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@DrEricDing
Oct 8, 2021 • 23 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
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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 Forget outdated 6-feet droplet đź’§rule.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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Now economists know how scientists felt back when he pushed “hydroxychloroquine”
2) HCQ preventing COVID deaths has been debunked— and it’s now been linked with deaths.

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My god—Earthquake (a Richter ~7.7) causes a skyscraper to collapse in Bangkok. Hope all the construction workers made it out.
2) this skyscraper collapse was captured from a distant car’s dashcam while on a highway

3) another view of the collapse. For those who lived through 9/11, this collapse is a bit triggering.
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Welp—kiss public health & medical research infrastructure in America goodbye for the next 4 years. RFK Jr plans to cut 10,000 jobs from Trump HHS. Image
2) this will not make America healthy again… not by a long shot. So dangerous and irresponsible.
3) “Kennedy is set to announce Thursday the planned changes, which include axing 10,000 full-time employees spread across departments tasked with responding to disease outbreaks, approving new drugs, providing insurance for the poorest Americans and more”.
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SICKENING—Trump’s DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown University Medical School—who is here legally on an H1B visa that doesn’t expire until 2027, and has committed no crimes. Trained in the U.S. at Ohio State, University of Washington, and Yale as a **transplant surgeon** (one of the most difficult surgical fields in all of medicine!!!), she is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants, which cannot be easily replaced. Her phone was seized at the border. A federal judge handed down an injunction against her deportation—but she was already deported on a plane en route to Paris. Brown’s kidney transplant clinic is now strained by her deportation.Image
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PROVIDENCE — A Rhode Island doctor who had traveled to Lebanon to see her parents was prevented from re-entering the United States at Boston’s Logan International Airport on Thursday evening, her lawyer and a colleague said.

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, who lives in Providence, has been working at Brown Medicine’s Division of Kidney Disease & Hypertension since last July, and she [has] been part of the transplant service at Rhode Island Hospital, according to Dr. George Bayliss, the organ transplant division’s medical director. She has been studying and working in the United States for about six years, he said Friday.

The US consulate in Lebanon had issued her an H-1B visa, which is given to people in specialty occupations requiring expertise. The visa was valid through mid-2027, said Thomas S. Brown, an attorney representing her and Brown Medicine.

Alawieh was detained when she returned to Logan airport, and family members are afraid that she is about to be deported to Lebanon, he said.

“We are at a loss as to why this happened,” Brown said. “I don’t know if it’s a byproduct of the Trump crackdown on immigration. I don’t know if it’s a travel ban or some other issue.”

He said her phone has been seized and he has not been able to contact Alawieh.

Bayliss said a lawyer filed a petition with the US District Court in Massachusetts, and Judge Leo T. Sorokin issued an order saying Alawieh should not be moved outside of Massachusetts without 48 hours notice. But he said that message apparently did not reach immigration officials in time, and a plane carrying Alawieh left for Paris.

“This is outrageous,” Bayliss said in an interview. “This is a person who is legally entitled to be in the U.S., who is stopped from re-entering the country for reasons no one knows. It’s depriving her patients of a good physician.”

A US Customs and Border Patrol spokesperson, Ryan Brissette, was not able to immediately answer questions about Alawieh on Friday evening.

Bayliss said Alawieh graduated from the American University of Beirut medical school and came to the United States for a nephrology fellowship at Ohio State University. She then landed a transplant fellowship at University of Washington and had a residency in the Yale hospital system before starting at Brown Medicine last July, he said.

“She’s really a very humble and able person,” Bayliss said. “She takes care of her patients. She is talented and thoughtful and a great addition to our division.”

Bayliss said Alawieh went to Lebanon to visit parents and planned to be gone for two weeks. He said she texted a colleague at 6:30 p.m. Thursday saying she was back in Boston, but then her family heard from immigration officials.

Dr. Paul Morrissey, surgical director of the organ transplant division at Brown University Health, said Alawieh works on getting people in Rhode Island on the list for a kidney transplants, and that’s a crucial job at a time when there has been a lot of focus on the need for kidneys and their equitable distribution.

He said Alawieh should not have had any problem traveling out of the country with an H-1B visa.

“It’s an unfortunate set of circumstances,” Morrissey said. “It’s putting a strain on our office. Her work has been exceptional.”

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3) There is a new Trump ban against many countries, including tourist visa bans against all countries in the red and orange lists. This list is still tentative. And it shouldn’t have affected people with existing visas, such and the Brown kidney transplant surgeon Image
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again… once upon a time, liberals did have our own “Leftist Joe Rogan”… his name was Joe Rogan…

Here he is advocating for socialized medicine, healthcare for all, and supporting labor unions to protect workers.
2) Recall, Rogan was once pro Obama and pro Bernie Sanders, and pro Yang Gang, and anti Trump. It’s sad he has since failed to the dark side. But like Vader… maybe he can be redeemed someday and come back to the light.
3) *Fallen, not failed (above).

Joe Rogan was also pro gay rights and pro DACA and pro helping inner city communities that suffer economic and social injustices. It’s sad what he has become. I feel we should try to pull & welcome him back someday. Everyone can be redeemed.
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BREAKING—FDA suddenly cancels meeting to update next season’s flu vaccines, with zero explanations. Any delays will jeopardize next year’s vaccine supply chain. Image
2) Folks who follow me know that I’m no bullshitter. I criticized past pandemic response right and left, and have called balls and strikes without bias. And I often say things that doctors & epidemiologists are whispering among themselves but don’t say publicly. (Cough cough) ⬇️
3) While I don’t recommend hoarding… I think stocking up on flu antivirals, which you can obtain prophylactically (preventively) from doctors if you ask nicely why you’re high risk, can be a good idea. I know many doctors, epidemiologists and virologists who do for their family.
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