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Nov 4, 2022

Multinational science Delphi: - #COVID is airborne (100%); - indoor areas drive transmission (100%); - N95 masks help (96%); - public health pushes false info by denying airborne (90%); - vax alone can't end COVID (97%); - false info undermines social cohesion for response (99%)

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Bill Comeau

@Billius27

Nov 3, 2022

NEW - Worldwide expert panel study, Nature: 1. "SARS-CoV-2 is an airborne virus that presents the highest risk of transmission in indoor areas with poor ventilation." Agree/Somewhat agree - 100%. #CovidIsAirborne #Covid19

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Hey, any #infosec folks seen this? It's hitting my sister at her work as well - works fine, but the font mapping looks very broken. It started happening after they enabled 2FA at Scouts. /c

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Weird new issue in Excel Online, seen in Edge. Excel's search field display the wrong characters, eg type abcd, see ¿¾½¼. Copy and paste the string elsewhere, correctly "abcd" seen! @Office @MSEdgeDev

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Susie Dent

@susie_dent

Jan 26

Word of the day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who shuts their eyes to reality and has all the confidence of ignorance.

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Feb 2022 update: ‘Until strong evidence emerges, the previous recommendation of avoiding planned surgery within seven weeks of testing positive for COVID-19 should remain’

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Updated consensus statement on timing of elective surgery following emergence of Omicron variant of...

New guidance on surgery for patients who have previously been infected with COVID-19.

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Hal Singer

@HalSinger

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This is an actual line in The Economist cover story bashing Biden’s infrastructure plan: There’s a “risk” of higher wages, y’all.

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Jathan Sadowski

@jathansadowski

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The largest leap in Meta's market cap possibly in the company's history has occurred not because of some grand innovation or revolutionary idea, but from firing tens of thousands of people and making stern statements about corporate efficiency. How can you take them seriously?

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I haven't seen this design before! $25 fan + 2x$20 filter = $65 capital cost for a mini-CR box! Now I'm curious to have

@DavidElfstrom

analyze it and let us know how efficient this design in! :) #CorsiRosenthalBox #FilterTheAir #BreatheEasy #COVIDisAirborne

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SharonBC,Canada

@SharonBurnabyBC

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To make a small Corsi-Rosenthal: Use a 10” table fan. Two rectangular MERV13 filters bent to 90 degree angle. Cut cardboard support to match shape of fan. Shroud on top of fan (cover tips of blades to optimize). #CorsiRosenthalBox #airpurifier #airfiltration #COVID19

Epic rant on why the droplet dogma has to go. It was still the go-to argument for #COVID spread in December 2022 for at least one WHO official. Little problem: it's wrong. COVID is an aerosol disease. Always has been. Pretending it isn't avoids measures that will save lives.

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doctorsinunite.com/2023/01/26/whe Two months ago a senior WHO official repeated what WHO and IPC have been saying throughout the pandemic: Covid-19 is spread by droplets. They have never produced any evidence for this. Time to do so. @WHO @davidnabarro Summary

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13/ Rates of hospital acquired Covid-19 infection have been high for most of the pandemic, reaching 36% in Dec 2022. This is an infection control disaster – the average rate of hospital acquired infections for other pathogens is around 6%. twitter.com/LawtonTri/stat

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Exclusive: 11,600 people caught Covid in hospital and died

12/ At least 11,600 patients died of Covid-19 they caught in hospital up until November 2021

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‘Scandal’ comes as proposals for compulsory vaccinations for NHS staff look set to get green light

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Long Covid - Hansard - UK Parliament

10/ Almost 200,000 NHS workers have long Covid.

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Hansard record of the item : 'Long Covid' on Thursday 17 November 2022.

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Megan Ben Dor Ruthven

@_mbdr_

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FYI you can still lose your taste and smell with the current variants. Ask me how i know. 😑

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Dr. Jeff Gilchrist

@jeffgilchrist

The link for the unrolled one-page version of the "Novavax COVID vaccine with latest BQ and XBB variants" thread can be found in the next tweet once it is posted. 👇

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@MaryJoNabuurs

#RippleEffectsOfCovid twitter.com/MEProudMomOf2/

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JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL

@th3j35t3r

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Twitter API access fee schedule effective the 9th of this month. Oooof. That's gonna screw a few folks operations up.

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Dr. Ian Copeland (PhD)

@IanCopeland5

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Antivaxers say mask don't protect against respiratory viruses 🤣. Ok, I'll bite. If that's true, then why did an entire influenza strain go extinct due to lockdowns and masking!!? The B/Yamagata influenza strain is EXTINCT!!! But masks don't work 🤣. nature.com/articles/s4157

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I think we may end up wishing we had invested in a lot more genomic surveillance, wastewater testing, and clean indoor air as a result of the COVID-19 experience, rather than listening to those who have downplayed the current pandemic constantly.

