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If you have to say goodbye to your dog, be there in person. Hold them. Don't let them die with just the vet. #CoVidIsAirborne #Masks4All #PZC.
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Apr 25 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Transmission "...AMONG cows not showing symptoms."

That means no lesions on teats. No soupy milk.

And they still have transmission. Asymptomatic transmission.

The question to ask the CDC, @Alexander_Tin @HelenBranswell in the next meeting?

When asymptomatic transmission was revealed for nCov-19, that's when the CDC knew it was airborne, right?

Now, they may try to get squirrelly by pointing to other asymptomatic transmissions that are supposedly droplet.

Probably these. All airborne.

Apr 24 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
44 people have been considered to be exposed to HPAI. 23 actually tested. 1 tested positive.

No idea what "exposed" means. Since they seem to be operating on droplet dogma? These are not good numbers, @michaelmina_lab.

The laggy monitoring of ERs has had nothing.

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Since I spent yesterday in an ER watching them run around? This is.... inefficient approach.

Waste water would be far better.
Testing for ALL of the exposed workers best, yet.

Apr 23 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I am impressed with the marketing team of the USDA. HPAI-infused beef almost sounds good after reading a two page PDF that had 3 buried sentences.

Ready to get fired up?

They have been evaluating the milk on the shelves this entire outbreak.

Which means they knew. They knew
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Now, that sentence,

"To date, we have seen nothing that would change our assessment that the commercial milk supply is safe. "

Read it again, while realizing that the USDA has been regulatory captured by Big Ag.

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Apr 23 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
In the ER with Mom and Aunt, for my Aunt.

Aunt is in the Flomask. Mom is in the Vflex. I am in the 3M 8511 for comms reasons.

We are sitting right next to the sliding doors for ventilation purposes. To our right are the rest of the people and their puffy clouds.
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Image Timed it so we would be in before noon - when it starts getting busy.

In triage, they tried taking her temperature via her mouth.

"Oh, she's immunocompromised as I am and live with her. Can you do the forehead or armpit?"

'No problem.'

Notice how I controlled the interaction
Apr 23 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Ready for the ER...

On all of our phones because the hospital staff will be telling us masks are not necessary.

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cdc.gov/respiratory-vi…
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Apr 23 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
But, wait a second...the CDC is JUST looking at ER visits.

@RickABright @michaelmina_lab both expressed concern over that.

And now we have lots of probable cases with workers not wanting to get tested because of low milk prices.

AND we have waste water spiking?
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Only one human case linked to cattle has been confirmed to date, and symptoms were limited to conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye. But Russo and many other vets have heard anecdotes about workers who have pink eye and other symptoms—including fever, cough, and lethargy—and do not want to be tested or seen by doctors. James Lowe, a researcher who specializes in pig influenza viruses, says policies for monitoring exposed people vary greatly between states. “I believe there are probably lots of human cases,” he says, noting that most likely are asymptomatic. Russo says she is heartened that...
Image This is exactly like 2020. Government slow on the draw. Saying it is just older.....cows.

But now we know there are positive asymptomatic cows and younger cows.

And they STILL ARE not testing....

Apr 23 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
People are jerks. Venting a bit.

So, I am headed into the ER tomorrow with my Mom and Aunt, to get my aunt some help with a severe issue. We all r high risk.

I mention this to a friend and the fact that we are all a tad nervous.

(My aunt might have to doff her Flomask to get testing. I have threaded multiple threads like this one below on how to nip spread in the home after an infection, so no advice needed, thank you though :) ).

No, I am venting because this friend has been infected multiple times with little apparent

Apr 12 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
So, 40% of the cows in the Texas panhandle are infected, but just across the border in the Oklahoma panhandle, there are no cases?

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Image You see, Rod Hall the Oklahoma state vet is on the case.

"We just don't want to have the public get any idea that there's anything wrong with continuing to do what they've always done with as far as consuming meat and milk," Hall said.

koco.com/article/avian-…
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Apr 10 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
40 dairy farms in Texas. Alone.

Looks like this comes from pay to play Barron's:

barrons.com/articles/bird-…
This is absolutely scandalous now that it's been confirmed with a big H/t @MoreauGabarain !

❌ Been circulating since February all of Texas, and the Texas panhandle.

❌ Far more beef cattle in the Texas panhandle than dairy.

❌ No requirement to test. Any respiratory problem
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Apr 6 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
.Udder to udder? Teat to teat? Are they pulling a fast one on us?

Let's walk and talk about guys peeing, first though - 🧵.

Peeing. Urinating. You heard me right. Let's GO! You see, when liquid streams down from a height you get droplets. And, it turns out, lots of aerosols that are MOVING QUICK!

We know this thanks to Covid studies.

"The climbing velocity of the airflow can be 0.75–1.05 m/s. "

3 feet in a second! An infection in 14 seconds!
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Apr 5 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
H/t @jcooki1E

The stuff that comes out of chickens? Besides the eggs?

