@rajpanjabi@BethCameron_DC The movement and transport of disease by commercial aviation cannot be overlooked. It’s the primary vector for the ignition and perpetuation of a pandemic. It’s precisely how COVID made it across the world in 3 weeks.
“This virus won’t go away just because countries stop looking for it.” ‼️ @DrTedros' warning today on COVID risk. “As many countries reduce testing, @WHO is...increasingly blind to patterns of transmission & evolution....It’s still spreading, still changing, still killing."
@PowerUSAID@AshishKJha46 Point of entry surveillance and response is currently a huge gap. Until this is addressed, it will be rinse and repeat over and over. At @TrekSecure we are engaged with several governments to fix this. Movement and transport of disease is a primary threat that must be handled.
@GioBenitez@GMA Here’s a recent study that paints a different picture. HEPA filters are not exactly what’s been portrayed by airlines and their industry groups.
https://t.co/haVW5nADKq
@Lakshmi_RKG @jonlevyBU You are exactly right. The data isn’t accurate because it hasn’t been tracked. You can thank the airlines for this. They’ve fought against it since SARS in 2005.
@Lakshmi_RKG @jonlevyBU Not impossible. It’s the airlines refusal to do it. We’ve built the system that does this. Won an award from UNWTO and endorsed by APFA- the union representing 25k flight attendants. We work w govts now. Airlines don’t want this info made available. They’ve fought it for years.
@jonlevyBU Few outbreaks from flying? False. How do you think COVID originally made it to every country in less than 3 weeks?? Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Lack of tracking to blame. Airlines oppose tracking this.
Yesterday, I tweeted that the mask mandate on US airplane flights should not end on April 18th. Here is why. I measured CO2 on airplane flights. On boarding and exiting CO2 levels are 2,200 to 2,400ppm. This means 4-5% of the air you breathe comes from somebody else’s lungs.
Covid had devastating toll on poor and low-income communities in US
Poor People’s Pandemic Report concludes that while virus did not discriminate between rich and poor, society and government did.
#COVID#pandemic#inequality#globalhealth
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Lifting all public health measures when levels of infection were so high when lifted will prolong this wave.Damage health,damage opportunities,education & economy. We have the tools: vaccines,drugs & proven public health measures to reduce transmission.But we have to use them all