⚠️HUGE—Facing increased risk—🇫🇷French Academy of Medicine urgently recommends wearing FFP2 (N95) masks in enclosed public spaces for all: elderly, folks with co-morbidities, family & health workers in contact w/ vulnerable, & pregnant women ➡️even if vaccinated!🧵#BringBackMasks
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2) Furthermore, the French National Academy recommends also the "wearing of a surgical mask in hospitals, clinics, care centers and pharmacies, and in closed spaces open to the public, such as public transport during busy periods" for everyone else.
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3) French NAM's reasons:
"the prospect of an early seasonal flu epidemic is becoming clearer in mainland France given the increasing incidence of flu-like illnesses and confirmed sporadic cases, and bronchiolitis in children <2 years of age has passed into an epidemic phase"
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4) "the 2021-2022 season saw the return of the flu with an epidemic which extended over 9 weeks with a late peak in April 2022. Many cases of “flu + Covid-19” co-infection were notified around the world, before implementation of restriction, or after the lifting of measures"...
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5) "Thereby, This possibility of double infection, exposing vulnerable people to the most severe forms and hospital services to the risk of saturation, must therefore be taken into consideration for the 2022-2023 season..."
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6) "It imposes a strong reminder of the vaccination recommendations aimed at combining booster shots against Covid-19 and vaccination against influenza [6]. It also justifies a rehabilitation of barrier measures"
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7) Meanwhile, US Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit & thus upheld the right of airport TSA to impose mask rules for passengers on planes, trains, and buses. the question is will TSA or recommend action to do it???
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BOOM—Supreme Court rules: The TSA does have the authority to require mask wearing in a new ruling that allows TSA to require masks to be worn on public transportation, including planes, trains, and buses. 59% of public supports it. 
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8) is there a hospital crisis already brewing? Yes. ➡️Many hospitals across US say beds are full as cases of respiratory viruses continue to increase among children. Respiratory syncytial virus, RSV, have spiked by 69% over last 4 weeks. #BringBackMasks
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10) Let’s check in how bad “INFLUENZA LIKE ILLNESS” in the US… oh… looks like the needs to do her damn job. #BringBackMasks
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Let this sink in—@CDCgov just had to add a new color (purple) for the newest level of VERY HIGH rates of “influenza-like illness”. And hospitals
are getting fuller with kids… but @CDCDirector says only 2% US should mask—irresponsible. #BringBackMasks
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11) Flu season is ramping up hard in the US. Hope everyone is protected. Cuz when hospital beds are full, we will be in deep trouble again.
Spoiler: hospital beds are getting full.
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Flu season 2022-2023 in US has begun raging hard. Hope you got your #flu shot and now masking--because its not just kids hospitalized, but adults now too in large numbers (orange), plus ICUs increasing too (red).
HT @amethystarlight #BringBackMasks
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The French Academy of Medicine may highly recommend things but the actual number of people in France actually wearing masks when out and about is very, very low. I recently attended a two day conference, that’s me, way on the left of the photo, with my 3M N95 Aura on my face.
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Thank. Keep posting this. This weekend I’m searching the web for my best information resources, like you.
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I cannot believe you have time to do this too! I listen to you before I pay any attention to the
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Elderly and people with comorbities are supposed to one-way mask.
Family and healthcare workers: "Wear a mask only if you're around 'vulnerable' and pregnant people."
Get your signs ready: V for vulnerable. P for pregnant (as if people know the moment they're pregnant). /1
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I am So Happy to see this post ! I’m not gonna pay $20 a month either, so I would leave Twitter.
I’m not on Twitter a lot and only follow several people and you are one of them. Thank you for posting this and keeping us up to date with Infectious Diseases.
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I wear a N95 in EVERY indoor space except home. I'm one of ~ 3 people a day in this So Cal area I see masking. I don't care. I haven't had it and I cannot bring it home to vulnerable other ... diabetic who has a higher death and complication risk. IT'S A SMALL TASK TO MASK!
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Thank you. I hope you are finding time to take care of yourself and appreciate all your efforts to help others these past three years. As a high risk person I am very grateful to you.
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