Thread by @DCharabaty

1/ Excellent update on #COVID19 by @SaraElOualiMD @ibdlive

🔺Despite the rumors-There is NO current treatment for COVID9 - trials on going

🔺#SocialDistancing needed to prevent /delay transmission & #FlattenTheCurve = Not be sick & go to the hospital when it’s beyond capacity

2/ #COVID19 @SaraElOualiMD @ibdlive
Beyond URI #COVID19 can
🔺Cause GI symptoms 50% pts
• ⬆️ w dis severity
•Can preceed fever/URI
🔺Persist in stool up to 47days
•Implications to #GI endoscopy
•?Implication using public BR
🔺Cause Loss of taste/smell
🔺Cause conjunctivitis

3/ #COVID19 @SaraElOualiMD @ibdlive @MRegueiroMD

Older pts are at higher risk of complications & death

BUT young ppl (20-44) are severely affected too:

🔺20% of hospitalized
🔺12% of those in ICU
🔺Up to 20% of death

#SocialDistancing is for everyone! #WereInThisTogether

4/ Update on #COVID19 SECURE-IBD registry by #EricaBrenner @ryanungaro on @ibdlive @MRegueiroMD

🔺🙏🏼Report any COVID19 in #IBD pts covidibd.org

🔺87 reported cases
•1st 15 cases reviewed: Hosp/ICU/death = general population
•Risk factors: age, steroids, IMM, Tofa