As part of our goal to vaccinate Pennsylvanians as quickly and equitably as possible, we are further accelerating our vaccine rollout plan. Effective tomorrow (4/13), all Pennsylvania adults will be eligible to schedule an appointment for the COVID-19 vaccine.

Manslaughter charges are not enough. Disgraceful. That is all.

Replace this: “The cop killed an innocent child.” With this: “The cop killed a child.” A child’s culpability is irrelevant. Cops aren’t supposed to kill “guilty children” either. #AdamToledo

🎉 Cheers to Clinical Scientist Training Program (CSTP) trainee Benjamin Zusman who successfully defended his thesis this morning. Ben will graduate from the School of Medicine with both a Doctor of Medicine and Master of Science this semester. Congrats on a superb defense!

GUILTY.

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What's your advice for a young investigator doing their first peer-review on a manuscript? Academic Chatter™ #MedTwitter #PeerReview

Thanks to all of my mentors both on and off Twitter for their mentorship and support! Could not have done this without all of you! Janet S. Lee @LingWang_Pitt , Dr. Mark Gladwin, Dr. Judy Chang, and Kavita Shah Arora MD MBE MS

Official sources: #Israel has informed Int’l orgs that it intends to blow up two schools: Al-Buraq & Al-Aqsa.These were among centres being prepared to shelter families whose homes were bombed. Nowhere to go. #IsraeliCrimes. Int'l Criminal Court

Palestinian Lives Matter.

Big Pharma says they need to charge astronomical prices to pay for research and development. Yet, the amount they spend on manipulating the market to enrich shareholders completely eclipses what's spent on R&D. Today, I confronted a CEO about the industry's lies, with visuals ⤵️

In Pittsburgh & its county (Allegheny), in today's elections: —voters banned no-knock warrants —voters banned solitary confinement in jail —Pittsburgh fired its mayor for a progressive challenger —4 progressives who ran for judgeships on curbing bail & incarceration won

‘This is our business because we are playing a role in it’ — AOC expertly tied U.S. policy to the Palestinian crisis, saying that the U.S. has a ‘responsibility’ to stand up to injustices

When we say defund, we’re talking about needing to divest from the parts of our society that are harming and killing us—and invest in the parts that help keep us healthy and alive. We deserve life.

IM residents/attendings, what textbooks or resources do you recommend reading during intern year? #MedTwitter

Honored to contribute to the NEW 2021 CKD-EPI #race-free #eGFR equation in our latest research published in NEJM today. I learned a ton about equations. Importantly, the main lesson is that #race should NOT be incorporated into #biological tools. bit.ly/3i3nfrY

The global unity for Ukraine is remarkable. I just hope we can and will extend equal displays of humanity to those in Yemen, Palestine, Afghanistan, Libya and elsewhere.

“Corporations in the prison industry have a financial interest in seeing more people behind bars and for longer periods of time.” Bianca TED Talks ted.com/talks/bianca_t…

Great friend doing amazing things! Pitt Medicine Chiefs