Great to see this review on IEQ, health, wellbeing and performance in schools from UKHSA and Eurovent www.mdpi.com/2076-3298/12...

Unfortunately this is paywalled 😡 But the summary will give you the essence... Cövid is terrible for infants💔💔 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@airspotrob.bsky.social @airspothealth.bsky.social My Airspot order was lost in transit by Sendle. I haven’t had any success reaching out for support via email or your online support form. Please help.

Meet "Nimbus", aka SARS-CoV-2 variant NB.1.8.1. (Thread) 1/

Hey HCWs! Science continues to advance on AGMPs (non-existence of) "The results indicate that both CPAP and HFNC have no clinically meaningful impact on aerosol emission. their use does not cause greater concentrations of aerosols when compared to normal breathing in healthy participants."

“CPAP and HFNC have no clinically meaningful impact on aerosol emission. Therefore, the use of CPAP or HFNC does not expose healthcare personnel to greater concentrations of aerosols when compared to normal breathing” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Incredible how quickly Yunlong Cao & co provide us w/info on the latest emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. Already, we have great data on BA.3.2 (the divergent saltation lineage detected in South Africa & the Netherlands & NB.1.8.1, an emerging contender for global dominance. 1/9

Long COVID has unique symptoms, persistence not seen in flu, pneumonia, research suggests www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...

Air filters in classrooms reduce sick days by more than 10 per cent www.newscientist.com/article/2478...

🙌 Great news in New Scientist. An experimental study shows that air filters in classrooms: Reduced absence by: 👩‍🏫 12.5% or 1.3 days per pupil Reduced PM2.5 by: 🚸 32% Air filtration is a simple way to improve life for everyone. So what's stopping the government?!

“These results support the concept that viral bioaerosols generated from patients remain infectious over long-distance transport through a building ventilation system.” In a facility purpose-built to study TB transmission. academic.oup.com/ofid/article...

Firefighters, first responders, nurses, and doctors rely on *NIOSH-approved* respirators. (During the pandemic we saw *many* counterfeit respirators going to hospitals.) The program that certifies respirators was eliminated.

This is so Canadian. Body Break doing a special elbows up get out to vote segment.

COVID infection tripled the risk of inflammatory heart diseases and was associated with 68% increased risk of any cardiovascular symptoms in kids with normal hearts. Study period March 2020 to September 2023. Minimum 6 month followup. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I just heard the disappointing news that a @nationalacademies.org study on far UV to reduce transmission of respiratory infections was canceled. www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/cli... /1

Studies detail high rates of long COVID among healthcare, dental workers www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...

RSV tied to higher risk of death in adults; severe RSV linked to prematurity in kids www.cidrap.umn.edu/respiratory-...

This is the way healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi...

Research links #COVID to poor kidney outcomes in US youth Children and adolescents were at higher risk for new-onset mild and moderate chronic kidney disease from 2020 to 2023. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

The slope isn't slippery; the frog isn't gradually getting boiled. Within its first hundred days the Trump administration has openly asserted the right/ power to seize and imprison anyone— including political dissidents, including citizens— and deprive them of any legal recourse at all. 5/

I repeat: there’s no such thing as “just a cold”. The flu is even worse. Then there’s COVID. sambadenglish.com/miscellany/h...

Reminder as we watch measles rates climb in Canada that *this* is Poilievre's attitude towards vaccination during a public health emergency. MMR vaccination has long been mandated for health care workers. Would a Poilievre govt ban the MMR mandate in health care during a huge measles outbreak?

We also have an MMR vaccination requirement in schools in Ontario. Imagine what the state of our measles outbreak might look like right now without it. Suggesting we are more free when we put our kids and the broader public at greater risk of preventable disease is a naïve view of freedom.

Remember those who opposed vaccine mandates, saying they'd lead to people losing their jobs and "shortages" in the health system? Well, they're in charge now, and they've just indiscriminately fired >25,000 people at the NIH, FDA, CDC, and CMS. apnews.com/article/trum...

Yet more data showing that COVID is far from a nothing-burger for kids although it is widely perceived to be, as this, & the next linked paper, shows. We can & should be doing more, esp. on the vaccination & clean indoor air at school/public transport/home fronts. 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Canadians! I have an assignment for you this weekend. What is THE MOST CANADIAN thing you own? It can be anything. A book, a garment, a food item, a tool, a decorative object, a cd, anything. #CanCon #Canada

Increased ventilation leads to better cognitive performance among university students. Imagine that.

“children and adolescents with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection are at a statistically significant increased risk of various cardiovascular outcomes…compared to uninfected controls.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Some mutations more common in BAL sample sequences. So interesting.

A fascinating SARS-CoV-2 sequence was recently uploaded—collected from a dog in Kazakhstan in July 2022. Usher puts the sequence one nuc mutation from the Wuhan reference (C21846T, S:T95I)—i.e. pre-D614G. Could this sequence somehow have a close connection to the first days of the pandemic? 1/18

Characteristic immune cell interactions in livers of children with acute hepatitis revealed by spatial single-cell analysis identify a possible postacute sequel of COVID-19 @faridjalali.bsky.social gut.bmj.com/content/earl...

Remember the "mysterious" hepatitis outbreak in UK kids that baffled experts back in 2022? The one we were told was due to adenovirus (or even strawberries, allergies, and lockdowns)? The one that labeled ppl mentioning the C word as fearmongerers? Turns out it was #covid19 .

Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infection in Children, 1992-2023 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

So far there have been three measles deaths in under six weeks in the ongoing US measles outbreak. Prior to this year there had only been three measles deaths in the United States in total in the entire last thirty years.

COVID-19 may put patients at risk for other infections for at least 1 year www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

More evidence in support of Metformin in Acute Covid www.nature.com/articles/s41...

COVID-19 re-infection doubles risk of long COVID in kids, young adults, data reveal www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

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If you think neofascist intimidation of the media occurs only south of the border, read this👇🏻 The cowards at @CTVNews.com backed out of airing a fact-checking journalist after a massive Conservative online pile-on. It’s here, folks, and its name is Pierre Poilievre. 🍁🧐🍁

“A positive test for COVID-19 was associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

the constitution says you must be 35 to be eligible to serve as president. now, let’s say a presidential nominee was born on february 29, 1972, a leap year. and let’s say they were running in 2024. now, technically, they would only be 13. you could say they were ineligible. but that’s stupid! (1)