'For [patients who are harmed] there are no apologies.'
'It is...almost impossible to get institutions where wrongdoing has happened to even say they’re sorry.'
🎯Carl Elliott
archive.ph/NrNcz#selectio…
#whistleblowers #malpractice #MedTwitter #AcademicTwitter

Two charts to show 100% renewables are coming sooner than most people think: in California, rapid battery deployment is soaking up solar during the day and displacing gas in evening peaks - while China is turbo-charging this trend by delivering 50% cut in battery costs in 1 year

Things are not going well with whooping cough (pertussis). Childhood vaccinations plummeting in the UK 🇬🇧, and kids also have weakened immune systems post-COVID. And it’s not even autumn 🍂.

HT tern

An IRP is technically not an aerosol.

Legally.

So, it buys corporations more time to avoid legal obligations such as the Cal/OSHA Aerosol Transmissible Diseases standard.

dir.ca.gov/dosh/dosh_publ…

The irony of this banner as U Calgary calls riot police on its own students #yyc

AB weekly covid data summary
negative 3 deaths (due to adjustments)
rising positivity (5.4->6.9%), cases (211->272), and ICU (from 6 to 10)
Stable reported hospitalizations (114->115)

WHO's MERS outbreak news recommends droplet precautions and airborne precautions for aerosol generating procedures -- on the same day as their ARIA webinar on airborne transmission? Where are the lessons learned Maria Van Kerkhove ?
Maggie Fox Kristen K. Coleman Carl Zimmer

After the world has just experienced how airborne denial/minimizing of a dangerous virus can lead to a public health disaster, the World Health Organization (WHO) just keeps doing it.

Why does everyone keep putting up with this?

Take a look at these MERS superspreadings in 2015:
sciencenews.org/article/anatom…

Extreme fire danger across much of the Alberta boreal tomorrow, due to warm, dry, breezy conditions and a dry cold front through the afternoon.

A good time to be extremely cautious out there!

Wildfires ripping today- this evening and perhaps overnight in NERN BC. Pyrotcu on fire east of Fort Nelson. Photo: Sonja Leverkus

Unbelievable, yet not: Trump vowed to scrap climate laws if oil bosses donated $1bn to 2024 campaign theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Collingwood hospital announces COVID outbreak in medical unit collingwoodtoday.ca/local-news/col… via CollingwoodToday

I went to China, drove more than a dozen EVs, and sat in dozens more. Had a lot of conversations, learned a lot of things.

One thing's for sure -- we're absolutely cooked, and it's probably our fault. China's EVs are better.

InsideEVs

insideevs.com/features/71901…

'The fact we can't simulate these step-change increases and understand why it's happening is terrifying.' -- Prof. Hayley Fowler

'The impact of warming the ocean could lead to new classes of heatwaves we've never seen before.' -- Prof. Valerio Lucarini

bbc.com/future/article…

Hey, Taco Bell UK, who do I complain to about your staff laughing and smirking at me for wearing a respirator to collect food?

Not what you need when you’ve spent all day in hospital with your extremely clinically vulnerable mum is it.

Here a pic of us at the hospital:
🧵1)

'Our time, energy, and resources would be better spent proceeding with long-established terms (eg, airborne and aerosol) that are well understood across the natural sciences to advance understanding of airborne transmission among clinicians + the public.'
thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Anthony Fauci is asked about exceptions made during the gain of function pause from 2014-2017.

(from his Nov 2022 deposition)

AGPs were associated with transmission because HCWs
were close to an infectious symptomatic person for a period of time.

AGPs per se were an IPC rabbit hole
Droplet transmission was imagined
Airborne transmission was/is dominant

IPC guidance writers were/are in error.

New: The Alberta government is proposing amendments to the Emergency Management Act that would allow the province to assume control over municipal responses to local emergencies.

Alberta Health Services is confirming reports of a COVID-19 outbreak in the NICU at Calgary's Peter Lougheed Hospital.
-2 babies. 1 worker tested positive
-visitors limited/no siblings/staff and visitors required to mask
-declared May 1. Likely over by tomorrow
-statement fr AHS: