Medical Educator, Academic Hospitalist. APD for Univ of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix IM Residency. Tweets my own. https://t.co/FVqZopAfSr .
Sep 1, 2021 • 10 tweets • 11 min read
🧵 Healthcare workers & public health professionals have born the brunt of the #COVID19 pandemic for 18 months. We also have clear expertise & personal experience in reducing transmission. And in #Arizona we are shouting from the rooftops for additional mitigation in schools. 1/
1,067 physicians, healthcare workers, & public health professionals in #MaricopaCounty sent a letter to @maricopacounty Board of Supervisors last night, imploring them to adopt a resolution requiring universal masking in K-12 schools in the county. B/c schools are in crisis. 2/
Aug 7, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 We have sacrificed so much for you over these past 18 months.
And it took only 3 days for you to destroy one of the last things I was hanging onto - the ability to keep my kids safe.
A big fear, more than for my own safety caring for hospitalized COVID patients, was … 1/
that my kids or husband would get sick. Like so many other healthcare workers, I have an elaborate decontamination routine that I do faithfully after every single hospital shift, to try to decrease the risk of bringing the virus home to my family. 2/
