This is why the public *correctly* does not trust public health and IPC. It's not an isolated incident, there's a pattern of concealing risk for COVID but also e.g. hospital TB outbreaks etc. Define "contact" to limit numbers, then don't test = don't find = "not our fault". #medsky #scisky #polisky

“Conducted by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the analysis found that patients are arriving at their local emergency department sicker and needing more urgent care than before the COVID-19 pandemic.” So close to drawing the causal link… www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

It's an 8 to 9 hour flight from Kinshasa to Paris. But only 5 - yes 5 - passengers are reported to be *possible* contacts.🤡 www.france24.com/en/france/20...

New study: “SARS-CoV-2 infection can induce persistent immune dysregulation characterized by hyperinflammation [and] lymphopenia… Post-COVID autoimmune manifestations involve multiple systems, including neurological, hematological, endocrine…” That sure doesn’t sound like a cold to me.

Ending All Respiratory Infections https://blog.interceptfund.com/p/ending-respiratory-infections

First off I applaud the messaging on N95s here, and filtering 95 percent of particles is good, it would work great for disease prevention.

I’m “feeling a familiar sense of disappointment” too. This is exactly what most of you think about Covid. Can’t make you care about the vulnerable but know this: no matter how healthy you are, YOU are vulnerable to the risks & deadly outcomes of both extreme heat & Covid. Protect yourself & others.

Good question. And why is the #Media focus (directed by public health experts) always "how concerned should you be", & "no need to panic, the risk to you is low". In a globally connected world, risk is only low until it suddenly isn't. And our calculus is all wrong: just #Care, from the start -

"When institutions fail to resist, they risk becoming enablers of democratic erosion."

"Respiratory infections aren’t inevitable." Tell me more.

...for you. And that, Marit, is just terrible for the rest of us. You won't find the votes you need to form a government in the pool of people who voted for doug or bonnie; you will find them in the grey of the chart, by doing what Zorhan Mamdani does.

Hey, @maritstilesndp.bsky.social, you paying attention?!? The 50%+ voters who don't show up for provincial elections believe that you, the NDP leader, are essentially the same as doug ford. They don't care enough about the differences to make even that smallest of efforts: showing up to vote...

"The people of #DRC and #Uganda are watching. Can we promise them we will truly commit to fundamentally changing how this works? That they will be treated as true partners in research, not as sources of data, samples, and risk while the benefits go elsewhere" -

"For all known hantavirus variants, humans are typically exposed when they breathe in particles from infected rodent droppings, urine or saliva." I only read the article to see if it said this. I am not sure a single hantavirus article has been written where this or similar has not been...

In 2020, public health and infection control leaders gambled the world as we knew it in a bit to guard "their" turf against the actual experts. They kept their precious power - and we all paid the price. Now they're rolling the dice again with Ebola. This is not only about neglecting the...

They played the exact same games with COVID, minimizing the consequences of asymptomatic infection with technicalities to exaggerate how well they were protecting people, and blame the infected person instead of their own bad guidance.

...duty to warn of, and take reasonable steps against, the realistic potential for aerosol transmission. That's critical, but it's part of a whole ecosystem of failure embedded in those fields. E.g. "almost asymptomatic" is a huge red flag for the manipulation of language they often use with COVID.

"Longitudinal studies needed is the polite version of - we won't know until it's too late to prevent." 🚨🎯 observation from Zdenek Vrozina (via other site)

Reviewing Canada's new pandemic plan and this line jumped out at me: Consider adopting a precautionary approach, assuming efficient transmission through the air until more is known. What's wrong with this? How about this alternative. 1/

One infection. That's all it takes. For millions around the world, a single COVID infection led to symptoms that lasted months or years. Long COVID can affect the brain, heart, lungs, immune system, and more. (...)

We have a new entry in the climate dictionary under “irony”

No one could have foreseen this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The 'most recover' narrative continues to be included in COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 studies regardless of whether it is accurate or not. It is like changing the guidance on airborne infection control, there is no mechanism for change.

"After recovering..." They have memory problems and cannot think. If so, they have not recovered.

Now, replace AI with “Living with Covid” and see how all of you feel about that.

A coworker has Covid—during an all-time low in cases in Ontario—in case you think Covid is a thing of the past. Glad we WFH! A well-fitted N95 prevents Covid if you don’t take it off, not even to eat lunch in the break room where your asymptomatic coworker ate an hour ago. How’s your province? 👇😷

What Mark says is true. But the standards are only as good as their codification AND enforcement. And just like Justice Campbell scathingly called out re:SARS1, Worksafe agencies again (illegally) deferred to arroga-ingnoramuses in public health, ID med, and, yes, virology.

