[...] Documents show that the World Health Organization knew from the start that SARS-Cov-2 was airborne. They knew that '[a]irflow and ventilation were identified as important factors influencing efficient spread in hospitals,' but did not provide ventilation guidance to the public for years."
The organizers of @pycon have given community organizers a massive gift 🎁
Let's not squander it!
A sold out#PyConUS 2024 proved that even large events can prioritize safety and inclusion for caregivers and immunocompromised people by way of requiring masks, and gathering venue data to calibrate their policy from year-to-year. Smaller events have proven it's possible at that scale, too.
Now is the time for at least one other large event to step up.
Hey 🇨🇦
Make sure your #measles vaccines are up to date if you're travelling to 🇺🇸 for March Break.
Florida is 'lettin' it rip'
Measles is so contagious that if one person has it, up to 90% of the people close to that person who are not immune will also become infected. The virus can live for up to two hours in an airspace where the infected person coughed or sneezed.
This week I talk to Kaytlin Bailey, host of The Oldest Profession Podcast, about the American Plan, under which tens of thousands of women were detained based on their perceived ability to spread VD, all in the name of protecting American soldiers.
Streaming across all major platforms & directly from our website at dirtysexyhistory.com/podcast
#CovidCautious community, I’m tabling at an academic conference next month to spread awareness of both the Public Health Pledge (@phpledge) and #COVID19 precautions as paths toward inclusivity, and I’m trying to think of what would make this table both useful and appealing to passersby. Does anyone have suggestions on what else I can do, in terms of signage, giveaways, activities, etc.?
Once again, the message comes through loud and clear to people highly vulnerable to COVID/ COVID damage (including me): Tough luck. "Americans who test positive for the coronavirus no longer need to routinely stay home from work and school for five days under new guidance planned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." #COVID#CovidIsNotOver#LongCOVID#immunocompromised#publichealth https://wapo.st/3wosNqL
In "Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Harms Our Health and the Environment," Grant Ennis identifies "nine devious frames" industries such as car manufacturers use to maintain a status quo that harms human health and the planet.
How a #BigPharma Company Stalled a Potentially Lifesaving #Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits
A vaccine against #tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, has never been closer to reality, with the potential to save millions of lives.
But its development slowed after its corporate owner #GSK focused on more profitable vaccines.
"Enter the national data platform - the foundation for a $700m-plus overhaul of data and digital health..."
"The new platform will need to be able to take over, merge and make sense of petabytes of data, multiplying itself daily in 28 disparate, siloed health data warehouses, and processed by a motley, often ancient crew of hospital apps numbering in the thousands."
"About 30 days after the confirmation of the mother’s infection, the girl, who did not show any clinical symptoms, died in the morning. Characteristic lung changes and molecular testing showed the presence of genetic material of the SARS-CoV-2 virus both in the lungs and in the nasopharynx, with the absence of the S gene in the nasopharyngeal swab."
Scientist and animal/human health workers are worried, but the public is told ‘nothing to see, nothing to worry about, move on’.
The massive power of agribusiness is threatening the world we live in and also (for those who don't really care), our health by incubating new and dangerous illnesses.
An eminent professor and world-leading expert on vaccines has to have dogs sweep his classroom to make sure his students won’t be blown up by anti-vax extremists. #TFG, RW operatives & Republicans are responsible for the threats. Dr Hotez, Dr Fauci, & others have been repeatedly targeted with harassment & death threats. In order to have a vibrant, secure & lasting democracy, this RW domestic terrorist network must be banished. #PublicHealth#Vaccines#AntiVaxxers#GOPDeathCult
#Ontario#PublicHealth Update:
😳 #COVID-19 hospitalization and ICU bed occupancy data are as current as September 2, 2023 and WILL NOT be updated for several WEEKS due to technical updates to the reporting system that PHO receives the data from.
"I get sick every time I go to the doctor that I still get subsidised and I can't opt out of the system. Now that's wrong. I was trying to take the welfare state off the middle class."
What this atomised mindset misses is that it's not her being subsidised, it's the doctor's surgery. If you want to contribute more according to your means, you do that by raising taxes, in ways that target those on higher incomes.
Centuries ago, Venice was a major world power, with trading routes & influence throughout the world. Got notice plague was on the way, but to preserve commerce opted not to do anything to counter. 1/3 of the city died in ensuing outbreak, at all levels of society.
Do you know what killed more than 19,000 Americans in the last 3 months? Covid. About 9 an hour. Many many more than that have been hurt, often permanently.
That’s a lower number than previously, yet the risks remain.
Stay home when ill, wear masks in crowds and inside, stay up to date on your vaccinations and improve ventilation (ex: opening windows) to stay healthier.
A reminder: epidemics and pandemics are expected to increase in frequency as the climate crisis advances [1] and as humans build deeper into wildlands [2].
So what do we do?
Address the climate crisis!
Embrace urbanism, controlled growth, and leave wildlands alone.
Push for infrastructure improvements for indoor air quality.
Push for better healthcare and sick leave policies.
Advocate for better funding for scientific research.
"The country's ambulance service is funded by Te Whatu Ora - Heath New Zealand and ACC, which fund about 82 percent of the service, at a cost of about $380 million a year.
The rest is made up through donations, and a part charge of $98 for patients transported by ambulance."