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Ob/Gyn Dr, Innovator, Baker, Francophile. Love to learn. Stanford Clinical Faculty. Weekly COVID news: https://t.co/6IA2uPNsvv Bluesky: @drruth.bsky.social

Joined July 2009

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Ruth Ann Crystal, MD

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3 years

💥Please Retweet!💥. ✨Weekly COVID news✨ summarized for you at 🔎I spend hours each week scouring Twitter and the web for the latest COVID articles summarized in a friendly format. 🚀Please check out my newsletter!

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To all of the haters that said this day would never come

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New infographic on #Mpox

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The bathroom at this doctor's office has a framed picture of the bathroom at this doctor's office.

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This is what happens when you take a picture of a kitten going through a dollhouse http://t.co/UnXN41hinS.

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Taylor Swift as medical textbooks, a Thread🧵. Internal Medicine

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Feeding sweet potatoes

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Best Halloween group costume. “ There’s no crying in baseball.”

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I think that he took the wrong flight.🚀

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Parking in Front of the Liquor Store

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Astronaut Anne McClain brought her 4-year-old son to a @NASA photo shoot before flying to space, and the pictures are adorable

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@chrishlad Here's an infographic that summarizes this thread on Google search from @chrishlad.

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Table for one, please

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Nelson was training to be a sheep-herding dog. This was his exam. It didn't go quite the way he expected.

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#LongCovid patients with fatigue and cognitive problems have impaired brain cortex GABA-B activity and reduced plasticity in primary motor cortex which was restored with ultramicronized PalmitoylEthanolAmide with Luteolin (PEA-LUT) in small RCT #pwLC

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Brazil's Amazon Rainforest Is Rapidly Disappearing Under Pres Bolsonaro Deforestation has soared since far-right President Bolsonaro took office in January. The rainforest stores vast amounts of carbon- deforestation is alarming for climate change.

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@RachelAlter007 "Is there a doctor on the plane?". This JAMA article has printable cards that can remind you what to do in a medical emergency on an airplane. In-Flight Medical Emergencies: A Review Per @daniel_kraft, there's an app for that

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Batman wears one

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Please Retweet and share widely! . 🔎 We've spent hours and hours aggregating valuable links to help doctors fight #COVID19. Here is the document: Please add your insights!. #MedTwitter #hcldr #FOAMed #COVID2019 #covid19UK . 🚑 🌡️ 🔎 💊🚑 🌡️ 🔎 💊🚑

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HPV Infections Are Plummeting Due to Widespread Vaccination A more than 80% drop in new infections has been seen in women and girls under the age of 25.

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Three years after COVID infection, adults had an increased risk of all major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events including heart attack, stroke, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and myopericarditis with an odds ratio of 1.73.

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🦘🦏🦊🐊🐑🦆🦌🐖🐵🦁🐻🐘🐧. With the humans gone, the critters are out!. 🌎All over the world!🌎. 🦘🦏🦊🐊🐑🦆🦌🐖🐵🦁🐻🐘🐧. #wildlife #quarantine #animals

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Today is my neighbor Elise’s 105th birthday!🥳. If you would like to help me wish happy birthday to Elise, please reply and I will print out your messages for her. #pinksocks to Elise and her family in honor of her 1️⃣0️⃣5️⃣th birthday. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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National Corgi Race

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@EricTopol @ncats_nih_gov @JACCJournals Here is the article from @JACCJournals . Impact of Vaccination on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients With COVID-19 Infection. Partial and complete vaccination is associated with a lower risk of MACE (major adverse cardiac events) after SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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Former Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton volunteer to get coronavirus vaccine publicly to prove it's safe

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Please Retweet!. ⭐️Comparison of the 6 top COVID VACCINES⭐️.including efficacy, how they work, variants data, etc. #Pfizer #PfizerBioNTech.#Moderna .#AstraZeneca .#Novavax.#JNJ #Janssen.#SputnikV #Gamaleya

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Indian girl breaks national archery record at the age of 2 http://t.co/AJEOU6qTVp @smrtgrls http://t.co/hyXK8Gmi6z.

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This is what happens when you take a picture of a kitten going through a dollhouse. @DrJenGunter

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The Ambulance Drone- a flying defibrillator to reach heart attack victims exponentially faster http://t.co/tk7CmNaUfX http://t.co/IRBN3iFxUz.

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"Is there a doctor on the plane?". This JAMA article has printable cards that can remind you what to do in a medical emergency on an airplane. In-Flight Medical Emergencies: A Review @VioletaYammine

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UPDATED 2/26/21:. ⭐️Comparison of the 6 top COVID VACCINES⭐️.including efficacy, how they work, variants data, etc. #Pfizer #PfizerBioNTech.#Moderna .#AstraZeneca .#Novavax.#JNJ #Janssen.#SputnikV #Gamaleya

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6/25/24 Scripps News: COVID cases on the rise in 39 states, marking the start of an anticipated summer surge California, Arizona and Florida are experiencing the highest rise in cases driven by new variants like KP.3. No states have declining COVID rates.

