Holy shit quake

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

Generalized joint hypermobility, and especially extreme joint hypermobility, greatly increase the risk of Long Covid: bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/...

This study is enrolling across the U.S. – no need to visit New York in person. I’d highly recommend participating if you have Long Covid, tVNS is one of a few things that I think has helped me a lot.

this one hit me right in my spleen

yes i am a naive baby and a straight white man and everyone else already knew this etc but i’m not gonna lie, deep down i did think we were different somehow

idk what I expected but america is really letting us all down. we’re so proud of our precious freedoms and principles but we’ll drop all that shit in a hot second to avoid just a hint of discomfort or confrontation, or god forbid any risk to the bag

now we have to be mad about jimmy fucking kimmel? that makes me even more mad. I’m here at the barricades alongside karl rove, john yoo, bret stephens and bill kristol and we’re drawing the line at jimmy kimmel? seriously i hate this whole era

the trajectory from circa 1999 Man Show-era women jumping on trampolines Jimmy Kimmel to 2025 free speech canary in the coal mine Jimmy Kimmel is really something

I can’t fucking believe I lived to see pro- and anti-regime Man Show hosts

RFK Jr is holding a panel on Long Covid the day before Covid vaccines are discussed at ACIP. I wonder if he's going to claim that Covid vaccines cause Long Covid.

Senate hearing today, Dr. Monarez testified: Kennedy directed her to commit to approving every recommendation "regardless of the scientific evidence" and also directed her to "dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy, w/o cause" "He said if I was unwilling to do both, I should resign"

Here we go

Try taking the COVID competency exam yourself, and share it around! Great way to bust myths (and the person who wrote it is an epidemiologist, and well-informed, so it really does). seanmullen.com/covidcompete...

sms spam is completely out of control

Tomorrow, I'm speaking (along with a friend) with a group of medical students about the IACC patient experience. What do you want me to be sure to tell them?

very impressed with the first drop of stories!

As I wrote about for @motherjones.com, people are already crossing state lines to get the Covid vaccine—which may become more common if the CDC vaccine advisory committee recommends limiting them this week. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?

OK folks. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting on Friday to discuss Covid vaccines. If it is possible, I do recommend getting a Covid vaccine before then. I know due to out of pocket costs and prescription requirements in some states it is easier said then done.

hey, did you know? there are tens of millions of people globally suffering with ME/CFS, and there still isn't a single treatment available for it anywhere in the world. all we have are off-label drugs (that don't address the root condition) which most people can't even access.

[extremely Hans Moleman voice] I’m controlled by Jamelle Bouie as a modern-day Lenin

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

America, online: www.todayintabs.com/p/groyper-wa...

The pivot from rage to empathy and sorry is like 50 times too brazen to even be funny, it's just the most crude and evil demonstration possible that none of these people genuinely care about any of this shit

The WaPo reports Tracy Høeg is pushing this Dr Høeg says she’s a “friend of RFK Jr”& she’s interested in “stimulating the body's ability to heal itself through orthobiologic medicine such as platelet rich plasma, proliferative therapy such as dextrose as well as bone marrow aspirate concentrate” 🤨

More great news for Big Diarrhea!

I don't understand how the timeline works, but row 336 is, and I am not joking here, a $5 subscription to Dropout.tv

Maggie Astor is the New York Times reporter I trust:

Michael Peluso’s team at UCSF is looking for pre-Covid #pwME in the SF Bay Area. I've heard great things about their Long Covid work and suspect this study will be fruitful!

CVS reverses course, won’t give COVID vaccines to Oregonians without prescriptions

This RECOVER-TLC meeting is leaving me feeling incredibly depressed about the state of the field. None of this is working. We need to do better. We need to work together. We need to listen to patients. We need to restructure the whole field. We need urgency.

With $300M, RECOVER-TLC reported being unsure whether they can fund more than the 4 trials announced today after a year of planning. This is shockingly inefficient. They should be able to run a platform with at least 10 trials. Patients & taxpayers deserve more urgent & effective action.

I’ve been calling them and getting nowhere

I'm sorry but how is this okay? This is Kaiser Permanente. We can't go out of network and get reimbursed. It's the middle of a massive wave in Northern California.

Sums it up.

i think it should be a bigger deal that the biggest insurer/HMO in California is simply just not offering covid vaccines and has no published timeline to do so.

do not offer health suggestions to people unsolicited.

so are we gonna meet up and howl at the moon tonight or what

United States 523,755 people with COVID were tracked in 2022–2023. Nearly half of adults and one third to almost half of children developed long COVID within a year, with risk highest in older, sicker patients. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

would be really cool if my healthcare provider, the largest in California, would not unnecessarily make patients wait to get access to boosters

Going through old screenshots and wishing anything had changed in the past two years to make this less applicable.

If we cannot all be on the same page that the sitting president threatening to invade a US city is fascist dictator shit then truly I do not know what to do.

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

give this man a morning show stat

i hate it when people turn useful words into caricatures

Me: venmo’s the guy who mowed my lawn Venmo: would you like a free gambling addiction?

the number of people who have sent me this image

I just wish people would use the same lenses they use to investigate the biases they care about on covid too.