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Derek Franks

@derek_a_franks

Boldly going! 🚀 Digital storyteller, strategist, sustainable traveler, writer, sports fan, science nerd, progressive, climate advocate, Clean Air Brigade.

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calendar_today19-06-2011 05:47:09

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sawyer 🌪️ (@idea_alchemist) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Surviving #COVID wasn’t the end, it was just the beginning. 4 years since my one and only infection that changed my life. Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there. The invisible symptoms of #LongCovid are affecting millions.

Surviving #COVID wasn’t the end, it was just the beginning. 4 years since my one and only infection that changed my life. 

Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there. The invisible symptoms of #LongCovid are affecting millions.
I Dissent (@dissentfu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

2,977 people were killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks and we honor them every year. Covid has killed that same number of people every 3-5 weeks for 4 1/2 years now and still no one cares.

potatum🥔 (@pot8um) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Covid particles can linger in the air for HOURS. The host doesn’t even have to be in the room. We’ve known this for years at this point. We should start acting like it.

Covid particles can linger in the air for HOURS. The host doesn’t even have to be in the room.

We’ve known this for years at this point. We should start acting like it.
Dr Claudia William MD MScHAL (@drwilliammd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The N95 mask was invented in the 1992 by Peter Tsai, an American scientist. Let us not pretend this is some new technology. The N95 existed before some ppl who use this app. There is no logical reason the medical system isn’t requiring masking for healthcare workers.

Scott Squires (@scott_squires) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So much for 1 day isolation in children. " up to 10 days post symptom onset to reduce residual transmission risk around vulnerable or immunocompromised populations," the authors said. COVID study: 40% of children still infectious after symptom resolution cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid…

Nick #RespiratorsFilterPathogens😷 Anderegg (@nickanderegg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

SIGNIFICANT NEW STUDY PUBLISHED TODAY IN NATURE! Fibrin "binds to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein," forming clots that "drive systemic thromboinflammation and neuropathology," and it happens "independently of active infection." Simplified breakdown of the paper below! 1/many

SIGNIFICANT NEW STUDY PUBLISHED TODAY IN NATURE!

Fibrin "binds to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein," forming clots that "drive systemic thromboinflammation and neuropathology," and it happens "independently of active infection."

Simplified breakdown of the paper below!

1/many
Covid Caution KP.2 + KP.3 + KP.3.1.1. + LB.1 (@covidcaution) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Part of the massive divide between people who are COVID aware and those that aren't is the paradoxical fact that there is so much information. Every day we see another study with a large cohort pointing to poor long-term outcomes, and the myriad ways COVID destroys the body.

JWeiland (@jpweiland) 's Twitter Profile Photo

August 30th update: Transmission remains stubbornly high near 1 million infections per day. Forecast suggests a steep decline in cases in coming weeks. 🔸980,000 new infections/day 🔸1 in every 34 people currently infected 🔸64% higher than 12 month avg.

August 30th update:

Transmission remains stubbornly high near 1 million infections per day.   Forecast suggests a steep decline in cases in coming weeks.

🔸980,000 new infections/day
🔸1 in every 34 people currently infected
🔸64% higher than 12 month avg.
Ziyad Al-Aly, MD (@zalaly) 's Twitter Profile Photo

400 million reasons to care about #LongCovid ICYMI: our review on #LongCovid in Nature Medicine Long Covid has affected at least 400 million people worldwide at a cost of $1 trillion per year. #LongCovid is a defining health crisis of our time! nature.com/articles/s4159…

400 million reasons to care about #LongCovid 

ICYMI: our review on #LongCovid in <a href="/NatureMedicine/">Nature Medicine</a> 

Long Covid has affected at least 400 million people worldwide at a cost of $1 trillion per year. 

#LongCovid is a defining health crisis of our time!

nature.com/articles/s4159…
Jess (@meetjess) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Long COVID is a "public health crisis for kids," experts say New research sheds light on the growing burden of pediatric long COVID while it continues to be ignored salon.com/2024/08/26/lon…

Caffeinated Toddler (@caffeinatedtdlr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

SARS-CoV-2 triggers a new airborne form of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (some are proposing specific terms such as “CoV-AIDS”). whn.global/public-service…

SARS-CoV-2 triggers a new airborne form of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (some are proposing specific terms such as “CoV-AIDS”). whn.global/public-service…
Derek Franks (@derek_a_franks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1,262 Americans were killed by C0VlD last week. It’s the 3rd straight week with more than 1,000 deaths. ~5,000 in the U.S. were killed by the disease in August. Our institutions are working hard to keep this quiet, but you know better, right?

Derek Franks (@derek_a_franks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I can’t see the future, but here’s what happened last year: From August to April, there were 31 straight weeks of more than 1,000 C0VlD deaths in the U.S. More than half a year of 1,000+ weekly deaths. Nobody did anything to stop it. Just like no one is doing anything now.

Derek Franks (@derek_a_franks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1,555 Americans were killed by C0VlD last week. It’s the 4th week in a row with 1,000+ deaths. ~6,000+ have been killed in the last month. Tens of millions have L0NG C0VlD. It wasn’t over or mild for them. As millions get infected every day, not masking is a dangerous game.

Derek Franks (@derek_a_franks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Biden and Harris promised to get C0VlD under control, and here we are 4 years later and C0VlD is spreading at a higher rate now than at any point in 2020.

Biden and Harris promised to get C0VlD under control, and here we are 4 years later and C0VlD is spreading at a higher rate now than at any point in 2020.