1/x Why 6 months to focus on airborne?
--> We prioritize the pill over prevention, medicine over public health
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen">Within *hours* of seq, vaccine develop began
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❓" title="Rotes Fragezeichen-Symbol" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Fragezeichen-Symbol">Imagine what might be diff had we embedded #HealthyBuildings as core to ID research?
(my 2nd Q to Fauci was this
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten">) https://twitter.com/CorsIAQ/status/1291261587030827008">https://twitter.com/CorsIAQ/s...
--> We prioritize the pill over prevention, medicine over public health
(my 2nd Q to Fauci was this
2/ 2nd Q to Fauci
We spend 90% of our time indoors – like it or not, we are an indoor species. And with this pandemic, nearly every outbreak of more than 3 people is attributed to time spent indoors, making time indoors one of the most important risk factors for disease spread
We spend 90% of our time indoors – like it or not, we are an indoor species. And with this pandemic, nearly every outbreak of more than 3 people is attributed to time spent indoors, making time indoors one of the most important risk factors for disease spread
3/ Yet when I look at the projects funded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for the past year, of the 10,000 or so, I can only find 14 with the phrase ‘indoor air’.
4/ Are we doing enough basic research on how indoor environments impact disease transmission, and how healthy buildings can slow the spread? Are we engaging enough with other fields – engineering, building science, indoor air quality, public health?