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Getting warmer... but still insufficient for an Airborne virus.
There are some easter eggs in this document, which tell us the @WHO IPAC Group is STILL drunk on #DropletDogma, and that they DO NOT support this minor change in RPE guidance.
That should concern us all.
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There are some easter eggs in this document, which tell us the @WHO IPAC Group is STILL drunk on #DropletDogma, and that they DO NOT support this minor change in RPE guidance.
That should concern us all.
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First, Omicron is measles-level Airborne (maybe worse). 2 weeks ago I had no close friends or family that had caught COVID. As of today, 3 people close to me are positive after long-range Airborne transmission in restaurants or at work.
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How do I know it's long range? They did not get within 20ft of an index case. They inhaled it from the air.
One friend wore a CAN99 everywhere, EXCEPT in his closed door office space, in a large work trailer. The index case was in the same trailer, on the opposite side.
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One friend wore a CAN99 everywhere, EXCEPT in his closed door office space, in a large work trailer. The index case was in the same trailer, on the opposite side.
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So, it's time for a long tweet thread on airborne transmission, and the resistance of AHS, AH, and Canadian IPAC (that's Infection Prevention and Control) to acknowledge the problem, and mitigate it, resulting in umpteen preventable illnesses and deaths. 1/
We've known from at least May 2020 (perhaps China recognized it in Jan '20) that COVID was primarily transmitted via airborne means, by inhaled aerosols. However, IPAC has been using an alternate concept known as contact/droplet (c/d). 2/ pnas.org/content/117/26β¦
As time has gone on, there has been increasing quality and quantity of scientific studies supporting airborne/aerosol transmission. It's quite irrefutable now. 3/
bmj.com/content/373/bmβ¦
cmaj.ca/content/193/26β¦
thelancet.com/journals/lanceβ¦
bmj.com/content/373/bmβ¦
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π¨ ATTENTION: Alberta Healthcare Workers, Patients:
Despite the catastrophic situation unfolding in your hospitals, and the uncontrolled spread of Delta in your communities, do not expect @AHS_media to provide HCWs with Respiratory PPE (N95s) anytime soon.
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Despite the catastrophic situation unfolding in your hospitals, and the uncontrolled spread of Delta in your communities, do not expect @AHS_media to provide HCWs with Respiratory PPE (N95s) anytime soon.
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The @AHS_media SAG has just released a 73 page, biased, diatribe against the efficacy of Respiratory Protective Equipment - which can best be described as Decision-Based Evidence Making. I'm sure the AHS lawyers were pleased with this report.
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It's no secret that Alberta IPAC requires HCWs to use surgical masks when treating COVID patients, despite overwhelming evidence that SARS2 transmits via *INHALED* aerosols.
Not a shock that the usual #DropletDogma suspects concluded this was A-OK.
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Not a shock that the usual #DropletDogma suspects concluded this was A-OK.
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For the past 20 months, experts in Aerosol transmission of respiratory viruses have been conducting studies that prove #COVIDisAirborne. These experts have called for Airborne mitigations (ventilation, filtration and respirators), but we have not heeded their calls. Why?
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The ID/PH Evidence-Based Medicine gatekeepers, driven by biased #DropletDogma groupthink, and sunk cost fallacy, smugly dismissed these studies. They threw rocks at the conclusions, and perpetually raised the bar of evidence to accept and mitigate Airborne Transmission.
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The criticisms from these self-anointed gatekeepers were ripe with logical fallacies, and they never bothered to offer a plausible alternate explanation for the undeniable indoor superspreader events. Just baseless declarations that COVID is NOT Airborne.
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The @Telegraph released an article claiming "we're still not completely sure how coronavirus spreads or how to stop it", muddying the waters re. Airborne Transmission.
If I were a hostile foreign state, with a goal of prolonging the Pandemic in the West, I would write this.
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If I were a hostile foreign state, with a goal of prolonging the Pandemic in the West, I would write this.
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I'm not surprised that the usual WHO IPC Consultant suspects, continued to preach the biased tenets of #DropletDogma via their interviews in this article.
What shocked me is the lack of scientific fact-checking from the so-called "Science Editor" @sarahknapton.
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What shocked me is the lack of scientific fact-checking from the so-called "Science Editor" @sarahknapton.
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Two egregious things stick out, which amount to journalistic malpractice.
1) Citing the interviewees biased, failed review as evidence that Airborne Transmission isn't occurring
2) Referencing year-old, obsolete comments from Dr. Klompas, without mentioning his recent work
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1) Citing the interviewees biased, failed review as evidence that Airborne Transmission isn't occurring
2) Referencing year-old, obsolete comments from Dr. Klompas, without mentioning his recent work
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For those following this HEPA filter thread β this is a really important acknowledgement. Itβs clear from the thread, and this particular tweet, that many Infectious Disease experts still doubt that aerosol transmission is an important/mitigable transmission route for SARS2𧡠1/
While they acknowledge aerosol transmission can occur, they believe it is a rare event occurring in special circumstances, and is therefor not worth the $ to mitigate.
Eg. re HEPAs: "We need to resource by best impact", "Changes need rigorous justification and business case".
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Eg. re HEPAs: "We need to resource by best impact", "Changes need rigorous justification and business case".
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See my pinned tweet for a thread summarizing the overwhelming evidence that Aerosol Transmission is an important and mitigable route. At the end, I provided a reference list and posed a question to the ID holdouts - no responses yet.
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