Thread by @cv_cev

🚨Prof Chris Whitty - #CleanAir💨

"It's a very important point [.] we should have taken ventilation in public buildings much more seriously."

He was concerned about the cold. We will just need to make sure that warm air is used when needed!

1/ 👏 CVF's barrister @AdamWagner1

Whitty was far less good on masks.

He seems to think that "more research is needed"?

Yet....

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He would wear FFP3 for multi-drug resistant TB.

Or an aerosol generating procedure.

Why not a surgical mask?
Since there is 'weakness' evidence...

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He sides with Prof Susan Hopkins on "weak evidence" and has chosen to selectively understand the expert IPC witnesses.

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But when challenged on the IPC expert witness evidence (of which he is not an expert), he pushes back and focuses again on "weak evidence" for FFP3s and there isn't "sufficient unianimity" and since it is "much harder to use" it wouldn't be appropriate.

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He doesn't support the public wearing FFP3s, although there is nothing to prevent them from doing so.

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On FFP2, he talked about HSE guidance rather than answering the question.

Regarding those who wore FFP2/3s and were told to remove them on the door, he is still worried about dirty masks (even though many brought a fresh packeted mask), but says it is "freedom of choice".

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He doesn't think CEV people (indeed CV people too) should have been told to wear better masks (FFP3 - or FFP2!) because the evidence isn't there.

Even though, as you saw earlier, in circumstances where he may feel vulnerable to multi-resistant airborne TB he would wear one.

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