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Dr. Leyla Asadi

2 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read

My friend just tried to use her N95 when she had to go to the ER. She agreed to put a surgical mask on top & even had an unopened box of N95s she was willing to open in front of the nursing staff.
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She was given a hard time by staff who said it was unnecessary and that her insistence was disrespectful. They said surgical masks are perfectly adequate. This hospital, like all others in Edmonton, has units with COVID outbreaks.
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@AHS_media

I'm deeply disappointed by the adherence to droplet dogma and refusal to acknowledge that #COVIDisAirborne exhibited by @AHS_media & some ID colleagues.
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@AHS_media

It is outdated science and makes the situation more dangerous for everyone involved. It's one thing to not optimize safety, but it's a whole other to actively obstruct those who want to be safer. @AHS_media this policy needs to change!!
#COVID19AB #popAB

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28 Jul

It didn't have to be this way. Our government & public health officials didn't need to gamble like this.
The choice isn't between going back to lockdowns or stopping all public health interventions for a novel pathogen against which only 64% of the pop. is immunized.

We live in Canada. If we don't have enough resources (and man power) to manage a once in a century public health emergency, where do they have the resources?

We could have continued testing/tracing/isolating, we could have added on rapid tests, undertaken airborne mitigation strategies with better masks/ventilation/filtration, we could have paid people to take time off when sick.

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@LeylaDAsadi

11 Jun

https://twitter.com/globeandmail/status/1403293318419681280

This is certainly concerning but I think it's important not to draw conclusions on vaccine effectiveness against delta variant based on this!

First, we have no details on second dose timing or symptoms of the fully vaccinated.

https://twitter.com/globeandmail/status/1403293318419681280

Second, we know the virus is characterized by super spreading events and is highly overdispersed (so 80-90% caused by just 10-20% of people). So cases will be clustered & I suspect it follows that breakthrough infections will also be clustered.

We can't use this 1 small sample size of interconnected cases (with potentially the same source of exposure or same environmental conditions, ie. ventilation) to make VE determination. That's where the UK data is so helpful & far more reliable! For now, it's our best info source.

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