BATHROOMS. RESTAURANTS. SCHOOL CLASSROOMS. OFFICES. Not just hospitals and clinics. The virus can linger in the air for hours. Forget outdated 6-feet droplet 💧rule. Huge superspreading outbreaks from aerosols have been documented. REPEAT: #COVIDisAirborne - pass it on! #COVID19
2) A single case led to a hospital outbreak - despite the max number of people just being 4. The virus stayed in the air for hours infecting many more people.
3) How is aerosol different from large droplets? aerosol study indicates that coronavirus is persistent and stable for many hours. Typical air exchange every 20 min to 4 hrs, depending on ventilation. #COVID19
4) VENTILATION is key. Both ventilation and masks needed to reduce risk indoors. But most buildings not ventilated well enough. #COVIDisAirborne
5) “Until we recognise that #COVIDisAirborne we are setting ourselves up for repeated failure”
6) Masks and aerosols demo.
7) Mask and airborne science compilation video from 2020.
8) Now that aerosol transmission of the coronavirus is established, we need to disperse aerosols quickly. Key is ventilation. 🇯🇵 knew it was airborne from the start. Here is how to ventilate your school classrooms if unable to open window. #COVIDisAirborne
9) Don’t remove your masks indoors! Even if you think you’re alone. The aerosols are still lingering in the air. #COVIDisAirborne
10) aerosol scientists were right all along, and all the airborne-denying virologists / ID “experts” who insisted on droplets 💧 need to be held accountable for their dismissive arrogance and misinformation. History won’t forget. History will remember those^ who endangered others
11) Build a CORSI-ROSENTHAL BOX 📦 do disinfect the air out of MERV13 grade air filters and a simple box fan! It’s super easy! thank you @CorsIAQ@JimRosenthal4.
12) If you wear a mask, please upgrade to more premium KN95 / KF94 / PPF2 masks. And please tighten the fit for the love of god’
13) HEPA filters are great (along with UV, CDC only recommends proper HEPA & UV for indoor air disinfection). But beware knockoffs that aren’t true HEPA. It works. Corsi Boxes next best thing.
14) But ventilation and air disinfection only part of what’s needed — Kids not only need masks, but they need HIGHER FILTRATION respirator masks, such as KN95 or KF94 or FFP2. Pediatric respirator masks are harder to find, but they are available….See 🧵👇
15) STUDENT ACTIVITIES— make CORSI-ROSENTHAL BOXES—An army of students and faculty at the University of California-San Diego are coming together to build 250 homemade air purifiers for classrooms and labs around campus.
16) Let’s follow the aerosol airborne science, not follow droplet 💧 dogma.
19) Bathrooms 🚽 are very risky - often poorly ventilated, filled with aerosolized toilet plumes when toilet lid isn’t used, and can be deceptively empty - but still infectious airborne virus remains!! Seriously, bathrooms are a real risk.
20) the virus is airborne, period. But dangerous misinfo from dogmatic @YourAlberta@AHS_media still claims it’s not airborne, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Their health chiefs all need to resign or be terminated and be replaced.
22) We should have recognized that #COVIDisAirborne long ago. We didn’t heed warnings from China that it was airborne. Was it a political or ethnic bias to dismiss China simply because Trump politicized it as a “ChinaVirus”? We should self reflect.
23) Japanese scientists 🇯🇵 also long warned it was airborne from the beginning. Was it also an ethnic or racial bias to dismiss the airborne science simply because the warnings came from Asia? Or was it inconvenient to acknowledge airborne? 🤔. #COVID19
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⚠️BREAKING—ICU Hospitalized human bird flu case in Canada now officially confirmed as H5N1. Worse, it is the same 2.3.4.4b virus clade (variant group) as the one found in BC🇨🇦 poultry and in Washington state🇺🇸! The hospitalized teenager (with no pre existing conditions) had no animal contact, does not live on farm, had “deterioration quite rapid” and now critical in ICU with ARDS. Canada officials says infectious period is 2 days **prior to symptoms** (ie asymptomatic transmission) and infectious up to 10 days.
2) Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg confirmed that the individual has avian influenza H5N1 canada.ca/en/public-heal…
3) details…
⚠️BAD UPDATE—BIRD FLU HOSPITALIZATION IN CANADIAN TEEN
Summary 🧵 of the live press conference with Canada’s British Columbia health officer.
📌The teen is in intensive care.
📌Condition is ARDS
📌Teen was healthy prior; no underlying conditions
My god—Google Search for “what is a tariff” sudden spikes the DAY AFTER ELECTION DAY. 🤦🏻♂️
2) many folks simply don’t understand what a tariff is — unless you explain it several times to them with analogies. Even then, it’s hard for many to grasp. Eg 👇
📍HARRIS IS STILL AHEAD IN PA—in terms of votes yet to be counted. She’s still +2 of what is needed to win PA, given the outstanding votes still remaining in PA cities, according to @CBSNews @NorahODonnell
Plastic cookware should not be used. Period. Especially BLACK PLASTIC cookware, that often mixes in toxic recycled electronic waste materials. DISPOSE OF ALL PLASTIC COOKWARE, especially if black colored plastic ones. Pass it on to your family.
2) Because optical sensors in recycling facilities can’t detect them, black-colored plastics are largely rejected from domestic-waste streams, resulting in a shortage of black base material for recycled plastic. So the demand for black plastic appears to be met “in no insignificant part” via recycled e-waste, according to Turner’s research. TV and computer casings, like the majority of the world’s plastic waste, tend to be recycled in informal waste economies with few regulations and end up remolded into consumer products, including ones, such as spatulas and slotted spoons, that come into contact with food.
3) You simply do not want flame retardants anywhere near your stir-fry. Flame retardants are typically not bound to the polymers to which they are added, making them a particular flight risk: They dislodge easily and make their way into the surrounding environment. And, indeed, another paper from 2018 found that flame retardants in black kitchen utensils readily migrate into hot cooking oil. The health concerns associated with those chemicals are well established: Some flame retardants are endocrine disruptors, which can interfere with the body’s hormonal system, and scientific literature suggests that they may be associated with a range of ailments, including thyroid disease, diabetes, and cancer. People with the highest blood levels of PBDEs, a class of flame retardants found in black plastic, had about a 300 percent increase in their risk of dying from cancer compared with people who had the lowest levels, according to a study released this year. In a separate study, published in a peer-reviewed journal this month, researchers from the advocacy group Toxic-Free Future and from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam found that, out of all of the consumer products they tested, kitchen utensils had some of the highest levels of flame retardants.
⚠️MASK MANDATE RETURNING TO ALL NIH PATIENT CLINICS—Effective November 4, 2024, masking will be required in all patient care & waiting rooms. Furthermore, testing for COVID, flu A, flu B, and RSV will be required for all inpatients & rooming-in visitors. cc.nih.gov/patient-servic…
2) This means wearing a mask will be REQUIRED in all patient care areas, including waiting rooms. ➡️This change is due to an anticipated increase in COVID-19 and other respiratory virus activity in the community. 😷
3) I think people should stock up on COVID tests again. The Cheapest COVID test on the U.S. market is now as low as $1.50 with special promo code “COV20”… expiring Jan or March 2025.