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Science writer at The Atlantic. Many words; some awards. Author of I Contain Multitudes (2016). Married to Liz Neeley. Parent to Typo (he/him)

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    Sep 1

    🚨I wrote a new piece about long-COVID, its future, and what long-haulers want. The biomedical community is paying more attention but research is slow & often disregards the vast expertise that long-haulers have amassed about their own condition. 1/

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  2. Sep 3

    There's a lot of concern about waning immunity right now. This thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and surprisingly reassuring piece by my colleague lays out what we know and what we don't.

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    Sep 1

    🚨I wrote a new piece about long-COVID, its future, and what long-haulers want. The biomedical community is paying more attention but research is slow & often disregards the vast expertise that long-haulers have amassed about their own condition. 1/

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  4. Retweeted
    Sep 2

    Even if my *individual risk* is low, this is why I care about stopping the chain of transmission. Our collective actions hamper or help overburdened health care systems. Peaks won’t last forever, it’s worth protecting the most vulnerable.

    When a tweet turns into an OpEd. Check out my piece in today’s on my own pediatric ICU experience with my baby and what’s at stake when pediatric ICUs are at capacity, like they are now across country.
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    Sep 2

    When a tweet turns into an OpEd. Check out my piece in today’s on my own pediatric ICU experience with my baby and what’s at stake when pediatric ICUs are at capacity, like they are now across country.

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  6. Retweeted
    Sep 2

    Masks prevent transmission and don’t cause harms. If we want children in school in person, we NEED to protect them with masks, vaccines, ventilation, distancing & quarantine!

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  7. Retweeted
    Sep 2

    My former student did interviews for a multisite study of fibroids trt. Lots of detailed Qs about symptoms & how they’d affected patients’ quality of life It was not uncommon for patients to break down crying: they said, Nobody’s ever asked me about this. We need to do better

    The emails I get after long-hauler pieces are like no others. There are so many people grateful for a sliver of acknowledgment, which is *such a low bar*; what they need and deserve are social support & a research effort that centers their expertise and addresses their needs.
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    Sep 2

    "discussion of the pandemic still largely revolves around two extremes—good health at one end, and hospitalization or death at the other. This ignores the hinterland of disability that lies in between"

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  9. Retweeted
    Sep 2

    This is it. Part of it is funding but a bigger part is that when research does start, it starts in the wrong places, and the delay that causes is immeasurable. researchers, please talk to 30 patients before you even *think* about what you want to study.

    This is a large part of why the research is so slow. Yes, funding is an issue, but in the community, major possible contributors to illness go discussed for 10, 20 years but no researcher touches them. I’m thinking of mold exposure and MCAS as big ones.
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  10. Sep 2

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    There are major, structural problems in the way research is done that have nothing to do with funding, and we’re going to repeat them all with
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  11. Sep 2

    The emails I get after long-hauler pieces are like no others. There are so many people grateful for a sliver of acknowledgment, which is *such a low bar*; what they need and deserve are social support & a research effort that centers their expertise and addresses their needs.

    🚨I wrote a new piece about long-COVID, its future, and what long-haulers want. The biomedical community is paying more attention but research is slow & often disregards the vast expertise that long-haulers have amassed about their own condition. 1/
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  12. Retweeted
    Sep 2

    Black, Indigenous, queer communities have witnessed apocalypse, genocide, the “unthinkable”. Things are not long in the past but in living memory & still happening. Look to the grassroots leaders, the organizers. Let yourself cry, then put your shoes on & get behind them.

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    Sep 2

    When I feel despair - on climate, voter suppression, immigration, prisons, war, reproductive + community health - I look to those who have been organizing & fighting for years/decades/generations. They are not shocked or in despair. They know we wake up to days like these (1/2)

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    Sep 1

    Despite more recognition for long COVID, many long-haulers still feel dismissed. on the enormous cost of neglecting the millions of people caught in disease limbo—and the many more who may end up there:

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  15. Sep 2

    Stellar line-up for this event

    Look forward to joining for discussion about the latest on variants and breakthrough infections hosted by . Mon 9/13 @ 12:30pm ET
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    Sep 1

    "Like Merry and Pippin, long-haulers are growing frustrated that what is self-evident to them—their condition is very real and in need of urgent attention from those with power—is taking a worrying amount of time to be acknowledged and acted upon."

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    Sep 1

    Who determines the best use of grant funds for long COVID? Letting only academic reviewers decide “erases the voices of those whose condition is the subject of the research.” with a thoughtful piece on the need for patient-centered research.

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  18. Retweeted
    Sep 1

    Thank you so much, . More than anything, this is what we need people to know. We need help. Diagnosis and treatment mean nothing when we can't afford to live. We've macheted the path through the jungle together. We will leave no one behind.

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  19. Retweeted
    Sep 1

    Just did this interview with Ed Yong about gaps in research and the need for patients as research partners!

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    Some long-haul COVID patients — who are suffering symptoms months after their diagnosis — feel science is failing them, and they're aiming to transform treatments for their condition. and speak with CBSN about the frustrations around long-hauler research
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  20. Sep 1

    Great thread

    Another excellent article from Ed Yong ; some musings, as a result, re: patient participation in research. (1/8)
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  21. Retweeted
    Sep 1

    “It just felt like, Have you talked to any of us?” Fabulous story by . What stands out most is how much science needs to engage beyond disciplines & silos, flip traditional models of expertise to include patients & communities we aim to serve.

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