🧵New @CDCGov MMWR today with summary guidance for public health strategies to reduce #COVID19 transmission.

Here’s a quick thread of the evidence-based CDC recommendations and sustainable strategies:

cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/6…
1) Universal face mask use 😷,

2) Maintaining physical distance from other persons and limiting in-person contacts,

3) Avoiding nonessential indoor spaces and crowded outdoor spaces,

4) Increasing testing to rapidly identify and isolate infected persons,
5) Promptly identifying, quarantining, and testing close contacts of persons with known COVID-19,

6) Safeguarding persons most at risk for severe illness or death from infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19,
7) Protecting essential workers with provision of adequate personal protective equipment and safe work practices,

8) Postponing travel,

9) Increasing room air ventilation and enhancing hand hygiene and environmental disinfection, and...
10) Achieving widespread availability and high community coverage with effective COVID-19 vaccines.

Excellent, straight-forward and evidenced-based summary!

And you have questions about how to stay safe in the coming weeks and over the holidays, check out this thread below👇:

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3 Dec
🧵Let's talk about #COVID19 and how you stay safe over the holidays and the coming months:
You likely already know the next few weeks are going to be ugly. Our numbers going into the winter are disastrous, and will only get worse in the coming weeks. A lot worse. Way worse.

I've said this since the spring - the virus can't infect you if the virus doesn't find you.
So given that there's virus everywhere, what can you do? I assume you already know to wear a mask, wash your hands, keep your distance. But what else?

If you don't need to travel, don't. It's that simple. Yes, we all want to see our family. And we will. There IS an end in sight.
Read 15 tweets
29 Nov
As COVID19 surges across the US, it’s hard to describe the situation inside hospitals for healthcare providers & patients.

We made this video depicting 1 day in the ER to show the painful reality & to remind us why we must remain vigilant. Please watch.
We also made a version in French:

And a version with Spanish subtitles:

Read 4 tweets
20 Nov
What does 250,000 #COVID19 deaths look like?

If each death was one seat on a jumbo-jet that crashed, this would be the toll to date:

✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️...
✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️ ✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️ ✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️ ✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️...
✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️ ✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️ ✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️ ✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️...
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20 Nov
Imagine you’re a doctor walking into an ER shift. You see so many really sick COVID19 patients, struggling to breathe.

The outgoing team isn’t convinced they’re that sick & refuses to treat them. They won’t sign them out to you until they have more evidence.

Sound implausible?
Well this is exactly what’s happening right now.

This administration is refusing to treat this pandemic as the public health crisis it is.

Nearly every damn day we set case & hospitalization records. Deaths are rapidly climbing.

And this administration...is absent and silent.
Worse is that now they’re refusing to sign out to the oncoming team.

So here’s the sad reality:

Every day the Trump administration postpones the transition, more Americans die.

Let me repeat.

Every day the Trump administration postpones the transition, more Americans die.
Read 7 tweets
17 Nov
The Trump administration deserves praise for the development of promising vaccines in record time.

Unfortunately this has been accompanied by a public health response that in every other aspect has been an abject failure.

As the virus ravages the US, there is still no plan.
I see people replying this administration should get no credit for the vaccines. I disagree.

Moderna has NEVER brought a vaccine to market and was in dire financial straits before getting a huge cash infusion from the US. Today they announced a vaccine that’s 94.5% effective.
And saying Pfizer didn’t get funding to help develop their vaccine is true - but they did get nearly $2 billion to bring 100 million doses to market.

Yes, the vaccines exist because of the hard work of scientists, all over the world, working nonstop for almost all of 2020...
Read 4 tweets
10 Nov
Although there was good #COVID19 news today, the hardest part still lies ahead.

New cases are at record highs and hospitalizations will soon be as well. Deaths will sadly follow.

So I made an explanatory photo montage for why we mustn't be complacent. Follow along below:🧵
When you look at these charts and see daily updates on COVID19 cases/hospitalizations/deaths, it might be hard to understand how they all fit together and why the recent trends are so worrisome. So let me explain...
First, let's look at CASES.

We won't look at the first 'wave' from March because we had very testing then and we missed the majority of cases.

But look at our huge cases increases starting in June and September. You see new cases start ⬆️ around June 8 and Sept 14...
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