Covid19 – The Undiscovered Country

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This article “Misinformation Goes Viral” from the Medium is written by a PhD in Cellular and Molecular Medicine from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, working now in Neurobiology at the University of Utah. Worth reading, and forwarding.

I agree with his well-written article and his sound reasoning, as a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, the Chief Medical Information Officer at UCHealth, and a General Internal Medicine doctor seeing patients (now primarily via Telehealth!) in clinic.

His article has a number of main points with detailed explanations:

Americans did not have Covid 19 prior to Jan 2020
The virus is not man-made
Models are not deliberately misleading people
Covid is NOT the flu
Bill Gates is not a Bond villain
5G cell towers do not spread Covid
Healthcare workers are not paid off by big pharma
Herd immunity must be achieved through vaccination, not unchecked infection

CMIO’s take? Let science and rational thought triumph in these difficult times.

Guy Ristoff, his sister-in-law Mollie, and brother Bill

My name is Guy Ristoff. I work for the EPIC IT Team at UCHealth (Colorado) as an Analyst. I also have a 3D printer. A few weeks ago, I started seeing a bunch of people posting in 3D printer Facebook groups about ear guards to use with surgical masks. I thought it was a great idea for me to explore here at UCHealth.

I contacted a unit I have done some EPIC build for and asked if they would want some. I created my first 10, delivered them to the hospital, and hoped they liked them. I then contacted Gwen Martinez from the Clinical Informatics team and she sent an email blast to a group of people about the ear guards. Within 20 minutes, we started to get responses. It was amazing! The first few “orders” were coming from the Northern Region. My brother lives in Wellington and has 3D printer as well. I called and asked him if he would be interested in donating ear guards to the Poudre Valley and MCR. He was excited to help! His kiddos even got in on the fun by making thank you cards for the staff.

As for production, I can make 17 of them per batch, which takes about 4 hours. It is not a super-fast process, but it is a lot of fun making something that helps people be more comfortable. My brother has made and dropped off 80 of them. I have created 122 of them for the AMC and MHC campus so far. I am dropping those in the mail and at the hospital today! I will keep up production, so keep the orders coming. I am just happy to be able to help!