Accidental Covid nerd. Registered Psychologist with Cambridge University Psychology and Theoretical Physics degrees. 🦋https://t.co/GcpGFH3GRf
Jan 25 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
“Last year, the bill for sick leave in Sweden came to 92 billion kronor …
That's just over 14 billion kronor more than the year before …
But Social Insurance Minister Anna Tenje cannot explain why.”
FAFO in action.
tn.se/arbetsmarknad/…2/ Hmmm … this is happening worldwide. Here’s a hint from Germany:
“Germans are becoming sick more often and for longer periods of time … Waves of corona infections are now rolling through the country several times a year … the consequences are dramatically underestimated.”
Jan 14 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
We can end the pandemic wearing N95 masks (respirators).
Yet another study using real-world data demonstrating that universal masking reduces transmission by *at least* 9-fold.
This would extinguish the pandemic.
😷 #MasksWork
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1…
Dr Richard Sear uses a conservative estimate of N95 filtering efficiency (90%). Real-world ‘exhaled breath’ data shows even better performance with non-fit-tested N95s: ~98%
which would then reduce transmission by a factor of 40
stopping the pandemic in its tracks.
Nov 26, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
AIR FILTERING:
“The problem seems to be one of translating success in the laboratory to success in real-life settings”
Why? Poorly implemented interventions deliver poor results. Like wearing a mask poorly.
