Thread by @ErinSandersNP

Put the label on some N95s and mail them to every American family. And start finally making kid size ones.

Issue public service announcements about cleaning the air. And how doing so improves health not just against #COVID, but allergens, pollution and other pathogens.

https://twitter.com/erinsandersnp/status/1615955603016368128

2/ Like someone with much better graphic design skills can make a mock up #American version USA99 (with 3M or something). Press an American Bald Eagle on the nose bridge (where the maple leaf is). Put the warning on the side. Give them to EVERYONE for FREE. Require in hospitals.

3/ Then! Send each family a kit to make a corsi rosenthol box: 4xMERV13 filters, a box fan, duct tape. Takes 60 min or less to build, costs less than $30. Can reuse by adding new filters. Works for ALL air pollution: wildfire smoke, mold, pollen, dust, germs & #COVID.

https://twitter.com/jimrosenthal4/status/1611812667605254156

4/ Would be cool if someone had found a way to easily print the cardboard bottom and shroud in plastic, more durable/easier to clean AND AGAIN WE CAN ADD THE EAGLE. #COVIDisAirborne #TheEagleIsAirborne 🦅 #EaglesLikeCleanAir 🇺🇸 #UrgencyOfEquity #HealthierFuturesForAll
@POTUS @VP

4/ We can also put the warning on that. Along with giving instructions on making the box. As well as some educational materials on safety what to do if sick. How to use these tools to help isolate and prevent spread of #COVID in families & generally to reduce risk of exposure.

https://twitter.com/ShivenTaneja/status/1598099273434165249

6/ PSAs: you have a brilliant & engaging group of science communicators on @Twitter who are already helping to teach people about the virus and how to stay safe. This has largely been done on our own but would be another important opportunity for the @POTUS to stand with science.

7/ Use your amazing and brilliant @FLOTUS and @MichelleObama and @VP to talk with children and talk to them about how we care for each other in times that are scary. A la sesame street. Explain why these complicated things are happening and how those conversations are hard.

8/ So many children are grieving lost or disabled loved ones or are sick themselves. They are confused, scared & upset. It's a difficult time to be both a kid and a parent. I have seen both @FLOTUS and @MichelleObama meet children where they are, in kindness, & that is special.

9/ Because pretending it's not happening - doesn't serve ANYONE who is in the trenches of this. In my line of work if you let a dirty deep wound fester, the body will try to fight it, but the infection still spreads and the damage will become worse and worse. Protect the patient

10/ Minimize any additional wounds. Make sure the patient is safe. Establish that they are in no other form of medical distress and then you clean that wound. Which can be painful. You give medicine to the whole body to fight that infection. With proper care & time wounds heal.

11/ Sometimes people think that part is the end. But it's really just the beginning of the next part of healing. Regaining strength and flexibility through physical therapy. And then there is the processing the trauma of what happened to you. All of those steps take time.

12/ Our nation will need time to heal after all the tragedy we have witnessed. But we are still very much *infected* right now. And we need to make those infection and reinfection numbers much less. The number of disabled Americans is beyond what our current symptoms can support