Here I was thinking this article would be thrown out of shade court for being too obvious. The bits about her survival instinct. Mee-owww.

I’m on the opposite end of the size spectrum, 00P, 5 feet and change, and the fit tinkering is equally frustrating on this side, particularly the proportions. Just because I’m short and flat-chested doesn’t mean I don’t have ribs or hips. Let me breathe! Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of options for professional…

She probably has a case on IP grounds. But privacy angle could be hard to argue when she and her friends give interviews to other tabloids and participated in the upcoming Omid Scobie book.

Some healthcare workers and first responders are using expired N95 masks for days at a time. One of the first things that degrade on the mask is the elastic straps, which means the mask doesn’t fit as well. Repeated UV sterilization (which should happen daily) can exacerbate the problem. So people have started wearing…

Disposable surgical masks cost something like 75 cents

A rural hospital in one of my state’s hot zones ran through their 6-month stockpile in 1 week. That’s when they asked volunteers to sew masks. This crisis has been ongoing for close to a month now, and is expected to last a few more. How many years of inventory are hospitals expected to keep on hand, when by most…

Even in CA, it’s not illegal to employ a nanny if the parents are “essential” workers.

Rural southwest Georgia, full of Trump/Kemp supporters, is getting hit hard. Per capita things are even worse there than in metro Atlanta. After transferring patients to other areas, the main hospital there has 1 ICU bed open (and 37 occupied). So, they are already there.

Sure. Also, if shit goes wrong, they will be short-staffed because nurses and doctors will be quarantined after exposure and there could be an outbreak in the NICU in babies whose lungs already don’t work. But yeah, it’s all about the ratings.

Dr. Fauci has been head of NIAID for 35 years, and is one of the most highly cited researchers in his field. The man is an institution.

Small hands, small justice?

Yeah, they only voted in the people who did.

The other bottleneck is sample collection. In metro Atlanta, home of the CDC, local hospital systems have been warning community physicians all week not to send patients to them for coronavirus testing. They’re only testing admitted, possibly critically ill, patients and their own employees. Most physician offices are…

What I’m realizing is a lot of people don’t see the distinction between public health officials (CDC leaders, health commissioners, local health departments, other elected officials, even fucking Pence would count now) and the bulk of public health and medical experts. What the heads of ID, epidemiology, EM, critical…

I wonder how the math works out between the cost of paying staff for a month versus an increase in unemployment insurance premiums for years.

Maybe you should be a little more skeptical about who’s controlling the message from the public health department, because it’s not really the public health experts right now.

First off, the CDC isn’t in charge of messaging anymore. Secondly, what they’re saying to healthcare workers is a little different than what they’re recommending to the general public, or maybe what’s being understood. This is like Megan Reynolds’ misunderstanding yesterday that “self-isolation” is voluntary and more…

“Isolation” as defined and used by the CDC can absolutely be mandated and legally enforced. It is not always a choice. In most states, breaking an official isolation order is a misdemeanor.

Our clinical staff had to wear pediatric mickey mouse masks for a week because McKesson was backordered on the adult ones. During peak respiratory/flu season. So while I feel for all public facing workers, priorities my dudes.

Lin Manuel Miranda introduced the montage by talking about the impact of songs in movies “you couldn’t take the song out of the movie, and you couldn’t take the movie out of the song.”