🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne

There was an abduction in front of my apartment this morning. Afterwards, a Hennepin County Sheriff car drove by. Around 10-15 of us screamed at them for help, seeking assistance with the abandoned, window-smashed car. Some ran after them. They continued driving. 😑

"cognitive issues, and more, according to analysis published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania."

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This document is a gold mine.

So predominantly airborne?

The 'real issue' appears to be not wanting to accept what aerosol science is saying.

Because in the video linked above aerosol science is already describing how airborne virus transmission happens using easy to understand terminology that already exists.

Surely not, right?

Now they are claiming hybrid immunity from vaccines and infections but there are huge glaring flaws here:

1. Hardly anyone gets NHS vaccines regularly enough.
2. No one should be catching a virus that can cause vascular and immune damage etc.
3. Risk is cumulative.
4. Risk is to all.

"While further understanding of this form of transmission is elucidated..." How long must we wait?

Asymptomatic transmission appears to be not well understood for many diseases. I would have thought this would make it a priority to understand better from a disease prevention and control standpoint even if was challenging. In fact because it was challenging.

Also I don't think this is getting the attention it deserves.

Exhalation plumes are not 100 percent droplets so aerosol protections are needed.

Not mentioned in the video but I feel it's related to using existing terminology.

My takeaways from this:

-We don’t need new terminology to describe this process.

-Droplets are aerosols.

-The exhaled plume is not all droplets.

-The exhalation plume moves throughout the room.

YouTube video by Al Haddrell Modelling Airborne Virus Transmission Risk: an Overview

'The exhalation plume is the cloud of infectious aerosol that leaves your lungs with every single breath. Larger exhaled droplets rapidly exit the plume and fall to the ground. The smaller aerosol will, for the most part, remain within the plume as it evolves and moves throughout the room.'

This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..

These new variants don't just appear out of thin air.

...the entire concept of herd immunity is no longer valid.

The last few years have been soooooo weird. First we have a virus that has literally thousands of peer reviewed papers showing that it is actually really terrible to repeatedly catch & people just kind of giggle and ignore it. Now we have pretty solid confirmation that the most powerful &

SARS 10 years later: How are survivors faring now? | Globalnews.ca This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the first case of SARS in Canada as the pandemic made its way into the country. How are patients faring a decade later?

“They’re still, after 10 years, experiencing problems. Issues such as fatigue, muscle and joint pain, shortness of breath and some newly developing problems such as neuropathy, numbness in the feet and hands,” she said.

Long-term sequelae following previous coronavirus epidemics Before the current pandemic, there had been two global epidemics from major coronavirus outbreaks since the turn of the century: severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). ...

"Given the similarities between the diseases, the recovery and rehabilitation of the survivors of COVID-19 is likely to be focused around cardiopulmonary sequelae, fatigue and the psychological burden of COVID-19, but in a much larger population."

How could we have known?

Multiomic characterisation of the long-term sequelae of SARS survivors: a clinical observational study Although health outcomes continued to improve, our study suggested that SARS survivors still suffered from physical fatigue, osteoporosis, and necrosis of the femoral head 18 years after discharge, po...

"Although health outcomes continued to improve, our study suggested that SARS survivors still suffered from physical fatigue, osteoporosis, and necrosis of the femoral head 18 years after discharge, possibly related to plasma metabolic disorders and immunological alterations." After one infection.

Not ideal. Hopefully her recovery is swift now that they know what was wrong with her.

Hmmm. Will a positive test get you praise for finding and possibly preventing further infections, or will it raise the ire of coworkers, your boss or management?

If the latter then it probably does influence testing.

I hadn't thought of this before but if a positive test means donning and doffing PPE.

Does that influence testing?

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If your family doc understood that #Reinfections can cumulatively lead to #LongCOVID (for anyone/everyone), & for which there still is no cure - they'd be wearing an #N95, running a portable #HEPA, have a window open, & be tracking #CO2 in their consulting room.

in her hospital ward there’s a “suggestion” board just outside the nurses’ station asking how to improve care—i wrote that all staff should be in respirators to minimize nosocomial infection. my note was rather conspicuous as it was the only one in red ink. when i returned hours later it was gone

Waiting at a train station today, I saw an elderly woman on the opposite platform wearing a blue surgical mask.

Every time I see someone in a blue surgical mask it drives home so profoundly to me how public health in this country is failing people. Every single time.