Admitting its own negligent planning for the #COVID19 #outbreak, @HHSGov on Monday "told medical professionals ... there was not enough personal protective equipment in the Strategic National Stockpile to cover expected gaps in state and local supplies"https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/politics/what-is-defense-production-act/index.html …
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#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#WorldWarII1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
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/ …1 reply 1 retweet 3 likesShow 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#i21 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow 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@SecAzar1 reply 1 retweet 5 likesShow 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#i21 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow 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 @SecAzar
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