David It Up!
@Dave_it_up
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Passionate IT healthcare professional dedicated to improving lives in rural America.
Joined October 2010
Repeated COVID-19 Infections: A Jenga Tower of Hidden Damage. Imagine playing a game of Jenga. You carefully pull out blocks, each removal making the tower a bit shakier. Some blocks cause visible shifts, while others seem insignificant—until one day, the wrong block is pulled,
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What’s the fastest way to cement someone’s beliefs you disagree with? Come at them hard and tell them they are wrong. Want to cement them even more? Do it with righteous indignation, smugness and anger.
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Summer COVID wave is building. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention modeling published July 11 shows infections are now climbing in twenty-five states, mostly across the Southeast, South, and West Coast. Wastewater readings have moved from very low to low in just a week,.
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Long Covid and Denial - Their Denial Isn’t About You. It’s About Their Brains. Let’s stop wasting energy on the wrong question: Why don’t they believe me? - Long Covid. Here’s the truth: it’s not about belief. It’s about biology. Robert Sapolsky would tell you flat out — your
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This post is in honor of Tammy.
We lost another beautiful soul to long COVID. Tammy Bayne of Surprise, AZ, got sick in March 2020. She passed away May 5, 2025.
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Long COVID Is Killing People and Damaging Organs, Right Now!. Let’s stop pretending Long COVID is just an annoying cough or fatigue you shake off after a few weeks. People are dying, silently, even after society stopped paying attention. Death certificates say stroke, heart
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How to Kill a Healthcare System in One Big, Dumb Bill. 💔 Seventeen million people losing health insurance.🩺 Doctors leaving USA.🛂 New foreign doctors blocked due to visa issues.🔬 Science Throttled - huge cuts to medical research.🎓 Student loans to train new doctors capped
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This is my new thought process. From Long Covid, to politics. If I just pushed out doom all the time, it promotes giving up, and that fulfills its own prophecy. F’ that! . If you follow accounts, and that’s all they tell you, limit your access to them or unfollow them.
@Paul_Briley I’ve shifted from being a doomer like you, to I’m not going to stop hoping and pushing. If all I do is doom out and push that view, people give up, and that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
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A Breathable Shield Against COVID-19?. Scientists at McMaster University are testing a new kind of COVID-19 vaccine that you breathe in instead of getting by shot. Early results from a Phase 1 study with thirty six healthy adults show it is safe and sparks strong immune.
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Detecting COVID-19 for clinical trials . Here is the same information, but in more common language. Dr. Shannon Stott and her team have created a new way to detect the virus that causes COVID-19 using a special lab tool called a “microfluidic chip.” This chip is coated with.
Dr. Shannon Stott is leading a team using a novel microfluidics approach to identify SARS-CoV-2. A ‘Herringbone’ chip is coated with ACE-2, to pull out SARS-CoV-2 from blood: in acute COVID, “when we looked at basic plasma testing, we saw that no virus was found… but those same
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RT @AlbaDocherty: Another LongCovid monoclonal antibodies success story 🎉. We don't need trials, we need them put back on the market, stat.….
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RT @michael_hoerger: U.S. COVlD transmission is expected to increase quickly. Today is a good day to restock on masks, tests, and air filte….
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🚨#UPDATE: The meteor / fireball witnessed by countless people across multiple states has now been confirmed to have struck Earth. Officials say fragments of the meteorite crashed through the roof of a home in Henry County, Georgia.
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The Silent Aftermath of 2020 Why Symptoms Keep Stacking Up. SARS-COV-2 (COVID).• Heart inflammation in 60% of survivors.• Up to a 7-fold increased stroke risk compared to flu.• Lung scarring in 25% of patients after a year.• Brain aging accelerated by years within months.•
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This is a very professionally run space on the subject of drone warfare. Tonight the discussion is on drone warfare in South America.
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Rural Hospitals Closing: They Call It “Big and Beautiful.” It’ll Starve Our Rural Hospital. I live in a very rural area and I have regular heart problems so this post is personal. My very small hospital is the kind where I can walk from one side of the hospital to the other in
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