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1/ The single most important lesson I learned working on a state #covid19 response for 7 months: there is nothing worse you can do in an epidemic than waste timeWe
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1/ It is *problematic* how quick people are to judge how other people may have been infected by #covid19. This judgment re-enforces stigma; this is a destructive force that makes
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Are you quarantining correctly?For people that have been exposed to someone with known #covid19 or with symptoms and are awaiting a test result— you need to be quarantining *as if
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1/ Excited *& frustrated* to share this new work*This is the epidemic* — inequity is the driver of #covid19. It has been since the startIt’s not surprising- it’s how every
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1/ True story of two personal friends- let's call them Jim & Bob- & #covid19. I share this not to shame but to say-- this is likely happening more than
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THREAD1/ A reminder that the epidemic won't be solved by people around a table in the White House. Yes-- we do need that as well; and we need those people
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1/ New #covid19 executive orders in #Massachusetts today from Gov Baker + team in setting of #covid19 hospitalizations being up 145% since Labor Day. While there is now a mask
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“6 feet apart” or “mask up” are cool slogans but 8 months into this epidemic, we should be communicating better than this. People don’t need more slogans. They need to
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1/ There have been so many times over the past months that doctors like myself have been lambasted for speaking up in “politics”— if only you realized that *politics* is
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THREAD1/ There are likely multiple paths out of this epidemic.The main issue w/ the US is that we aren’t doing any of them.2 that we have written about recently:•rapid antigen
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1/ Sharing our new piece in @washingtonpost on using rapid tests for epidemic control.It shouldn't have taken 8 months for the idea to pick up- the same arguments were made
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1/ In Utah, Hispanic + nonwhite workers accounted for 73% of the #covid19 outbreak-associated cases but only represent 24% of workers across sectors.Their burden was 3x that of their White
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