#HCWs

This new lockdown is NOT what the healthcare workers were asking for. In fact, it was the exact opposite of what they demanded and recommended.(A thread) HCWs prefaced their demands

Dr. Saskia Popescu

It is beyond frustrating to see people putting digital surgical/N95 masks on their profile photo to propagate the "mask for all" movement. These are for HCWs. If you're not one,

Dr Nishant Kathale

"The pivotal finding of our study was the noteworthy benefits of HCQ prophylaxis. It was identified that simply initiating HCQ prophylaxis did not reduce the odds of acquiring SARS-CoV-2 infection

People Are Wild Podcast

I don't know who needs to hear this but even when healthcare workers are exposed to COVID+ patients, we aren't quarantined if we're asymptomatic. In fact, we're working and spreading

I wish I had a bigger follow to promote this paper because I think this kind of research is so important. I just joined twitter, so I don't, but I'll

💉Nurse Bae 💉

Asking for better working conditions is not asking for a favour. Asking DOH to provide us with PPE, we are also not asking for a favour, IT IS OUR RIGHT

LOOK: Doctors’ group SECOND OPINION calls on colleagues to reclaim medical quarantine, reject Duterte-style lockdownsPrescribes 6 steps for more effective COVID19 response SECOND OPINION: “Doctors and HCWs must reclaim quarantine

This outbreak is vital to understand. It shows what we still face if younger folks go unvaccinated. 47% of health care workers refused vax, while only 10% of residents did.

How many US healthcare workers (HCWs) have gotten #COVID19? We don't fully know. CDC reported 9k cases among HCWs in Feb-Apr 9 but it's incomplete & outdated. http://CovidCareMap.org volunteers tallied

Melissa Ingala, Ph.D. 🦇

So I've just tested positive for COVID-19. I was super careful, did everything right, and I still got it. If you're wondering how that's possible, here's a thread for you

Being that it’s mental health awareness month, I wanted to share some thoughts I had about this topic as it pertains to healthcare workers (HCW). A few days ago, I

Deepti Gurdasani

One of our government's 4 tests was not exceeding NHS capacity. An interesting discussion with @Kit_Yates_Maths recently with @OwenJones84, where he astutely pointed out that this hasn't been defined got

Thuranira Kaugiria

How the system has failed the Nairobi doctor.Good morning.Nairobi City County has several health care facilities under its jurisdiction.The 4 main facilities are Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital, Pumwani Maternity Hospital,

Eric Feigl-Ding

BREAKING—huge CDC report on hospitalized healthcare workers w/ #COVID19, which comprise 1 in 16.7 (6%) of all hospitalized cases!10% hospitalized had zero risk factor! (Median age only 49, so not

1/ This is quite the paper on masks, published in @BMJ_Open in 2015: a randomized trial (the gold standard, yadda yadda) of 1600 health-care workers showed those wearing masks were

Directive 3, for nursing homes, applies a universal solution to Toronto/Ottawa problem. That solution is causing harm to residents and impeding outbreak preparedness in smaller rural communities.We need to allow