Stephanie Smith

ID physician and Hospital Epidemiologist

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Mr. Netanyahu, antisemitism is a vile and disgusting form of bigotry that has done unspeakable harm to millions.

Do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal war policies of your extremist and racist government.

[Stephanie Smith @swsmith72]

@MattWilpers Running on empty - Jackson Brown

[Tessa Davis @TessaRDavis]

That's it!

If you enjoyed this then:

1. Follow me at @TessaRDavis

2. Retweet the first tweet of this thread:

https://t.co/jVHZOqaCmo

[Ben M Freeman - בן מ פרימן @BenMFreeman]

I know that most people in the west don't care about Hong Kong, but it has the highest COVID death rate, per people infected, in the world.

Our morgues are overflowing and there are only 300 coffins remaining in the city.

It's a disaster.

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

"2022 is only 75 days old, but already WHO has verified 89 attacks on health care around the world, in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, DR Congo, Libya, Nigeria, the occupied Palestinian territory, Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic, and of course, Ukraine."-@DrTedros

[Stephanie Smith @swsmith72]

The military isn’t coming in to save them. We will be feeling the effects of gov’t decisions long after this current wave is over.

[Stephanie Smith @swsmith72]

The tragedy of the COVID crises goes so far beyond all of those suffering in our ICUs and medical wards. It extends to all those at home waiting for necessary surgeries and medical treatments that are not happening because our hospitals are full.
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[Stephanie Smith @swsmith72]

@AntibioticDoc Lynora Saxinger

[Trevor Bedford @trvrb]

Regardless of COVID-19 origins, we should treat zoonosis and lab escape as potential pandemic risks and set up structures to mitigate these risks. On the lab side, this includes review of biosafety protocols and strong "no fault" reporting of laboratory acquired infections. 8/8

[Shelley Duggan @drslmd]

I am am intensivist and nephrologist and my 12 year old will be getting vaccinated. And when I told him he was up, he was happy.

[Samir Gupta @SammyG_MD]

1/Re. NACI’s recent communications. No one is saying to hide info from the public. What people are concerned about is the way that info is being conveyed (and to some extent, its accuracy). IMO, here is how they should have framed this:

[Dr. Lynora Saxinger MD FRCPC Infectious Diseases @AntibioticDoc]

No comment needed.

[David Juurlink @DavidJuurlink]

Retweet if you work in a hospital and your COVID patients are definitely younger this spring

[Eran Segal @segal_eran]

Israel: Continuing to crush COVID-19

Since the mid-Jan. peak:
98% fewer cases (now 116 per day)
97% fewer critically ill (now 6 per day)
99% fewer deaths (now 2 per day)

Masks outdoors no longer required, and remaining restrictions can and should probably be lifted

[Srinivas Murthy @srinmurthy99]

And a resource for individuals looking to help

https://t.co/olZxP5rTjv

[Betsy Hilton @betsyhilton]

A vaccine with minuscule, don’t even worry about it risk? Puh-leeze. This is GenX. We ate Pop Tarts for breakfast and got babysat after school by Y&R. We spent decades on oral birth control. And now we’re crashing all the pharmacy websites for that sweet, sweet AZ.

[Stephanie Smith @swsmith72]

@lindy2350 Can only speak from Alberta - many camps have still not decided what they will do - very hard to make it completely safe if still high rates of transmission in the community.

[Stephanie Smith @swsmith72]

@DFisman @anthonyfurey Can someone please study these “superspreaders” so we can identify what it is about them that results in so much transmission!! The first step to mitigation of risk is identifying the phenotype!!

[Stephanie Smith @swsmith72]

@AntibioticDoc Agree - rate of thromboembolism does not seem to be higher than expected baseline rate in general population. I suspect this will be investigated and found not to be related to vaccine. My fear is that it will result in more vaccine hesitancy - not what we need right now!

[𝓝𝓸𝓼𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓾 @ActualNosferatu]

Take any vaccine you are offered.