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Founder of @Survivor_Corps . 29th Greatest World Leader as per @FortuneMagazine . Takes good selfies. Mom of two awesome humans.

Washington DC
Joined July 2008
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Diana Berrent Güthe
4 years
I'm 46 and had a fairly mild/average case of Covid in March. I was just diagnosed with post Covid onset Glaucoma. This didn't have to happen.
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My 12yo just lost an adult front tooth and his other teeth are loose... it turns out from vasculature damage 9 months after Covid. Omg. PLEASE... I beg of you, take this seriously. For you. For your kids. For everyone.
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I just got off the phone with a woman whose 19 year old daughter, after 3 COVID infections, was diagnosed with early dementia. Wrap your head around that.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
You are eligible for the new bivalent booster *if* you: - Completed your primary vaccine series (2 shots of Pfizer or Moderna or one shot of J&J) - Had your last booster (if any) over 2 months ago - Are age 12+ (for Pfizer) or age 18+ (for Moderna) Pass it on...
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
I just heard from two women with #LongCovid , both in their early 40's, just diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers. They can't be the only ones. If COVID leads to neurodegenerative disease... we are totally fcked. Support Long COVID research NOW. Before it's too late.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
3 years
Covid is causing extreme vascular damage in people young and old. Maybe men in America will start to #MaskUp when they realize that their erections work off of blood supply... 😬😷😬
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
My husband no longer believes in masking. So that's cool... 🤬
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
This is what it’s like to get Paxlovid (if you're lucky) * as a privileged white lawyer who runs the largest Covid movement in the world A thread… 🧵
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
I just heard from someone with their *fifth* confirmed case of COVID. Tell me again about natural immunity?
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
Indoors in a public place? Wear a mask. Ignore the guidance. It's the right thing to do.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
My thoughts on today's CDC COVID protocol revisions: The CDC has blood on its hands. Full stop.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
1 year
We have a new terrifying COVID variant on our hands... #XBB15 . How do we know? Because hospitalizations in NY area are surging. How *should* we have known? The @CDCgov should have given us warning. For the millionth time... Do your job @CDCDirector . There's blood on your hands.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
Remember in the beginning of the Pandemic people kept saying, "well... at least it doesn't affect kids. THAT would be a disaster"? Welcome to the disaster.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
A medical paper will be released this week on #LongCovid that will bring you to tears… and hopefully inspire novel research. Prepare yourself. 😢
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Diana Berrent Güthe
3 years
One year and seventeen days after being one of the first to contract a confirmed case of Covid in the US I’m fully vaccinated! I ❤️ Science!!!!
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
Test to Treat needs to be fixed ASAP. No one should have to navigate this kind of maze to get Paxlovid or any other early therapeutic. Time is *always* of the essence. Even on weekends. 18/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 months
If you really want to get more people to get their colonoscopy get rid of the rule mandating that someone pick you up afterwards in person. Not everyone has someone who can take a day off to be your chauffeur. Taxi, Uber, Lyft all work fine. @katiecouric
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
Just got off the phone with a doctor who is the only member of his medical team who isn't currently infected with COVID. He was also the only one wearing an N-95 instead of a surgical mask. It pays to mask properly 😷
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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I'm one of maybe 5 people on this flight wearing a mask. I bet more people would be wearing masks if they know how crappy the air is on this plane right now.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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Honestly this is excellent marketing.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
Know your rights. Do what you have to do. And make sure everyone else has the same opportunity. /end
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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@ASlavitt I got Covid in March, started the country's largest civud grassroots movement, @Survivor_Corps mobilizing an army of Covid Survivors to donate plasma and participate in every study possible. This is a photo of me donating my 8th contribution of universal AB CCP #donate #Plasma
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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Moral(s) of the story: Unless I was a doctor I couldn’t have had better access to Paxlovid. I was determined and wouldn’t take no for an answer, knowing kid qualified. I was unrelenting (and privileged). 17/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
3 years
Let's talk about breakthrough symptomatic infections in fully vaxxed adults... Today @SurvivorCorps will meet with the @CDCgov to present our data and ask for changes in policy to reflect real world evidence. @CDCgov is only tracking hospitalized cases so we did it instead. /
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
Had Covid? You're now 3.5x more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's and 2.5x more likely to be diagnosed with Parkinson's. This is only the beginning... There's no way these numbers won't go up with time.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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My otherwise completely healthy 16yo daughter has confirmed Flu A. She's had all the normal kid bugs along the way and had two confirmed cases of COVID, one prior to vaccination. I've never seen her so sick. Get your fucking flu shot.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
, @MountSinaiNYC just announced that due to the prevalence of Omicron and its resistance to Monoclonal Antibodies they will no longer be providing them as treatment. We are literally back at the beginning. Without a single available early intervention. We knew this was coming!!
