Alexander Thompson

Program Director at Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Ice cream enthusiast. Partner of someone (@ThereseARus) with ME/CFS. (He/Him)

[Sarah @sarah_in_ny]

PBS is the least stressful intake to watch fyi .

The anchors don’t practice violence

[Hannah Davis @ahandvanish]

New study of 74,000 participants found:

-those infected with COVID had more other infections (including bacterial, influenza & mycoplasma infections)

-COVID reinfections had milder acute-phase symptoms but led to higher rate & severity of #LongCovid

https://t.co/k6vVMvFsDL 1/

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Universal masking and social distancing at the start of the pandemic were so effective that they eliminated a strain of flu, and now annual flu vaccines have been redesigned because that strain no longer needs to be included in the shot. Amazing.

[charlos @loscharlos]

“The American Medical Association’s top journal, JAMA, in August published a key new study and editorial about pediatric #LongCovid. The editorial cites several robust analyses and concludes that.. LC symptoms appear to occur after about 10-20% of pediatric infections.”

[𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 [email protected] @jvipondmd]

Masks work.

That's it. that's the tweet.

https://t.co/WMcf0z5N3X

[Rasu Shrestha MD MBA @RasuShrestha]

Anyone else still masking up in crowded closed places like airplanes?

Anyone? 😶‍🌫️

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

The Feds are ending a lot of key reporting for monitoring COVID-19 in the United States. Congress voted to end the emergency declaration of COVID-19 and reporting for hospitals and other key agencies stopped May 1.

What we DO KNOW is:

22,222 Americans have died from COVID-19 this year

2,571 of them were from Florida (11.6% of deaths; Florida is only 6.4% of the US population)

Florida had 149,444 first-time infections so far this year.

That means that roughly 1 in 50 people who test positive for COVID for the first time are still dying from the disease.

Florida has the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths in the country BY FAR.

https://t.co/SGk5r2TbsZ

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

Employers must be able to build disability inclusion into their cultures and talent practices. Here's why. https://t.co/LO5mIylm7V

[Alexander Thompson @lexanderthomp]

@Connardanonyme1 *2022/2023. 2022 was the first year people started going out without masks or mitigations en mass. So we wouldn’t start to see the effects of repeat infection on the immune system until 2023/2024 when *gasp* there’s a huge surge.

[Alexander Thompson @lexanderthomp]

@Derek_a_Franks Oh hey! Unrelatedly, I just saw that you’re in Kansas City! I grew up there! Just a nice moment of digital serendipity.

[Alexander Thompson @lexanderthomp]

Important to acknowledge the ongoing death count. I wish that there was also better real-time monitoring of how many have been disabled by COVID, too. That would give a better sense of the entire toll this disease continues to take.

[Derek Franks @Derek_a_Franks]

1,202 Americans were killed by C0VlD last week according to the official state-reported totals. It is the 29th straight week with more than 1,000 deaths.

The repeated lie that C0VlD is over and mild has killed nearly 25,000 Americans just in 2024.

[Alexander Thompson @lexanderthomp]

@Derek_a_Franks Staggering and unconscionable and so many people whose job it is to report this are asleep at the wheel or worse, just don’t care 😔.

[Derek Franks @Derek_a_Franks]

@lexanderthomp We have some estimates. 27 million is the last figure I saw. We also have the disabled workforce data. While it doesn’t say specifically due to COVID, you tell me if it is based on this chart:

[Derek Franks @Derek_a_Franks]

1,202 Americans were killed by C0VlD last week according to the official state-reported totals. It is the 29th straight week with more than 1,000 deaths.

The repeated lie that C0VlD is over and mild has killed nearly 25,000 Americans just in 2024.

[T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @TRyanGregory]

Better extremely late and after resisting it for years than never.

[Alexander Thompson @lexanderthomp]

@MargeEusden @guelphgirlchris Easily Google-able.
https://t.co/i01bta9sXr

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” a reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma said, of the record number of children who have been injured in the war in Gaza. https://t.co/3CyjkzxGMp

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

The Israeli government has been holding Palestinian human rights lawyer Diala Ayesh hostage for 2 months.

She was kidnapped on 17 January 2024. Her crime: she was a lawyer defending the rights of other Palestinians hostages, known as "administrative detainees" by Israel.

Ayesh is one of at least 3,484 Palestinians taken hostage by the state of Israel. I use the word hostage because Diala Ayesh was not told why she was taken. She has not been charged w/anything. Her imprisonment is renewable, indefinitely. And she was taken, like many other Palestinians, to be used as a bargaining chip in hostage negotiations.

If you are calling for the release of the hostages, but only the Israeli hostages, not the Palestinian hostages, you are contributing to the dehumanization of the Palestinian people. #BringThemHome

source of the count of hostages taken by Israel: https://t.co/IoCmtqSUGw