Matt Mason

Lecturer in Nursing @usceduau. Infection Prevention, Infectious Disease & Emergency Management. Opinions my own. living on Gubbi Gubbi land.

[Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @KrutikaKuppalli]

🚨Colleagues in infectious diseases, public health, emergency medicine, global health, and related fields:

Myself, Deb Houry, Anne Schuchat and @Craig_A_Spencer with the support of @IDSAInfo have drafted an open letter to Congress regarding the proposed use of third-country facilities for the quarantine, isolation, or treatment of Americans potentially exposed to or infected with Ebola virus disease.

The letter outlines concerns related to standards of care, access to advanced supportive and critical care, oversight and accountability, patient rights and well-being, and the potential diversion of resources from outbreak response efforts.

We invite you to review the letter and consider signing on by Thursday, 5 PM ET.

✍️ Sign on here: https://t.co/aNrlZPKs73

[Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell]

Stop scrolling - and read this - and then please share with others.

We know legacy media won't touch this story.

Australians need to know what is being done by our Government #auspol

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

Here's me. "Australia is manufacturing explosives for Israel’s atrocities"
https://t.co/JintzVFh5q

[Booker Ngesa Omole ☭ @BookerBiro]

The U.S. refuses to quarantine its Ebola exposed citizens at home but wants to do it in Kenya.

This is the logic of imperialism: profits and privilege for the centre, risks and burdens for the periphery.

Kenya is a nation, not a quarantine colony.

[Deepcut News @deepcutnews]

One of Australia’s most senior bureaucrats is working alongside pro-Israel supporters to bring the selection of research grants into line with new controversial hate speech laws.

https://t.co/VCcWpj46qf

[Dr Colin Hughes @drcwhos]

Just like the teaching of religious instruction in public schools These anti semitism classes must be parent approved and held after hours .
Why not teach ethics and human rights instead so it applies to all races and religions and philosophies @humanism @JasonClareMP

[Toilet Paper Australia @toiletpaperaus1]

Huh… so the problem wasn’t immigrants and it was landlords hoarding housing all along…

[ramona quazzola @r_quazzy]

And elderly Australians trying to get a few measly pension dollars are grilled like criminals by Centrelink.

[Rhea Liang @LiangRhea]

The 'haves' squawking about their housing investments while the have-nots watch their flimsy shelters being destroyed is such a stain on Australia as winter approaches. What are we becoming? Such cruelty and social inequity 😢. #UnAustralian

[David Fisman @DFisman]

New paper out in BMC Infectious Diseases, led by Natalie Wilson with Alicia Grima and Clara Lee: how we define hospital-acquired COVID changes whether we see its true mortality burden, and most common definitions hide it. 🧵

[Christine Milne AO @ChristineMilne]

Are we concerned, deeply concerned, condemning of the brutality but still prepared to do nothing because we ‘share the values’ of the IDF @SenatorWong? #spineless #auspol

[Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @KrutikaKuppalli]

Also important to note that these are all suspect cases

[blakandblack @blakandblack]

Public hospitals in Australia should not be allowed to deny lawful treatment to members of the public based solely on religious grounds…

The Queensland government has opened the Mater Hospital Springfield, south-west of Brisbane.

The facility is the state's first new major public hospital in almost a decade, but it will not provide abortions, contraception or voluntary assisted dying care due to religious policies.

https://t.co/n4HrltL5G7

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need so many tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, legal protections, bailouts, and trade protections?

When citizens need these things, why is it socialism?

[Matt Mason @MattM_RN]

Maybe @uniaus could take note.

[Michael Pascoe @MichaelPascoe01]

ABC and SBS reject IHRA antisemitism definition adopted by government, royal commission https://t.co/Z6E0wxGG8Z

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Ebola has broken out in DR Congo and Uganda, reaching the capitals, and @WHO has declared this a global health emergency. I traveled along the Congo/Uganda border last year, and the public health structure--especially community health workers--was being dismantled because of President Trump's demolition of USAID. This Ebola outbreak will also be harder to address because it involves the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, for which there is no vaccine or approved therapy and for which even testing is complicated. And Trump has also withdrawn the US from @who, limiting the world's ability to work together to fight the virus. Uganda has a decent health system, but Congo's is a disaster and is complicated by war in Eastern Congo. Large numbers of Congolese are in camps in southwestern Uganda, and the US aid cuts mean that UN agencies are able to offer them less support so that the refugees increasingly are on their own and traveling more in search of food. If the Ebola spreads more broadly, then the cost in lives and money could be considerable -- so it's important to act early to contain it. I hope Trump will reconsider his moves, work with WHO, and dispatch assistance to the Uganda/Congo border area. https://t.co/J7MAf3qix1

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

https://t.co/iL3AMadJKk

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

Important thread on the new #Ebola #Bundibugyo outbreak in DRC. Already large, in a very tough spot, and there’s already been a related case in Uganda. And there’s the whole less foreign aid funding/US-out-of-WHO thing that could complicate response efforts.

[Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez @jljcolorado]

@adamscochran This is totally incorrect from an aerosol science angle.

N95 work both ways much better than surgical masks

And size of virus doesn't matter. They are contained in much larger particles of saliva or respiratory fluid

[Prof Kathy Eagar AM @keagar.bsky.social @k_eagar]

This is the human cost of leaving frail older people stranded in hospital because they can’t go home and they can’t get access to residential care. Australia must do better