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    Dara Kass, MD‏Verified account @darakass 28 Dec 2020

    A 🧵 on COVID Living Room Spread: Saturday: - Older, out of the house brother wants to visit younger siblings. Mom says "get a test on the way, if you are negative you can come." - Rapid test is (-), family spends a day together inside, laughing, playing, eating. 1/

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      2. Dara Kass, MD‏Verified account @darakass 28 Dec 2020

        Sunday: - Older brother leaves, his cough starts. - Mom sees her elderly parents in her home, unmasked for dinner and hanging out. - They are in the same "bubble" and have seen each other regularly in the pandemic. 2/

        34 replies 660 retweets 7,664 likes
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      3. Dara Kass, MD‏Verified account @darakass 28 Dec 2020

        Monday: - Children's nanny comes to work. - Mom goes to work, spends time unmasked with close work colleagues. - Older brother tests, 20 yo white male, COVID (+). Tuesday: -Mom begins to track family contacts, and starts to develop symptoms. 3/

        24 replies 593 retweets 7,465 likes
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      4. Dara Kass, MD‏Verified account @darakass 28 Dec 2020

        Wednesday: - Mom tests COVID + - 2 children, 6 office mates, 2 elderly parents and a nanny begin quarantine, all initially testing negative. -Nanny decides to quarantine with the family to isolate from her own children at home. 4/

        10 replies 583 retweets 7,591 likes
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      5. Dara Kass, MD‏Verified account @darakass 28 Dec 2020

        Thursday: - Mom symptoms get worse, everyone else locks down. Friday: - Nanny, a 60+ yo Black woman, tests COVID (+), develops mild symptoms 5/

        10 replies 560 retweets 7,242 likes
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      6. Dara Kass, MD‏Verified account @darakass 28 Dec 2020

        Sunday: - Mom is improving - Nanny is not feeling well - 1 office mate, a 70+ yo white woman tests COVID (+) with mild symptoms. - Office mate's daughter arranges for antibody infusion due to risk factors on day 2 of symptoms. 6/

        13 replies 540 retweets 7,124 likes
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      7. Dara Kass, MD‏Verified account @darakass 28 Dec 2020

        Monday: - 3 yo daughter tests COVID (+), mild symptoms. - Older brother (patient zero) feels well. - Mom has relapsing symptoms. -Nanny is feeling okay. - Office mate feels better after antibodies. 7/

        4 replies 519 retweets 6,870 likes
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      8. Dara Kass, MD‏Verified account @darakass 28 Dec 2020

        Tuesday: -Elderly parents, youngest child, other office mates continue to quarantine and continue to test (-). Wednesday- Thursday: - All patients improve EXCEPT the Nanny. - She continues to get worse and has no primary care doctor. 8/

        4 replies 556 retweets 7,113 likes
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      9. Dara Kass, MD‏Verified account @darakass 28 Dec 2020

        Friday: - Nanny is Day 8 of symptoms and worsening, time for her to get antibodies. - There is no central system for her to find out how to get them. - Mom, now better, starts making calls as her advocate. 9/

        4 replies 534 retweets 7,214 likes
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      10. Dara Kass, MD‏Verified account @darakass 28 Dec 2020

        Saturday: - Nanny, Day 9 of symptoms, gets worked up for synthetic antibodies. Sunday: -Nanny gets first antibody infusion. Monday: - Nanny is weak and her oxygen is low. She goes to the hospital and is admitted. 10/

        9 replies 544 retweets 7,081 likes
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      11. Dara Kass, MD‏Verified account @darakass 28 Dec 2020

        This started with a 20 yo healthy white male testing (-) to see his family. Infected 3 "family" members land in the lungs of a 60+ yo Black woman who is now hospitalized on oxygen and steroids. This is living room spread. And it has to stop. /fin

        304 replies 3,373 retweets 28,262 likes
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      12. Dara Kass, MD‏Verified account @darakass 29 Dec 2020

        Clarification: This is a family I know socially, not professionally and they gave permission to share their story in an attempt to "tell everyone to be smarter than we were." And I am grateful they did.

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