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Devon McDonald
@McDevonMD
Lucky husband & dad. Internist/ICU. Views are my own. Not medical advice. Starting to use the same handle at the blue place.
Ontario
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    Devon McDonald
    @McDevonMD
    May 3, 2022
    A COVID story, with permission: A healthy healthcare professional friend in her 30s (vaccinated x 3) successfully avoided COVID for two years by taking sensible precautions within her control, assisted by sensible collective protections in place for much of this period.
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    Devon McDonald
    @McDevonMD
    May 3, 2022
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    Please end this madness and reinstitute mask mandates and other protections yesterday. x.com/DickZoutman/st…
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    Devon McDonald
    @McDevonMD
    May 3, 2022
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    It all began with the shocking abdication of responsibility by multiple leaders and institutions entrusted with a duty to protect the population via collective action under precisely these circumstances.
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    Devon McDonald
    @McDevonMD
    May 3, 2022
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    Her child, though she had courageously continued to mask among maskless classmates, was distraught with guilt and frequently woke in the night expressing concern that one or more of her parents or siblings could die as a result of their illness and it would be “her fault.”
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    Devon McDonald
    @McDevonMD
    May 3, 2022
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    Only hospitalization for/with COVID is being tracked, so subsequent visits to hospital are unlikely to be attributed to COVID, though they are almost certainly related. Loss of her professional services/income. Cost of treatment. Absence from school. Mental health impacts. Etc.
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    Devon McDonald
    @McDevonMD
    May 3, 2022
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    Of course, little of this COVID cascade will be reflected in official metrics. Her and her family members’ diagnoses were by RAT. None of her family members were hospitalized, admitted to ICU, or died with their initial COVID illness.
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    Devon McDonald
    @McDevonMD
    May 3, 2022
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    There is an association of SARS-CoV-2 with appendicitis. Required urgent surgery. So mild. journals.lww.com/pidj/fulltext/… bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
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    Devon McDonald
    @McDevonMD
    May 3, 2022
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    Choosing not to wear a mask and remaining unvaccinated are not self-regarding risks. @DFisman
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    Eric Topol
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    Apr 26, 2022
    "We found that the choices made by people who forgo vaccination contribute disproportionately to risk among those who do get vaccinated." cmaj.ca/content/194/16… by @DFisman @AshTuite @AfiaAdofo @CMAJ
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    Devon McDonald
    @McDevonMD
    May 3, 2022
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    She learned after the fact there had been cases in her child’s class but she had not been notified. Her child was literally the only one in her class still wearing a mask.
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    Devon McDonald
    @McDevonMD
    May 3, 2022
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    Then, within a few weeks of her COVID illness and one week after surgery she began to experience pleuritic chest pain, shortness of breath and lightheadedness and returned to the ED where she was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolus.
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    Devon McDonald
    @McDevonMD
    May 3, 2022
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    No doubt wonderful for her mental health, poor thing. Thankfully, with the exception of losing her sense of taste and smell, my friend and her family all experienced their initial SARS-CoV-2 infection as a flu-like illness. “Mild.”
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    Devon McDonald
    @McDevonMD
    May 3, 2022
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    Only ~1/3 of 5-11yo Ontario children have received two vaccine doses - a result of the complete failure of officials to communicate their value.
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    Devon McDonald
    @McDevonMD
    May 3, 2022
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    Two weeks later she began to experience right lower quadrant abdominal pain etc, and presented to hospital with appendicitis. By the time they were able to take her to the OR, her appendix had ruptured.
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    Devon McDonald
    @McDevonMD
    May 3, 2022
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    Within two weeks, one of her young children (vaccinated x 2) was infected with SARS-CoV-2 and brought it home, infecting the whole family including her husband (vaccinated x 3) and two other children not yet eligible for vaccination.