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
. @nypost just published the names and addresses of all the oligarchs with property in NYC They can run but they can't hide.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
The question is no longer "Did you have COVID?". It's "How many times did you have COVID?" Every case can end in #LongCovid . Don't let your guard up. It's not worth it.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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#LongCovid patients are losing their teeth. Teeth crumbling, cracking and falling out (with no blood loss) is becoming a hallmark of Long Covid. Pay attention. cc: @AmerDentalAssn
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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My kids' 7 week sleepaway camp is a COVID-free bubble. This happened through extreme planning and smart testing protocol. It can be done.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
Compiling a list of states where my teenage daughter will not be applying to college.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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Stop calling it Brain Fog. That sounds like a hangover. It's cognitive dysfunction. #LongCovid
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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@kurteichenwald @scotianselkie Thank you. But to fight back I've created the world's largest Covid grassroots movement / #LongCovid patient advocacy group, @Survivor_Corps . I started it while in isolation with Covid in March. We just passed 100K members. We will be the answer.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
3 years
A 🧵 on death (not Covid related)...
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
I'm on a plane and the guy next to me just wiped down the entire row with disinfectant. With no mask.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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If you think letting COVID rip through the population will save the economy you clearly don't understand #LongCovid .
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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Paxlovid in hand. Success. 16/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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I did a poll in Survivor Corps. 240 participants with #LongCovid . 80% had experienced new and unusual dental issues since Covid (teeth cracking, crumbling, falling out). EIGHTY PERCENT. Time to add a dentistry to the mix.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
Covid is also a neurological disease 🧠 Covid is also a neurological disease 🧠 Covid is also a neurological disease 🧠 Covid is also a neurological disease 🧠 Counting the neurological cost of COVID-19 | Nature Reviews Neurology
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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This is how I would like her remembered: Looking hot as hell with my Dad (gone 21 years now) in 1963… in a bikini and in love. /end
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
Hey @Delta , your improperly masked staff insisted I put a surgical mask over a closed vent respirator when everyone around me is in cloth masks. Even your pilots aren't wearing acceptable masks. You might as well be recommending wrapping condoms in cheesecloth 🙄 @kprather88
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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I’m on my way to take my mother to the hospital because she is dying and literally bleeding out and neither my sister nor I could go in the ambulance with her - so she is alone - because the EMT WASN’T VACCINATED
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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TW: Suicide. I ran a poll last year in @Survivor_Corps asking if people had experienced #LongCovid related suicide ideation. 18% said yes. I just reran the poll. 44% said yes. *This is an emergency*
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Diana Berrent Güthe
3 years
PSA of the day: Stop calling it “Brain Fog” It’s “Cognitive Dysfunction” 🧠 #LongCovid #LanguageMatters #scicomm #SciCommSeptember
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
Long COVID has nothing to do with the severity of the acute infection. Full stop.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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@RobbySlowik @melwedde I'm still recovering from being a maritime expert. Long live the stuck ship in the Suez.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
Looking for IDENTICAL TWINS. Did one have COVID and one not? Did both have COVID? If this describes you, or someone you know, you could make a tremendous contribution to COVID research. Please DM me if you qualify and pls SHARE!
