🧵 If the use of airborne #PPE & improving air quality in healthcare settings are to be ‘optional’ & ‘a matter of personal choice’, then we should give strong consideration to applying the same rule to the following #MedTwitter #MedEd #TeamGP 1/n
1. Handwashing before, between & after patients (& audits of it)
2. Plastic gloves & aprons
3. ‘Bare below the elbows’
4. Jewellery
5. Hair above the collar
6. Mandatory training
2/n
2. Plastic gloves & aprons
3. ‘Bare below the elbows’
4. Jewellery
5. Hair above the collar
6. Mandatory training
2/n
If you are recoiling in horror because
1. ‘Airborne transmission of COVID is controversial’
2. ‘The above are established evidence-based practices’
3. ‘COVID is mild, we can’t avoid it, we have to learn to live with it, we’re all vaccinated now anyway’,
then;
3/n
1. ‘Airborne transmission of COVID is controversial’
2. ‘The above are established evidence-based practices’
3. ‘COVID is mild, we can’t avoid it, we have to learn to live with it, we’re all vaccinated now anyway’,
then;
3/n
1. There is actually v little evidence for some of the practices above;
2. Airborne PPE has been conclusively demonstrated to reduce transmission of #COVID19 in hospitals (Cambridge study)
3. Omicron can still kill & put you on ICU
4/n
2. Airborne PPE has been conclusively demonstrated to reduce transmission of #COVID19 in hospitals (Cambridge study)
3. Omicron can still kill & put you on ICU
4/n
4. Vaccines are only ONE protective measure. They are not 100% effective; they have little effect on transmissibility
5. You need to talk to someone with #LongCovid. At 100m & counting, this is a public health disaster. This evil illness tortures& disables; it can also kill
5/n
5. You need to talk to someone with #LongCovid. At 100m & counting, this is a public health disaster. This evil illness tortures& disables; it can also kill
5/n
6. #LongCovid has driven people to suicide. There is currently no cure
7. When faced with uncertainty, one must apply the precautionary principle. Just because most car journeys will be uneventful doesn’t mean that we abandon seatbelts.
6/n
7. When faced with uncertainty, one must apply the precautionary principle. Just because most car journeys will be uneventful doesn’t mean that we abandon seatbelts.
6/n
8. We do need to learn to live with #COVID19; let’s do so safely. Mitigations allow us to go about our lives with reduced risk. #COVIDisAirborne #masks #schools #PPE #ventilation #FFP3 #ffp2 #N95 #KN95
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