Níl ionam ach fear. Bainim úsáid as an nGaeilge gach lá. #COYG.
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Went to high school w John Bongiovi (Jon BonJovi now). Sat next to him in frosh English. I had to read a poem I wrote in front of class. As I slinked back to seat, I was rained with chorus of "pu**y", "fa**ott" & other clever insults. He whispered "Neil, I liked your poem."
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Hard not to be furious about the resources being mobilized at drop of hat to investigate & treat those caught up in this outbreak, contrast it to our national response & delivery of care and services. And think that many of these are directly responsible for our national tragedy.
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And most are dedicated to removing healthcare from tens of millions without offering any plan to replace it.
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This is among the greatest scare tactics and lies of healthcare "debate" in this country--that reform will limit your choice. Your choices are already being limited! Guess people are comfortable with the insurance industry doing this for them.
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Wow. Hopkins fully remote for fall semester. Undergrad campus is compact, self-contained & student body is small. Universal testing was in place for 2x per wk, at place w exceptional on-ground #COVID19 expertise. They don't think they can pull it off. chronicle.com/article/johns-…
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Nothing will set views of scientific/medical expertise and countering anti-vax misinformation back more than having a #COVID19 vax that shows bad safety signal w widespread use.
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Your guy @GovChristie. Your administration. You were not complicit, but rather actively engaged in facilitating and fomenting the damage wrought by this administration. You’re culpable.
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I barely got my thoughts and prayers for the first one finished. Now, I have to think and pray again.
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Absolutely. #COVID19 has and will continue to blow the "we can't afford it" argument completely out of the water. Our incompetent federal response to pandemic combined w inequity in our healthcare delivery & societal economics have been deadly 1-2 punch.
Universal health care is a basic, fundamental requirement. reuters.com/article/us-healt…
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That is, quite simply, the most remarkable athletic feat I have had the privilege to watch. If only he had a beer in his free hand.....
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Especially with well educated suburban women voting D. Need a lot of vote in sparsely populated red counties to offset that D advantage.
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If believing that all Americans should have access to heat & running water (or healthcare!) makes one a socialist, then we've got to reconsider our political labels. TX energy grid was predicated explicitly on acceptance of potential failures as trade for cost & regulation.
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I don't see proposed solutions to (almost) any problem. And, as articulated by McConnell (talk to me after the election), it's a deliberate strategy because: a) they don't have solutions; b) what they do have is unpalatable to the majority.
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...and their employers, of course. BTW, costs of private insurance increasing at >2X-fold faster than Medicare. At some point, the dam will break.
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Yeah, not sure their views on women really is a model to follow either. I mean, I’m no legal scholar, but originalism seems to me the most absurd intellectual philosophy I’ve encountered. I’m in medicine. We admire Osler and Oslerian medicine. We don’t practice it.
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MDs question and critique themselves every day. Anyone who has ever presented a case and justified a decision on rounds, at case conferences, grand rounds, morbidity and mortality reports, and clinical pathology conferences knows how rough this is.
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There will be tens of millions viewers of the debates. It might be a shock to those who haven’t listened to our leader hold forth recently. Incoherence, dysphonia, and inarticulation abound. It’s jarring to hear, much worse than in text or clips.
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I'm trying to think of something that concerns me less than future employability of people who have served this WH. Nothing comes to mind. Isn't that these people might be unemployable in government a good thing?
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Rand Paul announces that Rand Paul has tested positive for COVID19. Rand Paul will be confining himself solely to company of Rand Paul. Rand Paul sends thoughts & prayers to Rand Paul. Rand Paul remains committed to denying healthcare to 30m+ Americans who are not Rand Paul.
Senator Rand Paul has tested positive for COVID-19. He is feeling fine and is in quarantine. He is asymptomatic and was tested out of an abundance of caution due to his extensive travel and events. He was not aware of any direct contact with any infected person.
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No but he very well could be infecting driver and anyone else in car during this stunt. Wildly irresponsible. Then again, he flew to NJ to meet >200 people, maskless, after known close exposure to newly diagnosed case (Hope Hicks) while reportedly symptomatic. He doesn't care.
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Perfect summation: "We not only failed to lead; we failed even to follow." Shameful. CDC and US universities trained many all over the world leading their nations' #COVID19 responses. Just stunning.
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And where is Dr Fauci? I'd actually rather him from him that Kudlow or Atlas, believe it or not. Also, please produce those "doctors" who authorized our leader's trip to NJ, as Pres Sec announced today. They have some questions to answer.
