🔥 In a new study , researchers show that the 100-year-old BCG vaccine, originally developed to prevent tuberculosis, protects individuals with type 1 diabetes from severe COVID-19 disease & other infectious diseases. 1/
Friend of mine has a house, a wonderful wife, two great kids, a good job.
And he’s quitting it to go back to grad school for a career he’s more “passionate” about.
This will involve little income for a few years and 200k in loans.
Wish I could stop him.
“You must be passionate about your work” is the biggest lie my generation was sold.
💔HEADS UP CT FOLKS WITH #peanutallergy
So so tragic. A young person has died #anaphylaxis after ingesting cookies w/ undeclared peanuts sold at Stew Leonard's, according to state officials.
#peanutallergy
https://t.co/NpuMEqSoSI
A couple of years ago, I was assigned to teach an 8th grade “math lab” class. The goal was to fill in any gaps the students might have had in their background knowledge prior to high school, so I had them work their way through a series of self-instructional, self-checking math activities I had developed, starting back at elementary addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and progressing sequentially through fractions, decimals, order of operations, negatives, expressions, 2-step equations and so forth.
Students from all math levels were assigned to the class, and one of them was the top kid in her Algebra 1 class and a 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 conscientious student. Concerned that the material would be beneath her, I pulled her aside and told her she was free to skip ahead if she wanted to, but she declined, saying she would rather work through the activities with everyone else - which she dutifully did, at a much faster rate than the others. I figured much of what she was doing was unnecessary, but she seemed to be happy to do it, so I let it go.
Later that year, she pulled me aside one day during my lunch duty to ask me about some complex algebra problems she was working on at her lunch table. (Yes, she was 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 kid.) As I wrapped up my final explanation, she said to me under her breath, “I'm so glad I had you for math lab this year. That class made my life 𝘴𝘰 much easier.”
Never, never, 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 underestimate the need for students to both understand and master the basics.
@NoNutTraveler I’m so confused with @Delta. For many families over the past 10 years or so they have been the go-to airline because they have been consistent and accommodating. Is there new management - what is changing there? Very concerning.
@carrieexworth@AmericanAir As a peanut allergy parent & a doctor who has responded to in flight emergencies, thank you for tweeting at them. In a field that prides itself on safety, this + lack of epinephrine autoinjectors on all ✈️ is shocking. No airline staff are trained to draw up the epi they carry.
This story hits so close to home it’s taken me a week to process & share. In my 20s I was sent home from ER 3 times w/infected cantaloupe sized abscess in my belly from post op bleed. My then BF had to take me a 4th time & make a scene so they wouldn’t discharge me again. 🧵 /1
@1blmoss@scott_gooroo @DrSpartypants @sjs856 CDC https://t.co/asONlGXp75 allows immunocompromised to get additional doses of Covid vaccine after 2 months, you need to discuss with your health care provider, and I believe you can self-attest.