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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 Forget outdated 6-feet droplet 💧rule.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 Image
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 Image
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. Image
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.
17) My kid will now demonstrate how to wear a mask properly. He actually made this when he was just 7.
18) Beware of intentional fake masks worn by anti maskers to deceive others… we are living in a dystopian world these days…
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.
21) if any health officials still say anything like these below… they need to resign or be fired
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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May 2
Incredibly frustrating that the @USDA again failed to include basic information about H5N1 genetic sequences from cows. All data had dates and locations scrubbed out—only saying “USA” & “2024”, which is useless for scientists to analyze for mutation rates.
statnews.com/2024/05/02/bir…
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2) The fact that basic information — called metadata — isn’t being shared about the samples “hinders our efforts a lot,” said Gytis Dudas, a senior researcher in genomic epidemiology and metagenomics. Dudas is working with a group of U.S. and international researchers to try to make sense of what the genetic sequences say about the H5N1 outbreak in cows.
3) A number of scientists have openly questioned whether the USDA is deliberately withholding these data, or even removing more specific information. 🔥
Read 5 tweets
Apr 27
⚠️CDC WARNING FOR ALL VETERINARIANS, POULTRY, DAIRY & CATTLE FARMWORKERS, SLAUGHTERHOUSE WORKERS—New CDC guidelines now released to use PPE for high risk bird flu exposure occupations (all recommended):

📌N95 respirators
📌Goggles 🥽 or face shield 🛡️
📌Coveralls or fluid-resistant aprons
📌Head covering
📌Rubber boots with sealed seams
📌Gloves

Furthermore:
📍Designated areas for changing PPEs
📍Do not eat, drink, chew gum, chew tobacco, smoke, vape, or use the bathroom while wearing above PPE
📍Shower after work shift
📍(see full list for more details).

Glad the @CDCgov is taking this seriously. You should too. And please don’t drink raw milk 🥛! #AvianFlu #BirdFlu #H5N1
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Don’t do raw milk 🥛 please, for the love of god. I know there are many raw milk enthusiasts out there. But just take a pause until this is over? Don’t try to be a macho man about this.
3) try to drink either vegan milks like oat or soy or almond milk, or ultra pasteurized milk.
Read 9 tweets
Apr 27
Seriously. Raw milk drinkers… don’t do it. We scientists are pretty damn sure there will be some degree of active virus inside raw milk. Cats have been infected on farms—via likely raw milk. And all 6 cats with bird flu have died of rapid neurological declines, says CDC.
Raw milk drinkers… 1% of all milk being non pasteurized worries me. Too much virus to be potentially circulating.
3) I’m sticking with either vegan types of milk, or ultra pasteurized just to be safe.
Read 6 tweets
Apr 26
⚠️Bad signal—CDC confirming—“cats having neurologic symptoms, rapid decline, and death” from H5N1 #birdflu. 3 more cases in cats 🐈 on dairy farms… now 6 total. ➡️The prior 3 bird flu positive cats? All dead now. Likely more. This is mammalian adaptation.
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2) I suspect cats are drinking milk from the dairy cows on the dairy farms. This is why we shouldn’t drink raw milk 🥛 currently. Even pasteurized milk, some scientists are unsure of because of lack of safety data. See thread 🧵 below.
3) Not just cats — certain dog breeds (like beagles are highly susceptible to H5N1 avian flu too. And such dogs can facilitate their adaptation towards humans eventually (since more dogs are around people than dairy cows).

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20580396/
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Apr 25
📍Let this sink in—a world leading virologist @RickABright who has studied H5N1 bird flu says he is pausing all his milk consumption until he sees proof from both FDA & USDA that pasteurized milk is safe to drink. Pausing milk because of his concern over lack of transparent data.
Why are scientists pausing milk intake? Because there still isn’t enough data on safety of pasteurized milk. There has been data on other viruses in the past that survive pasteurization. See detailed thread 🧵 below.
3) also avoid raw and undercooked eggs for now just to be safe…
Read 15 tweets
Apr 24
Testing conducted by the FDA on pasteurized commercially purchased milk has found genetic evidence of the H5N1 bird flu virus. ➡️But the testing, done by PCR cannot distinguish between live virus or fragments of viruses that could have been killed by the pasteurization process.

The FDA said it has been trying to see if it could grow virus from milk found to contain evidence of H5N1, which is the gold standard test to see if there is viable virus in a product. 📌The FDA *does NOT explicitly say FDA laboratories were unable to find live virus in the milk samples, but nevertheless it does state that its belief that commercial, pasteurized milk is safe to consume has not been altered by these findings.

(Sound familiar? Just like blanket assuming a virus “isn’t airborne”, “cannot transmit without symptoms”, “no human to human transmission” errors during COVID). That said, I will am hopeful that no live virus will be found in confirmation. But let’s be precautious.
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2) PPE and safety googles or face shield recommended for dairy farmers and anyone handling raw milk 🥛. Also they warn about poor fitting respirators for children (who may work near dairy— like I used to help on a dairy farm as a kid in rural Pa). Image
3) people working with cattle 🐄 should also “avoid eating drinking smoking chewing gum in contaminated areas or touching eyes.” And people exposed should wear PPE should be monitored for symptoms for 10 days. Image
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