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So H5N1 :virus: really must be airborne?! 💨

:questionbox: Were the birds not at other risk?
👉 These chickens are kept at "the highest biosecurity standards." ⛓️🔒⛓️ [1]

:questionbox: Ok but maybe humans broke the rules?
👉 there was a "complete absence of any interaction between the companies, even through third parties involved in feed replenishment, waste disposal or the transport of carcasses to rendering plants. All farms used their own well water supplies. In addition, the employees were not allowed to keep their own poultry. Therefore, in view of the biosecurity measures in place, the possibility of human-associated secondary spread [...] can be excluded." [1]

:questionbox: Wouldn't different caged birds 🐔 have different exposures to outside air though?
👉 "It is noteworthy that in the affected houses, the infection and subsequent mortality started in the areas closest to the air inlets" [1]

:questionbox: 8km long transmission though? Wouldn't that require the wind to line up just right?
👉 temperatures were 🌡️ warm and stable, keeping between 6°C and 11 °C, and "conditions were remarkable [...] with continuous wind from the west or southwest (250-300 degrees), [...] at the highest wind speeds [...] enabling the virus to reach [downstream birds] within 13-22 min" [1]

:questionbox: Was it even really the same disease, for sure?
👉 "genetic identity ✔️ between the H5N1 strains in the donor and recipient farms" [1]

:questionbox: Maybe it got in sooooome other way?
👉 "all possible alternative routes of infection during this period were excluded by our 🕵️ field investigation." [1]

:questionbox: but another result found no influenza in the air!
👉 "the failure to detect IAV particles away from infected farms must not be taken as evidence of the infeasibility of windborne spread. Indeed, when sampling was correlated with careful estimation of wind direction, IAV particles were detected in air collected up to 1.5 and 2.1 km from affected farms, indicating true wind-mediated dispersal."

5/5 🧵about [1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637829v1.full.pdf

#H5N1 #birdFlu #influenza #fluIsAirborne #influenzaIsAirborne #windborne #windborneTransmission

So H5N1 :virus: really must be airborne?! 💨

:questionbox: Were the birds not at other risk?
👉 These chickens are kept at "the highest biosecurity standards." ⛓️🔒⛓️ [1]

:questionbox: Ok but maybe humans broke the rules?
👉 there was a "complete absence of any interaction between the companies, even through third parties involved in feed replenishment, waste disposal or the transport of carcasses to rendering plants. All farms used their own well water supplies. In addition, the employees were not allowed to keep their own poultry. Therefore, in view of the biosecurity measures in place, the possibility of human-associated secondary spread [...] can be excluded." [1]

:questionbox: Wouldn't different caged birds 🐔 have different exposures to outside air though?
👉 "It is noteworthy that in the affected houses, the infection and subsequent mortality started in the areas closest to the air inlets" [1]

:questionbox: 8km long transmission though? Wouldn't that require the wind to line up just right?
👉 temperatures were 🌡️ warm and stable, keeping between 6°C and 11 °C, and "conditions were remarkable [...] with continuous wind from the west or southwest (250-300 degrees), [...] at the highest wind speeds [...] enabling the virus to reach [downstream birds] within 13-22 min" [1]

:questionbox: Was it even really the same disease, for sure?
👉 "genetic identity ✔️ between the H5N1 strains in the donor and recipient farms" [1]

:questionbox: Maybe it got in sooooome other way?
👉 "all possible alternative routes of infection during this period were excluded by our 🕵️ field investigation." [1]

:questionbox: but another result found no influenza in the air!
👉 "the failure to detect IAV particles away from infected farms must not be taken as evidence of the infeasibility of windborne spread. Indeed, when sampling was correlated with careful estimation of wind direction, IAV particles were detected in air collected up to 1.5 and 2.1 km from affected farms, indicating true wind-mediated dispersal."

