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@luckytran
@frostycatty
@daka_x
My profile pic honors Dr Wu Lien-teh and his pioneering work in Malaysia in 1910 on masking to prevent plague transmission. The French Dr Gérald Mesny who came to "help" thought he knew better, refused to mask, and died before he could replace Dr Wu
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Please respect everyone's hand washing choices in this restaurant. We CAN'T MANDATE that kitchen staff was their hands. COMMUNITY LEVELS of E. coli are low. If it makes YOU more COMFORTABLE you can wash your hands.
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Josh Shapiro, who may end as Kamala Harris's running mate, campaigned in 2022 against Covid protections such as masks and vaccines, even claiming they had been a mistake in 2020-22:
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Recognizing the recent surge in Covid cases, Alaska Airlines and Boeing are partnering on innovative methods to improve ventilation and provide high-quality masks to all passengers.
BREAKING: Alaska Airlines plane makes emergency landing in Portland, Oregon after window blows out in mid-air.
Several items, including phones, were sucked out of the plane when it suddenly depressurized. Everyone is safe.
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Promising results from an intranasal, live attenuated virus vaccine for Covid, reported in yesterday's Nature! The oral polio vaccine is extremely effective, and was administered into the 1990s in the US & Canada, after rates of polio had been driven down.
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Long Covid research is also uncovering long-term problems in patients who *think* they have fully recovered. Twelve weeks after their infection, 19% of patients who *don't* meet the criteria for Long Covid have severe cognitive impairment.
Key simple graphic comparing objective cognitive testing results for Long Covid (PCC) individuals vs those with COVID but no chronic sequelae (no PCC) and healthy controls (No COVID)
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Dr. Tedros and team renamed "SARS" as "Covid" to mislead the public that it would have less impact (it didn't, you know), and lied repeatedly about "airborne" transmission versus "droplet." Yes, be mindful of your words, especially because, in a position of power, words can kill.
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@CDCgov
The recommendations don’t *protect* those at risk. They mention at-risk people in passing. You know full well shoving contagious people back into healthcare, workplaces, schools endangers those at-risk, and that sick people can’t just look at others and determine their risk.
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@CDCgov
You are playing games with people’s lives. Just because SARS/Covid is now “common” and caught via respiratory inhalation does *not* mean it is benign, comparable to flu, or a respiratory *virus*. Once you breathe it in, its effects are far more widespread. You know this.
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You promised "elimination of all cost barriers... daily public [WH] report on how many tests have been done... high-quality and appropriate [PPE] – and enough of it and appropriate training to use it – so they don’t become infected..." (1/n)
When I came to office, the pandemic was raging, the economy was reeling.
But because of the American people, we've achieved record job creation, historic economic growth, and among the lowest inflation rates of any major economy.
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@NohaAboelataMD
I do wish the article remined people that CDC's five-day guidance increased transmission quite a bit and rightfully launched endless "CDC says" jokes.
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Patients exposed to HIV and hepatitis at a USA hospital. This hospital's infection control officer is on an official board setting nationwide policy. She also wrote anti-mask editorials. USA needs better infection control leadership. Rest of world needs to stop following USA.
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@JoyHenningsenMD
@Walgreens
Yes. Also, most Covid transmission is asymptomatic or presymptomatic, and pharmacies are full of vulnerable and contagious people. Universal masking/respirator use should never have stopped in pharmacies. Embarrassing for people to leave the drugstore sicker than they walked in!
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@luckytran
This anti-mask extremism is expected from USA Republicans, of course
Democrats abstaining instead of voting "no" is particularly disgraceful
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@CDCDirector
You know, you *could* use these morale events to *promote* public health instead of just accelerating the spread of multiple airborne pathogens at them.
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@myrabatchelder
It will go down like this:
- Remove your mask
- No, I’m wearing it for health reasons
- Take it off and tell it to the judge
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These are fancy-sounding organizations--Infectious Disease Society of America and Brown University School of Public Health.
But remember the previous, completely ridiculous, shortening of isolation to five days? Those "CDC says" jokes? How that came from Delta Airlines?
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In Nassau county, none of the local representatives were willing to do the right thing and vote “no” on the mask ban. There were seven *abstentions*, presumably Democrats.
the item passes with a vote of 12-0-7 (the 7 are abstaining).
the mask ban passes
#nonymaskban
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@DGBassani
I don't think I want to know, but I guess I'll ask. What does "late relaxers" mean? Is this the latest version of "You're being selfish if you're protecting yourself from Covid?"
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When public health started "quiet quitting" and playing "cool mom" instead, I thought they might make exceptions and protect *some* people.
You know, kids with cancer?
Nope.
The experience of Eddie Peter (RIP) at Seattle Children's hospital illustrates how unsafe sick kids are
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@seattlechildren
claims that patient safety is their top priority, but they stopped universal masking which makes the hospital less safe for immunocompromised patients.
