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Apoorva Mandavilli
apoorva_nyc
On Friday, @CDCgov updated its guidance to say the coronavirus is airborne. On Monday, it went back to the previous guidance, which emphasizes droplets and distancing. What happened? 1/xhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/health/coronavirus-
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Margaret Killjoy 🏴
magpiekilljoy
We're all preppers now. Whether we want to be or not. It's hard to think about, but we're just in the opening credits to the apocalypse movie. This is the
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Aaron Engelhart
aaronengelhart
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/07/sciadv.abd3083 Paper looking at respiratory droplets emitted from people talking w/various masks.Takeaways:1) Chances are, the mask you wear blocked most droplets in this study. Every
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Good Trouble w/a Psaki Stare
roxydavis99
Wanna hear a story about how Pence approved a $413M no bid or contract contract for 60 machines that would clean n95s up to 20 times, and had only been
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Don Taylor
donaldhtaylorjr
1/n To reopen schools, have football, economy fully recover we must control the spread of SARS COV 2. We are now failing. It will take:*massive testing capability with 24-36hr turnaround
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Caroline Morganti
ctmorganti
#GetMePPE/#medtwitter: what does your hospital say re: elastomeric respirators?Used mainly in industry, filters have same/comparable standards but unlike N95 masks, they are designed for reuseCDC approves but wondering why there
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JJ 「cιtιƶεɳƒιvε」 🏴☠️
CTZN5
Truly unfortunate result of the careless and contradictory narratives the public has been given by the Holy Annointed Expert ClassLiterally yday I was startled to hear my dad (v. smart
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Michael Lin, PhD-MD
michaelzlin
Many people have asked about mask decontamination. If you have a cloth mask, then obviously you can wash it with soap and water then dry. For surgical or N95 masks,
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el gato malo
boriquagato
back in the halcyon days of 2019, before the great politicization of epidemiology turned up into down and down into sideways, the WHO performed a survey of randomized, controlled trials
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Linsey Marr
linseymarr
Here's a summarizing my testimony on airborne transmission of COVID-19. Full version at https://edlabor.house.gov/hearings/clearing-the-air-science-based-strategies-to-protect-workers-from-covid-19-infections /0 COVID-19 is transmitted
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♕ξMαημεl Πεωtοη ✌
noesnothing
Woke up today with headache and sneezed twice. Ei could this be COVID? I asked myself. Few hours later, I get a call that the patient I’ve been attending to
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Helen De Cruz
Helenreflects
It's important that any governmental spending on Covid-19 relief should carve out funds to pay psychology and philosophy consultants who work on science communication. Those experts could devise strategies that
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Jekanyika
tedoex
Ok. Not sure if anyone has tweeted about how Zim is handling COVID-19 and returnees but here is my experience (will actually start with pre-arrival). [Long Thread] Thanks to WhatsApp
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Big Exhaustion
SALVO_SPIW
New York now has a standing order for a Do Not Resuscitate on Cardiac Arrest patients for EMS.I have so many thoughts on this. So I guess it's time for
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Aimee Dude
aimee_dude
(1/ ) What the whistleblower complaint by Dr. Bright tells us about the N95 mask shortage: a thread. #medtwitter #GetMePPE #GetUsPPE #SoMeDocs Link to full complaint here. https://www.kmblegal.com/sites/default/files/NEW%20R.%20Bright%20OSC%20Complai
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😊 Megan K Mansell 😊
mamasaurusMeg
@KristinEDozier @LeonCounty @desloge @MaryAnnLindley As you’ll only listen to the CDC... You should be talking about OSHA, ADA, particulate size/behavior, contagion PPE, and test invalidation due to PCR threshold errors
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