COVID has disproportionately affected disabled, clinically vulnerable, deprived & black/brown/indigenous communities. To say that that airborne precautions worsen inequity is BS. Rather, these protect *everyone*. If you care about equity, set air Q standards, provide respirators.

COVID-19 outbreaks? In hospitals? But isn't the pandemic over?
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The same thing happened in our legislature. The cleaned the air. Our government's leaders work in pristine air while they deny that poor indoor air quality is a concern in the spaces where Ontario's students gather to learn. #QueensParkSafe Doug Ford

Worth a full watch. The question he poses is powerful. 'How many thousands of children have to be murdered before you will stop following orders?'

The answer in human history is unfortunately that there may be no limit for some people. But we must fight against this apathy.

You know who else is pretty vulnerable to COVID infections? those undergoing chemo and radiotherapy.
Like on a Cancer ward, for instance.
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U of A research teams awarded $100 million for pandemic preparedness ualberta.ca/folio/2024/05/… via University of Alberta cc University of AlbertaLaw

Honoured to be part of the Michael Houghton vaccine grant!🙏 We have an amazing team! 🔥

Onward! #GoScience !

Oh well… no data, no confusion. I must have skipped that class in grad school.

The longer the H5N1 situation goes on and seeing the reluctance on surveillance and control of the new mammal reservoir, the more convinced I am that we will face a problematic situation with this virus. It’s a question of time. There’s a window of opportunity but it’s not seized

The constant “background noise” is *the cause* of waves. The “wait and see” approach ensures the background noise and waves continue.

It *would* be nice to have a break from Covid. That’s the reason those of us who want to mitigate it have been trying to do that!

Three years ago on this day ASHRAE stated that Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is significant.

Today, WHO finally released a model (iris.who.int/handle/10665/3…) of #CovidIsAirborne risk by experts in the field. /1

We’re in the fifth year of this, and ID docs are still doing “I hope it will just magically go away”

You have to *make* it go away with interventions like proactive masking, cleaning the air and actual vaccination campaigns.

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🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇯🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 They should not have ever been taken away. Any airborne disease transmitted to babies in NICU is the most awful kind of negligence

Skepticism can do immense harm because the default of maintaining status quo is itself a consequential decision.

When novel and impactful things are happening, skepticism just ensures that even when pretty good data emerges, we trivialize it and do nothing until it's too late.

.Dept. of Agriculture posted more raw sequence data from the #H5N1 #birdflu outbreak in cows yesterday. (typo in the date below.)
I await with interest to see what the very smart folks poring over the data see in this latest batch.

It’s official: Alberta is no longer Canada’s wage leader. We’ve been overtaken by both BC and Ontario.
“The wage advantage that Alberta workers enjoyed for two decades has disappeared. This has happened on the UCP’s watch. And, it’s their fault,” says AFL. afl.org/press-release-…

**NEW** As confirmed by multiple sources, Peter Lougheed Hospital's NICU Unit currently has 2 COVID-19 positive preeme's. Masking requirements have been put back in place for the NICU Unit. /4