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Diana Berrent Güthe
3 years
Based on this data the CDC should revise its guidance: -Vaxxed ppl should remain masked indoors -Vaxxed ppl should get tested when symptomatic -CDC should mandate reporting of All breakthrough cases -CDC should mandate reporting of ALL vaccine injuries (VAERS is a bust) 5/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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I got Covid while in California. My GP is in MD. I can't do a telehealth appt nor get Rx's called in b/c telehealth across state lines is [checks notes].. ILLEGAL. This system is beyond broken. What is the possible rationale behind such restrictions? Surely not public health.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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Garland, Pelosi, Collins, Craig, Schiff, Castro and now Warnock. To be updated hourly until we blow through the entire succession list.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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🔥COVID News🔥 TWO weeks of Metformin started w/in THREE days of testing positive will reduce your chances of developing #LongCovid by FORTY percent!!! 👉 Got Covid? Ask for Paxlovid AND Metformin Docs: get your Rx pads ready! Pass it on... #MedTwitter
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
I'm old enough that I remember when people avoided getting COVID.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
1 year
NIH was given $1.15B to study #LongCovid in February 2021. They claim to have blown through most of this money already. Yet not a single clinical trial is up and running. How is this possible? Where's the money???
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
Kids' school: Last week was Prom. This week 20-25% of senior class has COVID. So far.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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What if I told you there was a simple OTC that you could take during acute COVID that could help prevent a cytokine storm? What if I told you there weren't more studies because the government won't fund the research because of... optics? That thing is nicotine. True story.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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I hate to state the obvious but we will never know how many people are getting COVID because there is no process to report a positive home test. Seems like something maybe the government would be interested in setting up... Or should have already 🙄
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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@kells_jensen This is a sign that we need to consider dentistry in our pandemic response. Dental health is the underbelly of American health care. This might be the time to change that. What do you think @AmerDentalAssn ?
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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We cannot track what we aren’t counting. Have we not learned that simple lesson from a mere year and a half ago? Low testing doesn’t mean low numbers; it means bad science. 6/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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Let's revisit COVID testing. Here's the story of my 14yo kid today... (his bff tested positive earlier today and they spent the weekend together) 1/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
3 years
That is also what we should demand for the terminally ill. Death with Dignity should not be a luxury but a right. I challenge every state legislature to pass bills like ones that exist in Oregon and elsewhere. cc: @GovKathyHochul 18/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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"For participants who started metformin less than four days after their COVID symptoms started, metformin decreased the risk of long COVID by 63%." Explain to me why Paxlovid AND Metformin aren't given to everyone who tests positive and is eligible???
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
Just STOP with the indoor dining!!! Even if you don't care about yourself you will go home and infect your family. 🤬🤬🤬
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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@Brutalemabella @kurteichenwald I had blurry vision since Covid in March. I finally went to the opthalmologist and my eye pressure had doubled since my last routine exam. Every organ system is being affected by this virus! #LongCovid is real. @Survivor_Corps
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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Tiger Woods just did the best character redemption move in history.
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Greg Norman told Tucker Carlson that LIV Golf offered Tiger Woods more than $700 million to join the Saudi-funded league
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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@WAddamsResists Mild cases can lead to #LongCovid too
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Diana Berrent Güthe
3 years
-Vaccines will likely keep you from acute symptomatic Covid needing hospitalization -*HOWEVER* 55% of breakthrough symptomatic cases led to Long Covid (this is staggering) -(Narrator Voice: If I had J&J I would want a booster) 3/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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I tell doctor kid qualifies for Paxlovid. The doctor is confused and I explain the qualifications. He is happy to prescribe but can’t explain the directions because he isn't familiar with them. 13/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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I have been dealing with Covid in one way or another since Day 1. Today might have broken me. #LongTermCovid #LTC19 #LongCovid #LongCovidKids @Survivor_Corps
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Diana Berrent Güthe
3 months
In case you were wondering about COVID reactivating latent viruses.... I got bloodwork done yesterday after having Covid earlier this month (and developing cold / canker sores in my mouth). I had never had them before.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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I try every CVS Minute Clinic in the DC, VA, MD area and can’t find a single appointment for today. I make an appointment for tomorrow morning, which will be day 3 of symptoms. Paxlovid is most effective when taken ASAP. 5/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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Think you don't qualify for Paxlovid? Think again. Doctor says you don't qualify? Don't buy it. Check the qualifications and demand it.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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And I repeat for the bajillionth time: COVID is also a neurological disease 🧠 and there is NO such thing as a "mild" version
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Next, with @nathavindra , autopsies from 9 individuals found to be SARS-CoV-2-positive by nasal swab PCR at the time of death were examined. Brains from those with even mild or asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection had microglial reactivity in subcortical white matter. (8/)
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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Holy shit. I got verified!!!
