1/ Measuring indoor ventilation while traveling in the US.

Denver Airport @DENAirport security area, 20% masks. Not great, CO2 a bit high.

#covidCO2
2/ Denver Airport @DENAirport , waiting to board at the gate.

20% masked 1/3 N95 or KN94, and 1/2 surgical or cloth.

C92 a little high, if ventilation is the only layer of protection that we are relying on for most people.

#covidCO2
3/ Taxiing towards takeoff on @united.

Too high, ventilation (and this filters) not yet fully on.

#covidCO2
4/ An island of rationality. @Caltech requires well-fitting masks indoors.

CO2 was low in the coffee shop, 520 ppm

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More from @jljcolorado

May 21
1/ Ventilation levels around Colorado, USA.

I'll start reporting what I find in different places I happen to visit.

Here @shakeshack restaurant in Boulder, 950 ppm CO2, not good, esp. since lots of people and not one mask to be seen.

#CovidCO2 #ventilation Image
2/ At the hardware store @McGuckins

765 ppm, not bad. About 1/3 of people with masks. Image
3/ At the sports equipment store, @REI in Boulder.

1184 ppm. Too high. 1/4 of the customers and 1/2 of the employees with masks. Image
Read 12 tweets
Apr 7
1/ CO2 during international airplane travel

Will tweet the levels in different parts of the trip from the US to Spain with @lufthansa

Not great in the check-in area. Lots of mediocre masks (poorly fitting surgical or cloth), also some N95s

#covidCO2 Image
2/ Waiting at the security line @DENAirport

Ok, not bad given the number of people Image
3/ Departure Gate at @DENAirport. Not bad, despite lots of people.

#covidCO2 Image
Read 31 tweets
Mar 29
1/ "Our Early Confusion About Airborne COVID-19 Transmission Still Haunts Us"

Op-Ed in @TIME by @linseymarr and yours truly

I quote a few key items in this thread.

time.com/6162065/covid-…
2/ "2 yrs after the pandemic began, we finally have a good understanding of how COVID-19 is transmitted: some infected people exhale virus in small, invisible particles (aerosols). These do not fall quickly to the ground, but move in the air like cigarette smoke."
3/ "Other people can get infected when breathing in those aerosols, either in close proximity, in shared room air, or less frequently, at a distance."

Not only aerosol scientists say this. The @WhiteHouse also states this with very similar words: whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…
Read 9 tweets
Mar 24
1/ El Gobierno de EEUU (La Casa Blanca, @WHOSTP45) por fin admite claramente que la COVID-19 se transmite sobretodo por aerosoles, por el aire ("airborne" = transmision aerea)

#COVIDisAirborne #SonLosAerosoles

whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…
2/ "La forma más común de transmisión de COVID-19 es por pequeñas partículas que flotan en al aire [=aerosoles] minutos o horas después de que una persona infectada las haya exhalado"

"Hay varias estrategias para evitar respirarlas [..] y es importante limpiar el aire interior" Image
3/ La Administración Biden-Harris ha identificado la calidad del aire interior como una herramienta importante para luchas contra la transmisión de enfermedades de transmisión aérea en el Plan Nacional de COVID-19 (whitehouse.gov/covidplan/)" Image
Read 13 tweets
Feb 12
1/ Un buen artículo en @el_pais sobre los TIPOS DE MASCARILLAS y por qué las FFP2/3 o N95 son necesarias para COVID-19 en interiores

elpais.com/sociedad/2022-…
2/ ?Por qué funcionan las mascarillas? Porque el COVID se transmite sobre todo por inhalación de aerosoles que contienen virus. Hasta la OMS lo ha dicho!

Por eso es PANDEMIA DE INTERIORES (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33249484/). Y en interiores en cuando las mascarillas son más importantes
3/ Los aerosoles se pueden inhalar en proximidad, al hablar con alguien (muchos contagios).

Y se acumulan en interiores. Paredes y techo son una caja q atrapa el aire

Todos los casos de superpropagación son por aire compartido en un local cerrado:
Read 12 tweets
Feb 11
1/ ¿CUANDO podremos volver a NORMALIDAD DE ANTES DE LA PANDEMIA?

Traduzco y adapto hilo de @chrischirp, investigadora médica de @UCL, miembro de @IndependentSage en Reino Unido

"El mundo de antes del 2020 ya no existe -- aunque nos pese"

2/ Hubo graves errores, en particular:

- la pobre actuación de las autoridades de Wuhan, que permitió al virus expandirse mientras decían q "aquí no pasa nada"

- la negación de q el virus se transmite por el aire por la OMS @WHO, @CDC, y casi toda la Salud Pública mundial
3/ - La mala gestión al final del la primera ola, cuando todavía era factible eliminar al virus, pero donde se bajó la guardia demasiado deprisa

La realidad es que hemos añadido una nueva enfermedad a la población, más infecciosa y más severa que la gripe
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