Sad to leave beautiful Vancouver today.

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Thank you @jvipondmd for your impassioned presentation yesterday & the stimulating conversation at dinner. Your contribution to saving people & the planet by doing things right is inspiring.

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Thank you Hospital Engineers for sharing your expertise to prevent infections during hospital construction.

Thank you for all you do to keep patients safe in all of our healthcare facilities all of the time.

Thank you for supporting @IPACCanada!

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Thank you @MeetVancouver @CanadaPlace for having such great ventilation!

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Thank you Dr. Kowalski for your very detailed technical brief on UV.

It was fascinating to see the impact of genomics, orientation & medium on efficacy.

And it was thought provoking to see the modeling that shows UV could reduce COVID case waves by 98%.

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Thank you @EdRubinstein for teaching us that Infection Prevention & Sustainability are not in tension - in fact implementing things like reusables & sophisticated engineered systems are key to both.

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Thank you Dr. Titus Wong for your courage & insight to lead BC IPC in researching & implementing Engineered Infection Prevention solutions into Healthcare Facilties & mass transit.

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Thank you, Dr Klompas, for encouraging us to challenge Dogma and to accept new paradigms as the evidence presents itself.

Thank you clearly laying out your personal journey to switch from "Droplet" to "Airborne" paradigm for SARS2 transmission.

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Thank you to @CanadamasQ, Swenco Medical, @PADMmedical @CAPPEM2 for donating Made in 🇨🇦 respirators & plant based medical masks to conference attendees.

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Thank you @VicLeungIDdoc for teaching us about C auris.

Thank you as well for your extraordinary leadership throughout the pandemic - teaching about airborne transmission, adding air purifiers to patient rooms, & moving vulnerable LTC residents into better ventilated spaces. ImageImage
Many thanks to @keithmcglone55 for doing an excellent job on the Scientific Committee & for his professional moderation of many sessions.

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Thank you to Kelli & Heather & Carly & all the organizers for a great conference.

A special thank you to Gerry, for her unwavering commitment to IPAC, to patients, to industry partners, to collaboration, to professionalism, to progress, & to always doing the right thing right.
It was great to catch up with so many ppl after 3 years.

It feels like such a privilege now, the things we took for granted before.

The renewed spirit was palpable & energizing.
I especially want to thank everyone who showed such keen interest & enthusiasm for Engineered Infection Prevention technologies & better masks & respirators Made in 🇨🇦.

You've certainly renewed my optimism for a better healthcare future & for that I can't thank you enough. ☺️
Safe trip home everyone!

Stay healthy.

'Look forward to seeing you next year. 😊 ImageImageImage

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Jan 18
Breaking News:

DROPLET TRANSMISSION

IS A MYTH
Phony as a $3 dollar bill

Fake news

Total bupkus

Wild-ass 19th century speculation that took on a life of its own

Despite all rhyme or reason
There is no evidence to support droplet transmission at all

Zero

It doesn't exist

Like Santa Claus & the Tooth Fairy
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Jan 11
Bird Flu Vaccine

Norway - ordered enough for 100% of their population

U.S. - ordered enough for 2% of population immediately & is supporting mfrs to scale up production

Canada - ordered zero; no production plans; will order if & when pandemic is announced by WHO or other
This is not unexpected due to differences in recent leadership styles, politics & cultures of these 3 nations
Cash Reserves & Sovereign Wealth Funds

Norway - $2 trillion

US - $230 billion

Canada - $120 billion
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Jan 11
Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) was established in response to SARS1 to protect the nation against future outbreaks, epidemics & pandemics

PHAC annual budget:
> $1 Billion

PHAC number of employees:
> 4,000
So...

How did that work out for us?

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Over 100,000 dead Canadians

4 million Canadians w Long Covid

99.9% of Covid cases not reported since 2022

COVID deaths under reported

Number of Covid-HAIs not reported
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For more than two years now, CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) has pushed back against science, the public, HCWs, patients, Long Covid victims, & common sense to introduce better airborne protections for healthcare workers and patients
The last time the guidance for "Airborne, Contact, & Droplet Precautions" was updated was 2007

A lot has changed since then

We now know most diseases are transmitted "through the air"

In fine aerosols

Not large "droplets"

And we face numerous airborne disease threats now
10 voting members of HICPAC determine the risk of airborne transmission to 345 million Americans & 42 million Canadians

Putting at risk every year:

~90% who will interact with healthcare in some fashion

~10% who will be treated in hospital

~10 million Healthcare Workers
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In the learn something new every day category...

I'm getting some nuclear medicine bone scans done this morning to look at the extent of my infections... Image
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So I did a bit of research & learned Canada is a world leader in new production technology for Technetium, Tc-99m, the radioactive isotope used for 85% of scans worldwide

About 30 million scans per year
I knew Canada had been a major world supplier of radioactive imaging materials for years until the aging Chalk River nuclear facility was closed in 2018

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Nov 16, 2024
I'm concerned that ppl may think all we need to do is follow ASHRAE 241 or deliver 6 ACH to ensure safe indoor air

When that fails to stop the pandemic, there will be a backlash against investing in Safe Indoor Air
This reminds me of the over promise of vaccines

They were never going to stop the pandemic

Neither will ASHRAE 241 or 6 ACH
ASHRAE 241 & 6 ACH are a GREAT FIRST START

But they are only the start
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