4) 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…
“As a result of the implementation (mask) mandates, more than 200,000 COVID-19 cases were averted by May 22, 2020. The findings suggest that requiring face mask use in public could help in mitigating the spread of #COVID19” healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hl…
8) that said, *cloth* masks are only as good if everyone wears them. Masks work if entire or vast majority of people wear them. But this doesn’t happen during indoor dining and bars or airplanes.
For self protection if many don’t wear around you, premium masks likely needed.
9) Back to the Beauty & The Beast (not sleeping beauty—sorry sleepy) mask video - here is the YouTube of Noah Lindquist who made and uploaded it. I’m not certain of his Twitter tag, but if someone verifies who he is on twitter, tag him. Thanks Noah!
10) Another study (preprint) on masks and deaths.
“Conclusions. Societal norms & govt policies supporting wearing of masks by the public, as well as international travel controls, are independently associated w/ lower per-capita mortality from #COVID19” medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
11) A lot of people ask about “premium masks”. I don’t use N95 - save those for HCW. I use KN95 and S Korean KF94. And I sometimes double up indoors when cant distance. KF94s are quite comfortable actually and widely used in South Korea 🇰🇷
12) While you can order premium masks like KN95 & KF94 online (Eg Amazon), I don’t know which are fakes / real. That said, KN95’s also sold in stores like @StaplesStores. Hopefully they vetted their products for authenticity. That’s also why I double mask—in case one is fake.
13) Finally, Trump misled people on masks:
“he repeated an incorrect claim about masks, citing a recent report from CDC.”
So CDC tweeted back:
“The interpretation that more mask-wearers are getting infected compared to non-mask wearers is incorrect,” nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1…
14) Folks—we know the video creator is named Noah Lindquist. There has been confusion over which person on twitter is that Noah—@noahlindquist96 is the man!
⚠️DIED ON THE TARMAC—A woman in her 30s died of #COVID19 while she was on a plane about to take off. Before the woman died, she had trouble breathing and was given oxygen. Died suddenly literally while on tarmac. COVID is no joke, even for 30 year olds. buzzfeednews.com/article/tasnee…
2) yes she had some underlying risk factor. But you know, 1/3 of America has one too — it’s called obesity. Tons more have diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, and more. Many of them present in young people.
3) “Jenkins said that the woman's death was a "reminder that there is no age restriction in COVID."
"I would strongly encourage people to not think they’re invincible from COVID because they don’t think they’re in a high-risk category," he said.
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”