@Tatiana_Trifan Tatiana has linked to an appropriately terrifying summary of the ways #SARS2 and #Covid are causing #brain damage on a global scale. Was pleased to see that Prof. @TRyanGregory is part of the World Health Network organization that runs the web site. (Follow him!)
This is all scientifically established fact, supported by hundreds of published studies. It’s why I keep the #N95 on when around people other than my wife, even while enjoying a bit of a lull in #virus circulation.
#CovidIsNotOver #KeepMasksInHealthcare #N95 #MasksWork
"Organizations and individuals can efficiently recognize the risk of SARS-CoV-2 airborne transmission in
a room and thus take preventive measures such as maintaining good ventilation, wearing masks, or shortening the exposure
time to an infected individual by simply using a CO 2 monitor"
I hate that it takes so much time to prove when something isn't "all in our heads".
"Was anyone else seeing what I was seeing? The researchers had not only shown that Long Covid might be preventable simply by taking a low-cost drug. They’d provided the best objective scientific proof that Long Covid measurably exists that I’d ever seen, or have seen since."
Can’t believe “experts” are on the weather channel right now telling everyone to wear #N95 respirators outdoors while standing outdoors, NOT WEARING N95s, just holding them…
My wife and I just returned from a trip to Western Washington State, doing our best to stay free of #Covid. Mostly outdoor stuff, darting into a restaurant for takeout, using way more public toilets than we’d have liked. This after basically living like hermits for much of the past three years.
I wish I could say it was great to be around people again, but it wasn’t. I’m frustrated, tired, and so very disappointed with almost everyone.
This 🧵 is a bit of a rant for fellow #ZeroCovid people.
…do all those people really have no idea that they have essentially zero protection against infection, no matter how many boosters they’ve gotten? Or that the #vaccines only reduce their odds of #LongCovid by about half? Does that make the remaining half somehow acceptable to them?
A few days of doing the thousand-yard stare past all those naked snouts looking at my #Envomask#elastomeric#N95 was more than enough. Masked for every bathroom visit, the store, getting takeout, even trails.
@neil@dans I wear an #N95#elastomeric not because I care about anyone in the naked snout parade but because I am determined to remain Covid-free as long as I possibly can. Preferably forever.
It has an exhalation valve. I don’t care about their health any more than they care about their own.
Everyone at home is sick with fevers & coughs except me today. It would be completely irresponsible & a dereliction of duty for me as a close contact for whatever it is my family are carrying to not reduce the potential exposure to my patients by 100 fold by wearing a fit-tested particulate filtering respirator whilst at work.
This is a permanent change to my practice & should be for all healthcare workers going forward. #MasksWork#N95#COVID19#IPC#infectiousdisease#infectionprevention
A reminder that viable #SARSCoV2 can be isolated in the air 2-3m away from patients in a hospital in an aerosol sampler that was pointed down to block the entrance of droplets
"Detection of viable SARS-CoV-2 in retrospective analysis of aerosol samples collected from hospital rooms of patients with COVID-19, Clinical Microbiology and Infection" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2023.03.019
Never infected and plan to keep it that way if at all possible.
This YouTube video does a fine job of explaining why. It’s by a doctor who sees #LongCovid patients, not some quack looking to sell reassurance or supplements.
Fit Testing to ensure a good seal on your mask [Part 1]
This thread explains what #mask#fit#testing is (#qualitative and #quantitative), why it is important, and my testing experience with some real-world results of various types of masks including NIOSH #N95 and ear loop. 🧵 1/
Prior to the pandemic our hospitals in Victoria Australia never fit-tested their staff for respirators.
Now we have fit testers employed full time at the Royal Children’s Hospital and staff that were fit tested at the beginning of the pandemic are being retested to ensure their face shape hasn’t changed, and that new Australian made models fit. 🧵(1/n) #N95#MasksWork#PatientSafety
"The device ... allows electrical potentials of up to 40,000 volts to be obtained in a compact device ... The efficiency of the masks was tested after being washed in water; efficiency was significantly restored after brief exposure to the electric field generated by the device."