🐒🦠 Flight attendant infected w #Monkeypox says “a bunch of” coworkers also infected:
✅ test took 5 days to come back (!!)
✅ “there’s a bunch of us” [who work for his airline] who are infected right now
✅ will be stuck in FT Lauderdale hotel for 3 weeks
We need to know whether this plane has been thoroughly decontaminated & that hotel understands what precautions and sanitation measures must be undertaken in order to not create a MPX outbreak among staff & hotel guests (& air travelers).
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For obvious reasons (#MPX in fall/winter), I moved a most of my med check-ups to last week.
Stuns & saddens me how woefully uninformed and ill-prepared our medical facilities and most HCWs are in dealing w airborne pathogens like Covid, MPX & others.
With few exceptions, all wore useless surgical masks (some front desk staff now, no mask), and several told me they were infected at work.
One was infected at work twice, hospitalized, young, with a newborn.
My dermatologist ofc had air purifiers in all rooms & wore KN95.
That was encouraging (though I told her I would upgrade to an N95). Her nurse, though, wore a surgical mask.
Sigh.
She didn’t know they don’t work for covid prevention. I clarified and she was genuinely appreciative.
The head of Pfizer took 4 of his own Covid vaccines and is still symptomatic enough to need his $530 antiviral. And given that one course often isn’t enough, may need another $530 course.
I almost died from chronic Lyme which caused me to go into heart failure. Here’s a partial chronic Lyme ref list, mostly from @IDSAInfo MDs/ scientists, put together by Harvard ID doc.
If #Covid was not a persistent infection lingering in 🧠 ❤️ 🫁 (sometimes ruining them) —even in those w “mild” or asymptomatic cases— I wouldn’t be that concerned abt it at this point.
BUT IT IS.
You deserve to know that & decide if u consent. #LongCovid
Without doing my own research, I wouldn’t have known:
✅12 “top” NYC docs were wrong, & it was #Lyme causing my ❤️ failure (I recovered w abx!)
✅ Covid is airborne
✅ N95s or better were the only masks that worked well against it
✅ herd immunity to Covid was a charade
Doing my own research has literally saved my life & the lives of many of my loved ones.
Anyone denigrating “doing your own research” is giving horrible advice & gaslighting you. Understand that they are afraid important truths you may learn.
Don’t know how many times people need to be sucker-punched and blindsided to see this.
Do your own research when things don’t feel right.
If you want clear understanding of #monkeypox, read this excellent PDF from Nigerian CDC.
✅ can spread via micro-cuts in skin that you don’t perceive
✅can be airborne
✅isolate until you are completely healed (poor @CDCgov guidance fails here!) etc