Karan Kumar, MD MS

🔵 Vote for 44 🔵 1 Retweet = 2 Votes ⭐️ #NHLAllStarVote Morgan Rielly

📣Our Duke RAAPM Fellowship #DukeRAP was among the FIRST to become @acgme accredited in 2017. Our alumni are now leaders in academics, private practice and the military! 🔗LEARN MORE about our program led by @AmandaKumarMD: bit.ly/DukeRAAPM. Applications open January 1st!

🥁 Drumroll, please! Announcing our #SoMe ambassadors for #ASRASPRING23 #ASRA100! Follow these fantastic folks for meeting updates and live #meded! ➡️Find out all about them: asra.com/asraspring23 ➡️Follow them here! twitter.com/i/lists/162165…

"I hope I can be as strong and as resilient as New York has been the past 20 years. ... I love you, New York." @leylahfernandez after finishing second at the #USOpen on the 20-year anniversary of 9/11.

I am thrilled to share that the @Duke_Anesthesia graduating residency class of 2020 has chosen @amandahkumar as Educator of the Year!!! Dr. Kumar is a tremendously gifted and passionate teacher and this is SO well-deserved! Congrats Amanda and to the class of 2020!! 👊🏻🎉🎉

The whole country needs to stop right now and listen to Killer Mike. He’s verbalizing what a lot of us don’t know how to express

Big congratulations to Durham County, slowest COVID-19 growth rate over the past week of all of NC's big counties: 8% daily increases, less than double the cases over the past week. A little bit slower and we will see reductions in cases.

NEW: CDC guidance on masks expected to change in next 10 days. Americans will be advised to wear masks in everyday life. Current recommendation is for high-risk groups only.

While vast majority of deaths from #COVID19 are age 60+ many young adults and middle aged Americans are becoming seriously ill and surviving only after prolonged hospitalizations and ICU admissions that have long term consequences. This is a dangerous virus for most age groups.

Without a favorable change in US slope (= doubling time of 2.6 days), there will be 10,000 deaths by April 3rd 100,000 deaths by April 12th (Easter Sunday)

Latest on the heart hit from #COVID19: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamac… @JAMACardio Almost 20% of > 400 patients hospitalized had heart damage, and this was associated with a >10-fold increase in death

Here’s a useful overview of the likely scenarios that the world will be facing in the coming months while managing this pandemic. So much depends on our ability to make good decisions going forward along with our ability to remain resilient. theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Great visual of what happens if we do things right on #COVID19. From @TheSpinoffTV

We can now read the Imperial College report on COVID-19 that led to the extreme measures we've seen in the US this week. Read it; it's terrifying. I'll offer a summary in this thread; please correct me if I've gotten it wrong. imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial…

Given all the news, I thought I'd organize what I've learned #COVID19 in a tweet thread (bear w me) 1. Uncertainty: We don’t really know how many cases we have in the US because we haven’t tested people. The testing shortages and why: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

As Coronavirus puts us into uncharted waters, tonight I have joined w 15 health leaders to publish an open letter in @USATODAY with an urgent, lifesaving message: Everyone who can, #StayHome. Here's what it means for you, officials, and health workers usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

#Coronavirus in Italy: @DrMCecconi, @ESICM president-elect and ICU physician in Lombardy has helped develop a #COVID19 ICU Network to manage the surge of critical care patients. He discusses his experiences and lessons learned with Howard Bauchner. pscp.tv/w/cToqBTFXZ0tn…

Canada’s Secret to Resisting the West’s Populist Wave nyti.ms/2ubT06R

US to evaluate brachial plexus in clavicle fractures, block or not @Sadegeek @jeffgadsden @galusweegie @Duke_Anesthesia #ASRASpring17