Thread by @tmprowell

From direct comms to #Maryland physicians:

🆘 State just set record for new daily cases
🆘 Hospitalizations ⬆️ >180% in month since #Omicron identified by WHO as a #covidvariant of concern
🆘 8.8% of unvaccinated #Maryland adults account for >75% of #COVID19 hospitalizations

2/4 Quit scrolling & listen to me. This is a big f-ing deal. If you are indoors in public without a high-quality mask, #Omicron will find you. If you are not #vaccinated, you are at high-risk to land in an overcrowded, understaffed hospital. Most Americans have no experience…

3/4 With what it means to be in a hospital where conditions are frankly unsafe, which is where we now are. I have worked in countries where there aren’t enough hospital beds & pts are on floors, where 1 dr is overseeing care of WAY too many patients. I have been that dr.

4/4 It is time to #StayHome again. Don’t text & drive, don’t get on your roof to remove 🎄 lights, hire someone else to shovel snow if you’re not fit, DO NOT GATHER indoors. This is BAD. We have to preserve space for seriously ill people with #Omicron & other things to get care.

GO #GETVACCINATED. GO #GETBOOSTED. If you have been living your life throughout the whole #pandemic & have been lucky so far, congratulations to you, & it’s about to end. Don’t FAFO. #Omicron