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Maarten De Cock Profile picture
@mdc_martinus
May 8 • 2 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
🔥Spring 2020

@UNGeneva to the public:
👉“Transmission of #COVID19 is through droplets. It is NOT airborne.”

@UNGeneva to their own employees:
👉“…ensure that 100% fresh air is injected into the ventilated space. This measure reduces the spread of all AIRBORNE viruses.”
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Maarten De Cock Profile picture
Apr 28
That @WHO press conference on the terminology of airborne transmission was apparently not something journalists were very interested in, to say the least…
"Handwashing..was important in SARS-CoV-2".

One of the examples during this press conference which makes clear that the @WHO will never admit that they were responsible for public health misinformation (“NOT airborne”) with disastrous consequences, let alone apologise for it.
Wait… what!??

“…influenza seemed most likely to guide us in terms of COVID..and the strongest evidence from influenza at that time was felt to be the washing of hands…”

And then:
“Actually, I think the advice changed pretty rapidly, certainly at @WHO…”

🤷‍♂️
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Apr 22
“…when sciences evolves, you have to change your advice.”

Well, @JeremyFarrar, then show us the evolving science that explains this change:

👉Febr. 2020: “Airborne… the pattern is clear”(@LawrenceGostin, @WHO Director)

👉March 2020: “FACT: COVID-19 is NOT airborne”
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FACT: this was NOT about science. It was about politics, PPE shortages and the Infection Prevention and Control leaders trying to prevent at all costs and AGAINST all scientific evidence, the recommendation of airborne precautions in hospitals.
Besides, if it was all just a matter of changing advice according to "evolving science", what then was @WHO’s "very big mistake" leading to the loss of “an enormous number of lives”, as you yourself pointed out before becoming WHO's Chief Scientist?
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Mar 16
“We used an established risk analysis tool for differentiating natural and unnatural epidemics (…) to study the origin of SARS-COV-2.”

Result:

“𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐒-𝐂𝐨𝐕-𝟐.” 🧵
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“…not all of the initial cases were linked to the local wet market, pointing to the possibility that the (…) market was a source of an amplification event rather than the origin of SARS-CoV-2.”

“coronavirus research appears to have been conducted under BSL-2 and 3 at the WIV.” Image
“one of the most closely related bat viruses was housed at WIV, there was a proposal to create a SARS-CoV-2-like virus in 2018, and one laboratory was moved to a new location close to the Huanan Seafood market on December 2, 2019.” Image
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Mar 1
New Chinese study examines aerosol distribution of a laboratory spill and the probability of a laboratory acquired infection with SARS-CoV-2.

“A series of laboratory infections have raised concerns about the incidence of laboratory infections.” (1/5)

link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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“Data summarizing the past 219 laboratory infection incidents showed that 73% of laboratory-acquired infections were caused by aerosol spills (Pedrosa & Cardoso, 2011).” (2/5) Image
“Since experimental activities that generate aerosol leakage (including inoculation, aspiration, injection, centrifugation, dissection, etc.) generally occur on the operating table, the location of the contaminant release source is usually set on the operating table.” (3/5) Image
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Feb 27
You can report this @WHO post as 'EU illegal content'.

Choose 'Risk for public security', because this includes 'risk for public health'.
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Will be interesting to see what they do… @X @WHO Image
@X @WHO Can someone explain why the dangerous and false claim by the WHO, “FACT: COVID-19 is NOT airborne”, is NOT considered to be a risk for public health by @X? @Support Image
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Feb 13
1803 📖

"An epidemic raged in Glasgow, and there was scarcely a family, high or low, which escaped attacks from it. But at Glasgow they have an exceedingly well-appointed, well ventilated prison, and in that prison there was not a single case of epidemic…” (1/2) Image
“…and in consequence of the overcrowding of the hospitals, which killed some two thousand people, they took forty cases into the [well ventilated] prison, and not one of them spread.”

Found in “The Constitution of Man in Relation to the Natural Laws” by George Combe, 1803. Image
See also what @jmcrookston shared about Edwin Chadwick:
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