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COVID ( @UCSF ) Chronicles, Day 2

Posted by skybrian
Tags: coronaviruses.covid19, usa.ca.san francisco, author.bob wachter, source.twitter
https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1240860128150085632
@bob_wachter:
COVID (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 2 The response to post #1 was gratifying, so I'll make this a daily digest...of life inside @ucsf/@ucsfhospitals as we begin managing growing # of #COVID19 pts. Pic below: a few principles I'll follow for these posts. Today's issues follow...(1/10)

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  1. skybrian
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    He's promising daily updates, so this seems like a good Twitter account to watch to see how a San Francisco hospital handles it. Some quotes:

    He's promising daily updates, so this seems like a good Twitter account to watch to see how a San Francisco hospital handles it. Some quotes:

    a)Very mild uptick in volume today: 8 patients in hospital with confirmed #COVID19 (2 in ICU), 18 w/ tests pending. Other COVID+ patients doing OK as outpatients. Italy shows how bad this can get, and NY seems a few days ahead of us in terribleness (2/10)

    b)Everybody with cough/flu symptoms feels like they have COVID. Yet our positive test rate (we're testing only patients with symptoms) is just 3-5% – meaning most pts don’t have it. For reasons I don’t get, Stanford’s rate is higher (3/10)

    c)Testing: still doing 80 tests/day @ucsf. With Herculean effort @czbiohub
    (converting research lab into clinical in record time), should be able to ramp up to ~300/d tomorrow, maybe 1000/d soon, which will be huge https://bit.ly/2UlG1hr Thanks Biohub, Joe DeRisi & team! (4/10)