What’s been most heartbreaking to watch throughout this global pandemic is just how much health inequities have deepened and widened and now are just the “new normal.”

When Covid started, there was a sense of unity that we must protect most vulnerable in our communities.
1/ 🧵 When I first went to New York in April 2020, the people who were most impacted were those living in the heart of NYC in crowded apartments, multi-generational homes with poor ventilation.The healthcare system was not equipped nor ready,with little understanding of the disease.
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Thread: As many if you know, I have spent the last year on the road taking care of #COVID19 patients. Over and over again, people in indoor spaces were getting sick. Even as #vaccines have changed things for us, we still know that indoor spaces are the riskiest. #COVIDisAirborne 2/ So I came across a life changing article in Jan. 2021. #CO2Monitoring as a way to measure indoor ventilation and “shared air,” how much of other people’s air you are breathing.

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Thread of public education messaging which can help us get #COVIDー19 under control.

Misconception #1: how #COVIDー19 is spread.

-covid is like glitter. When someone coughs or sneezes, talks loudly, sings, glitter is released into the air and lingers in the shared air.

https://twitter.com/kprather88/status/1333615521351176192

Misconception #2: come back if “worse or short of breath”

-Most people can’t quantify short of breath, esp if they’ve never felt short of breath before

-Walk in place for 1 min.Sing your ABCs. If you can’t finish song or steps w/o breathing hard, you need to be seen immediately