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Apr 8, 2021 7 tweets 5 min read Read on X
The Disinformation Playbook ucsusa.org/resources/disi… via @ucsusa
@Its_Airborne

Great read for all those wondering how anyone could argue against the fact that #COVIDisAirborne.

[IMO airborne transmission = dominant in nearly every setting...although I could be wrong!]
For a masterclass in medical disinformation tactics, try this [from 28 mins]:

I especially like this part. After discussing how important it is to ‘be careful and use your critical appraisal skills and common sense’...
Prof John Conly then engages in an advertising ploy - anchoring. He goes on and on and on and on incredibly negatively about how peer review at PNAS is rigged and how these methods are terrible....[it just happens to be an airborne transmission manuscript, obv]
Before saying but hey, maybe it’s not so bad after all because he and ALL his colleagues can use this as a great teaching case about how not to do terrible science so it’s great...[it just happens to be an airborne transmission manuscript, obv]
This is right at the start of his presentation.

This is not science: it’s advertising.

And it is killing us.

REALLY looking forward to the debate tomorrow @kprather88. 🙏🏻
#COVIDisAirborne
#BadScienceKills
PS any SARS transmission event in a healthcare setting is the healthcare workers’ fault.
Message from Prof John Conly, July 2020.
You’re welcome.
@Linzofm87 @microlabdoc @mjb302 @theRCN @KGadhok @CIBSE_NatVent

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Dec 18, 2023
'I would like to highlight evidence demonstrating that Professor Heneghan may be in breach of Section 35(2) of the Inquiries Act 2005'

Am looking forward to hearing your response @carlheneghan

covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/inq0…
TL/DR in evidence to @covidinquiryuk, CH stated SARS2 transmission is via large droplet & fomites

But:

Following peer review triggered changes 6 Jul 2022, CH's own work stated that SARS2 transmission is via 'fine aerosols & respiratory droplets, & to a lesser extent...fomites'
Why omit the empirical truth that SARS2 transmission occurs importantly via the airborne [aerosol inhalation] route?

Why do this, particularly as David Heymann's 13th Oct 2023 evidence to the PI clarified the @WHO position:

WHO knew SARS2 transmission was via aerosols, Jan 2020
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Oct 13, 2023
🚨David Halpern Cabinet Office

'Arguably the most fundamental misstep in the UK response was the presumption that covid would be an unstoppable flu-like wave'

This

underpinned the early (Chris Whitty) position on T&T, & the Vallance view on 'herd immunity' (later air-brushed)' Image
Aside

Early SAGE minutes clarify the UK rationale for stopping community SARS2 testing: it was deemed unnecessary because with rapidly increasing case numbers there was no point in testing, as there were insufficient personnel to contact trace

Good to know whose plan this was
'But there was an alternative'

'This led us to question...though we found ourselves quietly dismissed as not understanding the science'

'Ironically, the pride in our science & our capabilities, slowed our ability to learn lessons from other countries'

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Oct 12, 2023
In his capacity as co-chair of the 2016 pandemic respirator stockpile committee, where does JVT stand legally with this description of healthcare workplace protection 'logic' like this?

🚨Respirators only specifically recommended for ICU/HDU staff - i.e. AGP 'hotspots'

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DESPITE

🚨Stronger evidence of aerosol transmission since 2009

🚨His own 2013 review now already used by David Heymann at @covidinquiryuk M1 to describe optimal protection against aerosols - FFP3 mandated as per COSHH

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In his witness statement, JVT's logic rests on this concept:

🚨FFP3 is fine for MERS/SARS1 because of 'high case fatality rate & transmission to HCWs was well documented'

But what is unstated is the completion of this 'logic circle': I hope you don't mind me speculating?

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Sep 28, 2023
Dear @DidierPittet @jonotter @peyo3319

Good evening

By now 2 of you will have an email alert about my @PubPeerBot response to your Letter

UK Research Integrity Office (@UKRIO) teams suggested this route, on reading my detailed evidence submission
pubpeer.com/publications/B…
To overcome an unexpected formatting issue on upload to the PubPeer site, below please find my correctly formatted letter expressing concerns & questions over your 'research behaviour'

[your letter, plus summary comments from 2 down this thread]

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Jun 15, 2023
Day 3 @covidinquiryuk

🚨Prof David Heymann

CV highlights

2003: WHO executive director for communicable diseases - headed the global response to SARS

2017-2022: Chair of the WHO Strategic & Technical Advisory Committee on Infectious Hazards (STAG-IH)

Written evidence 🥁

/1
Annex 2: Matters to be addressed from Letter of
Instruction

I hope you don't mind, but for obvious reasons I'll focus on his comments on transmission

#COVIDisAirborne

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Transmission: pt 71 onwards

'Researchers addressed major questions about transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during the first months of the pandemic

It was known...that the virus spread easily...especially in indoor & other closed spaces such as the Diamond Princess cruise ship...

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Jun 14, 2023
Day 2 @covidinquiryuk: witness statements online

Prof Jimmy Whitworth & Dr Charlotte Hammer [p36] make an 'interesting' (i.e., exposing their bias &/or COI) statement concerning future recommendations
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/upl…
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'Engagement...with academic research groups is needed so that key unanswered Qs arising during the early stages of an epidemic can be rapidly addressed. An example from the COVID-19 epidemic would have been to determine the role of airborne and droplet spread of infection'

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This, as we know, is a 'controversy' manufactured by WHO et al

van Doremalen (you know, whose research group's experimental aerosol viability work affirmed the airborne nature of MERS in 2013) proved beyond doubt that SARS2 was airborne in their 17 Mar 2020 @NEJM paper

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