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4 Dec, 5 tweets, 3 min read
📍DESPERATE PLEAS for ICU bed for mom via @Facebook—A son frantically tries to find hospital ICU bed w/ ECMO to save his mom—by **publicly begging** on FB. Nurse+doctor from York PA sees the son’s FB pleas, calls his cell, offers to help—mom successfully transferred! #COVID19
2) Question is — how and why have we come to this?? That a son even needed to do this to save his mom is so crazy.

Link to initial post: m.facebook.com/shawn.rider.77…
3) at this rate, we won’t have ICU beds or ECMO machines for long.
4) Meanwhile, listen to the premier of Manitoba also beg people to stay home for Christmas. Manitoba is right across border from North Dakota.
5) Here is a longer story of what happened. The son shares the story in efforts to warn other. m.facebook.com/shawn.rider.77…

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6 Dec
Boom—MASKS WORK & COST EFFECTIVE—Just 20 days after mandatory face mask rules, new #COVID19 infections lowered by ~45% in German study.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
pnas.org/content/early/… Image
p.s. actually, don’t ever smoke. Epidemiologist not endorsed.
3) Be cool, listen to Bill Nye on masks!
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6 Dec
HUMAN➡️MINKS➡️HUMAN transmission on mink farms in NL. 68% of the tested farm workers and/or contacts had evidence of #SARSCoV2 infection. The coronavirus mutated & even evolved within minks before transmitted back to humans—& keeps #COVID19 perpetuating. science.sciencemag.org/content/early/… Image
2) More worrisome about minks: In Denmark, minks at a farm that got infected months ago later became **reinfected recently**—including with symptoms. Random sampling of 36 animals brought up 26 positives - all reinfected. This needs further study. tv2nord.dk/amp/119200?__t…
3) As pointed out, in Denmark, minks outnumber total humans by over 2x. And attack rates of #SARSCoV2 in minks is sometimes 90% of all exposed minks. So yeah, that’s why Danish leaders are worried about mink #COVID19
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5 Dec
📍700 EPIDEMIOLOGISTS WALK INTO A BAR—jk, we would never do that now!

Pro epidemiologists surveyed by NYT on #COVID19 risks (I was 1 of 700):

Most risky:
📌Indoor dining
📌Wedding/funeral/church
📌Concert/Sporting
📌Indoor playdates
📌Shared office work
nytimes.com/2020/12/04/ups… ImageImage
2) Here was the most risky and least risky by the 700 professional epidemiologists of @societyforepi. Image
3) “Three-quarters of respondents said they planned to spend Christmas, Hanukkah or other winter holidays only with members of their household, or not celebrate at all, similar to how they spent Thanksgiving.”
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5 Dec
New—I’m pleased to announce that to fight the pandemic, we formed a specia group to support Biden on #COVID19 pandemic response, a multidisciplinary task force called the ‘COVID ACTION GROUP’. 🧵

Here is our piece in USA Today. @yaneerbaryam @AliNouriPhD
google.com/amp/s/amp.usat…
2) this pandemic requires all hands on deck. It can be crushed only through a concerted effort that engages policy makers, business and community leaders and a public committed to the fight.
3) the involvement or resistance of the public and political leaders will make or break any national effort to beat back the coronavirus and resume life as normal.
Read 9 tweets
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5 Dec
BILL NYE is still the science show king. And he’s got a mask lesson for you. #MaskUp #COVID19
2) MASKS work. Mask and airborne science compilation video
3) Masks are very effective against droplets and aerosols.
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4 Dec
📍WALL STREET BANKERS ARE NOT MORE “ESSENTIAL” THAN TEACHERS & 1ST RESPONDERS—American Bankers Association is petitioning to designate Wall St finance workers as essential workers so they can get #COVID19 vaccines before most Americans. Cant make this up! on.mktw.net/2VDFc4z
2) “We are encouraging public health authorities to follow the existing DHS guidance and include financial services employees as part of the 1b group, but we think front-line bank employees who deal with a large number of people every day should be gave priority to, at a minimum”
3) I think Wall St actually should be lower priority for reasons that most of their work can be done remotely, other than the limited number of bank tellers. But even then they often have plexiglass barriers to prevent robberies (and limit exposures).
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