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4 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
If only medical doctors can be called doctor in the media, then I demand we go back to calling surgeons "mister".
cc/ @GosiaGasperoPhD
Backstory, see pic.

Apparently if it's anything like droplet theory, we should keep doing it for another hundred years.
Hmm, plus les choses changent

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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
5 Apr
"... because #COVIDisAirborne."

Fixed it.

Psst, in actual fact, @WHO's committee on COVID-19 transmission modes is logjammed by some of its members. They refuse to admit SARS-CoV-2 is in the air.

So @WHO has to quote any old doc mentioning "air" to get around its own committee
That's why the committee in July 2020 said they were "actively discussing" whether SARS-CoV-2 transmits in aerosols

(see pic, from who.int/news-room/comm…)

Not very actively, apparently, since it's April 2021 now and no change. Image
The clear statement that SARS-CoV-2 transmits via droplets (that fall to ground) is found also in @WHO's mask guidance from June 2020 @ apps.who.int/iris/handle/10…. Image
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
4 Apr
"no ward should contain more than 20 beds"

"open air treatment played a great part in preventing infections, even under unfavorable climatic conditions"

"recommended masks, cubicles..."

"cellphane tents", said to prevent transmission of even measles and chickenpox

1938
Again, not even looking. Was copying PDFs for someone and opened this one randomly to see what was in it.
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
3 Apr
Droplets didn't get breathed in at the start of this ... so we're making progress.
They fell to the ground 2m* and we coughed them into each others' faces and poked them into our eyes.

(Coupon valid for droplets flying 2 m in Canada. 1 m at @WHO and elsewhere. 1.5 m in various other countries. Please check local laws before redeeming.)
Resp drops + touch.

You would not say wear a mask if distance cannot be maintained if droplets.

There's a better one with arrows straight to the ground but I can't find it.
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
27 Mar
This article noted SARS found live in the air:

"With SARS-CoV, viral RNA as well as viable (culturable) virus has been found in air samples.95,96 Therefore, SARS-CoV..potentially..transmitted by short- and long-range aerosols ...as strongly implicated by several studies"
Footnotes 95, 96 are these:
Live MERS in the air, posted here:

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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
26 Mar
Now with the new variants, more than ever before the game is not to catch this until vaccinated. No indoors. Good good mask. If indoor good good ventilation. Stay safe.

HCW in good masks throughout if you can, and sorry if institutions fight you on it.
Two meters IS NOT protective. Assume your neighbors in the room are smoking and if you can smell it you're at risk.
It is becoming clearer that you only need to inhale VERY FEW virus particles to have a chance at being infected and whether you are is a throw of the dice as to whether virus particle catches. As expected, variants prob bind tighter and fewer of them needed for one to catch ...
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
25 Mar
Decision doing the rounds about health care workers not getting proper PPE. In French for now. Google translate if you need.

canlii.org/fr/qc/qctat/do…
I haven't had time to read it but here is a brief summary. Just the first of many many many.

All that garbage advice about droplets. Going to be litigation for years as I (and others) have said since April 2020.
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