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The PMC county-level COVlD map has been updated w/today's CDC data. Very High🔥🔥 ▪️Guam ▪️Southeast Idaho ▪️Southeast Alabama ▪️Lorain, Ohio ▪️Waldoboro, Maine High🔥 ▪️Waco, Texas ▪️Lexington, Kentucky ▪️Lancaster, Pennsylvania We've posted Monday's report early. 🧵1 of 4

Has my life suffered because I don’t eat indoors at restaurants anymore? Not really. Has my life suffered from repeatedly explaining and defending why I don’t eat indoors at restaurants anymore? UH HUH.

😷 BREAKING🚨 Canada launches a new National Advisory Committee on Preventive Health Services. It will be chaired by Dr. David Keegan, a leading advocate for masks in healthcare and on airplanes who filed human rights litigation on both fronts.

We’re a primary care practice in Vermont. We implemented a practice-wide protocol screening every patient at every encounter for recent SARS-CoV-2 infection history. What we’re observing in our panel is not consistent with a psychosomatic framework. We’re seeing measurable, objective increases in new-onset hypertension, acute cardiovascular events, new-onset allergic disease, and new-onset type 2 diabetes mellitus, all temporally correlated with infection history. These are not symptom reports. These are clinical findings.

Ok. I've read "The Painful Truth About Long Covid" six times through, and I'm ready. Here are ten clues in the article that point to the writer's bad faith.

Articles seem to be completely pointless on here, but I'm trying it again. No one sees them, no one reads them. What's the point?

🚨 We’re in a teachable moment - and we’re blowing it. The same voices who said “no mandates” and “we will not comply” are suddenly fine with hantavirus quarantines and Ebola travel bans. This proves: people support public health measures… when they feel threatened by someone else’s “freedom.” So let’s have some real, nuanced conversation about the value of public health measures (including “mandates”) vs individual freedom trade offs, instead of mindlessly repeating “we will not comply,” or conversely denying that many covid measures in fact went too far…

@michael_hoerger I love a hotspot map! SUUPER HELPFUL!! can I share this right now? Or is it an in development? Don't get too excited kind of thing?

Social Media Only: Here is a new sneak peek of the PMC COVlD Hot Spot Map. Do you think a version of our Hot Spot Map would be helpful to people seeking to avoid COVID? ⚡️🧵QUICK THREAD: 1 of 3

@redhead_ophelia @suchnerve Perspective and belief collide in such fascinating ways. see also: people didn't used to use up their sickleave by the end of February. That seems to have changed after 2020. hmmmm.

I can’t believe how any person older than 20 can’t feel climate change through their own experience… Like, summers used to be less unbearably hot, and there was much more snow in the winter where I live when I was a child.

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Clean water. Clean food. Clean air. I'm leading one of four Performer teams for the @ARPA_H BREATHE program. We're building a system that ensures clean air in buildings. We're demonstrating this in child care centers to improve health for kids and their families.

This review paper reveals how outdated 1950s science blinded health authorities to the airborne spread of COVID-19. Some still haven’t updated their beliefs. Public health officials, journalists, & politicians must read it to fix ventilation policies: mdpi.com/2073-4433/17/5…

As A Doctor, I Don’t Fear Covid As I Once Did. Or Cholera. Or Ebola. Or Anything At All, Actually, Come To Think Of It. I Wonder If Something Has Damaged The Part Of My Brain That Handles Risk Assessment.

Every Honeycrisp apple is a clone of a single tree planted at the University of Minnesota in 1962. Every one. Apple seeds are random. Plant a Honeycrisp seed and the new tree produces a small, sour apple that’s usually inedible. So apple growers do something old and clever. They cut a small branch off the original Honeycrisp tree, slot it into a slit in a young apple sapling, wrap the joint, and wait. The branch fuses to its new host and starts producing Honeycrisps. About 20 million Honeycrisp trees exist worldwide, every one a piece of that 1962 tree on different roots. Same goes for Gala, Fuji, Pink Lady, Granny Smith. Every Granny Smith on Earth traces back to a seedling found in 1868 by a woman named Maria Ann Smith in Australia. She’d thrown French crab apple cores onto her compost heap, one of them sprouted, and the apples it bore were unusually tart and good for cooking. That one tree is the ancestor of every Granny Smith in every grocery store on the planet. Wine has the bigger story. In the 1860s, a tiny aphid called phylloxera caught a boat from America to France, hidden in some grapevine cuttings. It eats grape roots. French vines had no defense and started dying everywhere. Within 15 years, French wine production crashed from about 11 billion bottles a year to 3 billion. The blight then tore through Italy, Spain, and Germany, and European wine was on the edge of collapse. The rescue came from Missouri and Texas. American grapevines had grown up with phylloxera and were immune to it. So growers chopped French grape varieties off at the trunk and joined them to American roots. Above the soil: still French grapes. Below the soil: aphid-proof American root. It worked. Today, almost every bottle of French, Italian, Spanish, Australian, and Californian wine you’ve ever drunk sits on top of an American root. The technique is ancient. Chinese farmers were grafting trees by 1000 BCE. A Greek medical text from 424 BCE describes it casually, like it was already old news. It works because plants don’t have a rejection system the way animals do. Cut two branches. Match the green layers just under the bark. Wrap them tight. In a few weeks the plumbing has fused into a single plant. A Syracuse University art professor named Sam Van Aken has spent 18 years building a single tree that grows 40 different fruits: peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, nectarines, almonds. In spring it blossoms in pink, white, and crimson all at once. He’s made more than a dozen. They sell for up to $30,000 each. Without grafting, there would be no commercial apple industry, no global wine industry, and most of the heirloom fruits humans have bred over the centuries would have gone extinct. One clean cut, and you’ve kept entire species alive.

The Swiss Re Institute suggests COVID will kill about 150,000 Americans this year (excess deaths), so it's more like a bad cancer than a bad flu. I would suggest talking to scientists who do Covid research and continue to take it seriously. My wife and I lead separate PhD programs. We homeschool so that our children do not experience the brain damage and other health problems from reinfections, which continue to pose a serious burden in 2026. It remains the most common chronic health condition in kids. A key reason why it might appear "milder" is that about 2 million Americans have died from COVlD (excess deaths). Wipe out 2 million people most vulnerable to any health problem, it will almost always appear acutely milder.

that time I was at work, went to the restroom & noticed an overwhelming chemical smell. Called facilities & got someone who blew me off. "It smells like dissolving plastic in nail polish remover and my head hurts now. Please let someone know," and then I left the building. 1/?

Elon Musk en Chine. L’homme le plus riche du monde est complètement défoncé, et il accompagne un président sénile le plus corrompu de l’histoire des États-Unis. Les chinois vont les bouffer.

1/ The science of airborne transmission isn't a theory; it's a documented fact. A landmark study in @NEJM proved that viruses can remain infectious in aerosols for hours. This isn't just about COVID—it's about every pathogen that uses the air as a highway. #Hantavirus #FarUVC

America spends more on healthcare than any country on earth. And still ranks last. The land of the "free" is also the land of: More school shootings than the rest of the world combined. More people in prison than any democracy in history. Half a million medical bankruptcies every year. 5 men worth more than 165 million Americans combined. And still they tell us how they're the greatest country on earth. Delusion is one hell of a drug.