THREAD: Fascinating JAMA interview w/NIAID News' Dr. Tony Fauci on the #2019nCoV #coronavirus #coronavirusoutbreak. youtube.com/watch?v=wg5Pjv… Key points: Case fatality rate remains stable at ~2% among cases presenting to hospital (leaves out mild cases--likely majority).

UPDATE: Now more than 1,300 medical professionals have signed the open letter to ICE. We need to empty the detention centers now, before COVID turns them into hospitals and then graveyards. Please RT, share, and sign if you are a doctor, nurse, or other medical professional.

We love the Philadelphia Flyers but the 800 food and beverage workers at the Wells Fargo Center are still waiting to hear–are we part of the team⁉️🤔 We're calling on @Comcast to follow the lead of team owners around the country: #StepUp & pay the workers who make your events possible.

Having a lot of conversations with trainees and jr faculty re: research during COVID. My take: -Yes, there is a real rat race to do a quick analysis -No, you don't have to participate in that. 1/

Work-in-progress. If you want a recording let me know.😷

"Across the country, a number of professional teams have taken steps to include workers employed by third-party vendors in aid packages extended to their own employees." Waiting for our Philly teams #StepUp and do the right thing... ⏱️ espn.com/video/clip?id=…

Might have only graduated medical school on Sunday, but pretty sure it’s time for #AHA to include female patients in their ACLS simulations🤔

Rest in power to our fighter Larry Kramer. Your rage helped inspire a movement. We will keep honoring your name and spirit with action. In the spirit of ACT UP, join us and chant this (three times). #ACTUPFightbackENDAIDS #ACTUPFightbackENDAIDS #ACTUPFightbackENDAIDS

We must abolish racism in medicine in all its forms-including race “correction,” based on the false and racist idea that human beings are naturally divided into biological races whose bodies, brains & blood function differently, making them innately prone to unequal outcomes.

Amazing! What a blowout.

Physician mothers face extensive challenges to #Pumping at work In our study in JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine, we qualitatively analyzed comments regarding pumping from a nationwide survey of ~ 700 women physicians rdcu.be/cFoUP We identified 4 broad themes that need🎯change 👇

Many have rightfully pointed out that poor and working class women of color and trans people who can become pregnant will be the most impacted by the criminalization of abortion.

The resident and fellow physicians at Penn Medicine are unionizing!! UPenn housestaff would the first residents in Pennsylvania to unionize. We are determined to not only improve patient care at UPenn, but to set standards for what residency and equity in healthcare should be.

We did it!!!

Muhammad a-Tamimi (2021-2023) succumbed today to the wounds he sustained on Thursday evening, when an Israeli soldier shot him and his father. He is the 150th Palestinian killed by Israel since the beginning of 2023.

The CIR Executive Committee’s statement on the ongoing violence in Israel and Palestine. Full statement here: cirseiu.org/cir-statement-…

Rabbis for Ceasefire & Members of Congress Hold Press Conference at US Capitol x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

The full World Health Organization (WHO) statement on the United Nations assessment mission to the Al-Shifa hospital, which colleagues described as a “death zone.” The extreme suffering of the people of #Gaza demands that we respond immediately and concretely with humanity and compassion. emro.who.int/media/news/who…

The 1,300 resident and fellow physicians at Northwestern Medicine are unionizing, because we know that, together, we can help build something better for us and our community. 💜

This is how my own experience as an Israeli Jew allowed me to realize that the anguish experienced by Jewish students and communities has been weaponized to suppress and delegitimize pro-Palestinian voices | Opinion | Naftali Kaminski haaretz.com/opinion/2023-1…