Thx Carolyn Barber, MD for eloquently encapsulating what it is like to be an #ICU MD in this #pandemic. 2 points: 1. #icunurses have carried even bigger burden 2. #unvaccinated people are selfishly asking these burned out ICU teams to do more. #GetVaccinatedNow scientificamerican.com/article/critic…

If Philip Morris takeover of Vectura Group goes ahead, switching people with COPD and asthma from Vectura inhalers to ones that do not provide income to the tobacco industry should be straightforward for most people. Preprint: authorea.com/users/431557/a… 1/n

Superimpose this on high hospital patient volumes overall. It’s been unrelenting. We’re exhausted.

There are differences between Stress Exhaustion Burnout Moral distress Compassion fatigue & Mental illness 1/

hardest peloton ride so far was +1 resistance for each time black rob says “whoa!” Robin Arzón

Kagan’s dissent says “this Court’s shadow-docket decision making [] every day becomes more unreasoned, inconsistent, and impossible to defend.”

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Covid has now killed more Americans in 18 months than all the wars of the 20th century combined. And people are out here complaining that requiring unvaxxed workers to get tested once a week is an unreasonable burden. Be serious.

‘Philip Morris set to profit further from diseases they themselves have caused’. ‘Innovative inhaler company shareholders put short term profit ahead of population health’.

Healthcare professionals and people with lung disease will not want to use medication that funds the tobacco industry. Fortunately switching away from these products will be straightforward for most people authorea.com/users/431557/a… 4/n

THE FLORIDA PROJECT (2017) Cinematography by Alexis Zabe Directed by Sean Baker Explore more shots in our database: ops.fyi/ShotsDB

The publication suggesting that several ineffective #COVID19 treatments taken together would save lives ... data wrong & now retracted In fact, mortality was: receiving 1 MATH+ drug 24.7% receiving all 4 MATH+ drugs 28% mortality without MATH+ <10.5% journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Nature does open access

Vaccines that reduce infection & disease are needed to combat the pandemic. Here, Tianyang Mao Benjamin Israelow et al. describe our new mucosal booster strategy, Prime and Spike, to induce such immunity via nasal delivery of unadjuvanted spike vaccine 🧵 (1/) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Being a young widow is hard, being a young Covid widow is even harder.  For almost 2 years I have had to deal with people & their cruel comments about me, my family, & my hero husband. Jerri Vance 💙#MarkedByCovid #FBLC Young Widows and Widowers of Covid-19 Julie Wallace Dan Rather Elliot Kirschner Jessi Gold MD MS

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