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Screenshot of webpage of the CDC COVID-19 Underlying Medical Conditions Associated with Higher Risk for Severe COVID-19: Information for Healthcare Professionals Updated Apr. 12, 2024 - Key Findings from One Large Cross-Sectional Study Underlying Medical Conditions and Severe Illness Among 540,667 Adults Hospitalized With COVID-19, March 2020–March 2021 This study used data from the Premier Healthcare Database, which represents approximately 20% of all inpatient admissions in the United States since 2000. This cross-sectional study of 540,667 adults hospitalized with COVID-19 included both inpatients and hospital-based outpatients with laboratory-diagnosed COVID-19 from March 1, 2020, through March 31, 2021. The database included reports from 592 acute care hospitals in the United States. The study was designed to examine risk factors associated with severe outcomes of COVID-19 including admission to an ICU or stepdown unit, invasive mechanical ventilation, and death. Main Findings: Certain underlying medical conditions were associated with an increased risk for severe COVID-19 illness in adults. Having multiple conditions was also associated with severe COVID-19 illness. Obesity, diabetes with complications, and anxiety and fear-related disorders had the strongest association with death. The number of frequent underlying medical conditions (present in ≥10.0% of patients) increased with age. [The screenshot has yellow highlighted the text “study was designed to examine risk factors associated with severe outcomes of COVID” and under main findings yellow highlighted text is “anxiety and fear-related disorders had the strongest associating with death.” with the word “death” underlined in red marker.

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There’s a horrendous irony in being accused of being “anxious” when you want to avoid covid.

2024-07-06

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Postcard with postcard stamp postage and addressed to President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington DC. Written text reads: May 29th 2024, Dear Joe Biden, It should not be legal to buy and sell healthcare data of patients. Data brokers should not be selling mental health data. Why aren’t these data brokers charged with selling stolen property? Why is it legal? Chloe Humbert in Scranton PA.

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Your healthcare data is out there. Your mental healthcare data is out there.

2024-05-31

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drawing of NIOSH N95 mask

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Universal masking in healthcare as a disability accommodation

2023-04-19

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The image is from the NY Project Hope web site and written in marker are the words Project Hopium! with a facepalm emoji. Text on image reads NY Project Hope Coping with COVID 5. Look at uncertainty from a different perspective… It’s been said that uncertainty can be an “emotional amplifier,” meaning that uncertainty amplifies the emotions of whatever you’re thinking about. For example, it can be unpleasant to be uncertain about whether you’re going catch COVID-19, but it’s pleasant to be uncertain about how the new food you’re trying will taste. Looking at uncertainty in the lense of unexpected joy can take away some of the fear. Leaning into uncertainty as you do when you’re going to a new place, reading a new book, eating new food, learning a new language, and traveling abroad can help you to be more open to uncertainty, and more creative. We don’t know how these experiences will turn out, but we are still willing to engage in them.

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Pandemic Political Abuse of Psychiatry

2022-05-09

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