Judy Stone
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Icymi, my new book, RESILIENCE: One Family's Story of Hope and Triumph over Evil, on escaping the
#Holocaust
, rebuilding lives,
#kindness
and honoring promises. With impressive blurbs incl
@TheLancetInfDis
Attn:
@HolocaustMuseum
@AuschwitzMuseum
@yadvashem
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I am disappointed and appalled in your Q&A
@CDCDirector
. Your stressing handwashing and failure to mention
#masking
in your Q&A was an abdication of responsibility.
#CovidIsNotOver
#CovidIsAirborne
Why are you gaslighting us?
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My latest: Where Have All The
#Masks
Gone? And Why Is The
#CDC
Missing In Action? via
@forbes
w thanks to
@jljcolorado
@gregggonsalves
and
@ArthurCaplan
for great interviews.
#COVIDisAirborne
#CovidIsNotOver
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clues about
#longCOVID
in blood samples from patients w autoimmune
#rheumatic
disease.
Those who developed long COVID were more likely to have expanded, pro-inflammatory antibodies specific to a coronavirus that causes the common cold. Their findings suggest that a person's 1/
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I'm unclear why CDC is reluctant to allow
#Novavax
booster after
#mRNA
vaccines for those who want them. Can you pls clarify
@ENirenberg
@Alexander_Tin
@EricTopol
? Lack of efficacy in boosting? Lack of data? Other?
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Write your Congressional reps/senators telling them that what the
#CDC
#HICPAC
is doing is unconscionable and asking they insist on masks--preferably N95s and not loose surgical masks--in healthcare facilities.
#Covid
#CovidIsAirborne
@LauraMiers
My August check in for neurology notice empty mask slot? Neurologist was maskless, sick. Coughing, clearing throat and sniffles while telling me I may not recover and reinfection will likely worsen my long COVID. I sent letter to my reps asking for masks in healthcare. Take care.
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Hospitals Deny Immunocompromised Patients’
#ADA
Requests For Masks via
@forbes
#immunosuppression
#masks
#ethics
@MassGenBrigham
@UCSFHospitals
Thx to
@juliairzyk
@DorfmanDoron
@pjavidan
@SFdirewolf
@sdaction1
@mattbc
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Must-read on
#HICPAC
and
#CDC
: Hospitals are killing patients because they don't feel like doing infection control, by
@julia_doubleday
#COVID19
Why are
@CDCgov
and
@CDCDirector
avoiding admitting that
#CovidIsAirborne
?
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Hot off the press: These Are The Best
#Masks
To Protect You From Anti-Maskers via
@forbes
A post born from listening to Shira Doron's talk about
#Covid19
and
#LongCovid
. W thanks to
@maolesen
and
@pjavidan
.
#RiskAssessment
#HICPAC
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In-N-Out Burger’s New Masking Policy Threatens Their Employees’ Health via
@forbes
@innoutburger
#Covid
#CovidIsAirborne
#CovidIsNotOver
#masks
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viral history, especially prior infection and expansion of antibodies against a pre-pandemic coronavirus, could prime the immune system for developing long COVID. The research is published in Science Translational Medicine.
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I just sent this letter using
#resistbot
on messenger. Please join me in demanding our Congress Require
#MASKS
in healthcare. CDC is failing us. Resistbot made a petition of this. Easy to sign and it will send. Thanks.
cc
@CDCDirector
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Good reminder about
#CDC
's interests
Considering that the CDC changed their isolation guidance from 10 to 5 days only 6 days after Delta airlines asked for that change:
Business interests are high up in informing public health policy. Concerns for public health? Probably much lower.
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Gallego challenges Sinema to hold town hall to explain supporting filibuster more than women's rights
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Does prior
#omicron
infection shield against future infection? Maybe not, new research finds via
@medical_xpress
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My aunt,
#Holocaust
survivor and educator Kitty Williams (Kati), z"l, died this morning. Since 2008, she devoted her life to educating about the Holocaust in the Omaha area. A brief pictorial:
This is Kitty at age 18, shortly before she was taken to Auschwitz. 1/n
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@firefoxx66
Good,rational thread. One problem is insurance plans not allowing early refills or an extra supply of essential meds
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Important thread.
@VUMChealth
should be ashamed by its treatment of
@eugenegu
. What he did was honorable. I admire his courage
Heartbroken that Vanderbilt University Medical Center not only tagged me on a pinned tweet but also posted a statement about me on their website rather than address my concerns. Found out about the tweet because Trump supporters liked and retweeted.
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New: Hospitals Need To Resume Universal
#Masking
. Here’s What They Are Doing Now. (Spoiler--it's not enough) via
@forbes
@MGHMedicine
@TuftsMedicalCtr
@RWJBarnabas
@UPMC
. With thanks to
@mtosterholm
for his perspective.
