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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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likelyjanlukas, to random
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Another good analysis of the terrible item.

https://essaysyoudidntwanttoread.home.blog/2024/03/12/covid-couples-when-compromise-isnt-all-its-cracked-up-to-be/

kdnyhan,
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@likelyjanlukas
Really good! I love this bit:

"This statement suggests that the author fundamentally frames risk mitigation as “restrictions,” rather than in terms of affordances and opportunities; it also suggests that, for her, a primary intention of continuing to communicate with her spouse is to persuade him of her pre-existing belief (“this is too restrictive”) rather than to open herself to the possibility of adaptation."

kdnyhan, to random
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Clenching my jaw because I just noticed:

kdnyhan,
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If they update their ventilation guidance to say that we don't need 5 ACH anymore....

Step 1. Tell people exhaling infectious aerosols it's fine to go back to work and school
Step 2. Edit ventilation guidance to align with the new "prevent disease LOL" guidance
Step 3. Short-term profit for some, and for the rest, lots of preventable Long COVID and measles and flu and asthma attacks and CVD and dementia and all the other problems that come from breathing in particulate- and virus-laden air

kdnyhan,
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I've been worried about this (well, not this particular website revision, but the prospect of stakeholders declaring "the pandemic is over so we don't need clean air any more, YOU DO YOU") since I listened to an ASHRAE podcast pointing out that Standard 241 does not say "clear this bar all the time" but "when some body other than us says there's a pandemic, this is when you do."

kdnyhan,
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Good news! CDC has removed the "we're going to change this guidance to match our laissez-faire approach to infectious diseases" banner from their ventilation webpage -- without, apparently, making any changes.

Take a look -- https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/ventilation.html -- I've found it very useful to point to this page when trying to elicit from event organizers details about their IAQ / health and safety policies.

raphaelmorgan, to random
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I wish I could search questions about biology, chemistry, and physics with some sort of setting like "I have more than a layman's understanding of the subject but I'm also dyslexic, please for the love of God give me an in detail explanation that gets straight to the point" bc rn it seems the options are popscience.com or reading several academic papers to get the answer to a single question

kdnyhan,
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@raphaelmorgan Does your library have online access to reference books? Especially ones designed for a specific topic - not a generalist encyclopedia but "encyclopedia of geoarchaeology" or "handbook of urban ecology" or whatever.

kdnyhan, to random
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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,
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That is not a response that builds trust! That is a non-answer that pivots to PH talking points without bothering to answer the explicit question first!

kdnyhan,
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"as long as COVID-19 spreads, new variants are expected"
That statement is true, but the Bridging Statements toolkit is acting like it means we just have to accept uncontrolled spread and viral evolution. Brainwave: we could actually try to reduce transmission.

eniko, to random
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we're not covid cautious, we're just living like billionaires

(quote via @luckytran)

kdnyhan,
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@eniko
I have sent this to every IRL person I know who won't be offended (and that's not many 🤣)

kdnyhan, to random
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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

schomj, to random
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Hello @criplib members and supporters!

Those of us on the discord have drafted an open letter to the IDEAL Conference Planning team to express our concerns about the lack of accessibility.

If you're a library person and want to sign on in support please do!
https://criplib.wordpress.com/2024/02/16/open-letter-to-ideal-2024-conference/

kdnyhan,
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@schomj @criplib
Great letter!
Are you familiar with @phpledge, the Public Health Pledge?
One of their headline messages is: explain, at the same time that you open the CFPs, what the health and safety policy is going to be, and commit to not weakening it. (Ie, you can add more NPIs, but don't take any stated NPIs away). That message aligns perfectly with your point, "accessibility information on the website during the early bird registration discount time is insufficiently informative."

SallyStrange, to random
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The applying pressure to wound now optional

kdnyhan,
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The the way to achieve health equity is to keep infecting each other until we all have Long COVID

kdnyhan, to random
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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, to random
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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,
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This is not a "systematic review" in the normal sense, and I don't know why the journal tagged it as "Level IV" evidence.

But the topic -- APCs and subscription costs -- is important.

kdnyhan,
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I didn't know anything about PAHO's Biblioteca Regional De Medicina, will have to look into it.

kdnyhan,
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The rare paper where @petersuber will not (I am guessing) have to object because gold OA is incorrectly described as always involving APCs
:)

I don't know if it's correct to say that "most" journals are hybrid though

trendless, (edited ) to random
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:n95: :vflex: :aura: :auraHCW: :xplore1900:

When you use a disposable filtering facepiece respirator (eg N95, FFP2), how often do you don it before you dispose of it?

@novid

1/3

kdnyhan,
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@trendless I voted "until soiled/broken" but it's usually the case that the head loop elastics stretch so that I'm not confident of the fit , rather than breaking in a literal sense.

djfiander, to random
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"Le menu" is the same as "la carte"? Seriously, French, you're drunk

kdnyhan,
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@djfiander
Isn't it that "le menu" is "set meal" and "la carte" is "menu"?

tychotithonus, to random

Tell me you've never helped seniors with tech, without telling me you've never helped seniors with tech.

And I don't just mean the person answering this question. I also mean whoever decided to remove this option.

kdnyhan,
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@feld @paul_ipv6 @tychotithonus
"Those people" are a significant percent of the potential user base, and if they aren't a significant percent of the actual user base, gee, I wonder why

josh, to random
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I'm updating a little instruction set for students to broadly search for civic technology and open government posts on the Mastodon network.

Any suggestions for hashtags to add to my list at the bottom of this post?

Or suggestions for active accounts to use to prime a list? Pic includes current list members and some instructions.

ALSO
ALSO
ALSO

Help???: @allafarce @digiphile @cydharrell @danhon @krusynth

kdnyhan,
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@josh
Not necessarily open government data but are you familiar with @crs

kdnyhan, to random
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LMAO at this

** 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, to random
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Important news - for everyone in the US who wants safer healthcare, and especially for who want to follow along as the evidence to guidance to practice cycle happens

CDC has responded to the HICPAC infection control guidelines draft: https://blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare/draft-2024-guideline-to-prevent-transmission-of-pathogens-in-healthcare-settings/
HT @luckytran

For background, here's my thread when I live tweeted the fall HICPAC meeting day 1: https://social.esmarconf.org/@kdnyhan/111340872591266896

And day 2: https://social.esmarconf.org/@kdnyhan/111346813321254312

kdnyhan,
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has posted the Nov 2-3 2023 meeting minutes, including hundreds of pages of public comments:
https://www.cdc.gov/hicpac/pdf/2023-November-HICPAC-Summary-508.pdf

kdnyhan,
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I have to stop reading the public comments to and do my day job. But -- wow. So many thoughtful and articulate people, some sharing tragic stories of nosocomial COVID infections, and some sharing inspiring examples of how they are "living with COVID" by using airborne-oriented NPIs to make their spaces and interactions safer.

And I've just skimmed a few pages. The written public comments run from page 111 to 729!!!!

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