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Denise Dewald, MD

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5 Aug, 4 tweets, 2 min read

So we are back at the pandemic stage of turning the hospital cafeteria into COVID spillover beds. 🥳

(Sarcasm with the 🥳)

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1423305555662315527

Everyone should give credit to Covid-denier-in-chief #DeathSantis

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1423305555662315527

https://twitter.com/DolphinDemVoter/status/1423376098855895041

Hospitals really just can’t suddenly ramp up resources to be able to care well for double the number of patients in the span of two weeks, and then double it again and again. Time to talk about #FlattenTheCurve again.

https://twitter.com/DolphinDemVoter/status/1423376098855895041

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Denise Dewald, MD

@denise_dewald

7 Aug

I honestly have no idea whether the pediatric N95/KN95 masks that I am buying online are actually going to protect my child.

I feel so helpless. And I am a pediatrician.

NIOSH does no test or approve pediatric mask, since kids aren't workers.

FDA doesn't test N95 respirators in children, claiming that they weren't designed for children.

@US_FDA

So basically since children aren't valuable as workers, our government is doing NOTHING to ensure that they can be protected from a deadly respiratory virus

I am beyond outraged. We need testing and standards for pediatric N95 masks.

@US_FDA @NIOSH @POTUS @AmerAcadPeds @CDCgov

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Denise Dewald, MD

@denise_dewald

7 Aug

https://twitter.com/IivoHetemaki/status/1421924954443030543

A #DeltaVariant outbreak in a Finnish hospital showed that fully vaccinated people can be infected by AND spread delta despite the use of surgical masks

It would have been MUCH worse without vaccines - only ~10% of vaccinated HCWs were infected

We need to learn from this

🧵1/7

https://twitter.com/IivoHetemaki/status/1421924954443030543

From a single index patient, infection of HCWs led to a chain of transmission throughout the hospital and to satellite hospitals, that led to 18 patient deaths (31% of the infected patients, median age 80, already hospitalized but COVID contributed to death in the majority).

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There were 45 cases in health care workers (a little less than half of whom were fully vaxxed and the rest partially or unvaxxed), 58 patient infections, and at least 62 cases of secondary spread in the community

No HCWs died or were hospitalized.

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