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Aug 13, 2024 • 12 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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@NPRKelly - hi, yesterday, Miss Emmanuel unfortunately got a crucial fact wrong - I could hear your eyebrows go up over the children 👇.



Per Reuters it spreads in children with routine close contact👇. Not animals.

ualrpublicradio.org/npr-news/2024-…
reuters.com/world/africa/a…

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Airborne respiratory aerosols are most concentrated w/in 6 feet.

As you can see below @WHOAFRO just pointed out that it is primarily inhaled.

Which means it's airborne.

Still not extremely transmissible, but more than last year, or year before.

Checking the AfricanCDC, we can see that there were 14,250 cases this year. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had 13,791 of them.

Children <15 years accounted for 68% of those cases and 85% of the death.

Human to human contact is mentioned.

africacdc.org/news-item/mpox…



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From the WHO HQ report, we can see zoonotic mentioned "in some settings" .

That is not a primary mode of transmission. That would be phrased as "in most settings."

And in any event, it seems slightly not done for us to ignore @WHOAFRO .

. who.int/publications/m…
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@WHOAFRO @NPRKelly - I prefer to deal in data, but here's a very human example. A 6 week old contracted monkeypox from being in the same room.

Now, imagine being that baby's mother being interrogated by a family member. Image
@WHOAFRO @NPRKelly And that interrogation is a very real harm being recognized on the ground.

I don't know who Ms.Emmanual's source is, but it is clearly wrong.

H/t @mdc_martinus

savethechildren.org.uk/news/media-cen…
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@WHOAFRO @NPRKelly @mdc_martinus @NPRKelly - my apologies for tagging you, but you do have a significant pulpit, and it is important to get the details right.

Here is Dr. Lewis, Technical Lead of the WHO MPox team. Sharing that it is spreading through families and community contacts via face to face respiration
@WHOAFRO @NPRKelly @mdc_martinus Now, the video is above, but Dr. Lewis touched a key point that those who try to argue it is not airborne via respiratory aerosols fail to understand.

@mdc_martinus was privy to this conversation.

SEXUAL NETWORKS are efficient transmission networks.

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@WHOAFRO @NPRKelly @mdc_martinus physical direct touch of the sexual act is necessarily the vector.

We can see this in the CDC explanation of how it can be transmitted - talking or breathing.

They changed this to this after noticing presymptomatic transmission was happening.

cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/…


Direct contact can happen during intimate contact, including: Oral, anal, or vaginal sex, or touching the genitals (penis, testicles, labia, and vagina) or anus Hugging, massage, and kissing Prolonged face-to-face interactions (such as talking or breathing)
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@WHOAFRO @NPRKelly @mdc_martinus So, let's tie it all together.

A network of people sexually involved will transmit far faster with respiratory aerosols than a network of casual acquaintances because they are directly in each other's face.

This was the same conversation had back

@WHOAFRO @NPRKelly @mdc_martinus In 2022 when @ReutersFacts decided to go after @danaparish.

I methodically explained all of this to them back then, as I am explaining it to you, now.

(@ReutersFacts - do please leave up your tweet.)
@WHOAFRO @NPRKelly @mdc_martinus @ReutersFacts @danaparish Source for WHO press conference is here:

youtube.com/live/gakLXTrSU…

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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
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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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Feb 27
From the ZeroCovid sub on Reddit.

How DO we do it?

Hyper vigilance, constant exposure calculations, discussing and taking precautions?

How do I do it?

Quick thread. I would like to hear covid conscious folks opinions on this: I have long covid (mecfs + pots + mcas). I’ve been sick to varying degrees since 2022. My life has been severely affected by this. At this point, I can’t work. I am mostly housebound, recovering slowly but I still have to spend some days in bed. Recovery from this is awful, especially because it’s not widely understood. With all that said. I still feel like, for me, a life full of hyper vigilance, constant exposure calculations, discussing and taking precautions…I can’t do it. I don’t want to live that way. How can I approach t...
I don't do it.

I don't do exposure calculations.

I don't have hyper vigilance.

I am Vax, Mask, and Relax.

For me, it's just a series of habits now. Drive to the wherever, hit parking lot, put on N95. Get out of car. Stays on until I get back into the car.
A new vaccine comes out? I get it.

I go stay in a hotel?

2nd floor Motel 6 with no shared HVAC (has the PTAC) . Open door/windows for one hour until complete air exchange.

Go through a drive through? N95 on before window is rolled down. Drive away? I roll down both to
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Feb 26
After reading a study, and reaching for my phone, if the first thing I do is check to see if I have @'d someone in the past?

That's not a good sign.

I have never @'d them, and this is not directed @ them.

But this IS a debunk thread.

And it starts with who.

/1
Study here. Before you read it?

This thread is about providing context. Read the thread, @SalvMattera's comments, AND THEN, read the study.

0/10 from me.

thelancet.com/journals/lanep…
Who paid for it? The Dutch government - who has been spectacularly almost Tegnell-like in their downplaying of LongCovid and masks.

Lead authors are from RIVM, their CDC.

RIVM was antimask even when they FINALLY recommended masks in OCTOBER 2020.

nltimes.nl/2020/10/03/dut…Image
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Dec 21, 2025
Oh, we are cooked. Just cooked.

"Brain Mitochondrial dysfunction, known for ~20 years is finally recognized as a central upstream driver of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), not just a downstream effect."

And SARS2's targeting of mitochondria is well-known.

Even in the brain.
/1 We identified dysregulation of mitochondrial and synaptic pathways in deep-layer excitatory neurons and upregulation of neuroinflammation in glia, consistent across both mRNA and protein. Remarkably, these alterations overlapped substantially with changes in age-related neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Our work, combining multiple experimental and analytical methods, demonstrates the brain-wide impact of severe acute/subacute COVID-19, involving both cortical and subcortical regions, shedding light on potential therapeutic targets within pat...
@LauraMiers, in case you don't have it.

nature.com/articles/s4358…
@LauraMiers This is yet another reason why I N95.

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Dec 17, 2025
@neiljshaw - — a few tips on your excellent article from a clean air advocate

"Consider Wearing a Mask" ?

No, "It is incredibly important to wear a well-fitting mask such as a N95, KN95, or KF94, for the best protection."

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public health with this article.

Public health is best done with simple clear instructions.

No:
"These masks act as a barrier, reducing the spread of respiratory droplets when people talk, sneeze or cough."

Yes:
"These masks act as a HEPA air cleaner for the face,
cleaning the air of respiratory aerosols when people breathe, talk, sneeze or cough."

The barrier carries the idea of an immovable wall. Unable to be penetrated by things like oxygen and CO2 - which feeds antimaskers.

As an who debunks antimaskers, it is
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