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Dec 23 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
An evening deep dive of research into various respiratory viruses, and how long they are contagious for, led me to articles citing airborne transmission of Influenza, RSV and Rhinovirus…dating as far back as 1962.

nature.com/articles/19511…
The scale at which researchers have been able to study COVID in the past 3 years is perhaps none we’ve seen before. But the research, and evidence, has been there for decades.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3039011/
“These results suggest that contrary to current opinion, rhinovirus transmission, at least in adults, occurs chiefly by the aerosol route.” (1987)
“These results support the possibility that influenza and RSV can be transmitted by the airborne route and suggest that further investigation of the potential of these particles to transmit infection is warranted.” 2010

academic.oup.com/cid/article/50…
“These findings should lead us to consider aerosolization as a mechanism of RSV transmission and could prompt hospitals to change isolation requirements from droplet to aerosol.” 2016

jwatch.org/na42095/2016/0…
The headline of this article in 2018 reads “Influenza might be spread simply by breathing, study finds.”

nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna8…
The study can be found here:

pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10…
Which brings us to the year PRIOR to the pandemic. When recommendations during virulent flu seasons were as follows:

“Avoid contact with others for at least a week and wear a mask if you leave your home.” Aug 2019

dispatchhealth.com/blog/flu-is-mo…
I’m just a lay person. A parent to a child with health complexities, which has led me to learn how to read and comb through articles and data. A person with lived experience who has since been involved in research as a parent partner.
This isn’t hard. To find information. To sift through it. To find gaps and question results. And to see repeated outcomes that should lead to a whole lot more precautionary principle being applied.
What is hard, as a lay person, is feeling utter helplessness from having any effect or say in how our public health and government and hospital leaders lead us astray.
Their dishonesty and misinformation campaign has made it near impossible for me to even encourage my loved ones to see beyond the six o’clock news headlines.
Too many cannot fathom being so blatantly lied to. Instead, we the lay people, who can read (the articles & between the lines) are left standing here looking like the anxious ones. Not trusting. Clinging to fear.

The only thing I cling to is fact.

And PH are not giving us any.
The fact is that hospitals have been in need of upgrades to prevent respiratory viruses, as well as current + future pandemics, from spreading in the air.

These upgrades are also needed in schools, transportation and office buildings.

It is beyond time that we #CleanTheAir.
#CleanTheAir
#CleanTheAir

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Dec 5
Have you watched your child struggling to breathe, they are working so hard their whole body rocks?

Have you had to hold them down while they fiercely cry, yet have no strength to properly protest the IV that now needs to be placed? /1
Have you heard the jingle from the machine that sits beside their bed, the one with big tubes connecting to their airway - giving their every breath?

Have you held them limp + lethargic, eyes staring at you to take it all away, you are helpless but to just continue holding? /2
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Have you sat and stared, fussing and tending to, wondering when you will see their eyes open again? /3
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Dec 4
Enough is enough.

Our children deserve better. Letting COVID rip through our schools and households and society has been the stupidest directive ever.

Everyone accepting the consequences of this as “normal” is delusional and complicit in unnecessary suffering.
BC Public Health, Ministry of Health, provincial health authorities, and hospitals leaders have FAILED while conceding to anti-mask, anti-vax, anti-science, anti-collective good rhetoric.
If we cannot take to the streets, I encourage you to take to their inboxes. Here are leaders that need to hear that we do not accept this level of crisis in our hospitals as “normal”. We do not accept mass infection. We do not accept sub-optimal pediatric care for our children.
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Dec 3
No healthcare solution for tomorrow, next week, next year, is going to help fast enough.

This needs to be slowed NOW.

Where is public health? Where are the leaders of @PHSAofBC & @BCChildrensHos? Why is no one in charge doing anything useful?

#bcpoli @bcndp
I cannot tell you the stress I hold, to have a child that would be passed over if we suddenly are needing to ration ventilators. Parents, you do realize that’s next, right? If we are out of staff, out of beds, out of meds, we will certainly be out of resources soon.
This is no longer a “peak” of illness. It is a tsunami that is not slowing. The waters are rising and our children are not being pulled out of harms way.

Wear a mask.
Get vaccinated.
Stay home when sick.
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Nov 12
The number of cardiac surgeries being cancelled at BCCH is problematic right now. And it’s compounded issues: too many babies being born needing immediate surgery, not enough OR nurses, no more ICU beds for post-op care. /1
There’s absolutely other departments cancelling surgeries too. Likely surgeries and procedures children have been on long wait lists for. Many will not get rescheduled now until the new year. /2
Pediatric surgeries, though many are categorized as “elective”, are urgent in their own right. Children grow quickly, and often need these surgeries done within specific age/size windows. Both for optimal results, but also optimal quality of life. /3
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Nov 6
I am on Instagram sharing news and Twitter threads on the state of our pediatric hospitals in Canada this weekend, and am capturing story after story of families of medically complex children essentially being *politely* denied care. /1
These families have many supplies and equipment at home. They are trained in nebulizers, suctioning, trach care, ventilator use, and administering O2. Our kids rely on medical technologies, yes. But they each are stable and have an established safe baseline for home care. /2
When our medically complex kids fall out of their baseline, often due to a respiratory virus, we know what threshold we can continue with care at home and when it is time to make our way to our closest pediatric ER for support. /3
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Sep 23
I went to a pharmacy today where they still have a sign on the door saying “please wear masks inside.” It’s no problem for me, I had mine on before I even reached the door. When I went to pull it open, there’s another sign near the handle “ring the bell for entry.” 1/5
So I ring the bell.

The pharmacists looks up from the counter, takes me in, then buzzes it open.

I proceed inside, and it hits me why this buzzer is likely here. She was checking to see that my mask was on. Cause having to ask people once they are inside is risky. 2/5
Some people get angry, loud, throwing insults and cussing, maybe even aggressive.

Asking people to protect others has become dangerous, and this small compounding pharmacy in the suburbs has had to resort to locked doors to protect themselves and their customers. 3/5
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