Yeah, that stuff.

It gets fed to the cows.

(Did I just become a vegetarian?🤮)

.aces.edu/blog/topics/be… Great catch, mea culpa. My apologies for not catching that. Normally, I'd delete, but not this time.

We still have to worry about this, unfortunately, for dairy AND beef cattle.

The FDA has left it to the states.

Mar 24 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Headstraps. Headaches. Earloops.

You need to meet people where they are - a thread on the above. Some people have serious comfort issues with headstraps - resulting in headaches, ocular pain, facial pain, etc.

Worst of all - it might cause people to stop wearing respie protections.

. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…


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Mar 21 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The actual study is below if anyone wants to take a peek under the covers.

Right off the bat, the obvious problem with the comparison is the flu is only caught 1 every 5-6 years versus Covid's possible multiple times per year.

And that 5 studies have found a higher risk of

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Image neurologic symptoms with Covid.

They then set out to "Based on prior reports, we hypothesized that COVID-19 survivors would have more neurologic health care and incident neurologic diagnoses in the year following hospitalization."

Which is a reasonable thing to check for.
Mar 20 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Good question.

Complicated answer - I can dig up studies for all of these, but just going to go off of the top of my head.

1. Not everyone is infected.
2. Not everyone is producing huge amounts of aerosols.
- when you get sick with Covid you do produce more aerosols AND virii for a period of time that changes on where they are in the infection cycle.
- some people are superproducers of aerosols. Some are superproducers of virii. When the two combine is when you get a superspreader person.
3. Environment - typical homes and biz
Mar 19 • 25 tweets • 12 min read
Survivorship Bias (SB). If you follow me, then you know what it is.

If not, here:


And this was going to be a gentle thread about survivorship bias and
@PaulGarnerWoof & @Fionas_Story.

Was.

Ready to walk through some flames? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors…
Image Paul recovered during the sweet spot of LongCovid recovery - before a year was up, and his LongCovid was not the worst kind.

Spontaneous recoveries happen for those in that particular situation - there are a variety of possible biological reasons for this happening.
Mar 15 • 29 tweets • 9 min read
Starting a debunking thread. On this Queensland "LongCovid is just like LongFlu" study.

So far this is what we have. I have pointed out to the journalist who to her credit stood up for her source.

But.

The article has no link to the actual study, the media centre notes, or the conference poster abstract or their comments.

She ran it by one independent expert.
Mar 11 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
Eat, Pray, and...Live with Covid.

So, let's really live with it.

If you have the opportunity to change your building's humidity?

Go for the "Goldilocks zone" of 40-60% relative humidity - aka NOT the dry air of your office.

Plot twists in this 🧵. Image This relative humidity level is the Goldilocks zone because:

✅lower "RH increases the generation of infectious virus laden aerosols exhaled from infected people"

✅ Higher RH means lower viability of infectious virus.

✅ Lower mucociliary clearance in the airways.

Here is
Mar 9 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
61% of subjects had infectious virus for at least 9 days (Doesn't magically stop on day 9).

The first 8 days they were spewing 1000 virions per minute. (Doesn't magically stop on day 8).

Fever is in only 2% of all Covid cases (JN.1).

0 tests are free, now.

2 tests 48 hours
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Day 0. You feel sick. Test negative. You are spewing 1,000 virions per minute. 0 fever.

Day 1. No mask because only sick people wear masks now. You are spewing 1,000 virions per minute. Vaguely feeling a bit better, but guilty.
Mar 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"...just 20% of Americans view the coronavirus as a major threat to the health of the U.S. population today and only 10% are very concerned they will get it and require hospitalization."

Huh. Looks like it fell off the cliff back at the beginning of 2022
pewresearch.org/science/2024/0…
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Oh, that's right. Isolation period driven down to 5 days from 10 by @rwalensky on behalf of @CarlosdelRio7.

It's crazy. If you pretend a disease is no big deal, then people think it's no big deal.

Mar 8 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Are you on a train platform, at a bus stop, in a stadium, or some other crowded public space?

Got your N95 on?

Modeling study thread of Breathing Zones (BZ) in those locations.

Pay:


Preprint I am using:
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
researchgate.net/publication/37…



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Image Right off the bat, review of the current literature indicates that you can reduce interpersonal distance to .5 meters, 20 inches, only if you are wearing a mask.

But what about the outdoor ventilation? It was studied based on real public spaces at University of Houston.
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Mar 7 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
The fix was in.

Joe Biden called for, and promised a national mask mandate. Until we elected him in November 2020. Image Not even a month later, December 4th, he changed it to asking for 100 days of masking.

But he was already elected.

100 days of asking us to wear a mask is not a national mask mandate.

apnews.com/article/joe-bi…
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