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We drive to the closest Urgent Care. I leave kid outside to ask what protocol is for bringing in an active Covid case. There is none. We stay outside. We get called in. Everyone is in loose fitting surgical masks. 7/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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Mask mandates, like everything else, is an equity issue. Take away masks on public transportation and who suffers? People who can't afford private transportation.
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I go to the second CVS and get the prescription filled. 15/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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Welcome to Covid 101 (Season 2024) @NickGuthe and I both got Covid. I took Paxlovid for 10 days. He couldn't stand the taste and stopped at 5. He tested neg for 5 days and is now sicker than before, testing strongly positive. This is NOT a rebound. There is no such thing. 1/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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My mother’s graveside funeral is tomorrow morning and we won’t be able to sit shiva (the Jewish tradition of mourning) because of Covid and I’m just so angry.
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I explain to receptionist that kid needs Paxlovid. She tells me Paxlovid is not available. I explain I just need the prescription to take to a pharmacy I know has Paxlovid in stock (I checked beforehand). 8/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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I get called back in and told that the doctor cannot prescribe Paxlovid. He is not authorized. I say that that isn’t possible. She insists it is and suggests I go elsewhere. I ask where I should go. She doesn’t know. 10/
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I take the prescription back to the original CVS to get the prescription filled. I arrive too close to their closing time for them to fill the script. 14/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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We’re 18 months in and we still have NO standard of care for non-hospitalized Covid. None. Zero. Zilch.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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Wasn't the bonus aspect of mRNA vaccines the fact that they could be easily updated? Where are the updates?
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I ask receptionist to check again with the doctor. She does. She comes back and says the answer is still no. I sign in for an appt anyway. Receptionist is visibly annoyed with me. 11/
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We get called into appointment with doctor and another Covid test is administered. Kid is, not surprisingly, clearly positive. Doctor doesn't ask if she has any high risk factors. 12/
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I call CVS hotline and spend another hour in another maddening maze of another automated call system. There is no human option. 4/
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I look up closest CVS Minute Clinic and attempt to make a telehealth appointment, not wanting to drag my Covid positive kid around and possibly infect others. I can’t make telehealth appointment because I can’t figure out how to log in to kid’s MyChart account. 3/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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Hey look @mishacollins before he was famous and just my best friend's boyfriend
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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Because many of you have asked... She developed #LongCovid from her first infection in June 2020 before vaccine was available. Second case January 2021 (also before vaccine was available) made it worse. Then vaccinated. Third infection milder & didn't make it better or worse.
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I consult online Test to Treat guidance and call the hotline. I spend about an hour stuck in an automated call system with poor voice recognition, no answers and no human option. 2/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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Biden’s announcement that the pandemic is over reminds me of the fifth grader who wins the position of “Prinicipal for the Day” and declares no homework. There might be a lot of happy fifth graders that day but the next day homework will be back.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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Receptionist says doctors there cannot prescribe Paxlovid. I ask her to ask the doctor. I go back and wait outside with kid. 9/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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I no longer mask everywhere. I avoid most large gatherings, choose outdoors whenever possible & assess indoor spaces on basis of density /ventilation. I also consider date of last booster (Novavax 3 wks ago). I continue to mask on planes and anywhere else I consider higher risk.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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New Jersey is vaccinating smokers but not teachers. Having s hard time wrapping my head around this choice.
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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15yo (vaxxed and boosted) tests positive for Covid this morning and qualifies for Paxlovid. 1/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
2 years
I want kid to get started today so we try to go as a walk-in. CVS Minute Clinics close at 4:30 on weekends. We arrive (in N-95’s) at 4pm and are told that we are too late. We are told to go to Urgent Care instead. 6/
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Diana Berrent Güthe
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For all you antibody nerds... my 12yo had Covid in January 2020. 13 months later, he’s still got ‘em!
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