@MassGovernor Thanks for visiting our hospital today! I came home to find my neighborhood, the North End, swarming with visitors congregating on our streets and sidewalks--few are wearing masks & social distancing appears to have been a long-forgotten concept. Did I miss...
your announcement that we are in Phase 4 today while I was busy caring for hospitalized patients with COVID??
What happened to #SaferAtHome? #COVID@MassGovernor@MassDPH
Also, while we're on the topic, what are you doing to ensure the safety of the most vulnerable populations in restaurant work: servers? I saw a grand total of zero servers wearing eye protection, but they have to get closer than 6 feet to people NOT wearing masks to do their job.
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Given recent events with #POTUS, there's a renewed interest in the typical clinical course of #COVID19.
Here is a quick refresher for all audiences:
1) Symptoms severe enough for patients to seek hospital care often don't occur until 5-7 days after symptom onset.
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Week 2 of #COVID19 symptoms is, on average, the "danger window" when some patients become abruptly and critically ill.
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Week 3 of #COVID19 symptom--for patients who have been hospitalized with moderate or severe symptoms--is typically when we see them turn the corner and start improving.
The fact is we still don’t know what the long-term complications of #COVID19 will be, so student athletes cannot yet make an informed choice on the risks and benefits of playing.
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We know that if the Big 5 conferences decide to go ahead with football this fall, despite the unknown (but potentially serious!) risks to the athletes, many athletes will have circumstances that, rightly or wrongly, compel them to participate.
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No scholarship is worth permanent disability from, say, cardiomyopathy from #COVID19.
I’d like to use some #popculture to highlight a truly awful, but yet-unmeasured impact of the current #COVID19 pandemic in the U.S.: restrictions on visitors to hospitals.
I’m currently reading Becoming by @MichelleObama. It’s fantastic.
Finished chapter 10 and...
...I couldn’t help but think of the countless people who've been robbed of this type of moment in their own lives because of COVID-19’s effect on hospital visitor policies. Perhaps it is just another unquantifiable tragedy in the midst of many in this pandemic...
...but I think it’s worth highlighting that the human costs of COVID-19 have and will go far beyond the mortality statistics, lost QALYs, etc. COVID-19 will also leave scars on many who never directly encountered the virus.
Great opinion piece in @statnews co-authored by my colleague @Ateevm re: why #telemedicine is already losing it's precarious foothold in the U.S. healthcare system. Below is a summary of their line of reasoning in 3 tweets 🧵💡