The first and most important step in mitigating against covid is knowing that you need to mitigate against covid.

In the emergency phase, it was 50% about acute deaths and 50% about Long Covid. Now, it's 5% about acute deaths and 95% about Long Covid. Long Covid is the pressing problem. It's the issue that *everyone* should be concerned about.

Kim Prather has done so much to promote clean air. Her account has been hacked. Hopefully she can regain control of her account soon @support Do not buy anything from the hackers.

Huge THANKS to 3M for supporting the #CorsiRosenthalFoundation w/ a substantial donation of Filtrete™ Air Filters valued at over $100,000 to build #CRBoxes for schools & community centers across the US, particularly in underserved communities. More: 👇 corsirosenthalfoundation.org/articles/3m-ma…

A really important ten things thread by Tern. Make sure you read the whole thread.

I guess stopping pandemics before they get going is too boring for epidemiologists.

4 days ago my 6yo attended a field trip to a local science museum. A parent chaperone repeatedly "pressured and begged" him to remove his mask for part of the experiment. This morning I was awake at 4am cleaning up his vomit. 🛑Stop bullying children!

Does this one count? She had had it at least three times. First time was Delta. Lost her sense of smell. Couldn’t smell a baby’s soiled diaper. But she will tell you how mild Covid is.

I wish we had a flock of terns in PH / EPI / IPAC / ID

2 years ago today, this was posted. KSL 5 TV the only news outlet I know giving #IAQ & its relation to infectious aerosol transmission any attention at all. Why is this? Why aren't more outlets picking up on this critical issue? KSL did about a dozen spots! x.com/nalticx/status…

One of our faith community needed an ambulance today. The ambulance crew arrived and said it would be better if they stayed with her for a couple of hours and gave her what treatment they could at her home than take her into hospital.

There are growing concerns about air quality in Southern California, as multiple fires continue to burn. @drlapook breaks down some of the health risks posed by wildfire smoke — and shares how masks and air filters can help keep you safe.

This was such a heartfelt moment - dropping off our first big batch of #corsirosenthalbox es in LA yesterday. The webinar Joaquín Beltrán Free Palestine & Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. put together in Aug 2021 was pivotal for me. It was a special full-circle moment to meet Joaquin & hand him these air cleaners.♥️

PHASE 2 of the Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation US funded BIG BUILD has officially begun. We are cutting 20” squares and the amazing Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. has offered to cut the circles with her fancy machine. 512 MORE CR boxes are coming to help with the #lafires

It’s 9am and the volunteers keep flowing in. We are more organized than ever, building CR boxes as fast as we can for folks impacted by the #lafires. Joaquín Beltrán Free Palestine and I have been trading hot tips as we work to build nearly 1,000 CR boxes in these first critical weeks.

Today, adult baptism is common in many Christian denominations. But 500 years ago, it was radical. And the "Anabaptists" who practiced it & believed people made in God's image should have the freedom to follow their conscience, were often persecuted. 1/ julieroys.com/anabaptists-co…

With this post heading toward 9 Million views and 128K likes, I hope that policy makers, healthcare workers and politicians understand this: People expect and need protection in healthcare settings. Wear respirators!

me: "I saw a doctor coughing into his hand this morning in oncology." mrs tern: "Which doctor?" me: "Yeah, he might as well have been."

Someone with a gravelly cough and a sickly pallor just stepped out of their way to tell me that "those don't work, you know". Well, they've worked for five years so far.

This is a perfect illustration of a widespread and dangerous linguistic phenomenon I've talked about before; namely how phrases such as 'during Covid' or 'during the pandemic' actually mean 'during the period of time when non-pharmaceutical interventions were in place'.