1/ We are collecting the many letters that have been written (by scientists, healthcare workers, and worker unions) to governments and national public health org. asking them to recognize and confront aerosol transmission of COVID-19.
4/ Update: I've added 2 more letters from Colombia and Spain (in that case a longer document, but it has a section on aerosols asking for recognition of their importance and control measures).
Will add a couple of letters from Quebec when I get them.
5/ Update 2: I just added the PDF of letter from July 2020 from the 239 scientists that we published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, including the full list of signatories.
6/ Update 3: I've added several more from Canada, Australia, and the UK.
It is amazing how many scientists and health care workers have written to their respective governments & PH officials asking for ACTION. And the deafening silence in response.
2/ "In a 4-page letter addressed to White House COVID response chief, @CDCgov Director @RWalensky & Acting Labor Sec. Al Stewart, 4 House committee chairs say they have "serious questions" about the adequacy of the CDC's guidance on workplace protection from aerosol transmission"
3/ "For the last two weeks, scientists, experts and unions have been prodding the administration to be more specific about guidance on exposure to small aerosol particles that carry COVID-19, which they say the CDC's official guidelines downplay."
1/ Today the American Mask Manufacturers Association & INDA both wrote letters to the Biden Administration supporting our scientists' letter, & showing there is sufficient US supply & capacity to provide workers w/ the needed respiratory protection (respirators & ASTM face cov.)
2/ The letter should finally make clear that there is NOT a U.S. supply problem- only the failure to support production & to recommend/require the necessary respiratory protection for workers with higher risk of exposure...
3/ ... and high quality barrier face coverings that comply with the new ASTM standards for other workers and the public.
Today's Letter (and our US scientist and international letters) at:
3/ ¿Por que ha sido tan difícil controlar esta pandemia?
Porque nos han hecho defendernos y gastar muchos recursos en vías de transmisión poco importantes, y han ignorado las medidas de protección que de verdad si funcionan.
- OMS @WHO: transmisión por aire es casi imposible
- Es muy difícil de probar, y se sigue resistiendo (e.g. la OMS @WHO)
- Se prueba definitivamente con brotes en sitios donde hay poquísimos casos.