Catherine Forest, MD MPH (she/her/they/them) Profile picture
UCSF Natividad Family Med prof,pub hlth,growth mindset,end-of-life care, access,🌈care,health equity,writer,my family rocks #LiveLoveLaugh #BeTheChange #PPE4CC
Jul 20, 2020 9 tweets 4 min read
@choo_ek I agree that testing is one key component of case identification. But recall that it’s main purpose is for identifying contacts for rapid isolation and quarantine. I will explain a US strategy that could work . Stay with me a thread 🧵 @choo_ek We now know enough about the timing of symptomatic CLI and the cluster of symptoms likeliest to be predictive of COVID19 that we should be validating clinical diagnosis and recruiting frontlines primary care to quickly report CMR 2/
Mar 24, 2020 14 tweets 12 min read
A Call To Action for Healthcare Workers. We can no longer in good conscience let politics endanger our nation in #COVID19 pandemic. Time to #LetTheScientistsLead a thread 1/ As our HC workforce heads into dangerous work daily, without adequate protection, without an adequate plan for isolation, without adequate testing/hospital beds/ventilators 2/