Just Here For The News Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. World Health Organization (WHO) Just Here For The News Hello, the unroll you asked for: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1781758… Share this if you think it's interesting. 🤖

As many of us have said, this is not rocket science. The public can understand that aerosols float like smoke and can carry infectious viruses (i.e. SARS-2), but droplets drop. It is fixable via masks, filtration, and ventilation yet ironically(?) World Health Organization (WHO) provides no solutions (9/).

And why ignore a peer reviewed Letter to Science in October 2020 entitled 'Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2' which clearly describes the difs in exposure pathways for inhalation of aerosols that float like smoke vs droplets which rapidly drop?

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

(8/)

And why did World Health Organization (WHO) not believe a major National Academies workshop in August 2020 was sufficient where all experts across the same disciplines agreed this virus (and likely others like influenza) is airborne?

nationalacademies.org/our-work/airbo…

(7/)

What is even more crazy is they worked super hard to separate spray/droplets impacting directly from spreading 'in the air' and inhalation--but they could not agree on the best method for protecting people from inhalation. Really? Masks? Filtration? (5/)

They bury 'airborne' (analogy: waterborne & foodborne). It appears that World Health Organization (WHO) has worked really hard to avoid any acknowledgement of their central role in spreading misinfo regarding SARS-2 airborne transmission. I'm concerned as this does not bode well for future pandemics. (4/4)

Why did it take World Health Organization (WHO) and ~100 experts 33 pages to conclude that SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory pathogens are airborne (replaced by they 'travel through the air')? This could have been clarified & stated in 1 page max. More words lead to more confusion, not less. (3/4)?

It's #FluorescentFriday !
What happens in the brain during normal aging?
While most neurons will not shrink, they will lose synapses, the connections between different neurons, which can affect learning and memory.
But how do we take these images from primates? (1/5)

I'm just re-read World Health Organization (WHO)'s recent report. As motivation, they state up front: '.....during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the terms ‘airborne’, ‘airborne transmission’ and ‘aerosol transmission’ were used in different ways by stakeholders in different' (1/4)

Increased frequency and mortality in persons with neurological disorders during COVID-19 academic.oup.com/brain/article-…

It is all in the head, no? #covid19 #longcovid

This is the cover of Brain today. Over 355.00 people were analyzed. How are we going to treat all these people with dementia?

'We found a higher incidence of encephalopathy, dementia, seizure/epilepsy, brain fog, and myelitis within the acute phase from 7 days to 3 months

Next pandemic likely to be caused by flu virus, scientists warn

Influenza is still the biggest threat to global health as WHO raises fears about the spread of avian strain theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

#Variant update for #Ontario , #Canada (to Apr. 9, 2024)

The regular BA.2.86.*/JN.1.* #Pirola clan of variants as you know them are starting to go down in Ontario. This is because descendants are picking up two very useful FLiRT mutations. Graph tools by Mike Honey 🧵1/

🚨 “The virus has also been detected in milk from infected animals.

Zhang said there was a ‘very high virus concentration in raw milk,’ but experts were still investigating exactly how long the virus is able to survive in milk.” barrons.com/news/h5n1-stra…

It's been getting on for a year since I wrote this thread - heres a bit of an update of where we are with the evidence for mammal-to-mammal transmission of H5N1s.
twitter.com/PeacockFlu/sta…

'Health is synonymous
with our ability to
work and produce'

'You're only entitled to
the survival you can buy'

#Capitalism
#CurrentPoliticalEconomy

'decompression sickness with contributing factors of obesity, hypertension, and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, with an unknown role for the SARS-CoV-2 infection.'

Not unknown. COVID screws up the vascular system. 🤦

newsweek.com/us-missile-exp…

Assessment of olfactory recovery after COVID-19: cross-sectional study

❗Very interesting small study:
Subjectively recovered ≠ objectively recovered in many

➡️“Three months after COVID-19, many patients perceive smell recovery, but objective tests reveal shockingly high

2024 Bingo Special

Most accurate headline so far.
'It’s Taken 100 Scientists Two Years to Rename Airborne Viruses After Covid Mistakes '
but with an eyeroll at the end
swissinfo.ch/eng/its-taken-…