Currently, surgical masks as long as within 6 feet of the CoVid+. No recirculating. gov.uk/government/pub…
All based on WHO guidance. (Foreshadow.)
The default ventilation of the ambulance is 5 ACH, IF the exhaust blower was on.
They replaced the default ventilation tho with the below HEPA filter, so they could get accurate measurements, avoiding external aerosols, and reset quickly.
"For each test, four optical particle counters
(OPCs) were placed in locations representing possible positions for a seated EMS worker treating the
patient. OPCs were placed in the positions labeled OPC 1-4 when the cot was at 0° or 30°, and positions ..."
Before going on, let's touch on the 5 ACH that all of you will be hit with in surgical masks.
Even with surgical masks on, we have certainly seen a huge number of outbreaks in hospitals with 6 ACH (better) ventilation
and continuous surgical masking.
For example, Alberta Health Services, @AHS_media, which is the embodiment of the @WHO's IPC guidance.
Stands to reason as Dr. Conly rules over AHS AND the WHO with a very clean fist.
Back to our clown car, Lindsley (yep, the famous one) found that a single cough resulted at least some worker exposure.
Given that Delta is everywhere, and we now know it takes under 3 virii to successfully infect?
Not good.
Might not be a bad idea to buy a @FixTheMask brace
in case you have to go to the hospital or even ride in an ambulance.
Or make the 3 rubber band version and keep it in your wallet or purse:
Why would there still be exposure?
"Air circulation pattern in the ambulance patient compartment generated by...
the ventilation
system. The jet of air created by the air inlet causes a clockwise recirculation pattern to form which
circulates aerosol particles throughout the compartment. Even if the cough is directed toward the rear
of the ambulance, aerosol particles are carried
toward the front by the recirculation. Thus, a worker
anywhere in the ambulance is exposed to the cough aerosol particles."
Thus, you will be exposed to the same.
But does it have to be this way?
No. Or I should say, N100.
The same solution as in this thread that was
slightly viral about 25 years of no infection in the Texas TB hospital:
"The effective
air change rates ranged from about 43 to 46 ACH in
the HEPA ambulance, and from 26 to 32 ACH in the
non–HEPA ambulance."
This provides further proof that
portable air cleaners such as the Corsi/Rosenthal Box are additive to any current air cleaning infrastructure.
And...they help remove aerosols much faster.
The message is the same because this is NOT rocket science.
Vax.
N100.
HEPA if you can afford it.
CR Box if you can't
A very cool simulation model study confirming what Dr. Noakes shared below. Thank you!
1 - An ambulance transport with a patient actively emitting a virus.
2 - A subsequent transport with an uninfected patient <- very interesting setup here.
Of course I don't wish him dead in a box. That is against Twitter's TOS.
But, anyway, what do I mean? On the one hand, pointing out that Covid is probably a bioweapon means that you can point out the silliness of not protecting yourself against it.
On the other hand, this:
Which, of course, is silly as workers in BSL2-4 labs wear N95s and better to protect against bioweapons.
Heh. I can tell an antimasker wrote that because they screwed up the logic on it.
@TheAtlantic @danengber Heh - I suspect Mr. Engber has been eavesdropping on my (and my fellow Covid Conscious) swimming safer threads. I have a new solution for showering safer for that I will be rolling out tomorrow.
For future articles by those who will come along, let me point out a few things /+
@TheAtlantic @danengber Thank you very much for pointing out that 4% of America is still masking 100% of the time! That is 13.2 million Americans.
The Masking Nation is larger than 38 states. :)
But, 18% of us masking some of the time in the SAME PEW POLL (tch tch). You would think that would be/+
@TheAtlantic @danengber be mentioned, @TaylorLorenz, by Mr. Engber, since 18% lines up pretty closely to the 21% still worried that Covid is a big deal (it is) - that he mentioned.
And suddenly, Masking Nation has 59.4 million residents. We are the largest state. Canada /+
This may be one of the most important studies in a decade.
#LongCovidBinder.
"The models produced correctly classified those with severe ME/CFS from recovered controls with an accuracy of 97%, sensitivity of 94%, and specificity of 100%. "