Just tried to send a 2-week old baby in mild respiratory distress to a community ER. The ER doc told me they are having trouble transferring pedi patients to big hospitals & to send directly to a children's hospital.
This is only the beginning of #COVID19/Flu season #Medtwitter
Everyone #MaskUp indoors now to prevent the spread of COVID. The numbers in MA, recently increased in response to the school year starting without masks or mitigation measures in spite of our calls for more protections bostonglobe.com/2022/08/22/met… h/t @JuliaRaifman@jonlevyBU@FamCOSa
The CDC "Community Levels" map suggests that Massachusetts is in medium, based on availability of hospital beds. But pediatric hospital beds fill more quickly...
We should #MaskUp when Covid transmission rates are high to slow spread and prevent surges.
Right now almost the whole country is red meaning we should #MaskUp to slow COVID transmission and protect ourselves
Brought to you by people rather than big business, the @PeoplesCDC weekly Weather Report helps you and your community to stay safe from #COVID19 (w/hospital beds for adults AND children) #MaskUp
Last weekend I needed a new dishwasher installed, but the installation techs arrived wearing cloth masks, one with the mask falling off his face.
When I asked them to wear high-quality #N95s (which I offered), or at least something that would cover the nose, they REFUSED. 🧵
One of them said: "I'm the boss here and we wear our own masks. If you need us to wear something different we will leave, and you can wait until the pandemic is over to get a new dishwasher."
I should be able to keep the air in my own house safe. #COVID19 spreads in the air like smoke, when people breathe, talk, cough or sneeze and the virus can remain suspended in the air for minutes to hours after an infected person leaves the room.
@RobbieForChange lamented in a public lecture yesterday that US public health policy is constrained by what Americans are willing to do...
🤔 I would argue the chief constraint is @CDC inappropriately messaging safety with a pretty pastel map while we are in a surge 🧵
A recent poll showed that 74% of Americans would #MaskUp if we were in a surge.
Instead of holding a press conference and sending alerts on social media about the impending threat of COVID in coming weeks, they "forecast" thousands of deaths.