Thread by @TactNowInfo

Can someone tell these people that removing universal mask use in healthcare will, with 100% certainty, lead to more outbreaks that will hurt patients' recovery, leave many with long-term disability and lead to many more unnecessary deaths?

acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…
#N95maskswork

Authors
Erica S. Shenoy, MD, PhD,
Hilary M. Babcock, MD, MPH,
Karen B. Brust, MD,
Michael S. Calderwood, MD, MPH,
Shira Doron, MD,
Anurag N. Malani, MD,
Sharon B. Wright, MD, MPH, and
Westyn Branch-Elliman, MD, MMSc

They left out all of the risks.

"Acknowledgment: The authors acknowledge Paul D. Biddinger, MD, and David A. Chambers, DPhil, for thoughtful review of the manuscript."

COVID is a highly contagious airborne disease that is very prevalent, persists in organs, including the brain, and weakens immune systems.

1.COVID causes immune dysfunction & and lymphocytopenia, making people more susceptible to all infections.

2. COVID coinfections with Flu , RSV, and other viruses, bacteria, or fungi can be more severe and more deadly.

1.COVID causes immune dysfunction & and lymphocytopenia, making people more susceptible to all infections.

2. COVID coinfections with Flu , RSV, and other viruses, bacteria, or fungi can be more severe and more deadly

3. COVID weakens the immune system. Viruses that were being suppressed can reactivate. Hep B, Epstein-Barr, Varicella, which is shingles when reactivated, Herpes and other viruses that may have been suppressed for years can reactivate.

4. The immune system can recover, but it takes weeks for some and beyond 8 months for other people.

5. During recovery, it is very important to avoid getting infected with other viruses, bacteria, or fungi because those infections can stall or reverse progress in recovery.

6. N-95 masks worn properly are very effective at significantly reducing exposure to airborne pathogens, like COVID, RSV, Flu, etc.

The recommendation should be to stop using surgical masks. Use N-95 masks/respirators universally to protect patients from airborne pathogens.

COVID: An increasingly more efficient, airborne immunosuppressive disease that can persist, accelerate aging, causes vascular, musculoskeletal, neurological & cognitive dysfunction. It can infect & persist in the brain, lungs, & every organ system.

https://twitter.com/TactNowInfo/status/1601171565562892289?t=-VViBsGQW92IelmQ4StbSg&s=19

If hospitals invested in the ventilation and filtration systems necessary to limit transmission, then we could talk about removing universal masking.

We need filtration that removes 99% of pathogens from the air, with enough fresh air to maintain CO2 below 600 ppm.

Deaths from pneumonia, flu, and COVID are still above the pre pandemic baseline and will very likely start increasing again with the latest variants and the removal of masks.

Removing universal masks will ensure that more people suffer and die.

Removing universal mask use will ensure more immunocompromised become infected with more than one variant, increasing the odds of new recombinant variants that are better equipped to evade the latest treatments and our immune system.

Removing universal mask use in healthcare settings ensures hospitals become a disease spreading death trap for many patients and a breeding ground of new variants.

Many people who need care will be afraid to go to the hospital.
Removing masks is a negligent dereliction of duty