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I could use some camaraderie tonight. DH is ill, Disoriented. No focal symptoms. Brought him to ER and They won’t even let me in th ER to explain what happened. I am pissed, scared, and cold.
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@ashishkjha
@j_g_allen
This is a terrible decision designed, it appears, primarily to help employers. It puts the elderly and vulnerable at more risk and largely ignores the risk of
#LongCovid
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@waltshaub
#SaveThePostOffice
#ArrestDeJoy
with retired postal worker who came to thank us!
#cumberland
Maryland. Worrisome that a number of people had no clue what is happening to
#USPS
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DD is ever so much more tactful than I. Floor nurse was appalled that I asked staff to mask, since it isn’t mandated by
#Maryland
. I said I thought it unethical to give someone
#longCovid
or kill them with a nosocomial infection. DD posted this.
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Why worry about terrorists when Michigan gov is poisoning kids to save pennies
#Flintwater
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Thanks,
@EricTopol
for your op-ed calling out
@POTUS
admin for their denial of
#Covid
realities and failure to better protect the public by urging
#masking
and better
#ventilation
. The lack of sound research re
#LongCovid
is also a huge disappointment.
My oped on the JN.1 variant and the 2nd biggest US wave of infections (after Omicron) since the pandemic began
@latimes
@latimesopinion
#LongCovid
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The burger chain
@innoutburger
confirmed their anti-mask policy for employees in a phone call a bit ago. This violates
#CDC
#Covid
recs and endangers
#employees
.
cc
@luckytran
@myrabatchelder
You can contact them at (800) 786-1000 or at
#OSHA
In-N-Out Burger’s New Masking Policy Threatens Their Employees’ Health via
@forbes
@innoutburger
#Covid
#CovidIsAirborne
#CovidIsNotOver
#masks
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and related, How has
@moderna_tx
been allowed to get away w the price-gouging when their product had huge taxpayer support?
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New: I was really angry about
@emmaogreen
's post in
@TheAtlantic
, so I wrote a response: Wearing A Mask For
#Covid19
Protection Is Scientific And Perfectly Normal Some of us face the realities of what is now and is likely to happen w opening up too soon.
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@JTMontgomery8
@JoshuaPotash
My aunt, an Auschwitz survivor, has said the same thing. I was obvious during the 2016 campaign, prompting me to write my family’s story, Resilience...as a warning. Have given some talks about the parallels and would like to do more
#Holocaust
education
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@stephenablack
That’s one hell of a story. The irony of his getting a German Shepherd after all. Sounds like something my mom might do (Auschwitz). Funny that her favorite show, besides Jeopardy, was Hogan’s Heroes.
Thx for sharing this vignettes.
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@luckytran
@CDCDirector
Perhaps that's why
#HICPAC
seemed so determined to discard safe N95
#masks
and ignored
#aerosols
and
#ventilation
. The public comments made schooled them. Will they and you listen, Dr. Cohen? We want better protection!
#CovidIsAirborne
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#CDC
Drops Five Day Covid-19 Isolation Despite Controversy via
@forbes
… Thx to
@NationalNurses
@luckytran
@NohaAboelataMD
@19joho
for comments
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You might ask
@ericashenoy
for the reasoning behind this. Some view that t as a violation of
#ADA
accommodations, as was expressed at the
#HICPAC
meeting this week
@inchbyinch_rbr
Some hospitals, like Mass General, no longer require staff to mask, even in response to a request. It’s unconscionable.
#CovidIsAirborne
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I'm looking for
#immunocompromised
patients who have been denied
#masking
as an
#ADA
accommodation for a story. Please share with your groups. Thanks! cc
@ahandvanish
@patientled
@LisaAMcCorkell
@thinkalot
@DrZackaryBerger
@DrEricDing
@yaneerbaryam
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New post:
#Ventilation
Should Be A Larger Focus In Our Fight Against
#Covid19
via
@forbes
#CovidIsAirborne
Thanks to
@CorsIAQ
@SarahRHaines
Chang-Yu Wu and Jonathan Rosen for perspective
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@HouseForeign
Are you kidding me? How pathetic is it that the only way reasonable ppl can communicate w this madman is via Twitter? And why hasn’t
@Jack
done anything about him?
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My latest, on the ongoing fight over
#HICPAC
, and the formal complaint filed w
#OIG
by World Health Network
@TheWHN
@forbes
cc
@yaneerbaryam
@julia_doubleday
@lzj961
@B_Dogs4
@LazarusLong13
@PPEtoheros
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I'm glad you are a bit better
@SFdirewolf
. It's not just N95s. Some hospitals (looking at you,
@MassGenBrigham
are denying requests by immunocompromised patients to
#mask
at all, let alone wear an N95. Stay tuned for an upcoming post on this travesty and denial of
#ADA
protection
I'm alive bitches! My recent column in
@TeenVogue
became a terrifying reality last weekend.
