Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 Profile picture
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Nov 16, 2021, 12 tweets

1/ Another amazing piece by @edyong209 for @TheAtlantic:
theatlantic.com/health/archive…

One that hits really close to home.

2/ If you haven't yet been vaccinated, please please please don't let this be you this holiday season:

4/ It's only getting harder in many respects:

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6/This problem pre-dated COVID. The pandemic has just made it that much clearer.

Our healthcare system isn't built to care for people. It's built to see goods & services. Those aren't the same thing.

7/ The new symbol of American medicine?

9/ Not captured by our COVID dashboards:

10/ For people working in medicine, our jobs become hardwired into our identities:

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