Two steps forward, one step back. For #LongCOVID awareness day today I had the honor of joining thousands of other New Yorkers in a peaceful protest to stand against many of the current administration’s recent damaging and thoughtless policies and executive orders. Let there 1/ - ThreadSky

putrinolab.bsky.social • 67 days ago

Two steps forward, one step back. For #LongCOVID awareness day today I had the honor of joining thousands of other New Yorkers in a peaceful protest to stand against many of the current administration’s recent damaging and thoughtless policies and executive orders. Let there 1/

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amuesemang.bsky.social•67 days ago

Thank you.

katieholten.bsky.social•67 days ago

Yes! Awesome that you could be there today. I was with the tombstones. Although the noise was horrible horrible horrible. I crashed, had to crawl away and sadly missed the die-in 😭

https://bsky.app/profile/katieholten.bsky.social/post/3lkh6db7kmk26

steadysnacks.bsky.social•66 days ago

Thank you Dr. Putrino for your unwavering support and fight for this community

susankiddie.bsky.social•66 days ago

🙏🏽💜

cg66.bsky.social•67 days ago

Thank you for everything you do, each and every day, for the Long COVID community. You give us hope, knowledge, understanding and kindness. True science will find the answers!
#longcovidawarenessday
#sciencewillfindtheanswers
#longcovidisreal
#hope

putrinolab.bsky.social•67 days ago

be no misunderstandings here: many of the executive orders and policies being proposed and passed into law will erase entire populations of historically and currently excluded communities. Under the facile goal of “improving efficiency”, decisions are being made that not only 2/

putrinolab.bsky.social•67 days ago

harm the vulnerable, but weaken a nation by taking away its true strengths: diversity, morality and innovation. Today of all days, my ask of the complex chronic illness community to take heart: if it is the wish of this administration to start a constitutional street-fight, 3/

putrinolab.bsky.social•67 days ago

then perhaps they’re about to learn that people who have earned their seat at the table can fight that much smarter and that much harder than privileged trust fund babies who have been handed their seat at the table just like everything else in life. So, we fight, we sue, we 4/

putrinolab.bsky.social•67 days ago

protest and we remind these wannabe autocrats that this is a nation of laws and democratic process. In the meantime, on the clinical and scientific side of #LongCOVID and complex chronic illness, we keep learning new tricks and running new trials: immunomodulation drugs, combo 5/

putrinolab.bsky.social•67 days ago

antivirals and monoclonals are all on the agenda for the next few years and we are intent on funding these initiatives almost exclusively on non-federal funding so that the work will not be slowed or stalled by anything that this administration, or any other, chooses to do. So 6/

putrinolab.bsky.social•67 days ago

I’ll end with a message of hope: we are learning every day. Progress is slow and difficult, but what I see in the trenches is that my teams (and other teams around the world) are slowly learning how to help individual patients one breakthrough at a time. We will be here for as 7/

teramis.bsky.social•67 days ago

smart way to approach it - independent funding.

betsyladyzhets.bsky.social•67 days ago

I was at the march today too! Very inspiring to gather with so many people. Thank you for the great thread 🙏🏻

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