"Two top infectious disease experts with ties to the federal government have advised people over 60 and those with underlying health problems to strongly consider avoiding activities that involve large crowds"
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Dr. William Schaffner: "This ought to be top of mind for people over 60, & those w/ underlying health problems, such as heart or lung disease, diabetes, or compromised immune systems... Single most important thing you can do to avoid the virus is reduce your face to face contact"
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"When my wife and I need to go shopping, we're going late at night when there are no crowds, and we get in and out efficiently... She enjoys bridge and it's an important part of her life and it keeps her mentally active, but she's going to give it up for a while"
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"It's always been easy to be abstract when you're a public health person when something's happening in Africa or Asia or the Arabian peninsula. But now it's happening here, and we have to internalize this."
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TW. Late last month, in Chongqing, an elderly man fell from the 10th story of his apartment building to his death. The first responder's rescue air cushion was not yet inflated. The video is heartbreaking and disturbing to watch.pic.twitter.com/iXj3o2z3TO
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In this video captured from inside the apartment before his fall, more context is added. The man wishes to see his grandson, but has been locked up in his apartment during the epidemic. I use the word fall & not jump because there are signs of dementia.pic.twitter.com/idVqAkx8KM
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Daniel Sinclair Retweeted Jennifer Zeng 曾錚
In another video, a visibly distraught & upset elderly woman in a high-rise says she feels as if she is in jail. These are stories & circumstances unique to China, but the psychological toll of quarantines and social distancing will appear globally.https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1231623953095020553?s=20 …
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I don't know if I am doing those stories justice, or if I am failing to correctly and appropriate capture them, but I feel as though they are deeply important moments of this pandemic that will be buried if I don't share them. Their pain will never be captured in the numbers.
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Replying to @_DanielSinclair
Your thread is now so huge it is hard to read due to scrolling problems. Consider doing a daily thread and stringing them in a meta thread via QTs?
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There is something epic about a 3k tweet tweetstorm though... I usually just hop in from his profile and scroll in reverse chron
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I get very jumpy scrolling even then in app
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