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@PrognosticChats
They certainly did get involved—and on the anti-mask side—per Washington Post
In the very first months after the election, the Biden White House hounded the CDC to get rid of masks. "...Ron Klain and Jeff Zients... regularly quizzing health officials on when vaccinated Americans could safely take off their masks" (7/n)
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@drseanmullen
We all remember the extensive fit testing we had to do at the hardware store when purchasing N95s for pre-pandemic projects, right? -- oh wait no actually we just bought them and wore them and they helped
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Well, look here, Carlos del Rio, the first author of Delta's letter to the CDC...
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@Bob_Wachter
@UCSFDOM
Dr. Wachter, you could be using your voice to protect the vulnerable in healthcare. You know the saga of Semmelweis and the backlash against hand washing. At some level you must realize that's happening now against N95s. Please, at least, take nosocomial infection seriously.
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When Trump said ‘If we stop testing, we’d have fewer cases’ he was rightly mocked. But when you swapped PCR tests (which were reported) out and rapid antigen tests (which are not reported and high have false negatives) in, you actually implemented Trump's suggestion! (3/n)
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@NickMackx
I appreciate Sen Sanders's work on Long Covid funding, but would like to see him take a stand on stopping the spread, esp. in healthcare.
Globally there are pockets of Covid-aware politicians, but it's hard to track as many capitulate over time...
(1/n)
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In the very first months after the election, the Biden White House hounded the CDC to get rid of masks. "...Ron Klain and Jeff Zients... regularly quizzing health officials on when vaccinated Americans could safely take off their masks" (7/n)
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Was also President of the Infectious Disease Society of America...
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@RealGayArbys
...and the Secretary of Health & Human Services, who really should know better, got it twice in one month!
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@mvankerkhove
@WHO
Dr. Van Kerkhove, governments are NOT coming together. Governments are dismantling the most basic precautions such as universal masking in healthcare. You claim to support universal masking all along but you don't call out organizations such as USA CDC's HICPAC working against it
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@naraki355
One of the mainland banks had to backpedal on a similar policy.
You shouldn't have to fight them on this, but if you wanted to, you might have a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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@WADeptHealth
You know perfectly well that Covid is airborne, transmits asymptomatically, and that testing, isolation, and masking are still important. But now you're only telling the public what you think they want to hear.
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@dgurdasani1
Did you pass through the metal detector still wearing the active filtration fan module?
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@CDCgov
How do the magic categories of “respiratory” and “common” work? Do they describe measles? tuberculosis? Should people with those illnesses party if they feel good enough and people around them look healthy and stuff?
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@ouatinagalaxy
Mark Kelly also veered right-wing on masks, and was one of 12 Democrats in the Senate who voted for JD Vance's anti-mask transportation amendment:
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But healthcare workers DID "become infected" and you (and Klein, Zients, Walensky, Cohen) are NOT providing "high quality and appropriate personal protective equipment." On the contrary,
@cdcgov
is dismantling infection control in healthcare. (2/n)
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@CDCDirector
Hey, some government scientists figured out Covid transmits mostly asymptomatically! Wild, right? Apparently there's a whole agency that figures stuff like this out.
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By ending the Public Health Emergency you sabotaged data collection: "At the end of the COVID-19 PHE, HHS will no longer have this express authority to require this data from labs" (4/n)
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@PaigePang1
What? “Long HAV?” But did you test for acute ADENOVIRUS? With or for? What about psychological co-morbidities?
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@NjbBari3
Anyway this face shield was buggin me so I took it off for the last five hours of welding. Can I get an updated eyeglass prescription?
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And it's still not over. "We are entering the 5th year of the pandemic..." (9/9)
Long🧵
#COVID19
and where we are. I’m worried.
We are entering the 5th year of the pandemic and we are certainly in a different phase. This phase is marked by an evolving virus (with the XBB and BA.2 sublineages circulating and JN.1 becoming dominant).
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@CDCDirector
Despite SARS/Covid taking athletes out of the Olympics, surging to winter holiday levels and beyond in many places, even infecting the political elite, you refuse to provide the most basic guidance how to prevent airborne infection.
This is not leadership
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@Greyhoundbob75
In the USA insurers are claiming that mortality increase is "baffling." Would be interesting to be a fly on the wall in the discussions. When it comes to business decisions, I bet the "bafflement" clears up real quick.
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@Bob_Wachter
@TIME
@Jamie_Ducharme
@ashishkjha
@dr_kkjetelina
@ahandvanish
@PeterHotez
There’s no real argument presented *against* universal masking in healthcare, nor against the obvious comparison to Semmelweis and the start of hand-washing requirements. For other nocosoimal infections the target is zero. This really reads like patient care vs vibes or something
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Meanwhile, you refuse the most basic, highly effective precaution (wearing a mask), and, like Trump, treat it like some kind of joke. (6/n)
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@YMAPodcast
It's true, handwriting DOES do something! It expresses thoughts. In fact, you could express that same completely wrong idea about masks in handwriting.
