Uncomfortable truth time - disabled & marginalized patients are frequently mistreated in hospital settings. When you say “just walk out” or “just file a complaint” you’re failing to take into consideration the huge barriers to care we face (and the risk of retaliation) 🧵/1

The cognitive aspect of ME gets too little attention, imo, in severity classification. It has been seriously debilitating for me. And I'm currently much more functional than a couple yrs ago (otherwise I wouldn't be typing this). But it's difficult for others to see, so...*shrug*

PMC COVID-19 Forecasting Model, Sep 23, 2024 🧵 1/8 The U.S. continues to see an estimated 1.1 million daily COVID infections with 2.2% of the population actively infectious as we descend from the peak of a 9th Covid wave. Transmission will remain very high the rest of 2024.

6000 Americans have died of Covid in the last 6 weeks. What was the plan, exactly?

let’s be so for real- so many doctors do not keep up with research, and some patients genuinely do know more than their doctors do about their conditions

With so little time until #MarcellusWilliams is set to be executed tomorrow, Sept. 24th at 6 p.m., our best tool is our voice. We must make as much noise as possible in these final hours, as public pressure can make all the difference in the moments leading up to an execution.

Since the late 1970s we've lost over 800,000 Americans to AIDS in the past 4.5 years we've lost around 1.2 million Americans to COVID We think of the former as a horribly mismanaged crisis that devalued the lives of people at risk... but we're nailing it with the latter?

If your space doesn't require masks, it's not diverse. If your space doesn't require masks, it not equitable. If your space doesn't require masks, it's not inclusive. #CovidIsAirborne

In 3weeks I turn 30. I’ve never had a relationship. Never been on holiday with friends. Never finished my education, or gone out to work. I’ve never lived away from family. I’ve never cooked a meal. It’s 14yrs since I went out on my own. I have #MECFS

So weird that there's exactly ONE disease where any news article about that disease attracts replies like "move on", "what year is it?", "omg are you still talking about this?" Articles about polio, HIV, EBV, HPV etc are ok. But there's one disease we're not supposed to discuss.

“In particular, it showed that reinfection raises the likelihood that you’ll need hospitalization” “We use the term ‘cumulative effects’ so, multiple hits accrue & then leave the body more vulnerable to all the potential long-term health effects of COVID” self.com/story/covid-re…

The fact that one white man has the power to control whether a Black man lives or dies (irrespective of his innocence) without any real, tangible, or legal consequences is enough to burn that city + this country to the ground.

This man should not be able to show his face publicly for this, at the very least. These politicians kill in relative comfort and ease. That's why they keep doing it. That's what needs to change.

I just don’t know how you see 1 million people sign a petition to stop the execution of an innocent man & the murder victim’s family also asking to stop the execution & see the state continue to do it & believe in the united states government at all

Columbia Psychiatry (Columbia Psychiatry) is embarrassingly doing a med ed program on Psychosomatic Care. Consultants include Per Fink, who notoriously forcibly institutionalized people w neuro conditions; it took a Danish High Court Case to return them home. columbiapsychiatry.org/file/173112/do…

This is so real, and it’s not only people who got sick very young (though I so feel for them). What about those of us who never had a chance to save money? Build a retirement fund? Have a career? Have kids? Buy a house? Even a cure today leaves millions devastated from #MECFS

i’m not surprised they do not see us as people. only thing left to do and should’ve been the first thing is to put ur bodies on the line.

His name is Khaliifah Williams, we owe it to him to use it. his name will not be forgotten or overshadowed by this white supremacists engulfed land that refuses to treat our kin like human beings.

*lynched.

Rest In Power Marcellus Williams. This quote is the only thing that really comes to mind at the moment