Virginia Prada López

Associate Publisher at Elsevier

[Kali49 @kaveri59872487]

If I can teach this to first semester nursing students, why couldn’t we have taught this to everyone? People do not understand the disease and no one bothers to explain it. Perhaps that’s why we have failed so miserably. 10

[Kali49 @kaveri59872487]

I told them that as long as they understood the patho of the disease, they could guard against misinformation. I told them to educate their families and patients about the science, not the rumors. This left me feeling so sad. What have we done? 9

[Kali49 @kaveri59872487]

Except to protect themselves going forward. After that there was silence. One of my students then said how disappointed in government and public health leaders he was. Another told me she was disappointed in her professors and her school for not being more vigilant. 8

[Kali49 @kaveri59872487]

I realized that there wasn’t much I could say except to protect themselves with masks, vaccinations, and to try not to get Covid again. I told them that if they had Covid, they were at higher risk of long Covid and lantern complications. There was nothing to be done 7

[Kali49 @kaveri59872487]

The worst part of this was when one student said that their parents had gotten Covid and asked how to keep them safe from the complications. Another student piped in and said she had Covid 3 times and was she at risk too? It was my moment of reckoning. 6

[Kali49 @kaveri59872487]

It all points to chronic inflammation. There is no immunity as the variants keep changing, kind of like the flu, which is why we get flu shots every year. We’ve just let this run rampant, so a slew of Covid variants keep popping up, rendering treatments less effective. 5

[Kali49 @kaveri59872487]

If nothing else, I told them to think of Covid as huge inflammatory process that causes injury, scarring and clots to form everywhere. That’s why we are seeing so many strokes, MIs, weird liver failure in peds, bowel ischemia, and long Covid. 4

[Kali49 @kaveri59872487]

That’s why you see lag time between initial infection and respiratory symptoms. More importantly, I explained that Covid is not just a lung disease, it is a massive systemic inflammatory response to the virus. Covid also upregulates a protein called bradykinin, causing clots.3

[Kali49 @kaveri59872487]

I explained how Covid attaches to ACE2 receptors in the nose, throat, heart, kidneys, and gut first. That’s why you see a runny nose, sore throat, myocarditis and acute kidney failure first. There aren’t as many ACE 2 receptors in the lungs, so Covid hits the lungs later.

[Kali49 @kaveri59872487]

I teach patho to nursing students. Every semester since spring of 2020, I have taught about Covid. And every semester to have to change my lecture to keep up with new data. I was teaching Covid this semester and I told them that if nothing else, understand the science 1/n

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Huge: Today, Ecuador's highest court declared Decree 751 unconstitutional, permanently prohibiting oil drilling in a buffer zone area inside #Yasuní National Park in order to protect the Indigenous Tagaeri-Taromenane peoples living there. c/o @amazonwatch

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1/3 Ethiopia is a strong economic engine on the continent of Africa, and its survival as a democratic and safe nation will be dependent on its ability to engage in trade and economic opportunities for its people. We have to stand with Ethiopia against divisive forces and

[Virginia Prada López @Vpradalopez]

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[Virginia Prada López @Vpradalopez]

@robertovpy @iagoprada Eso mismo me pasó a mí

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