58 +0000

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We’re delighted to unveil…the @nytimes coronavirus treatment tracker! A co-production of @KatherineJWu @virginiahughes & @13pt & me: https://t.co/tQ2oCXOjs0
— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) July 16, 2020

good new Vox piece on long

artappraiser — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 23:11:33 +0000

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good new Vox piece on long-term effects:

Long term COVID effects very troubling.

"The assumption was that people would get better, and then it was over," says researcher Michael Peluso. But now doctors are discovering that #Covid19 can have long-term effects. https://t.co/Xc15GKJRBS
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) July 16, 2020

New: CDC report on who is /

artappraiser — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 20:30:12 +0000

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New: CDC report on who is / is not wearing masks, and time trend from April-May:

Mask wearing went up 14%.
Blacks slightly higher
30-39 highest group, 40-49 lowest
NE more than South
Higher income and education#COVID19 https://t.co/cAmCCuo4Ht pic.twitter.com/F6ZDpbZuk9
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) July 14, 2020

Deciphering the death drop

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:32:58 +0000

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Deciphering the death drop
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/why-covid-death-rate-d...

‘I Couldn’t Do Anything’: The

artappraiser — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 05:58:40 +0000

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‘I Couldn’t Do Anything’: The Virus and an E.R. Doctor’s Suicide; Dr. Lorna Breen was unflappable — until she faced a new enemy.

By Corina Knoll, Ali Watkins & Michael Rothfield @ NYTimes.com, July 11

On an afternoon in early April, while New York City was in the throes of what would be the deadliest days of the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Lorna M. Breen found herself alone in the still of her apartment in Manhattan.

She picked up her phone and dialed her younger sister, Jennifer Feist.

The two were just 22 months apart and had the kind of bond that comes from growing up sharing a bedroom and wearing matching outfits. Ms. Feist, a lawyer in Charlottesville, Va., was accustomed to hearing from her sister nearly every day.

Lately, their conversations had been bleak.

Dr. Breen worked at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in Upper Manhattan, where she supervised the emergency department. The unit had become a brutal battleground, with supplies depleting at a distressing rate and doctors and nurses falling ill. The waiting room was perpetually overcrowded. The sick were dying unnoticed.

Ms. Feist had taken to sleeping next to her phone in case her sister needed her after a late shift.

When Dr. Breen called this time, she sounded odd. Her voice was distant, as if she was in shock.

“I don’t know what to do,” she said. “I can’t get out of the chair.”

Dr. Breen was a consummate overachiever, one who directed her life with assurance.

When she graduated from medical school, she insisted on studying both emergency and internal medicine, although it meant a longer residency. She took up snowboarding, cello and salsa dancing as an adult. Once, after she had difficulty breathing at the beginning of a half-marathon, she finished the race, then headed to a hospital and diagnosed herself with pulmonary emboli — blood clots in the lungs that can be fatal.

In addition to managing a busy emergency department, she was in a dual degree master’s program at Cornell University.

Dr. Breen was gifted, confident, clever. Unflappable.

But the woman speaking to Ms. Feist that day was hesitant and confused.

Ms. Feist quickly arranged for her sister to be picked up by two friends who would ferry her to Baltimore, where Ms. Feist could meet them to take her to family in Virginia. When Dr. Breen finally climbed into Ms. Feist’s car that night, she was nearly catatonic, unable to answer simple questions. Her brain, her sister said, seemed broken [....]

"Just before the patient died

artappraiser — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 05:45:48 +0000

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"Just before the patient died, they looked at their nurse and said 'I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax, but it's not,'" said Dr. Jane Appleby in a video statement obtained by USA TODAY. https://t.co/GAVDH2kngf
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) July 12, 2020