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"Long Covid is not a footnote

artappraiser — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 06:35:21 +0000

In reply to [COVID NEWS] Every adult American eligible for vaccination no later than May 1

"Long Covid is not a footnote to the pandemic or a curious human-interest story," write @ahandvanish and @fi_lowenstein. "It is America’s next big health crisis, and we should prepare for it now." https://t.co/RpBHl13ymr nytopinion
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) March 18, 2021

Holy mola. Spain's high child

artappraiser — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:53:20 +0000

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Holy mola. Spain's high child mortality rate for coronavirus was likely a software error caused by storing ages as two-digits. 100+ year olds were marked as toddlers. https://t.co/llxNj59mzO
— Andrew Thaler (@DrAndrewThaler) March 17, 2021

(found retweeted by Josh Spero; I can't vouch for the accuracy as I don't read Spanish. This Thaler guy is an ecologist.)

Dear God. https://t.co

artappraiser — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 03:14:31 +0000

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Dear God. https://t.co/nGErdDPDAU
— Claudio Dantas (@claudioedantas) March 17, 2021

two tweets from the middle of Dr. Eric's whole thread:

4) this is the most epic health emergency Brazil has every faced.

The world needs to GODDAMN WAKE UP and SEND HELP NOW!!! pic.twitter.com/CMCwcBWGCL
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 17, 2021

9) Brazil is suffering a “Genocide” says Brazil advocates. https://t.co/rDTxzVCJ1l
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 17, 2021

Long-haul covid is a killer

artappraiser — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:43:46 +0000

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Long-haul covid is a killer too! It took this 40-yr. old middle-class picture-of-health black guy who lived in one of the toniest towns in the country. GET FUCKING VACCINATED, IT'S THE ONLY THING THAT CAN SAVE YOU, not money, not living in a good neighborhood, not having access to good health care. Doctors can't always save you, that's just the MAIN fact, forget all that other unfairness shit, it's a distraction, this virus is out for all human beings and you have to get vaccinated.

Paul Jones, a Hamptonite of Many Pursuits, Dies at 40

Real estate agent, bouncer, furniture maker, coach and also a new father, he was known all over Long Island’s East End. Engaged to be married, he died of Covid-19.

By Katharine Q. Seelye @ NYTimes, March 12, 2021

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here.

Caption: Paul Jones was a “Covid
long-hauler,” having fought the coronavirus
from October to February.
Credit...Saland Photography
Paul Jones and Alexandra Saland used to work together on Long Island’s East End — he was a real estate agent and she photographed his listings. In 2016, a few years after she had left that job, she came across him on an online dating site. “Hi,” she said. He asked her out.

Within a year, they were living together in the hamlet of Water Mill in Southampton. And by 2018 Mr. Jones was down on one knee, in front of family and friends, asking Ms. Saland to marry him. Soon they were having a baby, and they put off the wedding. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit.

“We didn’t want to get married on iPads or Zoom, so we postponed the wedding indefinitely,” Ms. Saland said in a phone interview.

Mr. Jones came down with the novel coronavirus in the fall and was hospitalized in October. But like other “Covid long-haulers,” as they came to be known, he never fully recovered. He ended up in an emergency room on Feb. 8 with shortness of breath. Then he was transferred to Stony Brook University Hospital for a heart procedure; the virus had damaged his heart. Soon he went into cardiac arrest and was put on life support.

He died on Feb. 26 at 40. Ms. Saland said the cause was a combination of Covid-19 and pneumonia.

Mr. Jones seemed to make friends with nearly everyone he met in the Hamptons, better known as the summer playground of wealthy Manhattanites but also home to a community of local families, many of whom have lived there for generations.

“He was a magnet,” his mother, the Rev. Connie Jones, associate minister of Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton, said in an interview. “He had a glow on him, and everybody felt it.”

He was a man of multiple pursuits. In addition to selling real estate, Mr. Jones tended bar and managed property. Last year, he and a friend started a remediation company franchise that cleans and disinfects properties [....]

