kdnyhan

kdnyhan, 18 hours ago to random

Wow. A microbiology lab at Texas A&M accepted purchased raw milk samples from NPR for H5N1 testing, then contacted the milk producers to seek permission. When the producers said, "don't test our milk," the lab not only declined to carry out the tests but also refused to send the samples on to another lab.

kdnyhan, 5 days ago to random

Update: Actually they are rescheduling the June meeting to August 22!

Old info:
SURPRISE for #COVIDisAirborne folks:

#HICPAC has another meeting June 6-7

The deadline to submit a request to make an oral public comment is Friday night, MAY 24. Here's the website to submit a request: https://www.cdc.gov/hicpac/php/upcoming-meeting/index.html

HICPAC = Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, I'll put some links with more info below

kdnyhan, 10 days ago to random

Hi #medlibs -- some positivity for you. For years I've been offering trainings around graduation time about practicing evidence-based public health without an academic library.

In past years, the people who showed up were mostly university staff who also teach at other local universities, wanting info about getting around paywalls for their students at less-resourced institutions. Very few new grads!

BUT...

kdnyhan, 14 days ago to random

Hi #datalibs and #medlibs
My library is hiring a biomedical informatics librarian (new role)

Blog post with salary range on the library website:
https://library.medicine.yale.edu/about/job-opportunities/biomedical-informatics-librarian

Posting on the HR website without salary range
https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partnerid=25053&siteid=5248&PageType=searchResults&SearchType=linkquery&LinkID=14124655#jobDetails=1586743_5248

kdnyhan, 18 days ago to random

Just got a peer review request from a journal I didn't know, and because the topic was right up my alley I went and looked up the journal -- diamond OA, CC-BY, author retains copyright -- all things I want to support. None of which they mentioned in the request.
Don't hide your light under a bushel, handling editors!

kdnyhan, 19 days ago to random

Great book, strong recommendation, get it for your library's collection and read it as soon as it's on the shelf
#medlibs

kdnyhan, 24 days ago to random

I know @pluralistic has talked about right to repair in the context of wheelchairs - I bet you'd be interested in this too

https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/01/wheelchair-repair-delay-numotion-national-seating-mobility/

The headline is "After private equity firms gobbled up wheelchair makers, users pay the price in long repair times"

kdnyhan, 24 days ago to boston

Hi #Boston (or greater Boston) folks

Is there anywhere that does dim sum outdoors? Boston, Quincy, wherever?

kdnyhan, 28 days ago to random

This made me feel a lot better:
As of Friday, CDC recommends that people working with animals potentially infected with bird flu use PPE including respirators, implicitly acknowledging airborne/aerosol/“through the air airborne transmission/inhalation.”

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/h5/worker-protection-ppe.htm

HT @dfisman

kdnyhan, 1 month ago to random

About the IAQ aerostability of SARS-CoV-2 paper that has been all over COVID-cautious Mastodon - it's fascinating (and open access).

Haddrell et al (2024). Ambient carbon dioxide concentration correlates with SARS-CoV-2 aerostability and infection risk. Nature Communications, 15(1), 3487. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47777-5

kdnyhan, 1 month ago to random

"All of the artwork for this podcast series has been created with a generative AI image-to-image tool! The prompt for this episode was 'open and free science available to all communities as an abstract painting.'"
Does this make anyone more likely to subscribe to the podcast? #medlibs

kdnyhan, 1 month ago to random

Someday I will get through an ASIST webinar about AI without needing this sign, but that day is not today.

kdnyhan, 1 month ago to random

Surprised in a good way to see #APHA members writing a joint consensus statement with AIHA members: "Public Health Experts Urge CDC’s Advisory Committee to Follow the Science and Protect Health Care Workers and Patients"
If you want to read or sign (deadline April 12): https://forms.gle/1s4neNoXFKUrThvh6
#HICPAC

kdnyhan, 2 months ago to random

Just got a phishing email at work masquerading as a notification about an exposure to an infectious disease.... Joke's on them, we don't have a contact tracing team to send out notifications 🤦‍♀️

kdnyhan, 2 months ago to cargobike

Dear #CargoBike enthusiasts, what would you recommend for these circumstances?

