Matthew #COVIDisAirborne

Victorian HCW in Melbourne 🇦🇺. #WearAMask advocate 😷, because #COVIDisAirborne. Opinions my own. RT≠endorse. Stay safe! ❤️

[Matthew #COVIDisAirborne @MattAllsbrook]

I always remind myself:
To avoid COVID spread, Focus on VENTILATION & #CleanAir.
Not disinfecting surfaces/“deep clean”.

#WearAMask #CovidIsAirborne #MonkeypoxIsAirborne

[Waggoner Lab @LabWaggoner]

REVIEW @NatImmunol @parkerlabPMCC
The complexity of immune evasion mechanisms throughout the metastatic cascade
https://t.co/WhVlg7qON1

[charlos @loscharlos]

“Viruses hide, that’s what they do,” said @PutrinoLab. “If you’re finding evidence of them in plasma, that probably tells you that there’s a lot more going on in tissue where viruses like to hide, like nerve tissue, gut tissue, joint tissue, et cetera.” #LongCovid

[Michael | APC Injury @michaelmoran]

"We... conclusively demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 is capable of infecting and replicating within [the heart, lymph nodes, small intestine, adrenal glands] and many other tissues, including brain... as late as 230 days following symptom onset..."
https://t.co/I7FTcWjTDS

[Prof Brendan Crabb @CrabbBrendan]

Gosh @trishgreenhalgh one day and @WesElyMD the next. Your one stop shop for #LongCovid in the world’s best medical journals @NEJM and @TheLancet - Meanwhile, in a parallel reality, the comfort with getting infected & infecting others continues, including at the Olympics. It’s absurd.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

1. Don’t smoke
2. Wear sunglasses
3. Don’t sleep in your contacts
4. Wear safety glasses
5. Don’t use Vis*ne

[Nick #RespiratorsFilterAllPathogens😷 Anderegg @NickAnderegg]

OOHHHH WOW! New preprint on the host immune response in Long Covid was just posted (few hours ago), and it's more significant than the 3-gene signature!

They found reactivation of viral herpes (EBV/CMV/HSV2) and CONFIRMED PERSISTENT SARS-CoV-2 INFECTIONS! Here's a summary...

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[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In ancient Greece, women were forbidden to study medicine for several years until someone broke the law. Born in 300 BC, Agnodice cut her hair and entered Alexandria medical school dressed as a man. While walking the streets of Athens after completing her medical education, she heard the cries of a woman in labour. However, the woman did not want Agnodice to touch her although she was in severe pain, because she thought Agnodice was a man. Agnodice proved that she was a woman by removing her clothes without anyone seeing and helped the woman deliver her baby.

The story would soon spread among the women and all the women who were sick began to go to Agnodice. The male doctors grew envious and accused Agnodice, whom they thought was male, of seducing female patients. At her trial, Agnodice, stood before the court and proved that she was a woman but this time, she was sentenced to death for studying medicine and practicing medicine as a woman.

Women revolted at the sentence, especially the wives of the judges who had given the death penalty. Some said that if Agnodice was killed, they would go to their deaths with her. Unable to withstand the pressures of their wives and other women, the judges lifted Agnodice's sentence, and from then on, women were allowed to practice medicine, provided they only looked after women.

Thus, Agnodice made her mark in history as the first Greek female doctor, physician and gynecologist. This plaque depicting Agnodice at work was excavated at Ostia, Italy.

#drthehistories

[Al Haddrell @ukhadds]

Given that the COVID numbers are on the rise, I thought I’d it useful to share some our research team’s work looking at the interplay between CO2, aerosol, SARS-CoV-2, and airborne transmission. 🧵

[Froglet 🐸 @froglet80]

ten reasons SARS-CoV-2 should be more feared than hiv

(warning: i learned to count from @1goodtern)

[Glen Pyle | #WomensHeartHealth ❤️‍🩹💃🏼 @glenpyle]

With the publication of an excellent review of the benefits of masking by @trishgreenhalgh & colleagues, some are recycling misinformation about the basic physics of masks.

Let me, a biophysicist, take this opportunity to explain the physics of masks.

A 🧵

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[Prof Brendan Crabb @CrabbBrendan]

Tragic for those in AC, but prob. the best indicator of what's going on in the community. Even in AC testing rates will have declined. Shows large amount of infection in Oz without interruption for 5 months; millions of cases. Increasing now. @Mike_Honey_

[Gez Medinger @gezmedinger]

My last 2 YT vids were extracts from an interview for the free online symposium ‘Cracking the Chronic Illness Code’.

It runs all week - starting today! All today’s talks available free for a 24hr period (&same tomorrow etc)

Link to register here:

https://t.co/F4aUKHdPdU

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[🕸️Dr.T, PhD @chydorina]

Non-scientists dont realize how much of the human body is still a mystery.

The glymphatic system was first published on in 2014!

The interstitium, a network of connective tissues and spaces in the body (that is also a communication network) was discovered in 2018.

We know a lot (sure) but the systems aspect of human biology has been hidden beneath an organ and tissue centric perspective.

Look out. Look in. Look out. Look in.

[Gez Medinger @gezmedinger]

Excellent article on the subject of viral persistence and current state of play regarding (US) antiviral trials for Long Covid.

https://t.co/0qfZZydrcD.

[Prof Brendan Crabb @CrabbBrendan]

Very grateful Karen. The good news is that this is under half the number of excess deaths seen in 2022, Australia's first highly exposed year. The bad news is that 8,400 deaths, 5% more than expected, is still a very large toll, many times more than influenza for example.

Also concerning that circa 2,000+ people died just in this last wave (Nov-Feb). Understandably, a lot of attention has moved to the large chronic impact of COVID-19, but acute effects are still substantial. In my view, this is a largely preventable public health crisis.

[Matthew #COVIDisAirborne @MattAllsbrook]

🤦‍♂️

[T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @TRyanGregory]

Now we're doing droplets for avian flu. No one could have foreseen this.

[Prof Brendan Crabb @CrabbBrendan]

NYTimes invents increasingly bizarre explanations for pandemic-era student absence crisis.

by @julia_doubleday https://t.co/OXNqXpHzbg

[David Joffe MB BS (Hons), PhD, FRACP 🇦🇺 @DavidJoffe64]

Good morning, Australia

Keep watching 🤬🤬

We aren't exceptional, we aren't immune, we aren't wearing masks or cleaning our air.

Hell... We aren't even vaccinating much these days.

Long C-19 is 💥DEVASTATING💥
The risk rises with every infection.

Where's the PM?

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

[Kate Cole OAM @kate_cole_]

It is important that the record is set straight on what has happened in NSW during the Pandemic.

Our Letter to the Editor was published today 👇

https://t.co/oVrlxEO1K0