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For Sean Carey, long covid proved fatal. Carey contracted an early strain of covid in July 2020 when he and his wife, Meghan, lived in Daytona Beach, Fla. “He had pain that was too inhumane to live with,” his wife said. “He had tremors that were like lightning bolts going
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Covid-19 stole Lisa Merlo’s lungs, limbs — and nearly her life. But it wasn’t done. The 57-year-old West Deer resident continues to cope with the disease’s latest attack on her body: long covid. Merlo said she was told she had a 20% chance of living after a covid diagnosis in
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In this piece I’m quoted about how long #COVID19 is an umbrella term and medicine/science is just in it’s infancy when it comes to unraveling the condition https://t.co/9zAexvLEQ7
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Students in the inaugural class of Duquesne University’s medical college will learn the intricacies of human anatomy through the time-tested method of dissecting cadavers. But they will also slip on a high-tech headset with eyewear and instantly see before them a hologram of the human body. They can walk around
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RT @tcymet: 'This will be a game-changer': Duquesne University opens medical college https://t.co/W91XU7iPVs
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Mashup Score: 6Hospitals seeing 'exponential' rise in flu cases in Western Pa. - 4 month(s) ago
After a holiday season filled with travel, family gatherings and relatives breathing on each other, respiratory illnesses are on the rise in Western Pennsylvania — with flu cases spiking the fastest. Area hospitals are seeing an “exponential increase” in flu diagnoses, said Dr. Graham Snyder, medical director of infection prevention
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In this @RyanDeto piece I’m quoted about respiratory virus season, its trajectory and tools to minimize impact https://t.co/5j04Bvt7hC
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Mashup Score: 6Holiday gatherings mean rise in covid, flu, RSV in W.Pa. - 4 month(s) ago
Covid-19 struck Beth Green just in time for Christmas, upending her annual holiday gatherings. She planned on hosting her extended family at her Derry Township home on Dec. 23. She was especially excited because it’s difficult to get two of her adult sons together with their hectic schedules. Green, an
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In this @RyanDeto piece I’m quoted about the seasonal rise in respiratory infections, countermeasures to use against them, and how they are an unavoidable aspect of social interaction https://t.co/yf2da9c5UF
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Mashup Score: 2UPMC to reinstate medical mask policy - 5 month(s) ago
Pittsburgh health care giant UPMC is requiring facial masks at its facilities as it sees an increase in cases of covid-19, flu and other illnesses. “UPMC is seeing an increase in cases of respiratory viruses, including covid, influenza and RSV,” according to a statement from UPMC. “To protect the health
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In this piece I am quoted about mask polices at hospitals — which I think are best made at local levels by hospital administrators considering local metrics, hospital-transmission risk, and abseentism rates https://t.co/4a1IPZWqgn
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Mashup Score: 8Flu on the rise, while RSV infections might be peaking - 5 month(s) ago
NEW YORK — Flu is picking up steam, while RSV lung infections that can hit kids and older people hard might be peaking, U.S. health officials said Friday. Covid-19, though, continues to cause the most hospitalizations and deaths among respiratory illnesses — about 15,000 hospitalizations and about 1,000 deaths every
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Flu on the rise, while RSV infections might be peaking - “we think we’re near the peak of RSV season or will be in the next week or so,” https://t.co/CeNU5nkDdY
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Pharmacies, clinics, and primary care providers are offering the 2023-2024 updated covid booster and this year’s flu vaccine—and it’s both safe and convenient to get both vaccines at the same time, according to medical experts. In fact, you can get both shots in the same arm, said Dr. Graham Snyder,
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Why get your flu shot and covid booster at the same time? — “You can actually get (covid, flu, and RSV shots) at the same visit, if you want.” https://t.co/TBJp11P1eX
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Mashup Score: 4Tracking of covid-19 cases shifts as virus rides periodic waves - 5 month(s) ago
Over the past few years, checking the number of weekly covid-19 cases on a health department online tracker became second nature for a lot of people concerned about how the virus impacted their communities. The type of data available is now a lot different in much of Pennsylvania. “The covid-19
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In this piece I’m quoted about how as the context of #COVID19 has changed so has the monitoring. Following wastewater trends, characterizing variants, and tracking hospitalizations/deaths are much more important than individual case numbers https://t.co/6svruHvoUp
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Mashup Score: 0No vax card needed to get updated covid shots at local pharmacies - 7 month(s) ago
To get the latest updated covid vaccine, you no longer need that paper vaccine card you may have been carrying in your wallet for the past few years. The CDC announced Wednesday that since the federal government itself is not distributing covid vaccines, the organization will no longer be giving
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“I think that it makes sense to go back to our normal system and trust the systems we have in place for our vaccination portfolios.” https://t.co/CfBJY2eP1H
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In this piece I’m quoted about the role of complement (an arm of the immune system) in long #covid19 https://t.co/PBxlbGAeYs