The #COVID19 situation is so dire that @realDonaldTrump must invoke the 1950 #DefenseProductionActNow so the nation can start mass-producing the masks, gowns and surgical gloves (to say nothing of ventilators) it needs as desperately as it needed B-29 bombers in #WorldWarII
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As "[w]e are in the middle of one off the greatest public health disasters of our lifetime,” can the US continue to waste 1000s of masks, gowns, pairs of surgical gloves & hours of professional time DAILY on elective, unnecessary & unhelpful surgeries?
#i2https://www.outtherecolorado.com/retired-doctors-nurses-asked-to-return-to-help-with-covid-19-outbreak-in-colorado/ …Show this thread -
Of course not! Yet the most commonly performed surgery in the US continues to be nontherapeutic infant
#circumcision. Not one of these surgeries is needed, helpful or even ethical - but US MDs performed about 3000 of them TODAY, and will perform another 3000 or so tomorrow#i2Show this thread -
The insanity that is the US infant
#circumcision machine MUST STOP RIGHT NOW. If not because most of the rest of the world's MDs rightly abhor the practice as unethical & ineffective, then because we can no longer afford to waste medical resources on it.#i2#COVID19@SecAzarShow this thread -
@realDonaldTrump and our other leaders can & should order a total moratorium on all nontherapeutic (i.e., elective)#circumcisions for the duration (at least) of the#COVID19 national emergency - as it threatens to push the US health system to the breaking point if not beyond#i2Show this thread -
We've had to
#CancelEverything else due to#COVID19. It's about time we cancelled#circumcision so the US health care system can focus on what ought to be its mission - providing care to the sick - not torturing infants.#i2@HHSGov@CDCgov@AmerAcadPeds@AmerMedicalAssn@SecAzarShow this thread
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