Dr. Jorge CaballeroDec 5, 2022
Hear me out: the COVID pandemic isn't over.
Show threadDr. Jorge CaballeroDec 5, 2022

Bear with me: maybe COVID hospitalizations should be a bigger story than the hyped-up coverage of flu hospitalizations. Especially when COVID admissions are outpacing flu admissions 1.5 to 1, and this COVID surge is just getting started

source: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm

Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report

Learn more about the weekly influenza surveillance report (FluView) prepared by the Influenza Division.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Show threadDr. Jorge CaballeroDec 5, 2022

The most fucked up policy decision global leaders made vis à vis COVID was telling the public that it was safe to send kids to school and to return to work.

We now have an entire generation of children and their parents who will suffer the effects of long COVID－ either directly or indirectly－ long after today's world leaders are long gone. smdh.

Show threadDr. Jorge CaballeroDec 5, 2022
That's not to say that we couldn't make it safe to send kids to school or to return to the office: it was absolutely possible－ and still is. The problem is that we haven't invested in retrofitting our buildings to make them safe for 6-8 hours/day, 5 days a week. Policymakers just pretended that we'd done enough and global leaders ran with with that.
Show threadDr. Jorge CaballeroDec 5, 2022

For folks that don't know: I led a public service project that made it possible for anyone in the U.S. to search for COVID-19 testing sites, and actually get accurate results back. I co-led a team of hundreds of volunteers from across the country to source data that shaped the pandemic response for 2 U.S. Presidential Administrations as well as state and local public health agencies responsible for 1 in 5 persons in the U.S.

I'm not just talking out of my ass.

Show threadEJWP
@DataDrivenMD I was a volunteer employee #data collector during the summer of 2020. While collecting data from USA state sites, I realized how different counties reported to their states. I was made redundant in Nov. 2020. Haven’t seen much #covid reporting from @reuters since then.
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