Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

Who is still doing public health? Yale School of Public Health is.

Hard to be healthy with unhealthy air.

Virginia Tech researchers developing portable COVID AIR tests | Imagine being able to walk into a crowded store, restaurant or movie theater & be able to detect if there’s COVID-19 in Virginia Tech is developing a portable rapid test for the air. #covid dcnewsnow.com/whats-going-ar…

I talked to CBC/Radio-Canada about the effects of Covid on brain health

Thanks to host Bob McDonald and producer Amanda Buckiewicz

Link to the news article and radio interview below

cbc.ca/radio/quirks/l…

Was asked at work again today, by another middle-aged female staff, to take off my mask so they can see my face. Said “Absolutely!” Then recalled I was standing in a hospital. And that seeing me take my mask off wasn’t the real need, just representative of the real need.

In science & esp medicine, risk is a tricky thing to contend with - besides of course being a mathematical one - and involves many considerations in order to have a more fulsome understanding.

In this post Dr. Elisabeth Marnik Ph.D. and I attempt to explain these concepts. 1/9

My piece on Covid and brain health in Scientific American Scientific American

Even mild Covid can lead to significant decline in brain health

scientificamerican.com/article/covid-…

The cabinet minister responsible for Long Term Care followed this account until my data analysis and commentary increasingly pointed to negligence by her Ministry. Don’t let politicians with a conflict of interest rewrite our history.

All of the recent news re #UnitedAirlines incidents this past week + the Alaska flight that had the panel/window detach reminded me that these may not even be the biggest issues with the US aviation industry right now. This NYT report from last August:

'But the most acute

No parent who has seen the children I’ve treated for #measles would refuse a vaccine, by Paul Law statnews.com/2024/03/12/mea… via STAT #pediatrics #vaccination

Yes, it seems progress is happening on the mucosal COVID vaccine front.

'The number of next generation vaccines moving past first-in-human trials is into double digits. With another 2 pancoronavirus vaccines starting clinical trials this month'

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For months, the #covid19 recommendation has been that you can stop isolating 5 days after symptoms. CDC data shows that ~30% of people are still contagious (culturable virus) at this point. This is why wearing a well-fitting mask until ~10 days out is important. I think that

Four years of illness and counting. Over 57,000 confirmed deaths in Canada. 3.5 million with long-COVID.

To advocate for better policy and public health, #TemertyMed 's Kashif Pirzada, MD and a team of experts created the Canadian Covid Society/Société canad. de la covid. bit.ly/3Tk0aTM

Join us, we would love your support. ❤️ Canadian Covid Society/Société canad. de la covid covidsociety.ca

Four years ago I was feeling awful but optimistic that 2020 was going to be a good year. Diagnosis, chemo, surgery and radiation is always going to be an awful experience and I was through the worst of it.

I wrote about NPR 's decision to frame disabled people's ongoing exclusion from all public spaces as an annoyance to be navigated by individuals, rather than a massive civil rights violation to be challenged by the collective.

thegauntlet.news/p/disabled-peo…

Message today from a woman whose husband has had to stop his chemo because he caught Covid while being given his chemo.
The only place they went was the hospital, the only people they saw were in the hospital, and, of course, none of the staff or other patients were masked.