Thread by @jmcrookston

I told you "no hospital spread" or "they caught it in the community" was a lie.

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Here's a hit piece written in support of "no spread in hospitals" which is belied by outbreaks of SARS, MERS, everything else in hospitals that adhere to droplet for $$:

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1284203868184883201

So they blame the nurses for bringing it in from the community.

Strangely enough, they could answer the question by sequencing the virus, but they interestingly never do that.

They know exactly what it would show.

Anyway, I can wait.

I have all the time in the world.

All the e-mails will come out in the end and people may go to jail.

Next up: schools aren't drivers of spread.

Ah memory lane about hospital spread:

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1368777633060765698

Story about 1 to 82 transmitting MERS in a crowded ER.

Air spread.

Which we do not believe in, in Ontario, including in hospitals.

So hey, maybe it was the ER fruit tray.

Another study of nosocomial spread (hospital spread) of MERS.

They tested the air currents, and the airflow pattern matched the outbreak (where the infecteds were). The hallway away from the currents had no patients infected.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1353099762053079042

Analysis of outbreak of SARS in a hospital matched the airflow.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1353099320497733632

All denial.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1435783300518486019

They could test, but why? It would prove what they don't want to be true (denial, ego, $$).

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1437189756266426371

This was a joke, but is exactly how the investigations go.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1394819480811974658

Here was a thread comparing hospital excuse to schools excuse. It's the same excuse.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1362025847721496580

Psst if you do want to do a pro-no-spread-in-hospital study, saying spread comes from community, do the study over a time period when cases in community are on the rise, and hospitals won't have caught up.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1362028906639941635

Painfully obvious back before October of last year, this is just the only one I care to find right now:

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1314169131395166208

Enjoy this little walkabout down memory lane.

Outdoors.

2m apart.

#COVIDisAirborne
#AllRespiratoryVirusesAreAirborne

Just by way of example, 30%+ attack rate on exposed people in semi-private rooms, etc.

academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…