Burnet Institute Suman Majumdar Shift to universal N95 in health care. Antimaskers can leave the profession. They are like bus drivers who don't want to follow speed limits. Wrong profession! They won't be missed, masking staff will be off sick less often.
There is a moral dimension too. #FirstDoNoHarm

Testing patients on admission and ensuring staff wear masks are cost-effective measures to reduce hospital-acquired COVID-19 infections, research from Burnet and the Vic Department of Health, led by Fenella McAndrew, A/Prof Nick Scott and A/Prof Suman Majumdar shows.

Eric Topol Science Magazine Ziyad Al-Aly, MD How right Dr David Berger, aBsuRdiSTe cROnickLeR was! (In 2021)

As we wrote Science Magazine
'Each reinfection contributes additional risk of #LongCovid : Cumulatively, two infections yield a higher risk of Long Covid than one infection, and three infections yield a higher risk than two infections'—Ziyad Al-Aly, MD and me
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''The dogma that droplets are a major mode of transmission is the 'flat earth' position now.'

#CovidIsAirborne
#Airborne

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Such a comprehensive bite.

Reading the work of a journalist who understands the intricacies of the problem is refreshing albeit a dark subject matter.

Thank you for sharing such important words in such an eloquent manner.

The world needs more Hayley Gleeson s

Pathogens found on floors, ceilings & door handles of hospital toilets. Logical explanation? Toilet flushing aerosolises what's in the toilet bowl, and tiny water particles carrying these organisms fly up to the ceiling & contaminate high sites. Applied Microbiology International
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Hospitals & healthcare services Australia-wide shamelessly killing people because: idiotic denial of devastating harm caused by C19; cost; HCWs sick of wearing N95. Seriously?! Surely this is industrial manslaughter? Surely criminal charges should be laid? abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

Viral Load of SARS-CoV-2 in Respiratory Aerosols - #droplet dogma debunked. Virus is mainly fine aerosols from deep in the lungs. HT Prof Deborah Lupton Master of Public Health, PhD Gabrielle Babbington academic.oup.com/cid/article/74…

This news should be broadcast far and wide. It is unacceptable when simple measures like mandatory mask wearing in all health institutions can substantially reduce these numbers.

Prof Geoff Hanmer What is the point of a health department if it fails to set policies to reduce avoidable severe outcomes and death caused by those hospitals?

Victorian Department of Health dodged Hayley’s question, implying they are comfortable with this.

Hard agree with A/Prof Caroline Marshall: 'To me … any sort of nosocomial infection is a disaster,'

“Hundreds of patients died after catching COVID in Victorian hospitals, new data shows” by Hayley Gleeson
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“The WHO concluded airborne transmission occurs as sick people exhale pathogens that remain suspended in the air. 'This is a complete U-turn,' said Julian Tang, MBBS, PhD, who advised the WHO on the report” by Amy Maxmen, PhD medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…

towards zero. we aim for zero road accident deaths (this TAC campaign from a few years back gets me every time). why don't we think similarly about covid in hospitals and other high-risk settings? youtube.com/watch?v=k2tOye…

an interesting comparison: it's road safety week, and vic landmarks are being lit up in memory of victims, ministers are putting out strong statements like these

these aren't just numbers – this is about people's health, human lives:
at least 6,212 patients caught covid in vic hospitals in 2022/23 and 586 of them died – about one in 10.
a higher % of men died (11%) than women (8%)
the youngest were in their 50s, the oldest 85+

Vic hospitals are knowingly putting patients at risk by removing basic mitigations despite Covid circulating. Hayley Gleeson has exposed the real numbers & the serious mortality risk facing these HAI patients.
We must do much better -top down & bottom up.
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Whenever the 'tone police' are deployed to a situation, always remember that it is NEVER actually the tone which is being objected to. It is always the message.

“Dean was also shocked that most of the hospital staff were wearing surgical masks, some on their chin.”