5/5 🧵about [1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637829v1.full.pdf

#H5N1 #birdFlu #influenza #fluIsAirborne #influenzaIsAirborne #windborne #windborneTransmission

So H5N1 :virus: really must be airborne?! 💨

:questionbox: Were the birds not at other risk?
👉 These chickens are kept at "the highest biosecurity standards." ⛓️🔒⛓️ [1]

:questionbox: Ok but maybe humans broke the rules?
👉 there was a "complete absence of any interaction between the companies, even through third parties involved in feed replenishment, waste disposal or the transport of carcasses to rendering plants. All farms used their own well water supplies. In addition, the employees were not allowed to keep their own poultry. Therefore, in view of the biosecurity measures in place, the possibility of human-associated secondary spread [...] can be excluded." [1]

:questionbox: Wouldn't different caged birds 🐔 have different exposures to outside air though?
👉 "It is noteworthy that in the affected houses, the infection and subsequent mortality started in the areas closest to the air inlets" [1]

:questionbox: 8km long transmission though? Wouldn't that require the wind to line up just right?
👉 temperatures were 🌡️ warm and stable, keeping between 6°C and 11 °C, and "conditions were remarkable [...] with continuous wind from the west or southwest (250-300 degrees), [...] at the highest wind speeds [...] enabling the virus to reach [downstream birds] within 13-22 min" [1]

:questionbox: Was it even really the same disease, for sure?
👉 "genetic identity ✔️ between the H5N1 strains in the donor and recipient farms" [1]

:questionbox: Maybe it got in sooooome other way?
👉 "all possible alternative routes of infection during this period were excluded by our 🕵️ field investigation." [1]

:questionbox: but another result found no influenza in the air!
👉 "the failure to detect IAV particles away from infected farms must not be taken as evidence of the infeasibility of windborne spread. Indeed, when sampling was correlated with careful estimation of wind direction, IAV particles were detected in air collected up to 1.5 and 2.1 km from affected farms, indicating true wind-mediated dispersal."

5/5 🧵about [1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637829v1.full.pdf

#H5N1 #birdFlu #influenza #fluIsAirborne #influenzaIsAirborne #windborne #windborneTransmission

So H5N1 :virus: really must be airborne?! 💨

:questionbox: Were the birds not at other risk?
👉 These chickens are kept at "the highest biosecurity standards." ⛓️🔒⛓️ [1]

:questionbox: Ok but maybe humans broke the rules?
👉 there was a "complete absence of any interaction between the companies, even through third parties involved in feed replenishment, waste disposal or the transport of carcasses to rendering plants. All farms used their own well water supplies. In addition, the employees were not allowed to keep their own poultry. Therefore, in view of the biosecurity measures in place, the possibility of human-associated secondary spread [...] can be excluded." [1]

:questionbox: Wouldn't different caged birds 🐔 have different exposures to outside air though?
👉 "It is noteworthy that in the affected houses, the infection and subsequent mortality started in the areas closest to the air inlets" [1]

:questionbox: 8km long transmission though? Wouldn't that require the wind to line up just right?
👉 temperatures were 🌡️ warm and stable, keeping between 6°C and 11 °C, and "conditions were remarkable [...] with continuous wind from the west or southwest (250-300 degrees), [...] at the highest wind speeds [...] enabling the virus to reach [downstream birds] within 13-22 min" [1]

:questionbox: Was it even really the same disease, for sure?
👉 "genetic identity ✔️ between the H5N1 strains in the donor and recipient farms" [1]

:questionbox: Maybe it got in sooooome other way?
👉 "all possible alternative routes of infection during this period were excluded by our 🕵️ field investigation." [1]

:questionbox: but another result found no influenza in the air!
👉 "the failure to detect IAV particles away from infected farms must not be taken as evidence of the infeasibility of windborne spread. Indeed, when sampling was correlated with careful estimation of wind direction, IAV particles were detected in air collected up to 1.5 and 2.1 km from affected farms, indicating true wind-mediated dispersal."

5/5 🧵about [1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637829v1.full.pdf

#H5N1 #birdFlu #influenza #fluIsAirborne #influenzaIsAirborne #windborne #windborneTransmission

So H5N1 :virus: really must be airborne?! 💨

:questionbox: Were the birds not at other risk?
👉 These chickens are kept at "the highest biosecurity standards." ⛓️🔒⛓️ [1]

:questionbox: Ok but maybe humans broke the rules?
👉 there was a "complete absence of any interaction between the companies, even through third parties involved in feed replenishment, waste disposal or the transport of carcasses to rendering plants. All farms used their own well water supplies. In addition, the employees were not allowed to keep their own poultry. Therefore, in view of the biosecurity measures in place, the possibility of human-associated secondary spread [...] can be excluded." [1]

