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This thread is intended to hold up a mirror to the World Health Organization.
If a disease is airborne, does it make a sound?
If the World's Public Health Organization recognizes CoVid as airborne, does it make a sound? (Psst - it's airborne!)
Or does it release it quietly 2 days before Christmas?
Let's take a tour of the WHO's official announcements that CoVid is Airborne.
There was none - functionally.
It was released the week before Christmas.
Quietly.
December 21, 2021, @DrMikeRyan put out this video from the WHO account:
Where he never uses the word airborne.
December 22, 2021. @PeterASinger, special advisor to Dr. Tedros, releases this quiet statement regarding update to mode of transmission.
Let me stress how grateful I am that the WHO finally recognized #CoVidisAirborne.
Since then, have we
seen a huge media push from the WHO?
No.
And the effects of that lack? Are noticeable.
We continue to see the most of the field of IPC (with the notable exceptions of @VicLeungIDdoc @EvonneTCurran @eliowa @kalisvar ) continue to insist that CoVid is not airborne.
We see this play out in hospitals across the world.
With surgical masks being deployed as clinically equivalent to N95's/ FFP2/ FFP3.
We also see this play out in public health departments around the world.
WHO -> Country CDC -> State/ Province Public Health -> County/
District Public Health Department.
In YOUR local department, do YOU see them saying CoVid is airborne?
No.
We need more from the WHO. They should be saturating the airwaves.
I should be sick of seeing "CoVid is airborne" in all the WHO twitter accounts I follow.
Here's the mirror that I mentioned - I wanted to be very careful to give credit where credit is due.
@DirOPSPAHO - kudos for being the only WHO regional director whose official Twitter account, @pahowho, has said CoVid is airborne.
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Let's see the rest.
@doctorsoumya - chief scientist, but tweeting in her personal capacity per her profile page
Counts. But doesn't actually count. (Still thank you!)
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@DrTedros - anything he says from Twitter is official. Not tweeting in personal capacity.
Has not corrected the below tweet. And yes - the WHO has corrected tweets before.
I have the receipts.
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@DrMikeRyan - anything he says from Twitter is official. Not tweeting in personal capacity.
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@mvankerkhove - clearly labeled that she is the COVID-19 Technical Lead. Not tweeting in personal capacity.
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From @gabbystern
My apologies - there's no nuance anymore. CoVid is airborne. And we are still not ready.
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The official @WHO account.
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@takeshi_kasai's @WHOWPRO has not said #CoVidIsAirborne - nor corrected the tweet below.
You'll notice that TB is clearly labelled as airborne below this tweet.
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Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh's @WHOSEARO has NOT said #COVIDisAirborne. Nor corrected the below tweet.
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@MoetiTshidi's @WHOAFRO has NOT said #CovidIsAirborne. Has said TB is.
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Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari's @WHOEMRO has NOT said #COVIDisAirborne
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@hans_kluge's @WHO_Europe has NOT said #COVIDisAirborne
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At the start of every disaster movie, there's a scientist that's ignored.
Turns out there's also a World Health Organization that can easily let the world know loudly that CoVid is airborne.
Or not.
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