#Airborne pathogens: controlling words won’t control transmission https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00244-7/fulltext “Clear and accurate communication about how respiratory pathogens spread is of the utmost importance globally. Confusion on this topic abounds, especially in relation to #COVID19, but there is a simple explanation. Strong and consistent evidence for a predominantly airborne mode of transmission emerged early in the pandemic4 but was denied or downplayed by #WHO and national public health bodies for years”
WHO document drops on #SARS2 transmission, so I opened this up as if it was a tactical nuke needing defusing.
But holy cow...
WHO Airborne Risk Indoor Assessment (ARIA) Technical Advisory Group with LIDIA MORAWSKA as the CO-CHAIR!?!?
CERN?!?!?
WHO Environment and Engineering Control Expert Advisory Panel (ECAP) with Cathy Noakes on it and ASHRAE liason?
An actual model?
I do see the dreaded Dr. IPAC Droplets on the committee... hmm.
<now reading intensely, this is going to take a few minutes>
Indoor #airborne#risk#assessment in the context of #SARSCoV2 : description of airborne transmission mechanism and method to develop a new standardized model for risk assessment
👋 “Long COVID and its myriad manifestations … can literally happen across a lifespan…no demographic group [is] immune.”
🦠 ”COVID-19 is an #airborne virus…investment in #ventilation infrastructure would not only decrease the risk of COVID and other airborne illnesses, but also potential future viruses and pandemics.”
🚨“Staying up to date on vaccines and #boosters can dramatically reduce the likelihood of getting #longCOVID,”
Back to today, '#airborne transmission of pathogens has been vastly underappreciated, mostly because of insufficient understanding about airborne behaviour of #aerosols, and because of the misattribution of anecdotal observations'. @linseymarr et al. @NCBI https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8721651/
We shouldn't gamble with our health: #CovidIsNotOver! #Airborne!
Thanks for the updated version @DrInfoSec.
"This is still one of the clearest instance of messaging on Covid protections."
🙏And full credit to creators: @markdixontweets@mchristinebd Link: bit.ly/lesscovid
Media should ask public health how measles virus transmits
With all the attention on #measles#outbreaks recently, the media should ask public health how the measles #virus can catch a ride in #aerosols to help it stay #airborne for hours and infect people but somehow no other virus like #COVID or #respiratory viruses (#Flu, #RSV) can use the exact same transportation method and fall to the ground. 🤔🧵 1/
While he started three years prior, Otto Lilienthal took the invented glider on his first successful flight in 1894. It wasn't much more than 7 Seconds, but his achievement changed the world of aviation forever. Even the Wright brothers been well aware of the "flying man" from Berlin, but the TNYT missed to mention the pioneers like Lilienthal and Gustav Whitehead, five years after the very first motor flight, in their front page report about the Wright apparatus 1906.
However, in 2024 we can celebrate the 130th anniversary of this historic event and share our #Liliental portrait with you.
“Policymakers and politicians also have a natural bias against the idea that diseases may be airborne, says Professor Jimenez.”
“Droplets and surfaces are very convenient for people in power – all of the responsibility is on the individual,” he said. “On the other hand, if you admit it is airborne, institutions, governments, and companies have to do something.”
💯@SGriffin_Lab, 'a key benefit of wearing an appropriate, well-fitted, face-covering, is to those around us - as it will stop larger droplets at source, before they've the chance to evaporate into smaller, more dangerous particles'. @BawdenTom@theipaper https://inews.co.uk/news/science/masks-again-uk-virus-cases-rise-spain-covid-2847208
Viruses are not the only good reason to wear a respirator outdoors in any city. Microplastics are filling the air, and tire dust is a major source. This does not bode well for our lungs with more and heavier vehicles