Massachusetts, Act of 1888: ‘Every public building and every schoolhouse shall be ventilated in such a proper manner that the air shall not become so exhausted as to be injurious to the health of the persons present therein.’ The inspectors went from school to school with… 🧵

In an annual report, I found how an inspector notes very poor ventilation (2900 ppm CO2) just when there is an outbreak of diptheria, which is airborne. Four boys die from it. The school is temporarily closed and an order for improved ventilation is written and executed.

Time to boycott avocados until the US retailers get it together to certify that they are not selling avocados grown on illegally logged forest: pbs.org/newshour/show/…

Santa Clara County nuked my favorite SARS2 wastewater dashboard, and replaced it with this: app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrIjo… All the WW data is still visible, but I'm not pleased at the new value judgement of what is "High" "Medium" & "Low"—2021 shows us what Low is—never low after BA.2/5

"If we elect Donald Trump, we may feel the effects not for years, and not for a generation. We may read our mistake in the geological record a million years hence." Bill McKibben on the stakes of this election for a stable climate: theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

Republican officials are coming after interstate travel for reproductive health care. apnews.com/article/aborti…

During the Delta wave in 260 US hospitals, about 1 in 5 Covid deaths were attributable to overwhelming caseload surges Annals of Int Med acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…

Friesein Friesein coverage is starting to look pretty widespread, but no sign anywhere other than CVS yet. Here’s what I’ve gathered so far today from Twitter and Reddit.

Andrew Ewing And we've known about the vital need for indoor ventilation for over a century. x.com/mdc_martinus/s…

Jerome Adams: "...hundreds of people still dying from the virus every week, and Covid-19 remains a significant health risk, it’s the leading cause of respiratory illness related hospitalization, and that’s regardless of your age or your health condition.” wzmq19.com/news/338263/fo…

FYI, y'all ⬇️ verywellhealth.com/how-to-get-fre…

A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song.

David Joffe MB BS (Hons), PhD, FRACP 🇦🇺 UW News Ellen Barry An NAS professor of Speech and Hearing Sci leads an imaging study on youth during early pandemic, submits to the NAS journal, reviewed by a Prof of Biostatistics and Prof of Psychology, no one an expert in the topic, calls it causation by lockdowns as happened at near same time?

More than 70% of US household COVID spread started with a child, study suggests | CIDRAP cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/more-…

Regarding the new paper which attributes brain aging to pandemic lockdowns without any accounting for COVID infections—which are well established to alter brain structure— PNAS is no stranger to retractions: retractionwatch.com/category/by-jo…

Not familiar with Viktor Orbán, the democracy-killing Hungarian dictator whose approval Trump touted on the debate stage last night? Here's a good explainer. vox.com/policy-and-pol…