"Strong and consistent evidence for a predominantly #AIRBORNE mode of transmission emerged early in the pandemic but was DENIED or DOWNPLAYED by WHO and national public health bodies for years."
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"Handwashing is still widely assumed to be the most important preventive measure against COVID-19, whereas precautions oriented to reducing airborne transmission (improving IAQ and wearing high-quality, well-fitting masks in high-risk settings) are ignored or downplayed."
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Thanks to @trishgreenhalgh et al for their new great article
👉"AIRBORNE PATHOGENS: CONTROLLING WORDS WON'T CONTROL TRANSMISSION"
👉The brain-evoked transformation of the course of an immune response offers new possibilities in the modulation of a wide range of immune disorders, from autoimmune diseases to cytokine storm and shock.
🚨Because, when you're infected with measles, your immune system abruptly forgets every pathogen it's ever encountered before – every cold, every bout of flu, every exposure to bacteria or viruses in the environment, every vaccination‼️ 1/
🚨The loss is near-total and permanent‼️
🚨 Once the measles infection is over, current evidence suggests that your body has to re-learn what's good and what's bad almost from scratch.
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🚨This is the so called "immune amnesia", a mysterious phenomenon that's been with us for millennia, though it was only discovered in 2012.
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LitCovid is the most comprehensive resource on #COVID19, providing a central access to 398.723 👀 relevant articles in PubMed.
The articles are updated daily and are further categorized by different research topics (eg #LongCovid) and geographic locations. 1/
✅When all students are wearing N95 respirators, the infection risk could be reduced by 96 %, the relative contribution of long-range airborne transmission increases to 95.6 %.
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✅When the fresh air per capita in the classroom is 24 m3/h/person, the virus exposure could be decreased by 81.1 % compared to the real situation with 1.02 m3/h/person.
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✅In a classroom with an occupancy rate of 50 %, after optimized arrangement of student distribution, the infection risk could be decreased by 62 %.