Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/9fhkNewMDb4   People tweet and write that wearing masks, distancing, and avoiding contaminated surfaces won’t protect you from CoVid.  Doesn’t matter though since the virus isn’t that dangerous for young adults.  WRONG on both counts.   Precautions DO work. The University of Minnesota studied 489 health care workers, 22% docs or mid-level practitioners, 51% nurses, and the remainder techs and managers.  Though 40% of them were directly exposed to CoVid patients, not one of them tested positive for the virus by the gold standard PCR test.   The young don’t skate!  Of 3222 young Bostonians admitted for CoVid, 21% needed the ICU, 10% went on a vent, and nearly 3% died. Be careful!   https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.31.20166066v7.full.pdf   https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2770542   #covid #ppe #masks #distancing