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Pediatrics .#tweetiatrician

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Terrifying predictions from @Khanoisseur who studies dirty money between Trump-Russia, Trumps cronies-Russia, Russian mob-Trump, etc

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Please Retweet!. Living donor needed- the liver grows back. ✅Must be O+ or O- blood type.✅Age 18 to 55 years old.✅Willing to take 4-6 weeks off for recovery.✅Best if in DC area. 👧🏽For little Nusayba Ali.🏥 ☎️202-444-1360. @Potato_Chip @AG_EM33.

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URGENT: Friends, we're in need of a liver donor for our daughter Nusayba who has Stage 4 cancer. The surgery scheduled for 9/10 was cancelled b/c the surgeon found a last second complication with the donor who made all the arrangements. It’s a gut punch, but we’re hopeful. 1/.

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4yo in Virginia today went outside to play then came back to the front door with a new friend. (photo credit: u/SeenSomeThangs)

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“Albums, remember those? Albums still matter. Like books and black lives, they still matter”-Prince #BlackLivesMatter http://t.co/KbN1quyJeQ.

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She's 92, her grt gma was born a slave: Oldest National Park Ranger Shares http://t.co/YnnYXf9pJT @mochamomma http://t.co/t1bF6EQyW0.

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This is so TRUE!. "People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary." - William Gibson @GreatDismal. @MomsDemand @ZDoggMD @DrJenGunter

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.@ACLU 3 women filed w/Supreme Court to nullify election. Court date 2/21 but they need help. See @Rosie's tweet!.

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Surgery

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.@xeni Pls Retweet @Rosie's tweet!. …. 3 women filed w/Supreme Court to nullify election. Court date 2/21.

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The overly dramatic kitten. (Sound on)

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This is the sweetest!. Lost baby goat is reunited with his mother. (Sound On)🔊

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MT @xor .Critics say Trump is looting the country to enrich his friends. Trump counters that he's looting the country to enrich his friends.

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Trump says will cut "a lot out of Dodd-Frank" because "friends of mine that have nice businesses, they can't borrow"

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Watch this. @sarahkendzior is absolutely right. Don't let Trump's crazy evil advisers (Bannon) get him to sign white supremacist policies.

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.@SARAHKENDZIOR: #Trump's most extreme advisers are taking power and trying to reframe national offices #AMJoy

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@choo_ek @dempster_katie @womeninmedchat @physicianwomen @PhysicianMomsGp @Ergobaby This doctor from Kenya performed a c-section with her child on her back because she had no one to take care of him that day. Read her story on quoted FB post. Kenyan doctor warms hearts after performing SURGERY carrying baby on her back

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@chrishlad UPDATED Infographic:. You need a SPACE before the dash in order for it to exclude the second word. i.e. dolphins -football. Thanks for the typo correction @RococoCode @Hahn160s @dgulbran.

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@looknoreally When pigs fly!.

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Good job Larry

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.@chelseahandler Pls Retweet @Rosie's tweet!. 3 women filed w/Supreme Court to nullify election. Court date 2/21.

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Gynecology

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Ophthalmology

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Orthopedics

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Please Retweet!.The COVID & more newsletter is out!. In this issue:.🧠COVID & the Brainstem (Yikes!).🫀COVID increases heart attack & stroke for at least 3 yrs!.💪#LongCOVID serum is toxic to muscle mitochondria.🧬Genetic susceptibility to Long COVID. & much more <link below👇>.

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When Grandma found out her two grandkids would be coming to the airport dressed as dinosaurs.

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Calling all people with #LongCovid . The FDA needs your input regarding drug development for #pwLC . FDA/Public Meeting on Patient-Focused Drug Development for Long COVID will be on April 25, 2023. Sign up here:

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Trump transition official is active on white nationalist social media platform

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MT @UCPritzker medical school makes a stand for justice and equality. #BlackLivesMatter #AllLivesMatter @ShaunKing http://t.co/oHRiLXnIel.

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“ Okay, each of you fly over one at a time.”

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Dogatello

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Neurology

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To cleanse your timeline, here are two Mongolian Tsaatan women riding their reindeer.