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With circular logic, you used your own anti-mask policies to falsely claim the end of the pandemic (8/n)
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Vax is helpful but not perfect; you lie w/ absolute promises like "You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations" & "...you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in the ICU unit, and you’re not going to die." (5/n)
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@empathy1st1
There’s a Covid cautious person here on Twitter,
@senorhettler
, who does volunteer speech lessons at schools, if you’d like to compare tips for Covid-safe speech-language instruction!
I wore an N95 today while volunteering in my niece’s class.
I was able to help students with phonemic awareness even though my mouth was covered.
We listened for words with “s” at the end.
Lots of kids and the teacher were coughing.
Why are we not protecting kids?
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@ResistorVlad
Wishing your wife a quick and complete recovery, and you success in avoiding infection.
Thank you very much for volunteering the details of her possible exposures. This level of documentation is very helpful to the few of us left who still consider SARS something to be avoided.
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@Kenneth33071904
My turn
Recognizing the recent surge in Covid cases, Alaska Airlines and Boeing are partnering on innovative methods to improve ventilation and provide high-quality masks to all passengers.
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@ouatinagalaxy
Mark Kelly also veered right-wing on masks, and was one of 12 Democrats in the Senate who voted for JD Vance's anti-mask transportation amendment:
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@CDC_Firstline
@CDCgov
@CDCDirector
@AmerMedicalAssn
The World Health Organization recommends universal masking in healthcare. Why doesn’t CDC?
Why don’t you teach everyone why respirator masks are better and the basics of how to use them?
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@CDCFlu
N95 RESPIRATOR MASK.
You quietly recommend N95s—along other fancy equipment—to scientists handling samples.
How can the workers be safe when the scientists are at risk?
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@inkblue01
“In fact, the tests work just as well as they did when they first came out.” -> ACKCHUALLY you bought a test to detect specific regions of a specific variant, and it’s your fault for thinking it would “detect Covid” or “let you know if you’re contagious.” Checkmate!
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@ariccio
The arrogance of recklessly infecting additional kids because an infection is giving “relatively minor” vibes to a parent or teacher
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@DrEricDing
As a candidate Biden sounded good on Covid, but he has broken the promises he made. The press secretary isn't the problem--it's the administration itself.
You promised "elimination of all cost barriers... daily public [WH] report on how many tests have been done... high-quality and appropriate [PPE] – and enough of it and appropriate training to use it – so they don’t become infected..." (1/n)
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@RealGayArbys
Zeke Emanuel has emitted similar rhetoric about dying at 75, but when push came to shove, he said he deserved to live beyond that age because he's teaching at Harvard
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@Oldboatie
Seems like a wave of research papers in recent weeks on cognitive effects. With effects on other systems—cardio, respiratory—it seems like there’s at least passing, token acknowledgement in the media. I am starting to think there’s particularly intense denial related to cognition
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@CDCDirector
@CDCgov
Meanwhile, Covid has doubled in the past six weeks, and you refuse to act, doubling down on your anti-mask, let-it-rip denialism.
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Kudos to Biden for ending Covid.
Also climate change. Kudos for ending that!
👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
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@budzw
And seatbelts! Let’s randomly assign a test group to have their buckles fail at the moment of impact. Nice placebo effect and everything. Maybe get a Nature paper out of it, & finally get those pesky restraints removed!
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@ravenscimaven
The name "spike protein" seems to confuse people. They think it's poking its way into cells. They don't understand how things work at that scale. They don't know it works by binding not poking. They might not even realize the spikes are "upside down" with the wide part poking out
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@CDCFlu
Imagine what you, CDC, could be doing to make these fairs safer. You could
- Test the animals and people & isolate those who test positive
- Hand out free respirator masks and teach the public how to use them
- Ensure indoor air filtration & ventilation and outdoor circulation
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@DrTedros
@WorldGovSummit
We’re not in the “aftermath of” SARS. For example, the level in USA wastewater is higher than the corresponding day in *any* previous year including 2022: and 4810 USA SARS deaths were officially acknowledged during three weeks around the new year holiday.
@luckytran
It is remarkable that we have never had this high of COVID transmission at this point in the calendar year.
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Trolls pretending it’s about mAnDaTeS vs freedumb 🇺🇸 🇸🇪should
1. Explain individual choices about masks can protect dental patients (who obviously can’t mask), the incapacitated/anaesthetized, etc
2. Come on down to my restaurant and taste the freedumb
Please respect everyone's hand washing choices in this restaurant. We CAN'T MANDATE that kitchen staff was their hands. COMMUNITY LEVELS of E. coli are low. If it makes YOU more COMFORTABLE you can wash your hands.