• ride on pavement but also a dirt road in poor repair
• leave outdoors NEAR THE OCEAN for days at a time
• bring a small dog (15 lb) in some kind of carrier or crate - but, I don't need to bring the dog when I'm training for the #CarryShitOlympics
• in winter I'll store the battery in the basement of an unheated house
• I'm not very handy but I'll have to try and do maintenance myself bc it's quite rural

kdnyhan, 2 months ago to random

As much as I hated the NPR "let's guilt my husband into indoor dining" article, there's a silver lining to every cloud: it has prompted a lot of responses that I really enjoyed reading.
This essay will restore some of your faith in people and marriage: https://theheatherhogan.substack.com/p/my-long-covid-isnt-a-burden-on-my

kdnyhan, 2 months ago to boston

Hi #Boston, would you be able to use some COVID tests quite soon?
I have four rapid COVID tests whose extended expiration date is March 25 and one more expiring April 4.
I'd really like for the tests to get used!

If you can use them before those dates - for example, before visiting at-risk people (or for your own visitors), or before an indoor shared-air event, or whatever - you can have them, free. DM me and we can figure out a time and place to meet up.

#COVIDisNotOver

kdnyhan, 2 months ago to random

Clenching my jaw because I just noticed:

#COVIDisAirborne

kdnyhan, 2 months ago to random

I am on a lot of public health workforce training email lists. Just saw one advertising a resource toolkit about "bridging statements" to build trust and combat misinfo. Check out this one:

kdnyhan, 3 months ago to random

Good roundup: https://thesicktimes.org/2024/02/20/the-cdcs-proposed-isolation-guidance-is-still-not-based-on-data-or-science/

Personally I'm really curious about where the "24 hours fever free" idea comes from. Does that actually correlate with lower infectiousness?

Unfortunately temp was apparently not recorded through the disease course in this interesting preprint, just an overall self-rated symptom severity

Lane et al (2023). Quantity of SARS-CoV-2 RNA copies exhaled per minute during natural breathing over the course of COVID-19 infection. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.06.23295138

kdnyhan, 3 months ago to random

Real question: why don't we have widely accessible apps/services to scan our faces and recommend which models of elastomeric or disposable respirators will fit comfortably and tightly to our faces?
Clearly the tech exists - but we are using it for VR goggle fitting instead of PPE

kdnyhan, 3 months ago to random

Journal club time!

Wojick, M., Conner, H., Farley, A., Huaman, E., Luyo, M., Thomas-Pate, S., & LaGrone, L. (2024). Access to evidence-based care: A systematic review of trauma and surgical literature costs across resource settings. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 9(1), e001238. https://doi.org/10.1136/tsaco-2023-001238

kdnyhan, 3 months ago to random

LMAO at this #PublisherValueAdd

** Please note that some fully open access journals require the submitting author to tick a box agreeing to the standard publishing agreement as part of the submission process. In such instances, authors should tick this box to be able to proceed and the values will then be manually overridden by our Author Service team.

Accept the terms that you legally can't accept, and then we promise we'll override the system to apply the right terms later. Trust me :)

kdnyhan, 4 months ago to random

Reading recommendation:

Brosseau, L. M., Gold, D. D., Materna, B., McPhaul, K., Rosen, M., Seminario, P., & Thomason, J. (2024). Preventing Aerosol-Transmissible Diseases in Healthcare Settings: The Need for Protective Guidelines and Standards-Workshop Report. New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy: NS, 33(4), 236–247. https://doi.org/10.1177/10482911231215498

kdnyhan, 4 months ago to disability

Great blog post and open letter by Alice Wong:
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/25/n95s4ucsf-call-to-action/
#disability #COVIDisAirborne #UCSF