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Please Retweet!. Infographic on who is eligible for a booster dose of each of the COVID-19 vaccines now. I summarized the CDC recommendations here:

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⭐️Please Retweet!. "What you need to know about the Pfizer COVID vaccine for children ages 5 to 11". Infographic with answers to your questions, inspired by @acweyand's recent thread🧵. #medtwitter #family #pediatrics #familymedicine #fertility #obgyntwitter #medlasso

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@DCTian So sorry to hear this. Please share that @PhysicianLine, founded by @ShrinkRapping, has volunteer psychiatrists who provide anonymous help to physicians & med students in need. Call 1-888-409-0141.Call them about anything.Docs for docs.Free/anonymous

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Saliva viral load is a better predictor of disease than nasopharyngeal viral load. New study from Yale:.Saliva viral load is a dynamic unifying correlate of COVID-19 severity and mortality See: @VirusesImmunity's thread .

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What is the relevance of viral load in #COVID19 disease severity? A very talented @YaleMSTP student @SilvaJ_C found that saliva viral load to be a better predictor of disease than nasopharyngeal viral load. Here is a thread to explain the findings. (1/n) .

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@RajlabN Thanks. This is very helpful. BQ.1.1 is concerning since it is resistant to both Evusheld and Bebtelovimab.

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Radiology

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@drjessigold @DrJenGunter Y34.99 Unspecified event, undetermined intent, unspecified place, during unspecified activity. V9107XA Burn due to water-skis on fire, initial encounter.

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Must read from @sarahkendzior:.Trump might be president, but Mike Pence is the real Liar-In-Chief

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Imagine getting 45,000 masks and giving them to ICE instead of hospitals. Giving them to ICE for "Enforcement and Removal" of ppl. Putting healthcare workers' lives at risk w/lack of #PPE. This is immoral. This is so wrong on so many levels. @ACLU @maddow @AOC @MtnMD @choo_ek.

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ICE just put out a request for 45,000 “respirator/surgical masks.” . Note that it’s for ERO (Enforcement and Removal) — ICE’s deportation officers .

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How not to fish

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.@AndreaChalupa .@Revote2017 is a legal peaceful way to void election. It's a long shot but #RBG put on SCOTUS docket for next week. @MtnMD

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Hmm, NO WOMEN YOU SAY?.Covered:.♂️Erectile Dysfunction. Not covered: .♀️Pregnancy.♀️Cesarean sections.♀️Postpartum depression.Rape treatment

The Hill

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Group of senators working on ObamaCare repeal bill includes no women:

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A road in Australia got flooded. Here is the suggested alternate route.

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“The cat? .No, I haven’t seen him.”. #Caturday

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Myths about #AI in medicine by @math_rachel. #xmed

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Salivary biomarkers in pediatric long COVID Salivary levels of TOS, ADA2, total proteins, and AOPP, could predict which children had #LongCOVID vs controls. Adding total proteins and ADA1 to the algorithm told of Long COVID severity- mild vs severe.

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She's 92, her grt gma was born a slave: Oldest National Park Ranger Shares http://t.co/8W5AfLxT76 @ShaunKing http://t.co/NuJcp0xaH2.

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I just donated @Khanoisseur's citizen investigative reporting on Trump and mob and Russian dirty money ties here:

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New Infographic: . 💉What is VITT (Vaccine Induced Thrombosis and Thrombocytopenia)?. 👩What does this mean for Women during the COVID pandemic?

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The man here eating off a gold table just cut funding to @_MealsOnWheels to feed poor, isolated seniors and funding for poor kids meals. Sad

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This is so true.

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How not to make a map

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A professor held her student's baby while giving a 3-hour lecture so the mother could take notes Prof Cissé found a white lab coat and tied the baby to her back so that she could write on white board. @Rahvolution #medtwitter

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Sign of the times

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Another revealing @Khanoisseur thread.Trump's losing casinos being financed by the Russian mob. So he accepted Rus money & didn't pay taxes.

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CDC: Pregnant women with symptomatic COVID-19 are at increased risk for severe illness (ICU admission, invasive ventilation, ECMO, and death) compared with nonpregnant women

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Asymptomatic SARS-COV-2 infection in children's tonsils 48 children who underwent adenotonsillectomy October 2020 to September 2021. 25% of asymptomatic children had SARS-CoV-2 in tonsils or adenoids. Lymphoid tissue may be a reservoir of SARS-CoV-2

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.@MrDrewScott just read me my favorite bedtime story at @OrchardSupply. #PropertyBrothers

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I never realized how long an owl's legs really are.

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MT @JonathanBrendle The new Canadian 2 dollar coin (toonie) has a glow-in-the-dark Aurora Borealis!. #astronomy @AstroKatie @CatherineQ

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Please Retweet!. This week's COVID newsletter is out!. In this issue:.😷What is the real data on masks & COVID?.🧠#LongCOVID and the brain.💪🏽What Long COVID can do to your muscles.🫁 Problems 1 year and 2 years after COVID infection. and much more.

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