Published in @TheLancet on January 24, 2020 (!)
Chinese scientists warned the world:
👉“Airborne precautions..are strongly recommended”
The @WHO refused to do this & also ignored the letter👇from @GlobalNursesU to @DrTedros (Jan. 30, 2020) asking @WHO for airborne precautions.
Source: thelancet.com/journals/lance…
On the same day, January 24, the publication day of this important warning from Chinese scientists to take airborne precautions, @DrMikeRyan sends a message to the @WHO staff stressing that this is contact/droplet transmission “until the data says otherwise”.
@DrMikeRyan @WHO Why this could happen?…
@DrMikeRyan @WHO Even earlier…
CDC document, JANUARY 6, 2020.
“For Internal Use Only/Not For Distribution”
👉 “Health experts are locally recommending that citizens pay attention to maintaining indoor air circulation [ventilation], avoid closed and airless..crowded places, and wear masks…”
An early warning on airborne, asymptomatic transmission and superspreading events was published in @Time on JANUARY 30, 2020.
👉
It also features a video with Prof. Yuen👇.
Now compare this to @WHO's “let's not overreact”/“not airborne” misinformation… time.com/5774366/how-co…
@TIME @WHO From an email exchange with CDC people on January 22, 2020. The questions from a clinical webinar make clear that they at least assumed the new coronavirus was airborne.
- “Are the recommended precautions Airborne or Droplet?”
- “Airborne”
@TIME @WHO Since this is turning into an “Airborne in January 2020” thread, I’ll add this also:
@TIME @WHO 25 January, 2020.
South China Morning Post:
“Call for preparedness against airborne transmission including fitted respirators…”
web.archive.org/web/2020012508…
@TIME @WHO
@TIME @WHO x.com/mdc_martinus/s… x.com/mdc_martinus/s…
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