Aimee Sznewajs, MD
@aimeesznewajsMD
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Medical Director of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at @childrensmn | #wearePHM #PHM #IPE #HospitalMedicine | My ideas
Minneapolis, MN
Joined May 2008
Improving structures that support our people @UCSFMedicine @UCSFHospitals by implementing standard breaks between virtual mtgs. All 30 mins-->25, starting :05 after the hour, all 60 mins-->50, starting :10 after the hour. Details at https://t.co/CgiXIk3nf4.
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I've seen suggestions that the idea younger children might be less susceptible to infection with #COVID19 is a "myth", based on children just not being tested enough That is untrue! Whilst it's true children are under tested, this is not where this idea came from! 1/8
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Dr. Anthony Fauci on cheap, at-home tests for #COVID19: "We have done things infinitely more complicated than that. We have the technology to do it, we can do it." @drsanjaygupta @michaelmina_lab #RapidTest #FauciAtHarvard
https://t.co/gRJ91pbKTm
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“Rapid tests for all. No lock downs.” Agreed and Brilliant. @michaelmina_lab! ❤️ https://t.co/xKkezhwTEk
time.com
We have a long road ahead before a vaccine is safe, effective and, most crucially, widely available. Here's how we can stop the spread of COVID-19 by Christmas.
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Thank you for continuing to help us understand transmission data in children @apsmunro
It's time to clarify some things about children, schools and #COVID19 🧵 Summary: Young children seem significantly less susceptible, probably less likely to transmit. Less clear for teens. Schools mainly follow community trends, but secondary much higher risk than primary 1
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What if cases in children were missed because they were asymptomatic? Here are just a few which test ALL household contacts regardless of symptom, and all find lower susceptibility in children Zhang https://t.co/YgrGDkVfVM Jing https://t.co/m7dY35nqVc 4
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This is one powerful, and heartbreaking, data visualization.
BREAKING—United States recorded more than 3,000 #COVID19 deaths in a single day, a pandemic record. ➡️US also now topped 296k confirmed deaths—more deaths than all US military combat deaths during WWII fighting in Germany, France, Italy, North Africa, and the Pacific—combined.
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Very pleased to see @vivek_murthy taking on role of Surgeon General again, with even more clout than the role previously had. He's smart, compassionate and effective (and a hospitalist!). And Fauci will stay as key Covid advisor. How could it be otherwise?
washingtonpost.com
Biden begins choosing his top health-care officials, naming Vivek H. Murthy and Anthony S. Fauci, as he prepares to take office during a pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans
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Check this out! I plugged in my risk of being exposed today at a theoretical 10 person event in Minnesota...and it’s 11%! The risk significantly jumps up the more people are present. Knowledge is power! We can slow this pandemic.
covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu
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Come on Midwest! We can do better than this!
3/ While CA’s numbers are going in the wrong direction, when compared to the Midwest we’re doing OK – at least not so badly that we can’t turn this thing around. The figure shows CA's per capita case rate, plotted against several Midwestern states.
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The amazing @VirusesImmunity made me an offer I couldn't refuse: to chart out the immune response to the coronavirus... and use the logic to understand why certain treatments work better at certain times. My latest for @nytimes
https://t.co/4bKb7cb9Gk
nytimes.com
How the body responds to a coronavirus infection.
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Antibiotics treat appendicitis just as well in the short term for most patients, published simultaneously today @NEJM and presented at #ACSCC20: https://t.co/lUeloWLuIs
#CODATrial #AcuteCareSurgery
facs.org
Press Releases from the American College of Surgeons
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Excited to share three new ICU #OnePagers on a couple important critical care topics: acid base, arterial lines, and EVDs. Lots of nerdy fun here including Winter's formula, Lundberg waves, and pulsus alternans. Also an updated version of the ARDS OnePager. #FOAMed #FOAMcc
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I tweeted a while ago about how you can't tell #COVID19 apart from other respiratory infections in children Here it is presenting as Croup 🦭 No sense for how common this is, but guess we might find out in the coming months 😬 https://t.co/MTBU6x3EtV
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So excited to start our next phase with the support of @NIH @NICHD_NIH @UCSF @UCSFChildrens @UCSFPTBI @Jelliffe_Pawlow @soltman45 and the amazing Dr. Ryckman and her team @uiowa!
A new UCSF screening method could help identify newborns at increased risk of severe illness & death sooner—& reduce disparities. “Going forward, we should be able to create personalized care plans for each baby born too early," Dr. @Jelliffe_Pawlow says.
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If @realDonaldTrump were my patient, in unstable condition + contagious illness, & he suddenly left the hospital to go for a car ride that endangers himself & others: I'd call security to restrain him then perform a psychiatric evaluation to examine his decision-making capacity.
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Death-certificate data shows some consistent trends: more Covid-19 deaths among men than women, deaths skewing heavily toward the elderly, and minorities dying at disproportionate rates
wsj.com
Starting with the first known U.S. fatality from Covid-19 nearly eight months ago, scientists have been examining the data to better identify the most vulnerable.
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The inexorable zero: when there are zero or near-zero levels of people from an underrepresented group discrimination must be present Women with intersectional identities and specifically black women are nearly absent from the top ranks of medical academia #HerTimeIsNow
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