COVID-19 Healthcare

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

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

I think it's time we start preparing ourselves for the possibility none of these vaccines works

Got my kids in a little tee ball game with gloves and masks. Adorable and they seemed to love it

Can we possible survive another four years of this administration? They're literally costing us lives every day in their mgmt of COVID

Is your company doing regular covid testing ? How frequently are hospitals doing testing for staff

My kid has started having nightmares about diseases. Never before this

Head of our epi team predicing vaccine won't be ready until June of 2021

One of my colleagues mentioned something about H1N1 maybe being on the rise again for the fall?

I'm dolling out SSRIs for anxiety and depression over here. People are struggling with all that's going on

We finally got some of the space helmet air recyclers in our ED. Things are whacky

I had a friend say they wouldn't get the covid vaccine because they're worried about safety. Seems foolish to me

I wonder if Covid has revved up interest in a universal flu vaccine

If Covid-19 doesn't convince you we need universal healthcare, I'm not sure what will

My area is starting a bamlanivimab outpatient infusion clinic. Curious to see if this helps.

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?