If you’re watching the debate, the head of the Coronavirus Task Force is refusing to answer why we have more deaths than any other country.
And in the same sense stating that the other side is plagiarizing a response that has caused over 210k deaths.
'We surged resources to NJ, NY, Detroit..."

"The American people made the sacrifices"

They did. We did. There wasn't enough PPE to do our job safely.
And now he's saying he trusts the American people to make the right choices about their health.

But this administration has at the same time withheld the information and undermined the institutions that would've helped them make those decisions.
Senator Harris is saying 'I'll be the first in line' for a vaccine if scientists say its safe. But not if the President says so.
"We're going to have a vaccine in record time."

I've frequently criticized this administration for it's public health response. But Operation Warp Speed is one of the best investments they've made.
Pence criticizing Biden's response to the swine flu in 2009.

'If it had been as lethal as coronavirus...'

But it wasn't. So kinda strange argument.

210k dead. That's kinda what matters.
Pence certainly does a much better job portraying our covid19 response than actually leading it, quite frankly.
'The care the President received...was exceptional'. @VP Agreed. I wish all our patients had access to a fraction of that.

'American people have the right to know about the health of their President'. @VP. I agree. And I got questions.
*in the same sentence...

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4 Oct
I'll be sharing updates here from today's (Oct 4) POTUS #COVID19 medical briefing:
President 'has continued to improve', 'frequent ups and downs'
The President has experienced two drops of oxygen saturation.
Read 35 tweets
3 Oct
Some thoughts from the update on the President’s condition:
They said illness for 72 hours? Seems to be a different timeline than we heard.
They also said he got antibodies 48 hours ago. That’s Thursday morning.
Read 23 tweets
3 Oct
I’m getting a lot of questions about how fast COVID19 progresses:

I’ve seen 90 year olds test + and not have a sniffle for days.

I’ve seen 40 year olds come in stable and VERY rapidly decompensate.

There’s a lot of speculation right now. But the realm of possibilities IS vast.
I don’t know the specifics of the President’s case - but the American public should.

Maybe it’s all an abundance of caution? Or not.

Point being he could be stable. Or not. This virus is always fickle & sometimes ferocious.

I wish him a speedy recovery. And we need more info.
This timely transmission just in!

Reportedly not on supplemental oxygen.

Remdesivir started.

‘Doing very well’.
Read 7 tweets
10 Sep
I’m furious.

He didn’t want to cause a panic?!

It’s impossible the describe the panic, the sadness, the loneliness of family members that I called to tell their loved one had passed from ##COVID19. So. Many. Times.

And because we didn’t act, this happened everywhere in the US.
I’m furious because as a doctor, so many of these deaths were preventable. If only we acted at the outset.

He knew how dangerous and deadly this was.

And he did basically nothing.

He said it would disappear. He said we’d open by Easter. He said again it’s disappear.
IT NEVER DISAPPEARED.

All over the country there is virus circulating in our communities.

We’ve failed. Not because he didn’t know. But because HE DID NOT ACT!
Read 9 tweets
8 Sep
We need to talk about #LongCovid.

Many who had #COVID19 continue to experience complications long after their initial illness.

In this🧵below, I expand on what @angie_rasmussen and I discussed in this @ASlavitt podcast to outline what we do know and what needs to come next...
In that episode, you’ll notice how often we say “I think “ instead of a definitive “we know”.

But that doesn't mean we don't know a lot. We can draw from similar illnesses and the growing body of research, especially the patient-led work being done by #longhaulers themselves.
So first, what ARE ‘long-covid’ and chronic covid?

There’s no formally accepted definition, but post-covid (#LongCovid) includes those who haven't returned to baseline ~3 weeks after the onset of first symptoms.

And chronic covid includes those months out with ongoing symptoms.
Read 47 tweets
27 Aug
Others have pointed out the problems with the new @CDCgov testing recommendations for asymptomatic contacts of confirmed cases.

But it's important to point out the huge impact this guidance will have on the growing community of COVID19 #longhaulers...

cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
When hospitals were overwhelmed in NYC in March and April, we sent home LOTS of patients who undoubtedly had COVID19 without testing them. We just didn't have the testing capacity at the time.

We advised them to 'just act like you have COVID, because you most likely do'...
Others, knowing they wouldn't be tested, didn't bother coming to the hospital at all. So they rode out the disease at home. And thankfully, most got better.

But so many didn't. Months later, they're still suffering with long-term complications from that initial illness...
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