Thread by @VivekJainMD

Thanks for all your interest and I am incredibly grateful for your messages of support for our team! We’ve been hard at work, it’s been tough to tweet, but here’s some 3/29/20 #COVID19 updates from frontline at SF General Hospital @SFGHFoundation @UCSF

The last 7-10 days have been incredibly busy-we are working our absolute hardest to deliver the best care we can and continue getting ready for whatever is to come the next several weeks.

Patient numbers are rising, like at most places. I continue to be amazed and proud of all my colleagues for the teamwork, determination, and resolve to meet the moment and rise up to this challenge.

As a healthcare worker, I want to express my intense gratitude to my fellow bay area residents observing the shelter-in-place: keep up the great work! Your physical distancing efforts are our best hope to lessen the surge on hospital/clinic capacity.

Thanks to SF Mayor @LondonBreed and DPH Director #GrantColfax for the forward-thinking shelter-in-place strategy in SF/BayArea, and to Gov. @GavinNewsom for instituting this California-wide. We continue to be optimistic that this is helping #FlattenTheCurve in SF.

COVID-19 laboratory testing remains challenging, but capacity increasing and turnaround times getting faster via heroic work from our own SFGH microbiology lab, @SF_DPH, and collaboration with @UCSF micro. Goal is same-day results for most patients.

Also looking at new options like Abbott m2000 and new Cepheid SARSCoV2 test (on Xpert platform). Many other new/fast/point-of-care diagnostic tests coming, along with serology: stay tuned.

Thanks to all the people, companies and organizations donating PPE to SF General Hospital @SFGHFoundation, to @UCSF, and to all other hospitals. If you wish to donate PPE to SFGH, get in touch – will help connect to our team to donate. Your support is an incredible boost to us.

Thank you to the incredible @UCSFMedicine medical students for launching their wildly successful #UCSFmaskdrive. Truly inspiring efforts! @KidaneMD @india_pu @AntNardone10 @NoorChadha and so many others – you are amazing!

Grateful to my colleagues @annieluet who’s leading many efforts on therapeutic studies, @PCH_SF giving great updates from @UCSF, SFGH Hospitalists led by @SumantRanji doing incredible front line work.

Our @UCSF_HIVIDGM @UCSF_ID infectious diseases COVID-19 taskforce is putting out bulletins twice a week summarizing recent research findings. Available here: hividgm.ucsf.edu/COVID-19

Let’s all stay linked, let’s support each other - we are one huge team. We’re in this fight together. Do not let up. Stay focused, keep up the great work. #LetsGo