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Jan 23, 2022 10 tweets 6 min read Read on X
In late December, I started to pull/chart the @AHS_media Acute Care Outbreak data again, for the Omicron wave.

Given that Airborne Transmission is still unmitigated in AHS Hospitals, it's not surprising that things have spiraled out of control very rapidly.

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Here are the cumulative cases and deaths linked to these outbreaks, since I started pulling the reports on Dec. 10th.

These are patients or healthcare workers that caught COVID while in the hospital. Some patients then died.

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Here are the total new cases from this past week, by Hospital.

The worst offenders this week are Villa Caritas, RAH and RGH.

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The Villa Caritas outbreak is especially horrifying. This is a very vulnerable population, and they've allowed virtually every patient to become infected.
Per this article, 80% of patients were infected. 3 days later, 21 more people have caught it.

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cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
Why is this happening?

A small poll of 50 HCWs in Alberta found only 25% of hospitals are using Continuous N95s during Omicron. 42% are using Targeted N95s for COVID+, and a staggering 33% are still following pure #DropletDogma with surgical masks for everything but AGMPs.

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Why are targeted N95s for COVID+/sus patients not enough?

Because COVID is EVERYWHERE, and Airborne transmission often occurs during the presymptomatic or early symptomatic phase, where patient screening fails.

Klompas has been very clear on this.

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acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…
Why are Hospitals, IPAC officials and prominent Alberta ID Docs so resistant to Airborne mitigation and Continuous N95 use?

There are some very powerful ID Docs in Alberta (@WHO committee leads), who have staked their careers on #DropletDogma.

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With the scientific consensus shifting on Airborne, these folks are now sowing doubt in the efficacy of N95s... a tried and true PPE used in many other industries to prevent inhalation of hazardous aerosols.

The basis for this is an Ouroboros of BS:

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They claim there isn't sufficient evidence for Continuous N95s and HEPA filtration.

They state we need to wait for more RCTs and/or "a signal".

"The signal" has arrived. It takes the form of 700 infected people and 10 dead (so far) in just 1 month.

Good thing we waited.

/end
Update from Misericordia, which has had 29 individuals infected in this recent surge, including 11 just last week.

Gee, I wonder why this is happening?

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Nov 29, 2022
REMINDER: The nurses lost this lawsuit. They were not given N95s. The IPAC Directors went up against the nurses, arguing for Surgical masks.

Those SAME IPAC Directors have now released a study claiming surgical masks are noninferior to N95s.

Gee... 🤔🧐
cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…
Like, literally, the same people that obstructed HCW's from accessing N95s during peak COVID, who signed an expert witness statement in a legal affidavit AGAINST THE NURSES/N95s, have now released a study claiming they were right... pheeeww! 😅

These are the 30 Ontario IPAC Doctors and Directors that signed a witness statement AGAINST the Nurses having regular access to N95s.

They went ALL-IN as a discipline.

So this new RCT, that many of them authored, could only have one possible outcome...
Read 9 tweets
Nov 29, 2022
Yeah... no shit you hypothesized medical masks would be noninferior.

It's almost like your credibility, job, and liability were at stake?

We'll alert the OH&S profession that they don't have to use Respirators for asbestos anymore, since some ID Docs proved they don't work.
Gee, why would these folks want a trial proving medical masks are noninferior? 🤔🧐
Read 5 tweets
Sep 14, 2022
Recap:

For 2.5 years, Bonnie Henry (BC PHO) obstructed proper mitigations in schools (respirators, ventilation, HEPA filters) and downplayed transmission risk to children and transmission in schools.

This forced an #InfectionMandate on the non-consenting children of BC.

1/6
While this #InfectionMandate ripped through schools, Bonnie Henry carefully studied her unwitting subjects.

From the safety of her home office, she tallied the number of children her policies successfully infected. She watched the sero-prevalence tick higher, with a grin.

2/6
She documented the findings of her grand, population-wide experiment in a preprint and submitted to all the top journals to boost her h-index.

After all, maybe The Lancet will accept the manuscript 🤩.

3/6
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Jul 10, 2022
Thread for PH/ID communicators, who have taken a centrist position between anti-vaxxer/COVID-deniers and "Zero-COVID Zealots":

What should young, triple-vaxxed people be doing during this BA.5 wave?

Should they be avoiding infection via respirators, ventilation/filtration?
/1
The vast majority of previously cautious people, now believe the Pandemic is over. They aren't masking, they go to crowded/indoor events.

Those of us still taking precautions are made to feel like extremists.

Do you think we're zealots for continuing to avoid infection?

/2
Many of the centrist communicators advocate for continued mask use.

Some will even nod towards improving ventilation/filtration.

(Although many are casting doubt on the effectivity/feasibility of these engineering interventions - despite this being outside their expertise).

/3
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May 17, 2022
Well well well... look who's suddenly trying to get on the right side of history. 👀

I guess we're officially allowed to consider SARS2 as a plausible hypothesis.... Rather than "exclude" it or dismiss it as "unlikely" before serology data was available.
Welcome to "COVID Hepatitis Twitter™️"!

The water's fine!
I'm also glad the experts have now given us permission to #ReleaseTheSerology
Read 5 tweets
Mar 14, 2022
Thought:

The vast majority of the PH/ID MD COVID minimizers, were/are fervent Airborne-deniers.

They over-emphasized hand hygiene and sowed doubt in masks, HEPA filters and respirators.

I'm sure they were doling out this bad advice to close family and friends too.

1/5
I'm sure they were following this advice in their own lives. Shunning HEPA filters and respirators for gaping surgical masks.

Given this, how many of them likely got infected? How many times? How many onward transmissions did they fail to stop to and amongst family/friends?

2/5
How does one grapple with this? What do you tell yourself, your family, your friends who are anxious about their infection?

You contrive 2 truths:
1) Infection is inevitable
2) Infection is harmless

You then repeatedly state those truths, to reassure yourself and them.

3/5
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