You might be wondering how spraying healthy humans with a known pathogen that can cause long term disease or death can ever pass ethics.
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The risk of the study is compared to the risks of not doing the study, and what the chances are that a person will be exposed to the same risks without doing the study.
As you might imagine, the chances of a person not being exposed to COVID in a country like the UK is very, very low…
Been googling. A smattering of case studies of kids with hypertension after having COVID… possibly transiently… and a huge Korean study where they talk about lockdowns and cardiometabolic risk factors… but then note that ->
“In the BMI-specific analysis, an increase in the prevalence was prominent in the normal BMI group.”
Every time I read those tweets about masks (respirators) not working I lose a brain cell.
Of course they work.
They’ve been used in industry for ages.
They’ve been used to provide care to patients with serious illnesses, protecting the HCW for ages…
These groups that tweet garbage about respirators not working… what do they propose? We just leave the sick to die without care cos we risk more than 50% chance of death if we go near them?
I’ve been working with dangerous diseases on and off my whole career. Dangerous chemicals and dusts too.
Complete nonsense to say masks don’t work. I would have had a MDRTB brain abscess ages ago if that were true.