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@CDCDirector
While you were out
@PressSec
claimed the federal gov't delegates all decisions about masking in healthcare to the states. Please correct her statement, because you are in fact deciding that via HICPAC. Also please tighten up HICPAC's recommendations to require N95 respirators.
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@drvolts
Others have pointed out the absurdity of "brought Covid under control," but let me add, in the intersection of Covid and climate, forcing office/knowledge workers to commute instead of work remotely--as Zients is doing to federal employees--is bad for both health & environment.
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@CDCDirector
@CPHO_Canada
Dr. Tam
@CPHO_Canada
you have often modeled respirator use even when your colleagues did not, for example at WHO meetings. This would have been a great opportunity for that. You do not report to
@WHCOS
and you should not be subject to the anti-mask whims of the USA.
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@DrTedros
@WorldGovSummit
When Dr Ryan convinced you to retract your comment that SARS (Covid) is airborne, that fact had already been doc’d 16 years prior at Amoy Gardens in HK, and China had airborne precautions for SARS-CoV-2. When you say “painful lessons” is this included?
A tragic U-Turn for the history books!
Watch closely what happened AFTER
@drTedros
said what he already knew: “Corona is airborne!" (Feb. 11, 2020)
One quick intervention of
@DrMikeRyan
and
@drTedros
changed his statement: suddenly the virus spreads via droplets...
#WhyMike
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@mvankerkhove
@WHO
@DrTedros
@DrMikeRyan
Patients continue to get infected en masse in healthcare settings. Why doesn’t WHO take a stand against this, and require universal airborne precautions *at the very least* in healthcare? In particular N95 or better masks, filtration, ventilation
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@joaquinlife
He should listen to this guy:
@POTUS
“It’s a patriotic duty to wear a mask,” Biden told transit workers at a virtual town hall [in 2020]
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@DrJillStein
😷😷😷Maybe, but why is this more important than *stopping the spread* of the Covid that’s ripping through the population *including in healthcare* unchecked?😷😷😷
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As invidual scientists go on blocking sprees, don't forget, there's more and more research coming out on Covid, including Long Covid and immunology. Should there be more research and more action? Yes! But, in case you missed it, some recent bangers:
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Next time you hear how the USA can't afford to retrofit buildings, provide PPE in healthcare, or do almost anyting about the ongoing pandemic: "both sides agreed to rescind more than $6 billion in unspent pandemic aid"
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@Guglar9
Remote learning outcomes were dramatically different for those with poor internet access at home, phones only instead of laptops, etc. Did we address this inequity, increasingly important in the modern world? We did not. Shoved 'em back in there to breathe the plague air.
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@YMAPodcast
Respirator masks that do not let the breath "go around" (N95/FFP2, P100, etc.) work much better than masks that do allow the breath to go around (cloth, "surgical," etc.). And they all reduce the viral inoculum to varying degrees. People w many nose shapes pass fit tests in N95s.
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@YMAPodcast
"Masks Work. Distorting Science to Dispute the Evidence Doesn't." Scientific American.
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@ChrisCuomo
Surprised after your excellent interview w/ Dr Birx that you’d say we “just got out of the pandemic.” Covid is still here and we’re not doing enough to contain it. If you’re worried about lab safety you should definitely be worried about healthcare safety.
New: Hospitals Need To Resume Universal
#Masking
. Here’s What They Are Doing Now. (Spoiler--it's not enough) via
@forbes
@MGHMedicine
@TuftsMedicalCtr
@RWJBarnabas
@UPMC
. With thanks to
@mtosterholm
for his perspective.
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@MelpomeneMel
@kyliebytes
It will be hilarious if he conveniently forgets his prior enthusiasm for anonymous crypto and requires credit card, billing address, name, etc. for this purpose
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@CIDRAP
Both WHO and CDC are trying to memory-hole this mistake by eliminating the *words* "droplet" and "airborne" but *not* upgrading to airborne precuations. That's happening right now, along w/ lack of precautions in healthcare or anywhere else, & rampant asymptomatic Covid spread.
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Yeah bro in Rogan's latest podcast he says WOKE IS AIRBORNE. For real. Just like sawdust, the only other thing that a mask could possibly block. Here, you better take this work mask to protect yourself.
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@nicktsergas
@ChiefSciCan
For once I would like to see a study that *supports* twelve months of protection, versus 3-4 months often reported. In the global switch to annual vaccination, we somehow skipped the step of explaining why it would be *sufficient*—just “vibes” (combine w/ flu vax) & necessity.
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@LauraMiers
Even worse: Delta asked for test-to-exit after five days, and Walensky said, awesome, but let's skip the test and just exit after five anyway!
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@JennJVN
*Earlier today* Boeing asked for regulatory relief from FAA oversight of the 737 MAX
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