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25 Dec, 7 tweets, 5 min read
2x HORRENDOUS tragedies—

—Nurse silenced by @YumaRegional hospital for speaking out about safety for security guards w/out adequate PPE

—Prison #COVID19 outbreak that has infected hundreds in Yuma, AZ prison—even killed the prison warden, and endangered prison staff & inmates.
2) The @YumaRegional hospital administration is so terrible and horrendous that key 🏥 are now resigning at high rates.
3) A huge wave of nurses have now resigned from @YumaRegional hospital. The security guards who weren’t given adequate PPEs also unable to speak up.
4) And now this nurse, Corrigan Wright, has resigned from @YumaRegional too.

Recall, @YumaRegional also previously suspended ER doctor @Cleavon_MD for simply speaking out about basic fact that Arizona was out of ICU beds.
5) Previously @YumaRegional had punished @Cleavon_MD for raising the alarm on ICU beds. He wasn’t even criticizing the hospital at the time, just making general comments about lack of AZ ICU beds. Yet he was muzzled. google.com/amp/s/www.nbcn…
6) The attempted firing of Dr Gilman was all the more shocking since he was simply warning the public to be safe and know there are little to no AZ ICU beds left.

This has left many wondering why did Yuma 🏥 retaliate if he didn’t even criticize admin. 🤔
google.com/amp/s/amp.azce…
7) At the end of the day, nurse Wright who was just trying to implement public health policies to save lives and stop #COVID19 transmission. Why does @YumaRegional feel threatened by staff who speak the truth on behalf of the public? We don’t know—such gaping hole in leadership.

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26 Dec
📍Sobering—1 out of every 1,000 people living in the US 🇺🇸 has died of #COVID19–residents, not just among cases.

330,000 are just diagnosed COVID deaths. US has accumulated now *420,000 excess deaths* compared to average of a many prior years.

Please stay safe. Thread 🧵 Image
2) Excess deaths have occurred in every group over the age of 25. And it’s not just the elderly. Image
3) Rely in just vaccine? No. The Trump administration goal was 20,000,000 vaccinated by end of 2020... we have only vaccinated merely 1 million.... only 5% of that goal! We only have days left. google.com/amp/s/mobile.r…
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26 Dec
📍9% of patients discharged after hospitalization for #COVID19 were readmitted within 2 months, says a new @CDCMMWR study. 1.6% were readmitted more than once. Circulatory, respiratory, or digestive systems were most common readmission diagnoses.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… Image
2) We also cannot forgot cognitive deficits seen in #COVID19 patients. Here is a detailed thread of the evidence on cognitive function. 👇
3) Notably, more worrisome, cognitive decline in recovered #COVID19 patients was found across severity level—largest among those hospitalized (& also among those not hospitalized). How big a decline in hospitalized patients? *equivalent to -8.5 IQ point drop.* (link in 🧵 above) Image
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25 Dec
BREAKING—US CDC will require negative coronavirus test for all airline passengers from 🇬🇧 starting Dec 28th— test must be within 3 days of flight. Either PCR or rapid tests acceptable. Pax must submit results to airlines. #COVID19 washingtonpost.com/local/traffica…
2) “British officials have been alarmed at the swift spread of the new variant and are also concerned about an even faster-spreading mutation identified in South Africa. Researchers say there is no evidence either variant is more deadly, & optimistic existing vaccines will work.
3) “It is also possible the vaccines could quickly be updated if changes are needed, they said.
“Viruses constantly change through mutation, and preliminary analysis in the UK suggests that this new variant may be up to 70% more transmissible than previous,” the CDC said.
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25 Dec
⚠️Fecal aerosols... 9 infections in 3 families due to vertically shared toilet drainage pipes + aerosols from pipes.

To even prove it, tracer gas was released into drainage system of one unit & shown to come out of the other.

➡️Fecal airborne transmission is real. #COVID19
2) Potential scenario is infection through drainage system. U-traps typically act as water seals in each bathroom. But they can dry out if unused allowing aerosols from one unit to travel to another.
3) Thus is an amazingly detailed epidemiological study. They ruled out all other forms of transmission because the infected families had no other contact in their high rise. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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24 Dec
YOU CAN’T FIND MUTATIONS ==> IF YOU DON’T GENETIC 🧬 SEQUENCE.

Australia 🇦🇺 & New Zealand 🇳🇿 is leading the world of ~half of all viruses in their countries sequenced.

UK 🇬🇧 leads in total #SARSCoV2 samples sequenced.

USA 🇺🇸 ranks—#43 in % 🧬 sequenced. So #winning, not.🧵
2) “Given the small fraction of U.S. infections that have been sequenced, the variant could already be in the United States without having been detected,” the CDC wrote on its website.
3) Remember the old saying, “No testing, no pandemic”?

📌Same goes for virus mutations. “No sequencing, no new mutated variants”

➡️We can’t be ostrich in the sand about this. To stop pandemic, we have to stay ahead of it—know when it’s changing or becoming more contagious.
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24 Dec
On the brink—

📌Over 2 in 5 U.S. hospitals with intensive care units have reached occupancy levels of >=85%.

📌Contrast with early Oct, just 1 in 4 that full. #COVID19

📌The 85% occupancy’ is the threshold to trigger regional stay-at-home orders.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
2) “When patients get really sick with Covid, they’re in the hospital for weeks,” said Dr. Arghavan Salles, a physician who has worked in I.C.U.s in New York and Arizona over the course of the pandemic.
3) “When patients get really sick with Covid, they’re in the hospital for weeks,” said Dr. @arghavan_salles, a physician who has worked in I.C.U.s in New York and Arizona over the course of the pandemic.
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