I call upon you all to help me push for a N95 mask mandate at
@UCSFHospitals
More to say later. Lots fucking more.
#N95s4UCSF
#KeepMasksInHealthcare
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Opinion | Health-care providers must mandate that their workers be vaccinated. The Hippocratic oath demands it. Another excellent op-ed from
@ashishkjha
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Congratulations,
@PeterHotez
"an outspoken advocate and educator," with recognition of your "leading efforts to confront anti-COVID-19-vaccine aggression" as well as focusing on diseases of poverty.
Well-deserved.
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Mazel tov,
@PeterHotez
. You weren't kidding when you wrote about science tikkun olam
Congratulations to Dr.
@PeterHotez
for receiving the 2021 David E. Rogers Award! Sponsored by
@RWJF
&
@AAMCtoday
, the award honors a medical school faculty member who has made major contributions to improving the health & health care of the American people
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.
@gregggonsalves
and I wrote an OpEd on the nonsense of declaring the
#Covid19
pandemic over.
Workers (and others) need better
#ventilation
and protection.
#CovidIsntOver
#COVIDisAirborne
cc
@kprather88
@Don_Milton
@jljcolorado
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@ENT_UK
Excellent. I will add this to today's post
@Forbes
There’s An Unexpected Loss Of
#Smell
And Taste In
#Coronavirus
Patients
I'm getting asked how long to self-isolate if you have anosmia. What are you all recommending?
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I'm thankful that
@stevesilberman
added important perspective about
#eugenics
and
#disabilities
to
@chronicallyadyk
's moving testimony. My post about the
#CDC
and
#HICPAC
's ignoring this issue and aerosol transmission of
#COVID19
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@MsBlaireWhite
Not talking mild differences. I’ve ended friendships this year over huge differences in values over basic human decency and the hate-mongering of the Right. Why would I want to be friends w folk who would want to kill my family and friends?
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.
@Imaginalyst
has kindly given me permission to use his video of highlights of the public testimony at the
#HICPAC
meeting.
Please watch these powerful testimonies--just 10"
How can
#CDC
not be moved?
Post is updated to include the video:
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I hurried to finish Resilience for Kitty's 95th birthday. She died today, age 98. She, like my mother, had one more thing to do and wanted to beat the Nazis.
You can learn more about the remarkable family at I will try to continue their work and education
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@morganstephensa
@CDCgov
And CDC/other gov't are still not telling people to mask routinely, nor is there any apparent focus on improving ventilation.
@CDCgov
has failed miserably.
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@threatresearch
I can relate re Camp Auschwitz and 6MWE. Horrifying. In 2016, my Auschwitz survivor aunt told me that what we were seeing was like 1930s Germany. We lost many family, but my parents and some sibs miraculously survived. I have tried to teach and warn since, w their story
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@EricTopol
@ENirenberg
@Alexander_Tin
I'm also disturbed by
@CDCgov
using the same playbook for
#ACIP
meeting as for
#HICPAC
. Deliberations/info is not shared openly before the planned vote Fri, with what appears a predetermined outcome. I wrote abt HICPAC here: We need transparency.
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Virus found in milk produced in Texas, Kansas and New Mexico
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icymi, This new
#rapidtest
for
#Covid
uses
#saliva
. It's accurate, fast, and inexpensive bec it has NO patent. It's free technology, "a gift to the world" fr
@UCSB
researchers like
@PeterHotez
is donating his vaccine
#developingcountries
#disparities
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Riveting, scary thread fr
@leahmcelrath
, who nails it tonight. Extra nightmares in combo w
@sarahkendzior
. Forgot
#dontreadatbedtime
rule
IF
@realDonaldTrump
& GOP decide to go forward w military action in
#Syria
NOW?
It's because they want to consolidate & expand their power.
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Great idea: Planned Parenthood Will Start Registering Voters At Its Clinics
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@Elise_Jordan
Great ad/message. Too bad Dr. Barkhuff had to add that part about being "pro-life." Makes me wonder how he treats women...esp those in need of urgent emergency contraception.
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Let's Stop Hand Hygiene Theater and Focus on Airborne Transmission
#COVIDisAirborne
via
@medscape
Thanks again to
@MackayIM
@Don_Milton
and
@jljcolorado
for their helpful comments
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Another group targeted now by DHS: immigrant women H-1B spouses at risk of losing their work permits via
@HoustonChron
Follow
@SaveH4EADs
for more info
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New post: Spots On Toes And
#Rashes
Join Weird New Symptoms Of
#Coronavirus
via
@forbes
#skin
#dermtwitter
#IDtwitter
Thanks to
@GermHunterMD
@DrRamonGrimalt
and Sebastiano Recalcati.
