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1/5 #COVID19 key concerns in 🇨🇦 right now:
2/5 #COVID19 cases continue to increase across the country as new cases from previous exposures appear. Right now is an extremely critical time to #FlattentheCurve. We need to get it right and GET.THIS.DONE! Keep on guard 🇨🇦. We must #PlanktheCurve.
3/5 🇨🇦 is keeping a close eye on #COVID19 severity. This includes monitoring the percent of cases hospitalised & in intensive care. These indicators, as well as percent of deaths, are not just influenced by the virulence of the virus. #ProtecttheVulnerable
4/5 Hospitalisation, intensive care and fatality rates are higher among vulnerable populations and in high-risk settings & communities. This is why we must do all we can to protect the most vulnerable among us. #StayHomeSavesLives #ProtecttheVulnerable
5/5 Another cause of ↑ mortality is overwhelmed health services, unable to provide intensive care to a high volume of critical cases. We must all work #FlattentheCurve & protect our 🇨🇦 health system. #SlowtheSpread #PhysicalDistancing
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Dr. Theresa Tam
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1/5 #COVID19 key concerns in 🇨🇦 right now:
2/5 #COVID19 cases continue to ↑ across 🇨🇦, w/ now over 5,600 cases. At any point in time, there are many others under investigation, awaiting laboratory results, or not yet tested. #StayInsideYourBubble #SlowtheSpread #PhysicalDistancing
3/5 Even if you are not hearing of confirmed #COVID19 in your community, it doesn’t mean there are no cases or that there are no exposures waiting to happen. Play it safe - #StayInsideYourBubble – don’t burst anyone else’s bubble!
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Dr. Theresa Tam
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1/6 For #PhysicalDistancing #NewZealand has introduced the concept of knowing & staying inside your bubble.
#Innovation #SlowtheSpread #StayHomeSavesLives #PlanktheCurve #ProtecttheVulnerable
2/6 This is a great way to conceptualise the zone-of-protection that we all need to have around us - to keep the virus out and keep us safe. #COVID19 #PhysicalDistancing #StayHomeSavesLives #PlanktheCurve
3/6 Although optimal protection comes when each person has their own separate bubble that is a 2-metre circumference around us, people cohabitating or self-isolating together can make a bubble together.
#COVID19 #PhysicalDistancing
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Dr. Theresa Tam
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1/6 We now have a snapshot of the severity of #COVID19 in 🇨🇦, where 6.1% of all cases require hospitalization, 2.6% of all cases are critically ill needing ICU care and 1% of cases have been fatal. #ProtectTheVulnerable #FlattentheCurve #PlanktheCurve
2/6 🇨🇦’s 1% case fatality rate means our healthcare system is not currently overwhelmed. But we can further reduce fatalities by preventing #COVID19 in vulnerable populations like residents in long-term care. #ProtectTheVulnerable
3/6 The seriousness of #COVID19 cannot be overstated. Older adults and those with medical conditions are at highest risk BUT younger people are not immune. #FlattentheCurve #PlanktheCurve #StayHomeSavesLives
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Matthew W. Johnson
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I’m no virologist but I’m a drug scientist so here are my expert recommendations regarding COVID-19 and substance use. (1/11)

#COVID #coronavirus #COVID19US #drugs #alcohol #drinking #cannabiscoronavirus #ecigs #vaping #coffee #psychedelics #QuarentineLife #harmreduction
Your immune system and behavior not only affect you – they play a vital role in making sure our entire species is able to successfully battle this virus and minimize the number of deaths, because you are a potential vector for transmission. (2/11)
If you've been thinking you need to stop your heavy use of a substance, now is a critical time to claim your birthright as a human and gain full agency over your choices. Regardless of your use level, here're some pointers regarding substance use during this pandemic: (3/11)
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Craig Wing
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Context: I come from a middle-class background, travelled/lived a lot internationally and financially stable. I’m not an Epidemiologist, but widely read and have an engineering background (analytical) and not an alarmist. /1
My role and background trained me to identify black swans and wild cards: this is the former – there will be more of these in the future. Thread on #COVID – TL:DR its long (28 tweets) /2
How bad will this get – it depends. If we act now ( #socialdistancing), limited interaction we can slow the spread. With vaccines being trialed, theres hope we can quell this, but realistically only toward end of the year (trials, testing, distribution, administration) /3
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Abdul El-Sayed
@AbdulElSayed
This graph is CHILLING. Let me explain:

It shows the number of #COVID cases by age in S. Korea (red) vis Italy (green). And there are WAY more young cases in S. Korea.

Why? NOT because younger ppl get it in S. Korea. But because S. Korea TESTS young ppl.

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In Italy (like the US), they're only testing ppl w/ symptoms. And the ppl who show symptoms w/ #COVID19 are older and sicker. That's why their numbers are skewed by age.

But in S. Korea, they're testing everyone, meaning their catching the young, asymptomatic cases, too.

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So remember the pics of all those kids partying this weekend? Well, they think they're not going to get the #Coronavirus. That's not true, they're just not going to get SYMPTOMS of #Covid_19. But this graph shows that they might still get it--and unknowingly pass it on.

3/
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Nada Bakos
@nadabakos
Another damn thread: I have been tweeting a lot about how #COVIDー19 is evolving. Today, I have been thinking about our response after 9/11 (we came together for a short time as a community) and how it compares how we are handling what's asked of us today. 1/
We can't control the virus, but we can control our response as a community. I get it, when we are asked to do things that change our behavior significantly, it can induce anxiety and fear. Taking action to mitigate the risk of the spread is a good thing. 2/
Depending on our response to measures that are asked of us, we can either make this less stressful/anxiety inducing or not. Taking action to mitigate the spread isn't the part that should be anxiety inducing, doing nothing and ignoring a problem is much worse. 3/
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Ameya Kulkarni, MD
@ameykulkarnimd
Lots of talk about the expected surge in ICU and hosp beds with #COVID. I’ve been hearing about reducing elective case burden (great thread from @ajaykirtane about that). We should also be rethinking our hospital approach to conditions that will continue in the covid era 1/n
Most obvious is with #STEMI care. If your hospital doesn’t have an ED bypass protocol for stemis - probably a good time to develop one. Ours at @VHC_Hospital has 1 min pitstop in ed w ems txp to cath lab - less pt exposure time to ED and less burden on ED resources 2/n
Also with #STEMI care - No icu for stable pts w normal EF should be standard. For most of these pts ICU is not necc and creates unneeded exposure for pt and occupies much needed ICU beds. (I think @agtruesdell had a great thread on this a while back) 3/n
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WHO China joint mission #COVIDー19
COVID-19 is transmitted via droplets and fomites during close unprotected contact between an infector and infectee.

who.int/docs/default-s…
Not major drivers of transmission:
-airborne spread not been reported
(can be envisaged if certain aerosol-generating procedures are conducted in health care facilities)
-fecal shedding demonstrated from some patients, & viable virus identified in limited # case reports.
Household transmission studies underway, prelim studies ongoing in Guangdong est secondary attack rate in households ranges from 3-10%.
As COVID-19 is a newly identified pathogen, no known pre-existing immunity in humans. Everyone is assumed to be susceptible
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