Kathleen Banks, DrPH(c) MPH

Dog parent. Failed musician. #firstgen DrPH candidate @BUSPH. I examine how policies translate to the point of service. Standard disclaimers.

[Kathleen Banks, DrPH(c) MPH @KPMcDonald]

Excited to share our thoughts on public health leadership with the @DrPHCoalition

[Hannah Davis @ahandvanish]

Hi #LongCovid community! Analysis is about to start on the @id_cure dataset but we need many more responses!

If you haven’t filled this out, please do so by Jan 31st! And please RT & circulate as widely as possible, including to providers treating LC!

https://t.co/QAlrZ54iJF

[tern @1goodtern]

The people saying that Covid is getting milder are in for a shock.

[Julia MV @julialmv]

Our new preprint:

"In immunocompromised individuals & those at least aged 65 years, access to at-home COVID tests, telemedicine, & rapid Paxlovid delivery reduced the ... need for ICU care;

this has the potential to reduce the cost of COVID care."

https://t.co/PvDybEavlE

1/3

[Marina A. Creed FNP-BC, APRN, MSCN @MarinaC_Dyb]

After 3 long, hard years of tireless work, our cross-campus, multi-discilinary academic team reaching our goal: State of CT support to scale up CR Boxes for every classroom in Connecticut! 💪🌬️💫💫

This passion project started from the point of care at @uconnhealth 🏥where I have been treating people living with MS since 2017 as a neuro-immunology nurse practitioner. 👩‍⚕️

When the 🦠 pandemic struck, my immunosuppressed patients were vulnerable - majority females with families and many educators that work in our CT Schools. 👩‍🏫👦🧒 [https://t.co/u1dVpgMRoV]

I looked at the mitigation efforts in these hubs of our communities and saw a gap - no air purifiers in schools, while @JohnsHopkinsSPH and @HarvardChanSPH recommended this intervention.[https://t.co/LX9zc5G02u]

[Patient-Led Research Collaborative @patientled]

We’re happy to announce a new @patientled preprint out today, on machine learning phenotypic with high-dimensional #LongCovid symptom data!

We used a dataset of 162 symptoms in 6,031 participants to explore making clusters of Long Covid patients. 1/
https://t.co/CJMbLu7zA2

[Kathleen Banks, DrPH(c) MPH @KPMcDonald]

Little has been published on accessing care #longcovid. @leticiasaurus and colleagues have a fantastic protocol paper that can help guide others in the field:
https://t.co/AKrZdvqzDS

[Patient-Led Research Collaborative @patientled]

Additionally we want to highlight the incredible mechanistic review by @MichaelPelusoMD & Steve Deeks also published in Cell this week. We hope these two articles help pave the way for coordinated, robust research on Long COVID and all IACCIs. /10 https://t.co/mhG5wFqfaI

[Patient-Led Research Collaborative @patientled]

…JD Davids of @LongCOVIDnetwk, @rusty_cjm of @BristolUni, Signe Redfield, @KPMcDonald of @BUSPH, @_diatoma of @sfcem_mexico, Teresa T. Tindle Akintonwa of @BCSAlliance, @ChronicResearch of @MIT, @ahhrrr, @aimeeweiss, @GinaAssaf, @ahandvanish, & @LisaAMcCorkell 9/

[Kathleen Banks, DrPH(c) MPH @KPMcDonald]

@1goodtern Hi! 👋

[Kathleen Banks, DrPH(c) MPH @KPMcDonald]

For better or worse, I'm back on this app. However, the best part is that I have access to early insight from experts like @putrinolab, @resiapretorius and others. This evidence will (should) be transformative for the field.

[Putrino Lab @PutrinoLab]

Was swamped this week, but wanted a moment to talk about this #LongCovid work that was finally published. I’m grateful to @resiapretorius and @ArneauxK for leading this incredible work and to all the co-authors who contributed. Honored to be included.

https://t.co/7px0LRv9OG

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[Kathleen Banks, DrPH(c) MPH @KPMcDonald]

Proud to share new commentary in @CellCellPress with an incredible team of patient-researchers

[Patient-Led Research Collaborative @patientled]

Published this week in @CellCellPress, “A call from patient-researchers to advance research on Long COVID” - authored by PLRC members, all with lived experience of #LongCovid and related infection-associated chronic conditions 🧵 1/

https://t.co/4AJyU6how4

[Kathleen Banks, DrPH(c) MPH @KPMcDonald]

@jenbrea Similarly—how many neurosurgeons train in the autonomic nervous system?

[Kathleen Banks, DrPH(c) MPH @KPMcDonald]

@jenbrea Definitely long covid symptoms that suggest CCI. And how providers respond to those symptoms.

[Kathleen Banks, DrPH(c) MPH @KPMcDonald]

@mildTin Stellate ganglion block was the game changer for brain fog, dysautonomia and PEM.

[Doron Dorfman @DorfmanDoron]

In our new @NEJM article, @DrZackaryBerger and I offer advice to providers on how to successfully write doctors’ notes to ensure people w #LongCovid receive workplace accommodations and fight common fear of fakery & of the disability con. 1/3 #CripTheVote https://t.co/pGScWXkQ3o

[Morgan Stephens @morganstephensa]

Breaking my Twitter hiatus to share some important research.

Latest in @Nature find replicating (meaning active) Covid-19 in brain and body tissue in 44 autopsy patients up to seven months out from acute infection. See thread for details and link.

[Emily Johnson (is on Mastadon and Bsky) @emily_rj]

I think #MedTwitter and #PHTwitter have an ethical and moral obligation to not and try to shut down clinics and systems that corral chronically ill people (again, including cancer and Long Covid patients) into lifestyle management instead of serious biophysical medical care