Gabrielle Babbington

Pre COVID: Medical journalist focused on global health in the Asia Pacific region. Now: Patient advocate for the clinically vulnerable, COVID narrative critic.

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

A lot of people say a lot of things about COVID transmission risk. But what do the heavyweight experts in airborne infection and transmission control, who were in the game long before COVID, say? It’s not what you’d expect. A 🧵.

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

@Icomefromunder @Globalbiosec True. The denialism is pervasive.

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

@jwgale Bravo, I look forward to reading it, Jason. Do you discuss the broad spectrum of people with an enduring elevated risk of serious acute complications or serious chronic morbidity from COVID? Is anyone investigating this?

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

“We are witnessing the creation of a generation with preventable trauma, delayed diagnoses, foregone treatments, and compromised development. What we are documenting is systemic, orchestrated harm to immigrants, and therefore their children.” https://t.co/HoE8q0eYzW

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

@N95Anaesthetist @abcnews @craigreucassel Good stuff 🙏. Thank you too, Nancy, for your stellar presentation, Covid for Doctors. As a medical journalist turned advocate for the clinically vulnerable, I’m very appreciative. But there are critical errors of omission in your mitigation section. See🧵 https://t.co/N7UdzjSQE1

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

A lot of people say a lot of things about COVID transmission risk. But what do the heavyweight experts in airborne infection and transmission control, who were in the game long before COVID, say? It’s not what you’d expect. A 🧵.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

@brownecfm Tweeting this stuff like “no masking outside” is irresponsible imo bc you’re not qualifying it in any way or giving info about outdoor spread. I thought it was safe to unmask outside and got covid that way. I wish I knew to mask outside around people and u should reiterate imo

[Daniel Park @Daniel_E_Park]

Large study in children and adolescents shows that SARS-CoV-2 infection is linked with long term cardiovascular complications

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

@hazardscampaign True, but look at what the loudest advocates are calling for: clean air only. They’re blatantly calling for the wrong thing. Clean air does not give high risk people safe access to public buildings, and it’s an insult to suggest that substantial residual risk is ok for them.

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

A lot of people say a lot of things about COVID transmission risk. But what do the heavyweight experts in airborne infection and transmission control, who were in the game long before COVID, say? It’s not what you’d expect. A 🧵.

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

TrueFood link again: https://t.co/V64ILQmGiV

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

Cool. “TrueFood is a user-friendly interface designed to unveil the degree of processing of food products, powered by GroceryDB, a comprehensive database” - and part of this research project on the U.S. food supply: https://t.co/sgB7fhILkF. https://t.co/V64ILQmGiV

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

@hausofhemlock @BrainInflCollab No idea, but there’s literature on the oral effects of MCAS, and a stinging sensation in the mouth is often described, as well as several other issues. Have you tried the treatments I mentioned already?

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

@hausofhemlock @BrainInflCollab This sounds like MCAS. Can you temporarily go on the FODMAP diet and take H1 and H2 antihistamines and other mast cell stabilisers (vitamin C, Quercetin, etc) and see if it improves?

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

@BrainInflCollab Thank you! See 🧵 on @manruipa ‘s work on EBV reactivation: https://t.co/fMyMuV4u5d

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

Joining the dots on long COVID, ME/CFS, POTS, MCAS, IBS, gastroparesis, inherited connective tissue disorders, EBV (Epstein-Barr virus), SARS-CoV-2, etc. A 🧵 inspired by @manruipa, a ME/CFS researcher at the European University of Madrid. See his 🧵👇. https://t.co/kgmjYDclPb

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

@lulusherwood If we had no better options, then applauding half-measures would be justified. But we have upper-room germicidal UV, which does stop COVID transmission indoors. Refusing to call for UR-GUV, and saying clean air is enough, makes true safe access harder to achieve for high riskers.

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

Neither open windows, nor mechanical ventilation, nor a HEPA air-purifier or two stops COVID transmission indoors. WE KNOW THIS. Denialism makes our heroes indistinguishable from our enemies. Half-measures can’t make indoor areas COVID-safe, and saying otherwise is selling out.

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

Facts matter. The truth matters. The human right to safely access public areas matters.

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

A lot of people say a lot of things about COVID transmission risk. But what do the heavyweight experts in airborne infection and transmission control, who were in the game long before COVID, say? It’s not what you’d expect. A 🧵.

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

@arijitchakrav @BenjaminMateus7 Also, we can’t talk about COVID without talking about diversity, equity and inclusion. Although the population level risks are real and urgent, some have a comparatively high individual risk of serious COVID complications. These people are denied safe access to public buildings.

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

Thank you, @arijitchakrav. “The first obstacle we must deal with is the idea of pandemic denialism. We are like lemmings at this point. There is no real appreciation at the public level for the scale of threat we are facing. https://t.co/6LjazVzBXX

[Gabrielle Babbington @glbabbington]

@arijitchakrav Thank you too, @BenjaminMateus7. So many great quotes in the interview 👆 with @arijitchakrav. “The first thing that public health needs to do… is to stop the lying. We need to tell people why it’s bad to get COVID repeatedly. Tell people why COVID can shorten one’s lifespan.”