:questionbox: Wouldn't different caged birds 🐔 have different exposures to outside air though?
👉 "It is noteworthy that in the affected houses, the infection and subsequent mortality started in the areas closest to the air inlets" [1]

:questionbox: 8km long transmission though? Wouldn't that require the wind to line up just right?
👉 temperatures were 🌡️ warm and stable, keeping between 6°C and 11 °C, and "conditions were remarkable [...] with continuous wind from the west or southwest (250-300 degrees), [...] at the highest wind speeds [...] enabling the virus to reach [downstream birds] within 13-22 min" [1]

:questionbox: Was it even really the same disease, for sure?
👉 "genetic identity ✔️ between the H5N1 strains in the donor and recipient farms" [1]

:questionbox: Maybe it got in sooooome other way?
👉 "all possible alternative routes of infection during this period were excluded by our 🕵️ field investigation." [1]

:questionbox: but another result found no influenza in the air!
👉 "the failure to detect IAV particles away from infected farms must not be taken as evidence of the infeasibility of windborne spread. Indeed, when sampling was correlated with careful estimation of wind direction, IAV particles were detected in air collected up to 1.5 and 2.1 km from affected farms, indicating true wind-mediated dispersal."

5/5 🧵about [1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637829v1.full.pdf

#H5N1 #birdFlu #influenza #fluIsAirborne #influenzaIsAirborne #windborne #windborneTransmission

Could H5N1 be spread for multiple kilometres by air?

"some reports have proposed that windborne spread plays a significant role in IAV [Influenza A Virus] transmission over longer distances under suitable weather conditions.
➡️ In studies of the severe H7N7 HPAI [Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza] outbreak in the Netherlands in 2003, one study claimed that wind spread accounted for 18% and another 24% of transmission events up to 25 km.
➡️ Similarly, during the 2007 equine H3N8 influenza outbreak in Australia, 81% of infections within a cluster of 437 horse farms were attributed to windborne spread over a distance of 1-2 km.
➡️ Around the same time, the serological screening of turkeys in Minnesota in 2007-08 revealed that turkey premises within a 1.9 km radius of swine farms were most likely to test seropositive for H3N2 and H1N1 IAVs, thereby suggesting windborne transmission.
➡️ And during the 2014-15 multistate H5N2 HPAI outbreak in the USA, it was estimated that up to 39% of farms in Iowa alone could have experienced windborne infection within a radius of 8.5 km"

1/🧵from this preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637829v1.full.pdf

h/t @JoePajak

#H5N1 #birdFlu #influenza #fluIsAirborne #influenzaIsAirborne #respiratoryDiseasesAreAirborne #pandemic #publicHealth #health #disease

Could H5N1 be spread for multiple kilometres by air?

"some reports have proposed that windborne spread plays a significant role in IAV [Influenza A Virus] transmission over longer distances under suitable weather conditions.
➡️ In studies of the severe H7N7 HPAI [Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza] outbreak in the Netherlands in 2003, one study claimed that wind spread accounted for 18% and another 24% of transmission events up to 25 km.
➡️ Similarly, during the 2007 equine H3N8 influenza outbreak in Australia, 81% of infections within a cluster of 437 horse farms were attributed to windborne spread over a distance of 1-2 km.
➡️ Around the same time, the serological screening of turkeys in Minnesota in 2007-08 revealed that turkey premises within a 1.9 km radius of swine farms were most likely to test seropositive for H3N2 and H1N1 IAVs, thereby suggesting windborne transmission.
➡️ And during the 2014-15 multistate H5N2 HPAI outbreak in the USA, it was estimated that up to 39% of farms in Iowa alone could have experienced windborne infection within a radius of 8.5 km"

1/🧵from this preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637829v1.full.pdf

h/t @JoePajak

#H5N1 #birdFlu #influenza #fluIsAirborne #influenzaIsAirborne #respiratoryDiseasesAreAirborne #pandemic #publicHealth #health #disease

Could H5N1 be spread for multiple kilometres by air?

