“He kept saying: ‘I’m going to get Covid, and then I’m going to die. And if I die, I want my family there.’"
Fear is gripping not just people who are ill with the coronavirus, but those in urgent need of other medical care. nyti.ms/36sU5vf
Heart attacks, festering infections and lack of medication to treat chronic disease can all lead to lasting complications or even death without timely treatment. bit.ly/3bP3JJB
Incredible short film from Harborview in Seattle. Just in case you forgot that #COVID19 is an extremely dangerous disease that spares some and devastates others for reasons that are not well understood. h/t: @nicchik90
Click here: player.mediaamp.io/p/U8-EDC/…
“I slept 19 hours a day, and it still didn’t feel like enough.” Thoka Maer, 35, illustrated our collection of first-person accounts from people like her who were also sickened by the coronavirus — in many cases severely. nyti.ms/2WzA01S
We've deleted an earlier tweet and updated a sentence in our article that implied that only "some experts" view the ingestion of household disinfectants as dangerous. To be clear, there is no debate on the danger.
This is great! We’re finishing video created for Johns Hopkins ie to create a shared mental model and standardize our choreography for #ProneCPR KEY to minimizing pauses and Important to have targets for diastolic blood pressure!! #COVID19@BenjaminAbella @comilla_s @sawyer_kn
In 2020, Coronavirus (Covid-19) has indeed changed CPR Guidelines. Due to the Pandemic Crisis and God’s work, the AHA and ECC had finally endorsed PRONE CPR as a Solution for Prone Ventilated Cardiac Arrest Patient. “Whether like it or not, there’s no choice but to practice it”.
“I’m humbled by the number of people in all areas coming together... with a common goal to keep us safe.” — Matthias Merkel, MD, PhD.
Read more about Dr. Merkel’s work at OHSU during the COVID-19 response: bit.ly/3cvjHJR#OHSUHeroes#HealthcareHeroes
On Friday, @Nike delivered its first shipment of full-face shields and powered, air-purifying respirator, or PAPR, lenses to OHSU frontline workers.
bit.ly/34lngiN#COVID19#PPE
Breaking News: John Prine, the folk singer and songwriter with a raspy voice and ingenious lyrics, died at 73 from complications of the coronavirus nyti.ms/2XjBIXe
To hear us talk about it, you’d think a hospital was only populated with doctors and nurses... sometimes we will add on mention of “and other staff.” We can’t care for a single patient without those “other staff.” Here are a few (thread).
Information and data are KEY to help drive decisions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s an article we found that speaks to the importance of testing and data-driven decision making: ow.ly/EAcG50yTBMV
Scientists are wrestling with one of the most pressing questions of the pandemic: Whether people who survive the infection become immune to the virus nyti.ms/2UhKjaM