In 2026, the biggest COVlD concerns are #LongCOVID and excess deaths. However, with the massive outbreak in Central and SE Texas the past few weeks, COVlD emergency department (ED) visits have escalated in the region, likely underestimates due to diminished testing and reporting the past 2 yrs.

I don't expect everyone to follow politics all the time, but I do expect people to be able to describe at least 3 domestic policies a PM has enacted that they agree with before approving of him. And if you can't do that, just say "I don't know" when asked if you approve. Because that's the truth.

Ahh, right - apparently we are the "evil Airborne crowd" What is evil about a group of people asking for more precautions to save lives? Isn't it more evil that people have to die of preventable nosocomial infections?

I promised I would updated the Source to Infection Pathway for all HAI - it is now as it will appear in the book chapter 2 Figure 2.1

"The Medical Director who didn't bother to contact/warn infected patients for 2 months is a major part of the problem. Fun fact: he's one of the COVID-minimizing, let-it-rip, infectious disease physicians..." 🧵 on the utter lack of consequences for public health & IPC 🤬

Infectious disease doctors who are medical directors of infection control in hospitals have a seriously important job to do. This one still isn't doing his job. Apologizing 2 months after the fact isn't enough. He deserves consequences for incompetence far greater than a tepid news report. 4/4

@peterjukes.bsky.social We had a Covid inquiry, which has declared the guidance to be flawed. That was 2 months ago 🫠

This is beyond 😱🤬. AND ... can we please acknowledge that public health messaging around every damn disease that 'healthy' ppl need not worry and the ubiquitous "most people recover fully / have mild symptoms" 💯 fuel anti-vaxxers?! Enough with the health supremacist, pro-infection msgs!

Canada's multi-tier health care system needs reform along European lines. This is not that reform. It is along US/UK lines, which is what any sane person wants to avoid, and which will result in longer waits and lower standards of care than even our sclerotic mulit-tier public system. Disgusting :-(

Between funding cuts and general cluelessness, national and international public health orgs like the WHO are not equipped to manage Ebola. Rolling the dice on aerosol transmission plus hopes and prayers that it stays over there and "only" kills Africans are causing yet another unnecessary disaster.

It's extremely concerning that clinical authorities are not taking the possibility of aerosol transmission of Ebola seriously. This is exactly how they botched COVID containment in 2020 and let it get out of control. The UK COVID Inquiry just explicitly called it a "widespread failure" 3 months ago!

"75 medics in the Democratic ​Republic of Congo had been infected with #Ebola and 17 ​of them had died since the current outbreak started ⁠there": www.reuters.com/business/hea...

1/ "I believe this outbreak is dramatically larger than case counts currently reflect, probably 2-3 times as big. I believe most cases are still going undetected": @craigspencer.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/craigasp...

How very Orwellian...

The framing makes it sound like Long COVID is the cause here, what causes Long COVID? A COVID infection causes Long COVID, so really the higher risk of cardiovascular disease is caused by a COVID infection.

And those who have left us with the wrong covid guidance in place for 6 years need to go too!

Latest UKHSA/NHS/ONS data show COVID’s persistence — and this surely underlines why Long COVID research should stay front and centre? Airborne viruses spread indoors. Clean air protects us all. Science, data, and education keep us safer. Data sources: @ukhsa.bsky.social #CleanAir #PublicHealth

Yep both these issues are using the same tactics.

My doctor recommends I take the new covid vaccine when it's available. I told her, "I'll take every vaccine you've got. I believe in vaccines. Who thought this was going to be controversial in the 21st century?"

So… I think persistent RNA is a red flag for persistent production of RNA… or something is stopping it from being cleared. The former seems more likely.

I am flabbergasted that journalists in Canada so obviously and blatantly ignore the massive impacts of Long COVID on the Canadian workforce! This is a consequence of repeated COVID infections in unprotected workplaces. A gigantic mass disabling event!

The only reason every journal doesn’t already include close range aerosol transmission as a mode of transmission of Ebola… is because we refuse to write it. The only reason behind that refusal, is because the bar for evidence is way up high… And the only reason for that is because

Your regular reminder that infection control policy (and clinical evidence in general) should not be taken seriously without the involvement of scientific and subject matter experts. Healthcare is too important for silly games - hobby science by untrained amateurs can and does kill.