"some reports have proposed that windborne spread plays a significant role in IAV [Influenza A Virus] transmission over longer distances under suitable weather conditions.
➡️ In studies of the severe H7N7 HPAI [Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza] outbreak in the Netherlands in 2003, one study claimed that wind spread accounted for 18% and another 24% of transmission events up to 25 km.
➡️ Similarly, during the 2007 equine H3N8 influenza outbreak in Australia, 81% of infections within a cluster of 437 horse farms were attributed to windborne spread over a distance of 1-2 km.
➡️ Around the same time, the serological screening of turkeys in Minnesota in 2007-08 revealed that turkey premises within a 1.9 km radius of swine farms were most likely to test seropositive for H3N2 and H1N1 IAVs, thereby suggesting windborne transmission.
➡️ And during the 2014-15 multistate H5N2 HPAI outbreak in the USA, it was estimated that up to 39% of farms in Iowa alone could have experienced windborne infection within a radius of 8.5 km"

1/🧵from this preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637829v1.full.pdf

h/t @JoePajak

#H5N1 #birdFlu #influenza #fluIsAirborne #influenzaIsAirborne #respiratoryDiseasesAreAirborne #pandemic #publicHealth #health #disease

Could H5N1 be spread for multiple kilometres by air?

"some reports have proposed that windborne spread plays a significant role in IAV [Influenza A Virus] transmission over longer distances under suitable weather conditions.
➡️ In studies of the severe H7N7 HPAI [Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza] outbreak in the Netherlands in 2003, one study claimed that wind spread accounted for 18% and another 24% of transmission events up to 25 km.
➡️ Similarly, during the 2007 equine H3N8 influenza outbreak in Australia, 81% of infections within a cluster of 437 horse farms were attributed to windborne spread over a distance of 1-2 km.
➡️ Around the same time, the serological screening of turkeys in Minnesota in 2007-08 revealed that turkey premises within a 1.9 km radius of swine farms were most likely to test seropositive for H3N2 and H1N1 IAVs, thereby suggesting windborne transmission.
➡️ And during the 2014-15 multistate H5N2 HPAI outbreak in the USA, it was estimated that up to 39% of farms in Iowa alone could have experienced windborne infection within a radius of 8.5 km"

1/🧵from this preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637829v1.full.pdf

h/t @JoePajak

#H5N1 #birdFlu #influenza #fluIsAirborne #influenzaIsAirborne #respiratoryDiseasesAreAirborne #pandemic #publicHealth #health #disease

Could H5N1 be spread for multiple kilometres by air?

"some reports have proposed that windborne spread plays a significant role in IAV [Influenza A Virus] transmission over longer distances under suitable weather conditions.
➡️ In studies of the severe H7N7 HPAI [Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza] outbreak in the Netherlands in 2003, one study claimed that wind spread accounted for 18% and another 24% of transmission events up to 25 km.
➡️ Similarly, during the 2007 equine H3N8 influenza outbreak in Australia, 81% of infections within a cluster of 437 horse farms were attributed to windborne spread over a distance of 1-2 km.
➡️ Around the same time, the serological screening of turkeys in Minnesota in 2007-08 revealed that turkey premises within a 1.9 km radius of swine farms were most likely to test seropositive for H3N2 and H1N1 IAVs, thereby suggesting windborne transmission.
➡️ And during the 2014-15 multistate H5N2 HPAI outbreak in the USA, it was estimated that up to 39% of farms in Iowa alone could have experienced windborne infection within a radius of 8.5 km"

1/🧵from this preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637829v1.full.pdf

h/t @JoePajak

#H5N1 #birdFlu #influenza #fluIsAirborne #influenzaIsAirborne #respiratoryDiseasesAreAirborne #pandemic #publicHealth #health #disease

Avian flu / bird flu main thread 🧵

*Not once* does USDA say to wear a respirator to not transmit avian influenza.

Boot covers = yes
Footbath = yes
Disinfectant = yes

But no respirators.

Yee haw.

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/vs-hpai-biosecurity.pdf

#AvianFlu #AvianInfluenza #BirdFlu #H5N1 #FluIsAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne

Avian flu / bird flu main thread 🧵

*Not once* does USDA say to wear a respirator to not transmit avian influenza.

Boot covers = yes
Footbath = yes
Disinfectant = yes

But no respirators.

Yee haw.

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/vs-hpai-biosecurity.pdf

#AvianFlu #AvianInfluenza #BirdFlu #H5N1 #FluIsAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne

Avian flu / bird flu main thread 🧵

*Not once* does USDA say to wear a respirator to not transmit avian influenza.

