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medrxiv.org/content/10.110… #safeindoorair #COVIDisAirborne #BringBackMasks Study links CO2 levels, ventilation and pathogens
Now see air quality on 14+hr flight. Finally broke down and bought the CO2 monitor used by air quality experts I follow. It indicates how much of the breath of others you are inhaling. So if there is COVID on board a plane (which is inevitable) it shows your risk of inhaling it.
So much for airlines claiming fresh air changes every 2 minutes.
NEVER, on entire flight in United Polaris (1st/Business-purchased specifically for lower number of exhaling humans) was the reading in the green zone indicating safe. Instead it was yellow.
NEVER, on entire flight in United Polaris (1st/Business-purchased specifically for lower number of exhaling humans) was the reading in the green zone indicating safe. Instead it was yellow.
1/4 "Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder found in a 2019 study that the average house is prone to “#indoor #air quality levels on par with a polluted major city.”"
eurekalert.org/news-releases/…
eurekalert.org/news-releases/…
@organichemusic Enovid I believe works.... not 100%, but has kept a bronchial infection at bay that my niece brought to our home last week from Mesa, AZ. Enovid seems to have some side effects, day 5 blurred vision that lasted most of the day, but went away. Otherwise seems safe. 1/n
@organichemusic 2/n When I went to the airport to pick up my brother & his daughter, my Vflex N95 was not in the center consol. My wife cleaned out the car. 🤦♂️Not knowing they might have any kind of illness at all, I wanted to wear the Vflex to be safe. I kept windows cracked and vent open.
@organichemusic 3/n I know Covid had ripped through their family a few weeks prior, but still wanted to be safe. Our home is well ventilated/filtered, we have MERV13 in the HVAC running 24/7, got 3 Winix D360s running 24/7 and a wood stove we keep piping hot so we can keep window open. But...
1/2 "Researchers at #Case_Western_Reserve_University found wide #genetic #variation in #SARSCoV2 #viruses among 360 patients whose #viral infections were genetically sequenced, showing that all individual #infections include multiple #variants of the #virus."
2/2 We are in a pandemic of unmitigated community transmission, a pandemic of denialism. We must suppress transmission.
#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #SARSCoV2 is #airborne #SafeIndoorAir #ventilation #HEPA #filtration #indoor #air #sanitation #rear #test #trace #isolate #Quarantine
#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #SARSCoV2 is #airborne #SafeIndoorAir #ventilation #HEPA #filtration #indoor #air #sanitation #rear #test #trace #isolate #Quarantine
H/T @LisaForKansas
We must complement vaccine induced protection, hybrid immunity and natural immunity with non-pharmaceutical interventions to suppress community transmission. We must!
This should be a proper “oops” moment in our #COVID19 response, and quite possibly an “oh shit” one
Here is real world data confirming earlier predictions that the time between covid waves would progressively decrease
Why is this so concerning? 🧵
Here is real world data confirming earlier predictions that the time between covid waves would progressively decrease
Why is this so concerning? 🧵
Briefly, waves grow when each infected person infects average > 1 person & end when each infects < 1 bc people got infected & either develop some immunity to that variant, die,or behaviour changes
Vax contribute to baseline immunity (that’s good) but prob too slow to affect wave
Vax contribute to baseline immunity (that’s good) but prob too slow to affect wave
A new wave occurs when a new variant that is different enough from previous appears - which means that the average immunity is low enough (plus behaviour permits) each infected person to infect on average > 1 person, that wave ends as above
We have genuinely tried "living with covid" in highly vaxed pop & is proving unsustainable for health system & economy
Time to try "living w less covid?"
NOTHING in "vax only" strategy game changer in near term. Boosters marginal at pop level, better (mucosal) vax uncertain 🧵
Time to try "living w less covid?"
NOTHING in "vax only" strategy game changer in near term. Boosters marginal at pop level, better (mucosal) vax uncertain 🧵
Our strategy in face of unsustainable situation seems to be:
1. Doubling down on what's not working (vax, necessary but not sufficient)
2. Hoping better versions of (1) come soon &
3. Changing testing / reporting & a PR campaign to convince everyone that things are actually fine
1. Doubling down on what's not working (vax, necessary but not sufficient)
2. Hoping better versions of (1) come soon &
3. Changing testing / reporting & a PR campaign to convince everyone that things are actually fine
Of course, things substantially better than pre vaccines. Refrigerated trucks, mass graves & lockdowns are a thing of the past
"Vaccines only" #COVID19 strategy w removal of other protections makes perfect if you hold 6 beliefs
Each belief WAS reasonable in 2020, yet proved wrong w time. Now, to maintain the idea that things are OK, each of these 6 beliefs must be defended with ever more vigor 🧵
Each belief WAS reasonable in 2020, yet proved wrong w time. Now, to maintain the idea that things are OK, each of these 6 beliefs must be defended with ever more vigor 🧵
I am completely serious that each belief was reasonable to hold at the start of the pandemic, and I myself held most of them. As we have learned more, I have changed my view, however many people have not and each of these beliefs has become a frontline in its own right - why?
I believe that cognitive dissonance explains a lot
...It is hard for us to admit we were wrong because this causes dissonance in our minds "I am a good person vs. I caused harm / I was wrong"
It is cognitively easier to change facts than to resolve the cognitive dissonance
...It is hard for us to admit we were wrong because this causes dissonance in our minds "I am a good person vs. I caused harm / I was wrong"
It is cognitively easier to change facts than to resolve the cognitive dissonance
We have been building homes in rural Haiti over the last year and have completed 8 of 15. In the recent earth quake, these homes survived. I’m just starting a gofundme so we can begin the next 7. I committed myself to share it by EOD. #tweet100 gofund.me/fe3a9846
2/ Check out the link! It’s the first time I’ve ever run such a drive so if anyone has experience or feedback I’d love to hear it. The project origins: At the beginning of the pandemic lockdowns in spring 2020 our family first had to adjust to the shock to our own lives..
3/ but as we adjusted to the change our next thought was our friends at @MPM_Haiti mpmhaiti.org. Years ago, when I was first wondering how to go about charitable giving my friend @matt_belcher said I should talk to his friend Christian, who co-founded the charity..
🧵Thread of countries and regions which have updated their ventilation regulations as a COVID-19 response with one or both of the following measures:
- Mandatory CO2 limit indoors
- Mandatory CO2 meters
#SafeIndoorAir #covidCO2
- Mandatory CO2 limit indoors
- Mandatory CO2 meters
#SafeIndoorAir #covidCO2
I have discarded those in which there are only recommendations or pre-pandemic CO2 values. Please let me know if I miss some or if something is wrong, thank you!
🇧🇪 Belgium
The first country in the world with:
- Limit of 900 ppm
- Mandatory CO2 meters for catering, fitness, cinemas, theatres
The CO2 values must be visible to the public.
The first country in the world with:
- Limit of 900 ppm
- Mandatory CO2 meters for catering, fitness, cinemas, theatres
The CO2 values must be visible to the public.
