Kathleen Banks, DrPH(c) MPH

Excited to share our thoughts on public health leadership with the @DrPHCoalition

Hi #LongCovid community! Analysis is about to start on the @id_cure dataset but we need many more responses! If you haven’t filled this out, please do so by Jan 31st! And please RT & circulate as widely as possible, including to providers treating LC! cure.ncats.io/create/case/ca…

The people saying that Covid is getting milder are in for a shock.

Our new preprint: "In immunocompromised individuals & those at least aged 65 years, access to at-home COVID tests, telemedicine, & rapid Paxlovid delivery reduced the ... need for ICU care; this has the potential to reduce the cost of COVID care." researchsquare.com/article/rs-531… 1/3

After 3 long, hard years of tireless work, our cross-campus, multi-discilinary academic team reaching our goal: State of CT support to scale up CR Boxes for every classroom in Connecticut! 💪🌬️💫💫 This passion project started from the point of care at @uconnhealth 🏥where I have been treating people living with MS since 2017 as a neuro-immunology nurse practitioner. 👩‍⚕️ When the 🦠 pandemic struck, my immunosuppressed patients were vulnerable - majority females with families and many educators that work in our CT Schools. 👩‍🏫👦🧒 [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…] I looked at the mitigation efforts in these hubs of our communities and saw a gap - no air purifiers in schools, while @JohnsHopkinsSPH and @HarvardChanSPH recommended this intervention.[centerforhealthsecurity.org/2021/new-repor…]

We’re happy to announce a new @patientled preprint out today, on machine learning phenotypic with high-dimensional #LongCovid symptom data! We used a dataset of 162 symptoms in 6,031 participants to explore making clusters of Long Covid patients. 1/ researchsquare.com/article/rs-490…

Little has been published on accessing care #longcovid. @leticiasaurus and colleagues have a fantastic protocol paper that can help guide others in the field: jclinepi.com/article/S0895-…

Additionally we want to highlight the incredible mechanistic review by @MichaelPelusoMD & Steve Deeks also published in Cell this week. We hope these two articles help pave the way for coordinated, robust research on Long COVID and all IACCIs. /10 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

…JD Davids of @LongCOVIDnetwk, @rusty_cjm of @BristolUni, Signe Redfield, @KPMcDonald of @BUSPH, @_diatoma of @sfcem_mexico, Teresa T. Tindle Akintonwa of @BCSAlliance, @ChronicResearch of @MIT, @ahhrrr, @aimeeweiss, @GinaAssaf, @ahandvanish, & @LisaAMcCorkell 9/

My friend @katiamek is a truly beautiful person. There aren’t many who in her situation wouldn’t just give up—but for 2.5 years she has fought every single day, pleading for help, looking for ways to somehow, against all odds, escape her horrific circumstances. #SaveKatiana 🧵

@1goodtern Hi! 👋

I've followed back everyone whose comments I can see, but there's a limit to the ones that are visible. Sorry if i haven't seen your reply, I'm more likely to see a reply on this tweet now. ❤️👇

I'm trying to follow anyone who is any combination of: Living with Long Covid Caring for people with Long Covid Trying not to spread Covid Trying not to catch Covid Studying or researching Covid If that's you, thank you, and please give me a wave 🖐️ No need to if I'm already following you ❤️

For better or worse, I'm back on this app. However, the best part is that I have access to early insight from experts like @putrinolab, @resiapretorius and others. This evidence will (should) be transformative for the field.

Proud to share new commentary in @CellCellPress with an incredible team of patient-researchers

@jenbrea Similarly—how many neurosurgeons train in the autonomic nervous system?

Working on a film about neurosurgical diagnoses and related comorbids (#MECFS, #longCOVID, #EDS, #POTS, #MCAS, #fibro). What would you like to see in such a film?

@jenbrea Definitely long covid symptoms that suggest CCI. And how providers respond to those symptoms.

@mildTin Stellate ganglion block was the game changer for brain fog, dysautonomia and PEM.

Just out of curiosity - #LongCovid/#MECFS/#POTS folks, have you found at least one thing that you're **reasonably sure** moved the dial for you?

In our new @NEJM article, @DrZackaryBerger and I offer advice to providers on how to successfully write doctors’ notes to ensure people w #LongCovid receive workplace accommodations and fight common fear of fakery & of the disability con. 1/3 #CripTheVote nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Breaking my Twitter hiatus to share some important research. Latest in @Nature find replicating (meaning active) Covid-19 in brain and body tissue in 44 autopsy patients up to seven months out from acute infection. See thread for details and link.

I think #MedTwitter and #PHTwitter have an ethical and moral obligation to not and try to shut down clinics and systems that corral chronically ill people (again, including cancer and Long Covid patients) into lifestyle management instead of serious biophysical medical care