#Impairment

Margaret McCartney

mgtmccartney

potential harms: false reassurance-> sub/un/conscious/deliberate increased risky behaviours. false reassurance-> policy makers relax restrictions assuming efficacy. social issues: communication, for lipreading/deaf people, issues folk with cogn

Thiago Carvalho

CyrilPedia

'Because COVID19 is a multisystem condition, understanding the recovery and rehabilitation process in infectious-disease survivors is also important; however, this aspect of infectious-disease treatment is highly neglected.'@theayre

shrew

shrewshrew

About three years ago I got very sick, in May. Sleeping all day, huge cognitive impairment, visual impairment, and head pain consistent with encephalitis. They never found the virus that

very tired

robinmarceline

Mental illnesses and chronic illnesses are disabilities. You don't have to call yourself disabled if it doesn't feel right to you but we have shared community, shared history, shared injustice

Lawrence H. Summers

LHSummers

I have a Viewpoint out in JAMA with my colleague @Cutler_econ – The COVID-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus. It is particularly relevant today https://ja.ma/3diC0U9 1/13 We estimate the

Lonnie Rae @ 🏡

LonnieRae

This video is essential to understanding the differences in SOB in COVID - namely, it seems what we’re seeing is hemoglobin impairment by the virus and subsequent issues in oxygen

Recreational_McNukes

RMcnukes

Half of child molesters are pedophiles. I’ll link the source somewhere in this thread.https://twitter.com/robertwest5/status/1249230731479584768 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4478390/

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alpacaghorl

As a future SNED teacher, the best thing that ever happened to me today was I watched a local movie entitled Isa Pa, With Feelings. The male lead was Deaf

Ross Showalter

rosshowalter

We're halfway through Deaf Awareness Month. I want to share the D/deaf writing that has inspired me. This will be a brief thread on my favorite online pieces. (FYI: I

Jen @ 🏠

juniperlilacs

Just remembered one of the horror ‘Careers Day’ assemblies at school where we all sat through a presentation from armed forces recruiting. At the end they asked for a show

Lucky

GhGreer

Sign the petition to stop the "triage" protocol in Quebec that values only abled #Eugenics #DisabilityRights #Accessibility #Justicehttps://triage.quebec/signez-la-petition/The petition is only available in French so English detai

Nicki Kelly

NickiKelly

It’s been a really heavy few weeks at work and I’m grateful for this long weekend. I am exhausted and love being in a job where I can help blind

Black Women's Lives Matter. Carolyn Hinds

CarrieCnh12

*sigh* I hate these videos and comments about drumpf's inability to hold a glass with one hand. I hate then because I, at times have the same issue because of

Patrick McKenzie

patio11

A thing which I think is counter-intuitive:Society should prefer materially-greater-than-zero defaults on credit obligations and frequent impairment of / losses on equity.These are both consequences of positive-sum harnessing of risk

David Cutler

Cutler_econ

Thread from my mentor and friend @LHSummers on the cost of the COVID virus to the US. Even under optimistic assumptions about containing spread, cost = $16 Trillion.https://twitter.com/LHSummers/status/1315679595841101826 Half of

Syeda Zahra Ali

zahra359

September is the Global spinal cord injury awareness month. I am Zahra Ali, I sustained GCT (giant cell tumor) at the C7-T1 level of the spinal cord. It led to