Emma Giles

Anaesthetist. Born at atmospheric CO2 320ppm.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

July 21 was the hottest day ever registered globally, according to preliminary data published by the EU's climate monitor https://t.co/RPvd1ILp0R

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Good morning!

Who dresses better? Alpha males or little dogs? Let's explore. 🧵

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Math is beautiful ✍️

[Dr Kerryn Phelps AM @drkerrynphelps]

Saturday Night Live describe post C0¥1D functional cognitive loss better than any scientific paper or medical text I have seen.

https://t.co/p3CoMW4yWZ

[Wendy Bacon @Wendy_Bacon]

The 15 hottest places on earth on Monday were all in WA. Perth has broken record for number of days over 40degress in Feb.

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

Greenhouse Effect https://t.co/7Mk5Pi7PZC

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

Happy 111th birthday to this little one

[Peter Vogel @psvbluemts]

I have obtained information about hospital-acquired COVID-19 from Queensland Health. From Jan-22 to June-23 an average of 14 people caught C19 in hospital each day, and one of these died each day. The data only lists deaths in the hospital, we don't know how many died soon after discharge.

The Queensland AMA has written to the CHO "expressing members' concerns about rising COVID cases and inadequate infection controls within Queensland Health hospitals". They have now published the letter and the non-answer here https://t.co/4D7uJerqxb

It does not address the doctors' concerns at all. It just says that each hospital should make their own rules, proportionate to the current risk.

In spite of the acknowledged current wave of COVID, here's an example of current guidance from a typical Qld hospital:

Visitors are welcome at Metro South Health facilities, and are asked to help keep patients safe by:

* practising hand hygiene
* staying home if you have any flu-like symptoms
* avoid visiting hospitals, aged care, or disability care centre while you have any cold or flu symptoms.

As well as being totally inadequate, point 3 seems to assume you'll ignore point 2.

The policy of leaving it to individuals to manage their own COVID-19 protection has now been extended to health care generally, resulting in vast disparity between the safety offered by different services. If I buy a fridge, I get to see a star rating and can have confidence that what I buy will have that level of energy efficiency. I can be confident the fridge meets safety standards and it won't electrocute me. If I enter a public building I don't have to check that the fire doors work. But if I am taken to hospital with a broken hip it's pot luck whether I'm exposed to avoidable airborne disease.

[Dr Satoshi Akima FRACP 『秋間聰』 @ToshiAkima]

Virchow argued that socioeconomic inequalities were the source of most diseases, and handwashing took the emphasis away from fighting for social equity, instead putting it onto individual responsibility to handwash.

[Henry Madison @RageSheen]

The way we get 800 km of range out of an ICE vehicle is to put over 3000 km worth of energy in the tank.

[Caroline Bird @CarolineBirdUK]

‘The earth shakes, and
I fall out of bed’

- by Mosab Abu Toha, the poet and essayist kidnapped today. We should all be reading his words. From his collection, ‘Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear’

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Breaking News!

Well humanity, we did it, even if just for one day. Yesterday, Nov. 18, was the first time in recorded history that the global 2m surface temperature breached 2.0°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline.

The long-term average remains below 1.5°C. But not for long.

[Natalie Thurtle @Turtle1doc]

.@acemonline rescinded my keynote invitation details here

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

BREAKING: Whistleblower David McBride has just pleaded guilty after both his public interest defence and much of the critical evidence for his defence have been successfully objected to by the Commonwealth government. It’s hard to believe.

[Josh Trebach, MD @jtrebach]

poisoning with eyedrops??? BUT HOW??

a thread on tetrahydrozoline tox 🧵

[Dr Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🦋 @SatelliteSci]

The scale of the fires currently burning across northern Australia is pretty unfathomable.

This animation visualises just the last two months of fire captured by #DEAHotspots - for context, the map covers an area larger than France, Spain and Germany combined...

[David McBride @MurdochCadell]

If anyone hasn’t already signed this, my family and I would be grateful if you did now.

While generally petitions achieve little, two weeks from the Govt trying to jail me for life for doing my job, it will be embarrassing for them.

Their facade of legality is cracking.