Completed my Virginia Behavioral Health & Developmental Services (DBHDS) 72-Hour training to be a Peer Recovery Specialist (PRS). I will be helping others with mental illness and/or addictions. #peersupport#PTSD#Trauma#mentalhealth#anxiety#depression#addiction
THREAD: In U.S. we face two alternative but hard outlooks with #COVID19: that we follow a path similar to South Korea or one closer to Italy. We probably lost chance to have an outcome like South Korea. We must do everything to avert the tragic suffering being borne by Italy 1/10
How The COVID-19 #Pandemic Started:
🇨🇳The first doctor to warn of the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 (#COVID19) outbreak
🇨🇳Dr Li Wenliang (age 34) was silenced after sounding the alarm about the #coronavirus
🇨🇳He died after contracting the virus from a patient
🇨🇳The man who knew
How A #Virus Invades Your Body:
🦠A virus particle attaches to a #host cell
🦠Releases its #genetic instructions into host cell
🦠Recruits host cell’s enzymes
🦠Enzymes make parts for new virus particles
🦠New particles assemble parts into new viruses
🦠Particles break free
#Coronavirus Testing:
🧩Extract viral RNA, convert to DNA by reverse transcriptase, amplify by PCR, detect amplified DNA (RT-PCR)
🧩This is the faulty component in the CDC’s coronavirus testing kit
▪️Alex, I’d like to solve the puzzle
▪️What is bad #primer design 🙄
#COVID19
If you've been told "everything happens for a reason" or to "thank your enemies, they made you who you are" -- know that any good that came from your adversity, YOU created it.
YOU taught yourself strength, empathy, courage. YOU learned compassion. YOU did it. YOU did it all.
Sign up to be part of history and help blanket the national mall with the #monumentquilt! Volunteer form is here: https://t.co/CfXt3VquFo More FORCE updates here - https://t.co/rFhr3vquzl
Article:Finding a Therapist Skilled in PTSD Treatments Is a Tough Task. There is a major lack of PTSD/Trauma resources including; groups, PHPs, trauma focused inpatient & residential programs..... https://t.co/W3HloY9GYJ
Today, on #DNADay, we celebrate how #genomics is helping solve some of the most challenging problems of humankind. But, to continue to make progress, we need more awareness. #DNADay19 (1/6)
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