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The Elusive Rural Liberal

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Clinic today w/ my recently COVID+ kid (day 20). 102.3 temp. Sore throat. Runny nose. Fatigue. Neg. for all the things (even COVID). NP said if not improving, bring him in next week for x-ray. Seeing a fair amount of secondary pneumonia post COVID. But it’s just a cold, right?

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𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍

@jvipondmd

Sometimes I wonder if I’m not doing enough. Could do it better. Be more persuasive or less antagonizing. Get the ball moving more effectively. But goddamn it I’m trying. I wish more people with better talent/louder voices would at least try.

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Plan A: lockdowns Result: great success Plan B: masks and vaccines Result: partial failure Plan C: only vaccines Result: mass infection Plan D: declare victory Result: ...?

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Vax and relax. Until Feb. 12, then it's infection boosters for the lot of you under 50. theguardian.com/world/2023/feb

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Socrates

@apmalong

Each instructional day lasts 6.5 hours. We're looking at ~35,000 student hours spent in a single classroom every year. So the cost is ~$0.003 or less than a third of a penny for your child for each hour they spend in class to give them 3 air changes per hour worth of safety. /2

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C Pita

@CPita3

Jan 12

The virus travels on an air bridge. Engineers are responsible for that domain. twitter.com/healthyheating

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Matthew Oliver

@sameo416

Rethinking COVID hegemony

This is excellent. Adjunct Professor Tarun Weeramanthri, recently told Croakey: “the first decline in life expectancy in Australia in living memory … alone should trigger a rethink and potentially a reset of the COVID-19 Management Plan.”

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Introduction by Croakey: Recently on ABC’s 7.30 report, Professor Brendan Crabb, Director and CEO of the Burnet Institute, spoke of

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David Fisman

@DFisman

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I think this is correct. Pediatric care centres are setting up long covid programs. Parents have no idea, media are silent. It’s deeply unfair twitter.com/sasswashere/st

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Megan Ben Dor Ruthven

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It's wild that these two positive COVID tests were taken only 5 hours apart from each other. The left test has a very faint positive test line.

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Jan 27

Some of us have been right about Omicron evolution and multiple waves. When people say "experts were surprised", they mean the experts they platformed (and continue to, for some reason).

Waves of COVID hospitalizations in Canada. After each one, there is an enthusiastic statement about the pandemic being over, and each new peak is captioned "No one could have foreseen this".

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. leparisien.fr/societe/sante/

Jan 28

Really nice graphic from the Le Parisien article by

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Graphic showing the most significant Omicron variants and their nicknames. From an article published in La Parisien.

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When people read my tweets for themselves and discover that I don't actually monger fear.

Otto from The Simpsons exiting a store named "Stoner's Pot Palace" abd saying "Man, that is flagrant false advertizing."

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Fantastic follow-up chart from

: what do all of those names actually mean to us, as potential victims. Enter: the Uh-Oh Zone.

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XBB.1.5 (Kraken) has been of concern because it has the antibody escape of XBB but also has mutations that restored its ACE2 binding ability. But look at DS.1 (= BA.2.75.5.1.3.1.1), another descendant of Centaurus (and Hydra). It's way up in the "uh oh zone". 2/ h/t: @RajlabN

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Graph plotting immune escape (y-axis) versus ACE binding (x-axis). Variants in the top right of this figure (the "uh oh zone") are good at both evading immunity and binding to host cells. XBB.1.5 is well in that zone, but DS.1 stands alone at the top right.

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Fantastic follow-up chart from

: what do all of those names actually mean to us, as potential victims. Enter: the Uh-Oh Zone.

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Fun fact: one side can just be wrong, and it's pretty easy to determine which it is.

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UPDATE: I hate being right about this.

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Yes, good idea. (Air quality engineers will be a must in this group.) twitter.com/Wikisteff/stat

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

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🚨 twitter.com/Wikisteff/stat

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The sequences come from people who are eligible for PCR testing in Ontario which the province just updated their eligibility recently and you can read about here ( twitter.com/jeffgilchrist/ ).

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In Ontario here are the top variants circulating right now ( app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjo ).

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Here is the link to the preprint (6/6):

medrxiv.org

Shielding under endemic SARS-CoV-2 conditions is easier said than done: a model-based analysis

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues unabated, many governments and public-health bodies worldwide have ceased to implement concerted measures for limiting viral spread, placing the onus instead on the...

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Arijit Chakravarty

@arijitchakrav

Jan 29

“Our modeling suggests that between 12 and 25% of the population (depending on up-to-date vaccination status) - 32 to 66 million adults-will have long COVID at any given time.” Living with covid isn’t sustainable, and may end up breaking us, as individuals & as a society. (5/)

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