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Apr 28, 2023 9 tweets 5 min read Read on X
Let's have a good old fashioned Mask Conference rater!

I haven't done one in quite a while, but since @RWalensky is killing the map?

Send me your best photos/videos of the nation's best (at infecting the nation).

While Walensky is a political employee? Not one fought for
us.

To start? The CDC letting us know that "Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officers investigate and respond to disease outbreaks and other #PublicHealth threats. "

Except...

They said not to call it an outbreak regarding their own outbreak.

Hmm.

I wonder where we can find a definition of outbreak, @CDCMMWR ?  CDC official said the agen...
Two or more patients with COVID-19 are discovered to be linked. Like at a conference of Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officers.

Ouch.

cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…. Two or more patients with C...
Not a strong start for #CDCEIS23.

Not one respirator to be seen. 0/10.

But transmission? Could be 8/8! @friendlycovid19 - what say you?

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Ooo. Another bad score on the old respirator transmission prevention scale. 0/10.

Transmission? 4/4!

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Oho! 22/22 on the transmission scale. Which, of course, is a 0/0 on the respirator scale.

It really is too bad that Covid is not over.

But we got to see those CDC smiles! Nothing like seeing the bright white of victorious smiles.

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As a matter of fact, there was only one. ONE respirator.

That's a failing ZERO out of TEN for the group that's supposed to parachute in and save us.

They couldn't save themselves if they tried.

Might as well go buy Vitamin D from Mercola as pay attention to @RWalensky. Image

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May 10
Great article by @EmilyJoshu here.

Emily, there's another article in this that's even more shocking.

The aerosols from milking have long been discussed by many of us on X.

People like myself, @sri_srikrishna, @AbraarKaran have long advocated for comfortable aerosol
protective gear like PAPRs. But, have been ignored by the USDA who, of course, thought it was only contaminated milking gear like the claw.

But there is one more source of aerosols besides cow breath.

The wastewater. When you spray anything you generate huge amounts of Image
aerosols. And that farm wastewater, filled with milk dumped from being full of H5N1, gets reclaimed and reused.

Those milk and wastewater lagoons are on most dairy farms (my grandfather owned a dairy farm).

And there's something you should know.

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Read 15 tweets
May 7
Humanity's hubris vs the precautionary principle.

The virus, ANDV, will do what it will do. Pandemic? History tells us "NO." But history is in the past.

Let me show you what the studies tell us - and why I am livid that the WHO is insisting that surgical masks are ok.

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Incubation time, or how long until symptoms show up?

The high risk time frame is 14–32 days. Not to put too fine a point on that, but that can mean a full month later

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC32…

There have been some out to 8 weeks, but let's ignore those

gov.uk/guidance/andes… Image
Clinical features The most important complication of ANDV infection is HCPS, which is associated with a high mortality rate. Milder illness without significant cardio-respiratory compromise may also be seen. Illness usually develops 2 to 4 weeks following exposure, but incubation periods as early as 4 days and up to 8 weeks have been described.
But, what receptor does the ANDV attach to?

PCDH1 (protocadherin-1) is primarily expressed in the airway epithelium of the respiratory system, especially in the bronchial and nasal epithelial cells, and in pulmonary endothelial cells.

So, that means in the URT and the LRT.
Read 41 tweets
May 6
@mvankerkhove - a follow-up question on today's press conference.

In this bit, you were thanked for being very clear.

But, you said that the medical personnel taking care of those sick would be wearing PPE.

N95s are not PPE. They are Respiratory Protective Equipment. /1
Surgical masks are PPE.

So, is the WHO advising them to wear surgical masks or N95s/FFP2/KF94/KN95 (respirators)?

Second followup, @mvankerkhove, you referred to "really close contacts"

Close contacts are defined by the WHO as within 3 feet.
Cases 1 & 2 were close contacts.

How did the other cases get it? I realize you cannot possibly have an answer...but you are labeling this as "really close contact" for those cases - as well.

Staterooms are typical 2 person rooms.

It doesn't add up. Image
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Read 12 tweets
Mar 26
I've become a bit of a Dental Nerd after just getting savaged by avoiding the dentist due to COVID.

But, now, I have a Dental Nasal PAPR, know all about Stephan's Curve, use a waterpik, Oral-B iO Series 10, chew 8 pieces of xylitol gum - and the dentist just said that.....
He has never seen anyone reverse course so perfectly before.

"Immaculate."

And bonus...I ran into a fellow masker in his lobby!!

She had never heard of Readimask, so I was super happy to share the Good Word with her.

Sharing the Good Word - not COVID!
Read 4 tweets
Mar 16
Now, this is a very interesting PREPRINT.

We've all heard that shingles vaccination reduces risk of Alzheimer's.

And we all know that Covid increases the risk of Alzheimer's by 50-80%.

What happens when you mix them? Will the vaccination offset a different disease?

/1 Opposing effects of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 infection and recombinant zoster vaccination on the risk of late-onset Alzheimer disease  View ORCID ProfileCarly M. Rose, Shiying Liu,  View ORCID ProfileWilliam S. Bush, Jonathan L. Haines, Scott M. Williams,  View ORCID ProfileDana C. Crawford N3C Consortium doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.21.26344555 This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.
Yes.

But by how much? Conclusions and Relevance SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 infection and recombinant zoster vaccination are modifiable risk factors for LOAD among older individuals, with a modestly significant interaction between the two. Recombinant zoster vaccination reduced LOAD risk regardless of sex and race, though the protection is greater in those without documented COVID-19 infection. Recombinant zoster vaccination and reduced exposure to COVID-19 infection in the later decades of life reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer disease over at least a five-year period.
Useful for below - "Late-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD; onset age ≥65)"

"odds of LOAD are 16% higher among those with at least one reported COVID-19 infection" Image
Read 7 tweets
Mar 3
A doctor complaining about wearing N95s? Thread foreshadow in the gif 👇.

Dr. Sax, you should read this.

The arrogance of medical doctors thinking they know better than the CDC NIOSH and OSHA?

This comes as no surprise.
Imagine if an asbestos worker, or a tech working in BioSafety Lab was complaining about this.

But somehow, doctors making over $200,000 get carte blanche and and a piece in the @NEJM Voices.

And he does have a loud voice.
This is Dr. Sax, Clinical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases (ID), at THE Harvard hospital. In 2014, he wrote about how ID docs only make $174,000.

He probably makes northwards of $269,000.

This is very, very relevant.

You see, he is put out by the inconvenience Image
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