Sharon Thornton

🦠🌬️The measles virus is transmitted by direct contact with infectious droplets or by…
🌬️’AIRBORNE’ spread when an infected person breathes, coughs, or sneezes.
It can remain infectious in the air and on surfaces for up to 2 hours after an infected person leaves an area.
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'Our results suggest that a positive test for COVID-19 (vs a negative test) was associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection.'

Rates of infection with other pathogens after a positive COVID-19 test versus a negative test in US veterans (November, 2021, to December, 2023): a retrospective cohort study Our results suggest that a positive test for COVID-19 (vs a negative test) was associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infecti...

Rates of infection with other pathogens after a positive COVID-19 test versus a negative test in US veterans (November, 2021, to December, 2023): a retrospective cohort study - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Let them eat: Emergency department patients should be encouraged to eat and drink Are patients allowed to eat in your department? Do you field endless phone calls from nurses asking whether a patient is allowed to eat? Have you ever witnessed a confrontation between a nurse and a patient or family member over NPO status? The concept of forcing emergency patients to remain “nil by mouth” on the off chance that they might need surgery or an airway intervention is one of the most nonsensical, evidence-uninformed, harmful myths in modern emergency medicine.

Let them eat: Emergency department patients should be encouraged to eat and drink
Our current policies are causing a lot of harm #FOAMed

The dangerous confusion over Covid transmission The NHS continues to say Covid spreads primarily through ‘droplet and touch’ while the WHO emphasises airborne transmission, meaning vulnerable patients and healthcare workers face unnecessary risks, ...

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Newborn babies exposed to measles in Texas hospital Infants barely three days old are receiving antibody injections to help protect against the virus. Nearly 300 cases have been reported in the outbreak.

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COVID-19 pandemic mortality data: report As of 2024, 20 more Australians are dying each day as a result of COVID-19. To understand this ongoing problem better, experts at Burnet have developed a comprehensive analysis of deaths caused by the...

Or read our broader findings here: www.burnet.edu.au/knowledge-an...

(It does have a new website address, so old links people have might not work anymore.)

PubMed PubMed® comprises more than 37 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central a...

Why are people saying PubMed is gone?

It's still here (try accessing from a computer if not working on your phone):

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

No, I said Covid19 pandemic (which included the State of Emergency).
You have erred in your interpretation of my comment.

I agree with you that the Covid19 pandemic is ongoing.

‘We’re losing decades of our life to this illness’: long Covid patients on the fear of being forgotten Five years on from March 2020, millions of people still face debilitating symptoms, with huge repercussions on public health and productivity. But politicians are starting to pretend the pandemic neve...

'Heightman and her team have been running a clinical trial at UCLH called Stimulate-ICP, looking at three different medicines for long Covid, including an anticoagulant. The trial has completed successfully, with results expected towards late April or early May.'

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Covid19 pandemic.
The same for GP's who don't mask as they potentially inhale brain-damaging viruses all day in their clinics.
These people are clueless, but that doesn't stop them being conceited narcissists with deranged minds.

We only need to observe the behaviours of some arrogant, ignorant medical professors to see how the mistakes they make get passed on to their students if the students also aren't particularly bright or ethical.
Look at the foolish medical professors who promote unmasked conferences during the

As the Texas outbreak grows, how contagious is measles, really? Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.

Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.

personality disorders that make them feel invincible. They might also be bullies who are stuck in a rut mentally, obsessed with being "the leader" and unable to learn new, safer behaviours. We should not pander to such dreadful, derelict behaviours by watering down safety standards to appease them.

Events like the unmasked Wonca conference that was held in Australia give completely the wrong message about safety in indoor settings, may have misled people about the importance of masking indoors when around others.
Some of the people who organise these events may lack knowledge, or might have

The standards of safety should always remain high, even if certain groups want lower standards to try to justify their own harmful behaviours and past serious mistakes.

Covid19 will spread just as quickly at a medical conference as it will in other indoor settings like health care settings, particularly given all the very close contact for extended periods that people have at conferences, including in the restrooms that people use at such events.

of Covid19, which could have been prevented if people are more careful.

Sadly medical conferences like Wonca are not always arranged by people who are interested in protecting others from harm, but such low safety standards should not become the norm.

Trish, masks remain important in community settings even during periods of lower transmission.

To encourage people to gather unmasked at medical conferences and other close-contact indoor events because people want to believe transmission is "low" is likely to cause harm by asymptomatic spread

'Inflammatory reaction': How the air we breathe could be impacting our brains Air pollution threatens more than just our lungs, experts say. And while Australia has some of the best air quality in the world, we've been warned against complacency.

'Inflammatory reaction': How the air we breathe could be impacting our brains
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Occupational dust and chemical exposures and the development of autoimmune rheumatic diseases - Nature Reviews Rheumatology This Review discusses the current evidence for the association between occupational exposures, particularly silica dust and solvents, and the risk of developing systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases....

✨March Issue✨| Occupational dust and chemical exposures and the development of autoimmune rheumatic diseases

This article was the inspiration for our March cover! 😍

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Cambridge hospital’s mask upgrade appears to eliminate Covid risk to staff Hospital infection study shows use of FFP3 respirators at Addenbrooke’s ‘may have cut ward-based infection to zero’

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New MRI Study Uncovers Hidden Lung Abnormalities in Children With Long COVID Long COVID is more than just lingering symptoms—it may have a hidden biological basis that standard medical tests fail to detect. A groundbreaking study using advanced MRI technology has uncovered sig...

New MRI Study Uncovers Hidden Lung Abnormalities in Children With Long COVID.

"The study found reduced blood flow in the lungs, correlating with severe fatigue and breathing issues. This breakthrough could lead to better diagnostic tools and treatments for young patients"

List 5 things you accomplished last week, #COVID?

Measles cases are rising in the U.S. Do adults need a vaccine booster? With a measles outbreak growing in West Texas, and cases popping up across the country, experts say vaccination is your best protection. And it's not just for kids. Some adults may need a booster.

Some adults should consider getting revaccinated. That includes older adults who were born after 1957 and were vaccinated before 1968. The CDC recommends that anyone vaccinated before 1968 get at least one dose of the live attenuated vaccine.
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Seagulls on the frozen lakes

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
C. S. Lewis

Bird flu confirmed in older Wyoming woman who likely had contact with infected flock at her home Wyoming health department officials say an older woman is hospitalized with bird flu. It’s the state’s first human case of Type A H5N1 influenza, which is spreading through animals and some people.

An older woman was just hospitalized with #birdflu which is spreading through animals and people. At lesst 70 people in the U.S. have been reported being infected with the bird flu.
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An intense flu season is filling hospitals with severely ill patients | CNN The US is in the throes an unusually intense and severe flu season, with hospitalization rates topping the levels seen with Covid-19 at some points of the pandemic.

On top of the #flu infection itself, doctors say they’re seeing large numbers of patients with some of its most devastating complications such as life-threatening brain swelling and secondary infections with deadly flesh-eating bacteria as ERs are overloaded.
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Consequences may become obvious quite quickly, and people may ask their leaders to change direction.