This should be a wake up call for those who think the current provincial governments and the private interests they cater to are willing to clean the air to protect citizens. Their agenda is not the public’s agenda. Public health is secondary.

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The recording from the Ed Yong keynote + panel event on #LongCOVID from April 4 is officially out!! 🎉 Please share everywhere 🙂 pippsbc SFU Graduate Studies

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1. Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez warned us in 2020 that nose inoculation is a poor way to infect and needs a dose 100,000 higher for the same symptoms as airborne transmission (for flu and smallpox) and that Covid was likely similar.

« Metformin reduced the odds of hospitalizations/death through 28 days by 58%, of emergency department visits/hospitalizations/death through 14 days by 42%, and of long COVID through 10 months by 42% » academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…

The economic cost of #LongCovid covid is staggering!

In the US, #LongCovid could result in 1.5 billion work hours lost in 2024 – a potential cost of more than US$152.6 billion

A report by The Economist

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Infection Prevention & Control for Clinical Office Practice
Draft Guidance from College of Physicians & Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO)

🚨Consultation CLOSES Mon May 6 11:59 PM (ET)

The draft does NOT address mitigation of airborne transmission 😡

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The media flap their gums and wave their arms about ambulance delays.
You want to know the actual problem?
Sick crews, sick staff, and more sick patients.
Here's ambulance staff monthly sickness absence rates over the last ten years.

An important update for SIP valve users :

Make sure the hole in the mask for the valve is the right size.

It won't always cause problems (the mask in my video had a hole that was a little too small) but it sometimes can. So please check the fit when using these.

Eric Feigl-Ding Flo Mask The farming industry is already using elastomeric respirators for many types of hazards in the barns, fields & elsewhere so the only barrier to using them for bird flu is awareness. Here is an OSHA respiratory selection guide for farm families & their workers mentioning the…