Boot covers = yes
Footbath = yes
Disinfectant = yes

But no respirators.

Yee haw.

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/vs-hpai-biosecurity.pdf

#AvianFlu #AvianInfluenza #BirdFlu #H5N1 #FluIsAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne

Avian flu / bird flu main thread 🧵

*Not once* does USDA say to wear a respirator to not transmit avian influenza.

Boot covers = yes
Footbath = yes
Disinfectant = yes

But no respirators.

Yee haw.

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/vs-hpai-biosecurity.pdf

#AvianFlu #AvianInfluenza #BirdFlu #H5N1 #FluIsAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne

Avian flu / bird flu main thread 🧵

*Not once* does USDA say to wear a respirator to not transmit avian influenza.

Boot covers = yes
Footbath = yes
Disinfectant = yes

But no respirators.

Yee haw.

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/vs-hpai-biosecurity.pdf

#AvianFlu #AvianInfluenza #BirdFlu #H5N1 #FluIsAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne

All of these things are in the air.

Sorry no references right now but I will try to fill in later when I get some time with some of the studies on flu.

#COVIDisAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne #RSVIsAirborne #AllRespiratoryPathogensAreAirborne

All of these things are in the air.

Sorry no references right now but I will try to fill in later when I get some time with some of the studies on flu.

#COVIDisAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne #RSVIsAirborne #AllRespiratoryPathogensAreAirborne

All of these things are in the air.

Sorry no references right now but I will try to fill in later when I get some time with some of the studies on flu.

#COVIDisAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne #RSVIsAirborne #AllRespiratoryPathogensAreAirborne

All of these things are in the air.

Sorry no references right now but I will try to fill in later when I get some time with some of the studies on flu.

#COVIDisAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne #RSVIsAirborne #AllRespiratoryPathogensAreAirborne

All of these things are in the air.

Sorry no references right now but I will try to fill in later when I get some time with some of the studies on flu.

#COVIDisAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne #RSVIsAirborne #AllRespiratoryPathogensAreAirborne

I laugh because COVID-19 is vastly more transmissible than measles but the professionals *koff* in charge have not yet pivoted to appreciate/acknowledge this.

See for example this thread about measles and compare with our experience with COVID-19

https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/110911292815006412

#COVIDIsAirborne for sure, and more transmissible than measles #MeaslesIsAirborne
Heck #InfluenzaIsAirborne and #EbolaIsAirborne and #LentivirusesAreAirborne

I laugh because COVID-19 is vastly more transmissible than measles but the professionals *koff* in charge have not yet pivoted to appreciate/acknowledge this.

See for example this thread about measles and compare with our experience with COVID-19

https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/110911292815006412

#COVIDIsAirborne for sure, and more transmissible than measles #MeaslesIsAirborne
Heck #InfluenzaIsAirborne and #EbolaIsAirborne and #LentivirusesAreAirborne

I laugh because COVID-19 is vastly more transmissible than measles but the professionals *koff* in charge have not yet pivoted to appreciate/acknowledge this.

See for example this thread about measles and compare with our experience with COVID-19

https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/110911292815006412

#COVIDIsAirborne for sure, and more transmissible than measles #MeaslesIsAirborne
Heck #InfluenzaIsAirborne and #EbolaIsAirborne and #LentivirusesAreAirborne

I laugh because COVID-19 is vastly more transmissible than measles but the professionals *koff* in charge have not yet pivoted to appreciate/acknowledge this.

See for example this thread about measles and compare with our experience with COVID-19

https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/110911292815006412

#COVIDIsAirborne for sure, and more transmissible than measles #MeaslesIsAirborne
Heck #InfluenzaIsAirborne and #EbolaIsAirborne and #LentivirusesAreAirborne

I laugh because COVID-19 is vastly more transmissible than measles but the professionals *koff* in charge have not yet pivoted to appreciate/acknowledge this.

See for example this thread about measles and compare with our experience with COVID-19

https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/110911292815006412

#COVIDIsAirborne for sure, and more transmissible than measles #MeaslesIsAirborne
Heck #InfluenzaIsAirborne and #EbolaIsAirborne and #LentivirusesAreAirborne

@luckytran

I get really terrible PSAs from government agencies on my Facebook feed.

