Thread by @AbraarKaran

1/ At our hospital we use airborne precautions if someone has active #Covid19 infection

We did at my previous hospital too

Because the virus is airborne

And we wear N95 masks

Because it’s airborne

2/ Hospitals have better ventilation

They have better masks

They have better testing

They have all the protections that are needed to prevent transmission of the virus

(& still have nosocomial outbreaks)

3/ And in hospitals we are often seeing patients when they are even less contagious than they were when they’re in the community or in their homes

Yet we have done far less to prevent community spread esp before vaccines were available

4/ This delay has cost hundreds of thousands of lives

With little accountability on leaders who failed to implement plans according to what we knew was needed a long time ago for epidemic control. #covid19

Thanks to @kprather88 @linseymarr @j_g_allen @jljcolorado & many others who continue to push for cleaner air, and better PPE for the general public.

The PPE aspect has been a particular interest for @RanuDhillon @sri_srikrishna and myself since the start of the epidemic.