journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Tales from Ontario health care workers.
Just a stream of quotes coming. I don't have time for this any more and its so obvious it's painful.

methods:
Health care workers HCW have high rate of infection:
China lessened infections by raising PPE level.
All the rest are quotes from the health care workers who were surveyed.

Of course public health largely doesn't care (and/or no sense of urgency) because they are in bureaucratic desk jobs, nice and safe. I'll just say it.
Cleaning the bedside, 1m from patient, no mask.
Now go find any of my posts about SARS, 17 years ago (sorry, 18 now) and see that absolutely NOTHING has changed.

With SARS, the CDC declared it airborne after NINE Canadian health care workers got sick.

Nine.

Liability is absolutely unbelievable here.

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4 Feb
Ah, opening up yet another random PDF on my computer and spending 5 minutes skimming it. Yet another hit

This time, we will learn that influenza can transmit as aerosols through the air and infect at very low TCID50s (low dose).

Let's go!

From 1966. #influenzaisairborne! Image
Since we discovered flu is a virus, we wanted to know how it transmitted. Studies found through the air, but used high doses.

So authors wanted to go low.

No, not like that. Low dose. Image
Authors used a system that approximated coughs, etc. Image
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3 Feb
Outbreak report about the Wisconsin summer camp (an overnight camp) at which there was a 76% infection rate has now been ADDED to the timeline of infections.

its-airborne.org/covid19-timeli…

[ed: 76% attack rate sure doesn't look like your grandpa's flu now does it?]
If you click on any of the pictures, or links in the text, you go straight to the report itself.

So this timeline can be used as a summary of outbreak reports. Same with the history timeline.
[ed: By the way flu attack rates vary widely. On a plane in 1974 where the plane was stopped for 4 hours on the tarmac flu spread with an attack rate of 72%.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/463858/

So, again, many "experts" are repeating talking points. Flu is not even your grandpa's flu.]
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31 Jan
[From a chat. Someone asked what the origin for most infection comes from close contact]

From the epi reports where you ask the person what they did for a week, etc, and then find that they were close to a positive at some point, so the conclusion is "aha, close contact"
You're never going to know if its because of the 2m with that person, or being in some small room with someone else, because nobody is looking for air spread. Conclusion is that it's the close contact.
Why? because EPI STUDIES ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR DROPLET

Every question, etc, asked, is from the point of view that nothing except certain specific viruses (measles, etc.) are airborne.

Because remember, to them, if air, R0 would = a billion.
Read 12 tweets
29 Jan
If we look at past experience with cold CoVs, we could expect reinfections to be common - say 1-3 year cycles - but with fewer symptoms, less shedding, and shorter course. (threads below)

Nobody truly knows yet, of course ...
Read 4 tweets
22 Jan
First line is not a surprise at all.
I am not surprised that a virus with a higher binding affinity, as this new variant likely has, also leads to more serious disease.

Was always skeptical of the contrary.

Glad to see some data out about this.
Anybody hears of faster course of disease I'd be interested to hear it.

Also new pathologies because higher binding may mean new tissues become targets. Experts can guess probably ...
Read 4 tweets
9 Jan
#COVIDisAirborne. It always has been.

120 years we should have known this. Be generous say 80). We should have been prepared for it, but experts mangled the science so we aren't ventilating.

Short thread of threads.
Before 1850, miasma theory said disease came out of swamps and killed you. Nobody knew how.

~1850 Snow says cholera in the water (ppl thought in the air).

~ 1860 discovered bacteria. They didn't live long outside body.
By 1887, a Dr. Chapin knew diseases floated, like scarlet fever. Not as contagious as measles.

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