โMost of the serious shortcomings in protection of workersโฆfrom contracting covid at work arise from the authorities & many employers ignoring legislation & precautionary principles as well as inadequate enforcement, rather than from the existing law being unfit for purpose.โ
'SARS-CoV-2 can be frequently detected in hospital air since 1:6 air samples were contaminated with SARS2. Airborne SARS2 RNA was detected throughout the hospital, regularly beyond the social distance of 2m from patients even extending up to 7.6m away from the nearest patients.'
'The nature of air contamination revealed the existence of patient-generated, size-fractionated, & infectious aerosols & that...only fine [<5microns] aerosols contained viable SARS-CoV-2.' @drkristenkc@Don_Milton
'@timspector said the UK was now an international exception in not listing cold-like symptoms as likely indicators of covid infection, noting that the @CDCgov, @WHO & European countries...had all updated their advice.'
The Case for Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI)
Report for ๐ฌ๐ง & ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Gov, Oct 2020
'As a means of preventing airborne transmission of SARS2 we advocate the immediate installation of...upper room 254nm UVGI in indoor public spaces with low AC/hour &/or recirculated air.'
'For the current pandemic...very low doses of UVGI are required to inactivate SARS2 & can be delivered in around twenty-five minutes at current safety limits.'
'As the safety of far-UV-C devices is demonstrated, raising the current regulatory limits would allow lamps to deployed at increased intensity levels & reduce the virus inactivation times to seconds.'
โLet us hope that certain problems with the influenza vaccine โ such as the failure of vaccination, in some years, to produce the desired increase in protection in previously vaccinated people โ do not occur with the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.โ
โThe Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) to COSHH Regulation 7 states that if employers cannot prevent exposure to a biological agent, they should take steps to ensure that it is controlled adequately & consider all the requirements set out in regulation 7(3), (4), (6) and (7).โ
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โThey [employers] should apply the principles of good practice and use each requirement where, and to the extent that:
โข it is applicable;
โข the assessment carried out under regulation 6 shows that it will lead to a reduction in risk.โ
'@NHSEngland analysis supports an initial hypothesis that โ if the model of paediatric critical care does not change โ the services will not be sustainable or affordable in the medium to long term.'