COVID-19 Healthcare

Have had a couple of patients that have positive covid antibodies but their spouses don't. Please explain

One of my relatives just asked me if turmeric will defend against Covid...noooooo

Why hasn't there been a good app developed for contact tracing yet?

Our test results are returning between 12 hours and 14 DAYS!

Clowns can't even be bothered to wear masks!

Situation in Chicago and NYC is extremely concerning again. Hospitals apparently jam packed

First Peoples reservations are getting so hurt by Covid, and we barely talk about it

So looks like the Pfizer vaccine might be available by end of year

Our CEO saying our finances our ruined, but I know for a fact they got bailout money and our procedures are back up to 90% of normal...

What's your favorite resource for staying up to date on COVID?

What's the status of non-genetic vaccines?

Despite serving as an ED doc during this global nightmare, I still have male patients belittle me for being a small female provider

As a doc working in a large prison in CA, I can tell you we are still woefully underprepared/undertesting/undertreating

Whiel COVID has been awful, I've ironically gotten closer to the other docs and staff in our unit

concerned the fed gov is banking so highly on Moderna. Giving them $1B plus to bring a vaccine to market, but they've never done it in their decades existence

It's hard to explain how frustrating it is when patients take their masks off in small exam rooms

Seems like patients have gotten complicit that pregnancy and COVID is nbd. Not so sure of that

I think our hospital food might be a source of COVID haha

I'm blown away by how our residents have contributed to research on covid. Amazing work being done here at Northwestern

Man our SIP hotels here in San Jose sound awful

Sad that dozens of cases on FL linked to TRUMP rallies. Not suprising, maybe?

Disappointed that J&J's antibody treatment didn't seem to work in hospitalized patients

Is COVID more likely to spread by skin-to-skin transmission than other viruses?

Friends keep asking about winter...what is there to wonder about. It'll be rough

Heard an interview with one of the Swedish scientists that argued against lockdown. Whoops!

What explains Vietnam's amazing covid numbers?

headed to burma to help out with a covid relief project (and learn from their response). Wish us luck

Biggest joke of our hospital reply to covid is the little plexiglass things for meal areas

I wish patients wouldn't treat a negative test result as a complete hall pass

Man god bless the folks doing covid challenge trials

Pfizer working with Kathrin Jansen on vax dev. She's an extraordinary woman - excited to see that

My area is just now starting to get hit bad with covid (avoided it at first) now getting low on icu beds, patients asking if they will ever see their families again. How many healthcare providers will… more

I think remdesivir is dead in the water after most recent studies

The anecdotes from covid patients are so similar: they had no choice but to work, risk exposure, and then they suffer the result. It exemplifies our inequality

Herd immunity is an affront to the cardinal rule in medicine of doing no harm. It implies sacrifice of vulnerable patients

Our poor med students. They're exploring emergency medicine but can't see half of the patients

At least the coaches, referees, etc in sporting events are wearing masks

Our institution has done a really solid job of tracking covid metrics down to a hair. Has been incredibly useful to inform our own and local epidemiological studies

Views on IV infusion therapy? And Gluta push for stress and immune

Do we buy this idea that widely available, lower sensitivity screening would work?