I comment on all of them telling them they need to talk about how #CovidIsAirborne, #InfluenzaIsAirborne, #RSVIsAirborne, it's stopped by #N95, #N99, #P100 masks, #HEPA filters, #CorsiRosenthalBoxes, and I drop a link to https://its-airborne.org .

Maybe I'll reach someone. I'm now doing more public health work than the CDC, WHO, or the state health department, which is ridiculous.

@luckytran

I get really terrible PSAs from government agencies on my Facebook feed.

I comment on all of them telling them they need to talk about how #CovidIsAirborne, #InfluenzaIsAirborne, #RSVIsAirborne, it's stopped by #N95, #N99, #P100 masks, #HEPA filters, #CorsiRosenthalBoxes, and I drop a link to https://its-airborne.org .

Maybe I'll reach someone. I'm now doing more public health work than the CDC, WHO, or the state health department, which is ridiculous.

@luckytran

I get really terrible PSAs from government agencies on my Facebook feed.

I comment on all of them telling them they need to talk about how #CovidIsAirborne, #InfluenzaIsAirborne, #RSVIsAirborne, it's stopped by #N95, #N99, #P100 masks, #HEPA filters, #CorsiRosenthalBoxes, and I drop a link to https://its-airborne.org .

Maybe I'll reach someone. I'm now doing more public health work than the CDC, WHO, or the state health department, which is ridiculous.

@luckytran

I get really terrible PSAs from government agencies on my Facebook feed.

I comment on all of them telling them they need to talk about how #CovidIsAirborne, #InfluenzaIsAirborne, #RSVIsAirborne, it's stopped by #N95, #N99, #P100 masks, #HEPA filters, #CorsiRosenthalBoxes, and I drop a link to https://its-airborne.org .

Maybe I'll reach someone. I'm now doing more public health work than the CDC, WHO, or the state health department, which is ridiculous.

@luckytran

I get really terrible PSAs from government agencies on my Facebook feed.

I comment on all of them telling them they need to talk about how #CovidIsAirborne, #InfluenzaIsAirborne, #RSVIsAirborne, it's stopped by #N95, #N99, #P100 masks, #HEPA filters, #CorsiRosenthalBoxes, and I drop a link to https://its-airborne.org .

Maybe I'll reach someone. I'm now doing more public health work than the CDC, WHO, or the state health department, which is ridiculous.

Post-round ruminations today… why have we failed to learn anything over the past three years? Why are patients hospitalized with influenza on “droplet precautions”? Why are leaky blue masks thought to be appropriate ppe? Why is the medical establishment so unwilling to recognize #airborne? #RespiratoryVirusesAreAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne #COVIDIsMostDefinitelyAirborne #N95mask #WearAMask

Post-round ruminations today… why have we failed to learn anything over the past three years? Why are patients hospitalized with influenza on “droplet precautions”? Why are leaky blue masks thought to be appropriate ppe? Why is the medical establishment so unwilling to recognize #airborne? #RespiratoryVirusesAreAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne #COVIDIsMostDefinitelyAirborne #N95mask #WearAMask

Post-round ruminations today… why have we failed to learn anything over the past three years? Why are patients hospitalized with influenza on “droplet precautions”? Why are leaky blue masks thought to be appropriate ppe? Why is the medical establishment so unwilling to recognize #airborne? #RespiratoryVirusesAreAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne #COVIDIsMostDefinitelyAirborne #N95mask #WearAMask

Post-round ruminations today… why have we failed to learn anything over the past three years? Why are patients hospitalized with influenza on “droplet precautions”? Why are leaky blue masks thought to be appropriate ppe? Why is the medical establishment so unwilling to recognize #airborne? #RespiratoryVirusesAreAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne #COVIDIsMostDefinitelyAirborne #N95mask #WearAMask

Post-round ruminations today… why have we failed to learn anything over the past three years? Why are patients hospitalized with influenza on “droplet precautions”? Why are leaky blue masks thought to be appropriate ppe? Why is the medical establishment so unwilling to recognize #airborne? #RespiratoryVirusesAreAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne #COVIDIsMostDefinitelyAirborne #N95mask #WearAMask