#COVID19
#MedEd
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@mryoung151
@Forbes
Amen. I have asked the same thing. I take my Aranet everywhere. We deserve transparency from these large health systems.
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Can’t believe how talented and patient my husband is. Look at this mandolin he just finished—worked on it for 2 years!
#luthier
#renaissance
man
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New:
#California
Drastically Cuts Isolation Guidelines For Covid-19 via
@forbes
with thanks to
@NohaAboelataMD
and
@pjavidan
for comments on this
#PublicHealth
insanity
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Why face shields may be better coronavirus protection than masks alone Support for you
@eliowa
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@stevesilberman
@DeutscheBank
Shame there are no ethics requirements for anyone in this regime.
Each day reaches a new level of disgust w them.
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Likely my most important post: The Political Battlefield Of Infections And
#Migrant
Children’s Bodies via
@forbes
#asylum
#CBP
#outbreaks
#flu
#Pediatrics
Please share. Thx
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Thx to
@stevesilberman
for adding his perspective, comment abt
#eugenics
and
#disabilities
, a topic raised by
@chronicallyadyk
in her public testimony I cited in Eugenics needs more attn.Too much focus on "Urgency of normal" rather than caring for others
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Elderly woman’s death blamed on attack in N.C. that cut power to 45,000
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#CDC
Advised To Weaken Infection Protections As Mysterious Pneumonia Brews Overseas via
@forbes
#HICPAC
#ChinaPneumonia
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@RachelChance
@BetoORourke
I came across
@poweredxpeople
a few days ago and have been volunteering since. Very impressed w their organizational skills, ability to find resources for folks, etc. People are so grateful just to get a call that someone is checking on them. They can still use volunteers fyi
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Yale honors Black girl, nine, wrongly reported to police over insect project
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Does anyone know if any vulnerable/
#immunocompromised
patients have sued under ADA accommodations because of physicians refusing to
#mask
(as per MGB policy allowing that)? Thanks.
@TheWHN
@chronicallyadyk
@LazarusLong13
@JoshuaPribanic
@pjavidan
@yaneerbaryam
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@stephenablack
I understand that part. I’ve been immersed in trying to compile my family’s Holocaust stories and suddenly could not look at nor smell broiling/BBQ meat.
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@ElishevaAvital
Thank you so much for sharing your story and chilling photos for
#Kristallnacht
. My parents and their sibs never talked about it until their later years. My aunt "came out" and now teaches about
#Holocaust
through
@IHENEORG
.
I am compiling their stories now for education.
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Another smart and depressingly prescient thread fr
@sarahkendzior
:
Why? This was completely predictable. They announced their intentions. We know how Trump operates. We know the power structure. Think ahead.
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@RabbiJill
I feel more disgust and anger at these Republican Jews who are so hateful and racist.
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@Avi_Bueno
My mom slept on the bare ground at
#Auschwitz
and was rousted by 4 am for hours of roll calls. They, too, received a small piece of bologna and coarse bread for their daily ration.
Comparisons to concentration camps are legit.
cc
@waltshaub
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I took this photo of her in the Survivor's Gallery at the
@IHENEORG
in Omaha. It's quite a moving exhibit, if you are in the area. Exhibition Photos by David Radler. 6/
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@denise_dewald
@signaturedoc
I’m with you
@denise_dewald
, as the daughter of survivors. If that doesn’t get through, unfriend
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Pls see impt new post on backlash to
#HICPAC
/
#CDC
weakening
#Covid19
precautions
@NationalNurses
@PeoplesCDC
@TheWHN
@brosseau_lisa
@jljcolorado
@LazarusLong13
@CorsIAQ
@pjavidan
@goodregs
@stevesilberman
#disabilities
#ADA
#eugenics
#aerosol
#ventilation
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@Carolynyjohnson
I'm so sorry Carolyn. And sad that it is "the most ordinary possible story about healthcare." What an indictment of American healthcare!
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In later years, Kitty helped inspire me to write Resilience: One Family's Story, and shared hours of interviews, recollections, and photos of life in rural Hungary, the war, and rebuilding lives after the Holocaust 7/
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@JoshuaPribanic
@Forbes
I'm sure many, like I and some of my friends, wrote letters directly. I didn't know who to cc. Congrats. Please keep me posted!
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@Pyke_Wielder
@CDCgov
@drseanmullen
@polybioRF
@DrMarjorieRobe1
@DrEricDing
I started here. but I’m just an ID doc
@ashishkjha
considers random Twitter trash not worthy of having a legitimate opinion
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In later years, Kitty became an avid Holocaust educator through
@IHENEORG
, speaking at schools throughout the region and as far away as Mesa, Colorado. 4/
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