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Gilead announces remdesevir pricing at $3,120 for treatment course (just over $500/d). Steroids significantly cheaper and more effective. Nevertheless, in US gonna be hard not to also give RDV. #COVID19
washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
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Hahaha. Still laughing. Per Redfield: “Following these reporters, medical researchers, and politically engaged musicians [on Twitter] will provide Americans with the updates necessary to cobble together some sense of what exactly is going on with our vaccine rollout.”
CDC Unveils List Of Twitter Accounts You Can Follow To Piece Together Vaccine Information bit.ly/3hOzIyq
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They love socialist handouts! And their R congressmen love to give them socialist handouts! Just don't call them "socialist", "handouts" or "welfare", which they don't believe in. Call them "subsidies" or "crop support" or a "military base", "federal jail", "VA hospital", etc.
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Calling out the hypocrisy, BS and ring-a-rosy of saying it's not guns, it's mental health, and then refusing to support mental health care. Or do anything about guns either. Gotta hammer on these points.
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I think the narrative is less the taxes than the terrible business, hemorrhaging of money, and rapidly approaching due dates for loan debts of several hundred million dollars..
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We voted for it 4 years ago. We voted for a guy who went bankrupt and stiffed workers and tradesmen/women repeatedly in the CASINO business. How anyone thought he could run a country will always remain beyond my power to comprehend.
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Disappearing during a flood only to return to sign the 6 week bill, and then disappearing again. I'm not a political pro, but that seems like a very bad play.
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Incidence of anaphylaxis: 0.001%. Penicillin anaphylaxis is 0.02% to 0.04%. #covid19 #vaccine seems quite safe in this regard, and well worth the risk.
Nancy Messonnier @CDCgov on the first 1.9 million Covid Pfizer/Moderna vaccines given in US:
-21 cases of anaphylaxis, a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction. But this didn't cause death in these people.
-17 of them had prior allergic reactions to drugs & stings (1/3)
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I like what's in this, including the hiring and mobilization of an "army" of 180,000 contact-tracers. Hopefully this goes somewhere as a coordinated national strategy for getting some resources needed to open up somewhat safely.
Bipartisan group pitches the White House on a $46.5 billion Covid-19 plan statnews.com/2020/04/29/gott…
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Look, Cassidy is a physician, and he has spent hundreds of hours on medical rounds. The man has some critical faculties. If you pulled that kind of presentation on medical rounds, you'd be remediated to first year medical school. Shockingly bad, even w bar set as low as it was.
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So people are in effect mandated to forego “elective” things like CABGs but not mandated to do something simple like wear a damn mask. We’ve gone mad. Colossal failure of leadership. A moral abdication. #covid19
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Completely untrue. Ever since I started in medicine 30+ yrs ago, I've been taught respiratory viral pandemic, influenza or other, was inevitable. Not if, but when. Various US govt entities routinely gamed scenarios. By Jan 2020, #COVID19 was clearly pandemic, only ? was how bad.
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Electoral college even worse than Trump University for him. #Election2020
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in NY state, so this opinion was deliberate statement. Moreover, 5-4 opinion reverses earlier 5-4 decisions upholding restrictions when RBG was on court. Comey Barrett wrote this decision, and cast vote that flipped decision. A blow to science, rationality and common sense.
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Hearing from friends that they will not intubate anyone >80 yo and may go to >70 yo in Strasbourg France due to COVID situation. 2 wks ago France had fewer COVID than US has now. Every hospital needs ethics involved and immediate triage plans for limited resources.
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Diagnostic testing rule #1. You should never call ID after a test result and ask what to do with the result. The time to think and ask is before the test is ordered. #fungal #diagnostics #IDTwitter
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Exceptional paper from Switzerland. 1. All the #COVID19 crap published in NEJM, and this series of 21 autopsies is in journal called Histopathology? 2. 38% (8/21) of autopsies had superimposed bacterial pneumonia! Looks like superinfection is really a... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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This the thing on Biden. He's actually delivered, to extent that wouldn't have been thinkable in Dec 2020. The history books will laugh at much of the contemporary media obsessions and coverage. Lots of Dewey beats Truman headlines past 19 months.
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Biden spot on here. 20 years, over $1 T. Ill-conceived from onset. Another abject US foreign policy failure, with disastrous consequences all around. But, yeah, we can't afford to fix US healthcare. These are all choices.
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In 20 years, we may very well say the death rate was not even the most of it. #COVID19
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who did not get clinical trial drug only available outside of trial to only them, or get flown to state of the art medical facility with world expert clinicians.
