Thank you Noah and Ashley from public health advocates everywhere! #COVID19#WearAMask 🧵
2) Do masks really work? Heck yes!!! I’m going to walk folks thru a thread 🧵 of evidence.
➡️ MASKS do work!!
Association Between Universal Masking in a Health Care System and SARS-CoV-2 Positivity Among Health Care Workers jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
3) A big scientific evidence review study on face masks.
“We recommend that public officials and governments strongly encourage the use of widespread face masks in public, including the use of appropriate regulation.” #COVID19europepmc.org/article/PPR/PP…
BREAKING—China CDC confirms the isolation of active #SARSCoV2 coronavirus from outer packaging of imported frozen cod in city of Qingdao. First time proven that **contact w/ frozen packaging w/ active novel coronavirus could lead to infection**. Worrisome. xinhuanet.com/english/2020-1…
2) “The agency said that the risk of cold-chain food circulating in China's market being contaminated by the novel coronavirus is very low, citing recent nucleic acid test results for samples taken from the business.”
3) “A total of 2.98 mil samples had been tested across 24 provinces by Sept. 15, including 670k taken from cold-chain food & packaging, 1.24 mil from working staff and 1.07 mil from environment. Only 22 samples from cold-chain food or food packaging tested positive for the virus”
📍"19-year old pregnant inmate was repeatedly raped by a prison guard—Amy Coney Barrett ruled the county responsible for prison not liable because sexual assaults fell outside of guard's official duties.” Lower court had ruled liable—but ACB overturned it. salon.com/2020/10/16/wat…
2) “Barrett was one of the three judges on a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals panel which reversed a $6.7 million verdict against Milwaukee County in 2018 after a corrections officer was charged with repeatedly raping a pregnant 19-year-old inmate.
3) “Former corrections officer Xavier Thicken was charged with multiple counts of sexual assault in 2013 after the woman alleged that he had raped her during and after her pregnancy at a jail run by the controversial former Sheriff David Clarke.”
📍ATLAS SHRUGGED & PEOPLE DIED. Trump’s WH pandemic advisor Scott Atlas arm-twisted CDC to say no need to test asymptomatic people for #COVID19 *even if exposed to virus*—angering Drs. Birx & Redfield. Atlas now tied with Miller for worst Trump advisor. 🧵nytimes.com/2020/10/16/bus…
2) “Many public health experts say that a far more sweeping program would save lives and bolster the economy by helping as many Americans as possible learn quickly if they are infected. Atlas and other WH officials virus response effectively say the opposite: (super dangerous)
3) “Congressional Dems have grown so frustrated with WH testing efforts that as part of any aid agreement, they insisted on language to carry out a far more prescriptive national program for administering and distributing tests. WH negotiators resisted those demands for months”