Wowser! TRUMP DID IT! CALLED

artappraiser — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 23:48:39 +0000

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Wowser! TRUMP DID IT! Took up Fauci's taunt! Recommends Americans get vaccinated! ON FOX NEWS YET!!! GOOD JOB FAUCI!

Seems like a positive development https://t.co/lCUNGrMvVM
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) March 16, 2021

So why did so many of the

artappraiser — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 23:40:03 +0000

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So why did so many of the countries of Europe and indeed throughout the Americas fail at roughly the same scale? And what does it say about the obvious American errors that they were reproduced in most of the places the country considers as peers?
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

From a global perspective, one year in two very large facts about the course of the pandemic loom above all others...
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

First, that the policy levers Americans have obsessed over all year (mask-wearing, social distancing, lockdowns) can not be the sole drivers of transmission, given that states taking very different measures (California and Florida, most famously) performed quite similarly...
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

...and given how country's that were very strict (Peru, say, or Italy), did not reliably "outperform" those places which took much looser measures (Japan, say, or Sweden).
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

Second, as a group, the nations of the world once often grouped as "the west" — most of Europe and the Americas — had a categorically more catastrophic experience than anyone else.
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

The U.S. had many reasons to expect to outperform "peer" countries like Germany, the U.K., or the Netherlands (larger state and medical capacity, for instance)...
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

... though there were also reasons containing a pandemic here might've been more difficult (a large and diverse country, full of comorbidities, at the center of global commerce).
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

But as awful as the American experience seems to Americans, compared to the rest of Europe and the Americans it was, by the crude metric of deaths per million citizens, probably just a little bit worse than average—that is, not at all exceptional.
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

And yet in nearly every forensic account of the American pandemic published in recent months, the country's poor performance was explained almost entirely with reference to American policy choices, with hardly any acknowledgment of the global context of "western" failure.
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

Many of these accounts are by writers I admire enormously, and they do illuminate failures in the American response that should be addressed and ideally fixed in preparation for "the next time."
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

I'm thinking of, for instance, "How the U.S. Guaranteed Its Own Failure," in the @nytimes: https://t.co/plBY5VTWmF
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

Along with this fantastic CDC retrospective, in the same paper: https://t.co/Pj4HXfX7MT
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

As far back as June, @DLeonhardt was writing about "the unique U.S. failure to control the virus." https://t.co/Iz9ZylCtqB
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

The @washingtonpost CDC retrospective was also fantastically rich—and yet blinkered, in its way: https://t.co/MvY0eEDwvE
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

Suggests it's behavioral driven and rooted in our shared western culture. Possible instructive contrast btwn US and Germany who got off to early bad start, stomped it down quickly, then lost its grip in the fall when people had had enough of restrictions. https://t.co/MRQGD6NmZK pic.twitter.com/3Kzvk2Ycnx
— Russ Conser (@russ_conser) March 16, 2021

Because of human nature, which only Republican governors and African presidents acknowledged as real for the past year.
— KangaRoo (@KangaMage) March 16, 2021

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Generosity from the Osage,

artappraiser — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 23:05:58 +0000

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Generosity from the Osage, Choctaw and Citizen Potawatomi Nations to Oklahomans. https://t.co/HyRaQ9pfIK
— Andy Slavitt @ (@ASlavitt) March 16, 2021

Chaos in Germany and Italy

artappraiser — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:48:45 +0000

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Chaos in Germany and Italy after suspension of Oxford vaccine https://t.co/Bcf4APNykF
— The Guardian (@guardian) March 16, 2021

Survey says 64% of young

artappraiser — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:34:15 +0000

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Survey says 64% of young black people in England are 'vaccine hesitant' https://t.co/ce9WglEaIr
— The Guardian (@guardian) March 16, 2021

This simple line also tested

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 20:39:56 +0000

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This simple line also tested very well in Saturday afternoon’s focus group. If you look at Twitter, you can see Frieden and @GovChristie immediately moving to use it this weekend.https://t.co/Um5cfEePJY
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) March 15, 2021