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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston 🌬️🔅#COVIDisAirborne

Dec 24 • 4 tweets • 3 min read

SARS-CoV-2 in tonsils of asymptomatic children.

Miura, et al Asymptomatic SARS-COV-2 Infection in Children’s Tonsils’. Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology 88 (1 November 2022): 9. doi.org/10.1016/j.bjor…

#SARSCoV2 #tonsils #asymptomatic

And almost twenty years earlier, measles in tonsils of asymptomatic children.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

#measles #tonsils #asymptomatic

Fun to watch the same things come up again and again with respect to each virus/pathogen. 🤷

mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/1…

(Looks like Mr. Erratic has reversed the ban on these links.)

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Low risk that fomites transmit SARS-CoV-2.

Just a thread of references.

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Reminder N95s are only rated for 95% protection, although that's closer to 98-99% real world. That's still 1% getting through. It wasn't necessarily eyes.

https://twitter.com/mkarolian/status/1606488123982385152

This is an excellent chart.

Lesson: layer protections.

https://twitter.com/mkarolian/status/1606488123982385152

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I cannot begin to imagine how many hours of work went into each study, then the meta, which concluded there is low quality evidence condoms are effective.

And that the best evidence was a trial where they literally handed people condoms at a motel room.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

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How science can be influenced.

link.springer.com/article/10.105…

Strategies to influence science. How many can you spot in use today?

It's fun "Where's DARVO" for everyone!

I can tell you right now, sophisticated industry pays for scientific studies to be done, so they can cite the studies later in their own support. Of course they do.

When they commission studies, they are skewed towards supporting their position, not neutral on science. Period.

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Remember, if there is a wave AFTER the holidays, it's because you didn't spread ENOUGH virus DURING the holidays and thus your immunity debt needs repaying

That wave should, though, mean we are protected at Easter

Now, remember, if there is a wave AFTER Easter it's because...

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How are the epis and other "immunity debt experts" even spouting off about this new concept before they explain why we didn't get the herd immunity they promised? 🙃

From a virus with an R0 more than at least 6 to start, and with waning immunity, I really wanted to know, too 🙃

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