Listen up—if there is a scientist who is a *hero* besides Fauci, it’s Dr Kim Prather @kprather88–world renowned aerosol expert. Not many know, but it was Kim who alerted Fauci on airborne #SARSCoV2. If it weren’t for her, we still wouldn’t have airborne guidelines. She’s my hero.
2) Dr Prather is also an extremely rare “double inductee” in both the National Academy of Science & National Academy of Engineering (harder than winning Triple Crown). She wrote “Tony” (Fauci) a strong note of concern, and made Fauci see his blind spot on airborne aerosols. See👇
3) Basically, Dr Fauci admits above (and elsewhere) it was a group led by @kprather88 (& @CorsIAQ) that approached him & explained small aerosols Microdroplets are airborne. Here is Kim explaining the difference between droplets & aerosols with @DrLaPook.
4) Great info graphic on aerosols with @kprather88.
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📍NEW—Texas Army National Guard has just arrived in El Paso—they have been assigned the grim work of dealing with the overflow of deceased bodies now piled up in 10 refrigerated mobile morgues. It is hard work—previously county jail inmates. #COVID19
⚠️Crap crap—El Paso morgue crisis escalated fast. First it was jail inmates moving deceased bodies for $2/hour, then $27/hour job posting, and now Texas National Guard summoned up to help at El Paso’s overflowing morgue.
3) All the while, TX Senator Ted Cruz called Senator Brown a "complete ass" for asking a maskless Dan Sullivan (R) to wear his mask in the Senate. Since then, 87-year-old Chuck Grassley (R) & Rick Scott (R) have both tested positive for #COVID19 & El Paso having morgue crisis.
📍DEVASTATING ANIMATION—Containment measures 🆚 #COVID19 case surges and hospitalizations 🏥 by state.
Hospitals are now almost full nationwide and ICU beds will soon run out. Please don’t do anything to risk spreading the virus over the holidays. Please stay safe everyone. 🙏
📝VACCINE MIGHT BE BETTER than natural #COVID19 recovery for immunity. 36 days after 2nd dose of vaccine, titers for binding & neutralization are often substantially better in vaccinated individuals than naturally recovered patients (labeled as "convalescent").
2) The above figure from the original Phase 1 trials of the Moderna vaccine. Hence why you should try to rely on the vaccine instead of natural infection (ie don’t do natural plow thru herd strategy). nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
3) What about the Pfizer / Bio-N-tech vaccine—do we see the same pattern?? YES! Notice how antibody binding and neutralizing titer again higher for the Pfizer vaccine than natural #COVID19 infection recovery (labeled HCS). nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
Update: El Paso now hiring morgue attendants for $27.20/hour. But job applicant must be strong enough to lift deceased bodies weighing 100-400 lbs. (45-180 kg). Better than using jail inmates at $2/hour to move #COVID19 deceased. But so sad and surreal. 😓governmentjobs.com/careers/elpaso…
2) This job posting likely in response to the outcry from this video last week of inmates moving the surge of deceased bodies for $2/hr into overflow morgues. Still chilling. They now have 10 mobile refrigerated morgues.
3) RATIONING CARE—El Paso has been so depleted by #COVID19 that hospitals soon could decide who gets care and who doesn’t. EP begging TX gov for national guard, but Governor Abbott blocking so far. texastribune.org/2020/11/18/el-…