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Exceptional jobs. Kept eyes on the ball. And also @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris as candidates and team. Not a foot set wrong. They were all perfect, and likely needed to be, in the end. #Election2020
Hm have we stopped in all this madness to give an applause to @joebiden’s A++++ team: @jomalleydillon @KBeds @TDucklo (special shout-out for delivering a win while battling cancer - you are a king, TJ!), @AndrewBatesNC , and many more! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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#Biden got 3-4 bump after first debate, so 1-2 regression isn't too surprising. I suspect this will settle at 8-9. Problem for #POTUS is that 2nd #Debates2020 likely won't get him closer, and #COVID19 headlines between now and 3 Nov are going to be relentlessly negative.
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If I'm Warnock, I would love this race. Herschel is not going to stand the scrutiny of a general, even in GA. It's a form of abuse to put the man forward, although those behind him are not interested in his well-being. Anyone who loves him needs to stage an intervention.
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Could have never guessed that in 2015-16, Chris. The guy who closed NJ beaches over July 4, but decided OK for his family to go. And closed a bridge during rush hour in political pique. Just another Trump enabler, apologist and opportunist.
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It must be like grammar school in the press room, when the particularly dimmed witted kid is called upon who always asks questions that were covered several days ago, which highjack and slow down the lesson.
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When I worked in a hospital in Italy at Ancona for a summer, there was a hospital bar. Had an espresso there every morning and a beer or glass of wine in the afternoon. After ripose, of course. I was working in a hospital lab, for full disclosure.
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"...but says he was concerned that an increasingly emboldened Trump post-impeachment would install loyalists to carry out requests like the missile one." Or, you know, Mr Secretary, you could have spoken up at Impeachment.
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But, but, but.....they were first to call Arizona! And now have been proven correct at least 4 times over.
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Enraged & saddened. But honestly more latter. Saddened by preventable deaths & massive excess $ hardship. By denigration of expertise, by incompetence, irrationality of response. By CDC leader. By US abdicating responsibility to citizens & world. By predictability of incompetence
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Including secret service who protect first family and pay top dollar to stay at Trump properties!
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Almost as if #POTUS and his administration are showing that diplomacy can, you know, work.
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Can't endorse this highly enough. This is the all-time greatest local news report. Let's get Anavid Reyes onto CNN or someplace to make widespread use of his evident talents....
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@jaketapper you're missing or down-playing that even asymptomatic #COVID19 in hospital diverts resources and places strain on infra-structure, already under pressure by staffing shortages. To a hospital and its operations, all COVID-19 exerts cost. #omicron
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Ahh, yess... the old favorite. 1. Government is so incompetent, they can't do anything right. 2. Govt is capable of massive global hoax and attendant cover up, involving all sectors of every society on the planet.
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Other than dreaming of the Obamas course. Joe was the perfect 2020 D candidate as it turned out. And Kamala the perfect Veep. I railed against the man in primaries, but it was historic turn when man and moment met. Tolstoy would have something to say. #elelction2020
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For those thinking this couldn't get worse for Sen Cruz. I wish people would be as exercised about his attempts to subvert election results and US democracy. Nevertheless, this story will do for now.
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A Chris Christie moment. Who'd a thunk it. If only R base could summon up hatred of Biden like that of Obama.
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Dread in hospitals for the weeks and months ahead is palpable. We've betrayed the public and healthcare workers by not seriously addressing #COVID19 in rational and coordinated fashion. Gonna see springtime Italian and NYC images in a number of places, including rural hospitals
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But they were happy to ride along. All bear measure of responsibility for today, which is culmination of 4+ yrs of enablement & enticement. Beyond me that Capitol wasn't more heavily guarded or policed today. As ever, #POTUS & his team have done exactly what they said they would.
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Some flew in on private jets. Certainly many were able to harrass Romney and Graham on flights.
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Funny how so many Catholics can't hear Jesus's social justice messages. No doubt at all where He would stand on most red-button social issues of our day.
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Correct last sentence to "We seem to have accepted persistent spread as new normal." We've frittered 6 wks of stay-at-home not doing all that was needed at national level to coordinate response. Now moving to opening based solely on arbitrary calendar, not preparedness. #COVID19
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If you’re watching @chrislhayes this mayor from Paterson NJ is an all time Jersey classic. I love him pointing at camera. He gives a goodbye w the Jersey double finger point directly at camera. Wearing the Mets hoody! Man, that was good TV! #covid19
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"A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons." —H. Clinton
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