It's time for all of us (including employers) to take a stand against racism, bigotry and exclusion and emphatically say "NOT IN OUR COUNTRY." But our actions must extend beyond this moment and become behaviors and efforts that truly affect real change!
From a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy:
1/ ‘I feel the pressure to give you a quick personal update about what is happening in Italy, and also give some quick direct advice about what you should do.
Just spoke with ER doc who say he's seeing cases he's 99% sure are #coronavirus. Negative for flu, recent travel, work in airports. Not allowed to test. Patients return to work because they can't take time off w/out a firm diagnosis. Other ER docs seeing the same thing.
I live in Seattle, I have all symptoms of COVID-19 and have a history of chronic bronchitis.
Since I work in a physical therapy clinic with many 65+ patients and those with chronic illnesses, I decided to be responsible and go to get tested. This is how that went.
Unexpected findings published in Nature about a protein that is expressed in fat tissue has opened the door to critical new understandings about obesity and metabolism. https://t.co/yNtmxWFgKS
"I’m not just an overrated general. I’m the most overrated general," Mattis says. "I'm honored to be considered that by Donald Trump because he also called Meryl Streep an overrated actress. So I guess I'm the Meryl Streep of generals, and frankly that sounds pretty good to me."
Read more from @Nature & @ebender00 about new potential #flu vaccine approaches, including #mRNA vaccines that could be rapidly produced in high volumes during a #pandemic. @BARDA @NatureNews #Influenza
Billy, and people like him across our country, are recognizing weapons of war have no place in our communities. Thank you, Billy, for your leadership. Together, we will end this epidemic.
If we destroy the Amazon, @yayitsrob notes, humanity can’t get it back. Even if we could replant all the trees, the diversity of creatures there couldn’t be replenished for roughly 10 million years. And that is 33 times longer than our species has existed. https://t.co/TEkZUd1qYt