This is a really important time to double down on your spiritual practice. Your meditation. Your prayer. Your morning writing pages. Your long walks. Your art. Do the thing that sustains and nourishes you. We need to be drawing from a deep, deep part of the well now.

This is your hand. This is your hand on fireworks. #JustSayNo

COVID Update December 1: Donald Trump, here’s your chance. This message is for you. No need to tweet that he won’t do any of these things. Really, I do get that. But I’m going to make my plea anyway. 1/

What I miss most this year - in-person concerts. Many music programs will take a financial hit from loss of ticket sales for their holiday concerts. Consider making a donation if you stream their music.🎶

Live view of our neutralization assay team scrambling to make yet another virus variant every time the media publishes about a new single amino acid change without context. 😒

Awesome sun dogs were framing the medical center today. Fingers were too darn cold (-4 + wind chill) to get the picture before the one on the right disappeared.

COVID Update Year End, 2020: 2020 is what happens when a society reaps what it has sown for many years. 2021 we have the opportunity to begin a painfully slow build back. WARNING: Last 2020 thread: not all fun & games. But neither was 2020. 1/

94,382 doses of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine were administered to 49,220 Mayo Clinic personnel. The adjusted vaccine effectiveness following two doses of each of the two available brands of mRNA vaccine exceeded 96%. Abinash Virk ༉‧₊˚. elie²⁵ free tag to Aaron Tande IDSA

We are naive if we think that being in a "blue state" will protect us from the #covid19 surges in the South right now. And as my grandma told me: pride goeth before the fall. Yes, VACCINE RATES MATTER. But they are not enough. A thread:

Millions of kids’ academic & social lives turned upside down 1 million+ hospitalized > 140,000 have experienced the death of a caregiver 4,000+ w/#MIS_C Unknown # w/chronic symptoms Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH we MUST do better when messaging about #Covid19’s impact on children

670,000 lives lost. Each one of them somebody’s somebody. Please get vaccinated. nytimes.com/2021/09/17/us/…

Healthcare Workers — Join Us This Week! #WearOrange #NursesForGunSafety #DoctorsForGunSafety

Will be great conference!

Strong geomagnetic storm watch out for Sunday night. Skies likely mostly clear across southern half of Minnesota. Keep an eye out for possible aurora Sunday night. #mnwx