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Broadwaybabyto

The measles outbreak in Ontario is impacting more than 800 people, including the vaccinated.

Among the fully vaccinated sick with measles, 20-39 year olds have the largest number of infections.

I would have assumed it would be older groups due to waning vaccine effectiveness… so this intrigues me.

More people with young children? More socializing? What’s the X factor? Are repeat Covid infections playing a role?

You can speak to your doctor about getting a titre check to see if you need a booster, and a well fitted respirator like an N95 provides an extra layer of protection!

publichealthontario.ca/-/media

#measles#vaccines#wearamask
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Broadwaybabyto

I understand wanting to go 'back to normal'. Pandemics are traumatizing and scary. Of course people want to forget them.

But they don't end when we decide we've had enough. The threat doesn't go away because we have 'Covid fatigue' or because we’re sick of masking.

We must stop denying the reality that Covid is still with us, still killing and still disabling people.

We must work on our collective trauma and push for common sense measures like masks in healthcare, free respirators and tests and clean air in public spaces.

“Back to normal” isn’t working. It’s a mirage. The comfortable lie.

But we can move towards a new normal together. One where everyone is safer and healthier. It’s not too late.

#covidisnotover#covidisairborne#longcovid
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This preprint seems so good! [edit: pre-proof not pre-print, it has been peer reviewed and the data passed muster, but might have formatting, grammar, and spelling tweaks]

goals were: a) to detect viral load in indoor air in different areas and floors of a separate COVID building in a hospital [...], b) to evaluate the effect of an air-cleaner in the reduction of viral load in the presence of patients, and c) to examine the correlation between viral presence in the air and particle matter burden.

their methodology is making me happy!

Their system separated aerosols into > 2.5 μm, 1.0 to 2.5 μm, 0.5 to 1.0 μm, 0.25 to 0.50 μm, and < 0.25 μm, and found

SARS-CoV-2 was detected in all different fractions and the highest viral loads were detected at stages A (> 2.5 μm) and B (1 - 2.5 μm).

however this was in open-window conditions, ie. low CO2 and higher airflow; sampling with the same equipment in households, they found

the highest amount was detected in Stage 4 (0.25 - 0.5 μm)

The data is mostly PCR but they did do some sequencing, and positively confirmed the dominant variants were stable through the study, and not confounding.

Note the air cleaner was a "Airocide (APS GCS-25 model) air purifier" which uses "photocatalytic oxidation technology" as well as 254nm UV, with no HEPA or other mechanical filter.

Also, this is vindicating for those of us pleading with folks to not immediately de-mask in the hallway:

the highest concentration was detected in COVID clinic rooms displaying a high peak of 1123 copies/m3, whereas at the corridor area showed 481 copies/m3

Also highly of note, they could not detect any virus in the areas that were upstream of negative-pressure COVID-19 care. So yes, home isolation protocols that emphasize negative pressure zones absolutely are well founded!

sciencedirect.com/science/arti via aus.social/@Sidherian

www.sciencedirect.com“SARS-CoV-2 airborne detection within different departments of a COVID-19 hospital building and evaluation of air cleaners in air viral load reduction”The pandemic of COVID-19 has brought in light the necessity for the development of novel detection methods for airborne transmitted pathogens, and the…
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Broadwaybabyto

Huge cuts at NIOSH mean that those who reply on respirators to keep themselves safe will have less protection. This impacts firefighters, miners, healthcare workers and all manner of industries.

It’s also devastating to the disability community.

“You do you” Covid policies left many of us with N95s as our main line of defence against repeat infection.

Respirators make public spaces accessible. They allow us to attend healthcare appointments without forced infection.

Cutting the people who ensure their quality will endanger disabled lives.

cnn.com/2025/04/06/health/cdc-

CNN · ‘A huge impact on worker safety’: Protection for miners, firefighters in jeopardy after CDC cutsVon Meg Tirrell
#uspoli#fascism#maskswork
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Broadwaybabyto

People refer to Covid in the past tense because they WANT it to be over… not because it actually IS over.

We’ve all suffered a collective trauma, and most people are refusing to process or deal with it.

A few key points people are determined to “forget”:

“During Covid” is now.

“During the pandemic” is now.

Covid is not over.

Covid IS airborne.

Masks, especially well fitted N95s, offer excellent protection

Anyone can get Long Covid, and your risk increases with each infection.

Even if your initial infection was “mild”, you could have long term damage to your vascular system, immune system, lungs and brain.

Repeat infections are NOT inevitable.

We CAN beat the pandemic together. But it involves collective effort. It involves acknowledging we’re still in a pandemic and “you do you” isn’t working. It involves caring about the air we share, and being willing to adapt.

Let’s make 2025 the year we can actually begin putting Covid in the past!

#covidisairborne#covidisnotover#wearamask
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