Filtering and UV work to drastically cut transmission in hospitals.
Humans have lost all critical thought so we needed to actually put filters and UV on a ward and observe it, rather than exercising our big ape brains, apparently.
Abdul Salam ‘The Impact of Portable High-Efficiency Particulate Air Filters on the Incidence of Invasive Aspergillosis in a Large Acute Tertiary-Care Hospital’. American Journal of Infection Control 38, no. 4 (May 2010): e1-7. doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic….
looking for something else, but here's MERS in the air:
Kim et al ‘Extensive Viable Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Coronavirus Contamination in Air and Surrounding Environment in MERS Isolation Wards’.Clin Infect Dis 63, no 3 (1 Aug 2016): 363–69 doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci…
Finally, reminder that masks work to cut risk, no matter what whiny people say:
Harrichandra et al ‘An Estimation of Airborne SARS-CoV-2 Infection Transmission Risk in New York City Nail Salons’. Toxicology and Industrial Health 36,no9 (Sept 2020): 634–43 doi.org/10.1177/074823…
It is about reducing risk and the cost/benefit to everything. Nothing is all or nothing.
Everything is tradeoffs.
(As some in public health leadership are unfortunately learning "on the job" about vaccines apparently)
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This pandemic gets more and more hilarious every day.
Here is Johns Hopkins saying their wargame from late 2019, which was estimating as part of the game deaths of 65 million, was not a prediction for COVID.
Actually it's probably not a bad prediction of COVID.
Chapters 1-11 are about handwashing and the last chapter says opening a window might be good
JOKING
Would be nice to update healthcare PPE so we don't kill them all, but whats 19 months of raging respiratory pandemic between supranational organization friends