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kdnyhan

@kdnyhan@social.esmarconf.org

Public health librarian in an academic medical library
Co-founder of Community Access to Ventilation Information, https://cavico2.com/, because everyone should have clean, safe indoor air

#EvidenceSynthesis #KnowledgeTranslation
#PublicHealthInformatics #DataSharing #DataCuration
#InformationLiteracy
#Scholcomm #OpenAccess
#HealthEquity
#EnvironmentalHealthLiteracy #CO2monitoring #PublicLibraries #LibraryOfThings
#Accessibility #COVIDisAirborne

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kdnyhan, to random
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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,
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In the age of "you do you" public health, it's not just that the government won't/can't guarantee food safety - this public university won't even let you get it tested. That's how much more value they put on agriculture than consumers' rights/transparency/public health.

kdnyhan,
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Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/05/25/g-s1-460/bird-flu-virus-raw-milk-safety

kdnyhan,
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I wonder if someone who gets sick from drinking raw milk can sue the farm that distributed it?

ai6yr, to Texas

KFF Health News: Clues From Bird Flu’s Ground Zero on Dairy Farms in the Texas Panhandle https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/bird-flu-ground-zero-texas-dairy-farms-whodunit-h5n1/

kdnyhan,
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@ai6yr Industrial agriculture is fascinating.... But what really caught my attention was:

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

Old info:
SURPRISE for folks:

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,
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"in the chat" I meant "in the thread" ;)

NNU got some really interesting information about HICPAC from public records requests.
https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/update-cdc-work-group-proceeds-without-frontline-health-care-workers-unions-and-patient-advocates

@amymaxmen did a great piece
https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/airborne-disease-transmission-who-cdc-new-evidence/

And CIDRAP has written about HICPAC a lot
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/experts-say-cdc-not-getting-right-advice-hospital-infection-prevention
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/updated-who-covid-prevention-guidance-may-endanger-rather-protect-some-experts-say

Scroll up for info about the June 6-7 meeting

kdnyhan,
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@amymaxmen I've looked at the website three times and I don't see the agenda for the June 6-7 meeting.... I'll ask but if someone knows it, please share!

kdnyhan,
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And, anyone who is interested in , you might be interested in the 2024 Joint Commission Standards for Infection Control.

https://netec.org/ufaq-category/general-questions-about-the-2024-joint-commission-standards-for-infection-control/

kdnyhan,
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I'm not clear on how the new Joint Commission Standards for Infection Control could have been "designed to align with CDC guidance" when the CDC Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings is not yet finalized.

kdnyhan,
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Ok, I edited the first post in this thread because there's no June 6-7 meeting after all. When I emailed them to ask about the agenda, they posted this:
#HICPAC

violetblue, to random
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Biobot has removed its covid wastewater dashboard and will no longer show covid wastewater data for the US.

~3 weeks after CDC stopped covid hospitalization data.

The page now: https://biobot.io/data/covid-19

Surprise announcement: https://biobot.io/from-raw-data-to-actionable-insights-biobots-evolution-of-public-data-sharing/

kdnyhan,
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@violetblue
Nothing says "commitment to maximizing the value of wastewater data" like "sunsetting our public data visualization platform."

kdnyhan, to random
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Hi -- 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...

inquiline, to random
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reception was a success as far as I'm concerned

kdnyhan,
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@inquiline
Thanks for trying and for sharing the real-world results

dsalo, to random
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Loving the Corsi-Rosenthal boxes that are heading for conference presentation rooms.

kdnyhan,
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@dsalo Wow! What conference is this? I am so eager to be part of a professional community that practices its values thus

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

kdnyhan, to random
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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,
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@pluralistic
The article cites this report (not paywalled):
PRIVATE EQUITY IN DURABLE MEDICAL
EQUIPMENT
How Private Equity Profits Off of
Disabled and Chronically Ill Americans
NOVEMBER 2023
https://pestakeholder.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/PESP_Report_DME_2023.pdf

kdnyhan, to boston
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Hi (or greater Boston) folks

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

kdnyhan, to random
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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, to random
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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,
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To contextualize their finding that "a significant increase in SARS-CoV-2 aerostability results from a moderate increase in the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration (e.g. 800 ppm)," take a look at the CO2 ppm readings from two meetings I attended in person last week.These meetings were both in a recently renovated (2019 IIRC) building with mechanical ventilation.

kdnyhan,
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The meeting where CO2 ppm readings ranged from 800 to 1050 - that space was definitely not over capacity. I know because the number of invitees to that recurring meeting is above the room's capacity, so I keep track and leave to Zoom from my desk if it gets too crowded.

kdnyhan,
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So - if you are that unusual type of person who is both COVID cautious and trusting towards building managers - well, spaces in this recently renovated building, at a university that can afford to have nice things, when used as intended (ie, not overcrowded and not doing more physical activity than expected) are reaching these CO2 concentrations. FYI.

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