AltGovCOVID19

#AltGov - bringing you fact-checked, vetted information about #COVID19 - keeping our #AltFam safe & informed

[AltGovCOVID19 @AltGovCovid19]

Today, in the face of a global pandemic escalating to a national crisis, members of #AltGov & #AltFam felt it was our duty to help navigate the overflow of #COVID19 posts to get you accurate, relevant, precise non-biased information. Join us for facts.

[AltGovCOVID19 @AltGovCovid19]

The night before Christmas.
And the nights after Christmas.
And every single night until everyone understands it takes ALL of us to get COVID under control, to keep our hospitals from being full.

Merry Maskmas

[Cathy Cichon @DocScribbles]

The Night Before Christmas, 1/4

[AltGovCOVID19 @AltGovCovid19]

I've read this a few times, and I simply don't have words for it.

I'm fearful of what January is going to look like for hospital systems that are already at capacity in so many states.

[Pete Muntean @petemuntean]

Just in. Air travel just broke a new record of the pandemic. 1,191,123 people passed through TSA checkpoints on Wednesday, more than the previous record set the Sunday after Thanksgiving. This is the sixth straight day of TSA figures near or greater than one million.

[AltGovCOVID19 @AltGovCovid19]

"evidence shows that small indoor gatherings and households are where the novel coronavirus is spreading the fastest"

Merry Maskmas

https://t.co/wBPuy1W5y0

[AltGovCOVID19 @AltGovCovid19]

@bartenderResist This weekend!

[AltGovCOVID19 @AltGovCovid19]

I've been in TN helping my FIL (health issues) for the last 2 months. I'm currently sitting in the #5 fastest growing covid spot in the whole United States. This was #11 just on Wednesday.

1 in every 17 people here were testing positive as of a few days ago also.

[Zaven Sargsyan @sargsyanz]

[Random loose mRNA lying around in a deltoid]

Nobody:

Ribosome: let me go ahead and transcribe this

Macrophage: Yo, check out this cool spike I found

T-cell: wtf is that? Get rid of it. Where’s Bob?

B-cell: yes?

T-cell: If it ever shows up here again...

B-cell: yes mam

[Prathit Kulkarni, MD @PrathitKulkarni]

List of the most common questions I am getting regarding #CovidVaccine. Here's a shot at answering them. Hope they are helpful! Many answers I got from recently available @CDCgov material.

[ctansy @Ctansypac]

@Cleavon_MD Apple valley, CA. 212 bed hospital has 300 plus patients. 159+ Covid, 90 in ER holding waiting for beds. ER waiting room has been converted to an inpatient ward. Multiple tents in the parking lot full. They just keep coming.

[AltGovCOVID19 @AltGovCovid19]

A good thread explaining the new #COVID19 mutations that are spreading rapidly.

[AltGovCOVID19 @AltGovCovid19]

"It has been exhausting mustering the compassion, grasping for the expressions of solace, calibrating the exact balance of words that will make you forgive yourself for what you did..."

“Forgive but don’t forget,” I cautioned.
#frontlineworkers
https://t.co/TYpS2PVV6K

[AltGovCOVID19 @AltGovCovid19]

Many long term #COVID19 effects are still emerging. Age is not the factor you'd expect.

[Vox @voxdotcom]

23-year-old Riley Behrens was a self-described "healthy young athlete with no major medical conditions."

After her Covid-19 infection, she developed blood clots and suffered a stroke.

What researchers know about long Covid's painful lingering symptoms: https://t.co/tBMfEA4Pul

[The Hill @thehill]

Health officials in Australia say they have confirmed two cases of a new strain of COVID-19 that spreads faster than its previous mutations. https://t.co/AkvBR6n9m2

[Health Canada and PHAC @GovCanHealth]

(1/2) Given the high number of cases of a variant #COVID19 virus observed in some areas in the United Kingdom, the #GoC is suspending entry into Canada of all commercial and private passenger flights from the United Kingdom for 72 hours, effective midnight tonight.

[AltGovCOVID19 @AltGovCovid19]

Great thread of articles about COVID, mental health, & more 👇

[AltGovCOVID19 @AltGovCovid19]

A pandemic continues during this pandemic.

[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @JohnsHopkinsSPH]

"More than 40 states have reported increased opioid deaths since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic." https://t.co/Meu5UXosWy

[AltGovCOVID19 @AltGovCovid19]

#FacesOfCOVID

[AltGovCOVID19 @AltGovCovid19]

Pregnancy & vaccine 🛢

"If you feel this is the right decision for you, please consider joining this registry https://t.co/fxVHJQoxaH to help in the decisions for others who may be in the same boat."

[😷💉Jenn, MD 🌻 @emergjenncy]

9/9 I really like this decision tool from Bay State Health I got from @EmergentlyCarol. Seek out the information you need to make your own choices and ask for guidance, if you need to. https://t.co/MrxSjGcVh3

[Xihong Lin @XihongLin]

An informative side-by-side comparison of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines https://t.co/L3GDhzY5LP

[Ariel Hart @ArielWriter]

Two Georgia hospitals in the same district. One is slammed with #COVID19 and received no vaccine this week. One, an influential for-profit cancer hospital with no ER, gets its entire 1000+ staff vaccinated, administrators and all.
#coronavirus #gapol
https://t.co/GSEUw6cx9P

[AltGovCOVID19 @AltGovCovid19]

FWIW - the #10 city - Cookeville - is in the next county west here. Larger hospital where this county is sending overflow. University city also.

[AltGovCOVID19 @AltGovCovid19]

@bpell2 A governor who doesn't believe in a statewide mask mandate because he doesn't like wearing them.

A governor who ignored the doctors and scientists and who stated "who could've guessed" about a post- Thanksgiving surge.