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  1. @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 another reason we really need masks in healthcare. Deadline to register for public comment at the November 14th #HICPAC meeting that will likely discuss #MasksInHealthcare #covid is Friday October 25th at 5pm, more info, register here:

    cdc.gov/hicpac/php/upcoming-me

    #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #Healthcare #LongCovid #humanrights

  2. @broadwaybabyto We really need masks in healthcare. Deadline to register for public comment at the November 14th #HICPAC meeting that will likely discuss #MasksInHealthcare #covid is Friday October 25th at 5pm, more info, register here:

    cdc.gov/hicpac/php/upcoming-me

  3. I still can't get all the amazing public comments on the need for #CleanAir and #MasksInHealthcare at today's #Hicpac meeting out of my mind, and I feel lucky to have gotten a chance to make an oral comment, here is the written version of my comment with citations and I recommend listening to the comments too, they're a fabulous reminder that there are many of us out there fighting the good fight to stop #covid and create safe access to healthcare for all. docs.google.com/document/d/1x-

  4. For those of you who missed it, HICPAC meeting with public comments were today, check them out!: youtu.be/eY50YQhEJz8?t=16484

    some HICPAC info is at: cdc.gov/hicpac/php/upcoming-me for their next meeting in November, which will likely discuss or even vote on draft guidance for masking in healthcare / updating infection control

    #MasksInHealthcare #covid #hicpac #infectioncontrol #cdc

  5. We have the ability extend ABILITY to so many people... and yet so many just want to take it all back, remove remote options, remove accessibility provided by universal masking, remove individual rights to require masks in businesses, and in doing so, disable more, violate more, kill more. It makes no sense. #MasksInHealthcare #MaskUp #RemoteWork #VirtualSchool #CovidIsNotOver #covid19 #CleantheAir #DeathSantis #CleanAirIsAHumanRight

  6. We have the ability extend ABILITY to so many people... and yet so many just want to take it all back, remove remote options, remove accessibility provided by universal masking, remove individual rights to require masks in businesses, and in doing so, disable more, violate more, kill more. It makes no sense. #MasksInHealthcare #MaskUp #RemoteWork #VirtualSchool #CovidIsNotOver #covid19 #CleantheAir #DeathSantis #CleanAirIsAHumanRight

  7. We have the ability extend ABILITY to so many people... and yet so many just want to take it all back, remove remote options, remove accessibility provided by universal masking, remove individual rights to require masks in businesses, and in doing so, disable more, violate more, kill more. It makes no sense. #MasksInHealthcare #MaskUp #RemoteWork #VirtualSchool #CovidIsNotOver #covid19 #CleantheAir #DeathSantis #CleanAirIsAHumanRight

  8. We have the ability extend ABILITY to so many people... and yet so many just want to take it all back, remove remote options, remove accessibility provided by universal masking, remove individual rights to require masks in businesses, and in doing so, disable more, violate more, kill more. It makes no sense. #MasksInHealthcare #MaskUp #RemoteWork #VirtualSchool #CovidIsNotOver #covid19 #CleantheAir #DeathSantis #CleanAirIsAHumanRight

  9. We have the ability extend ABILITY to so many people... and yet so many just want to take it all back, remove remote options, remove accessibility provided by universal masking, remove individual rights to require masks in businesses, and in doing so, disable more, violate more, kill more. It makes no sense. #MasksInHealthcare #MaskUp #RemoteWork #VirtualSchool #CovidIsNotOver #covid19 #CleantheAir #DeathSantis #CleanAirIsAHumanRight

  10. There are measles outbreaks in the U.S. and Canada. A disease we eradicated is making a comeback due to dangerous anti-vaxx rhetoric.

    We need mandatory masking in healthcare, and we need it now.

    A respirator protects against Covid, measles & more.

    There’s no excuse to expose patients when we have the tools to prevent it:

    disabledginger.com/p/a-plea-to

    #masksinhealthcare #measles #longcovid #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #sarscov2 #n95 #keepmasksinhealthcare #h5n1 #publichealth #donoharm

  11. We have every reason to create better infection control standards in hospitals. It starts by #MasksInHealthcare and making sure those masks are the kind that stops airborne/aerosols, #n95 or better. This should be our top priority as more people are seeing #reinfections #longcovid and #covidvariants . It doesn't matter if we have the tools if we don't have the brains and brawn to use them.

    My comment to #HICPAC at their August meeting, with links to research cited:

    docs.google.com/document/d/1UN

  12. Whenever I catch up on the UK Covid inquiry - I’m horrified by how much denial and ignorance is on display.

    By the fact that they’re discussing the death and disability of millions - yet continue to refer to the pandemic in the past tense.

    The only mask I’ve seen was on Cathy Finnis - a clinically vulnerable patient who testified as to how difficult it is to access safe care. No one else in the room masked to protect HER.

    Perhaps the most galling example of denial is this video of Matt Hancock - where he talks about the importance of vaccination because without it healthcare workers may unintentionally infect someone in their care.

    They’re literally infecting people in their care now. The NHS has discouraged healthcare workers from testing - and IF they do test positive they don’t have to isolate. There’s no requirement to test negative before returning to work. They can treat patients knowing they have covid - and they aren’t even required to wear a respirator.

    Hospital acquired covid has a 10% fatality rate and yet many facilities are doing absolutely nothing to protect the most vulnerable among us.

    Patients like me didn’t ask to be clinically vulnerable. We didn’t get a choice in being high risk. We can’t “stay home” from the hospital. We go for life saving care - only to have our lives and baselines put at risk because no one is mitigating the spread of Covid.

    It would be so easy to mandate masks in healthcare. To upgrade air quality and ventilation to reduce the spread. To have regular testing and ensure those who are positive are isolated.

    They just don’t want to. We’re acceptable losses. Expendable. Not worthy of protection.

    After all - how many times have we heard “only the vulnerable are at risk” as a means of justifying a whole host of risky and unjustifiable behaviour?

    At this point I find it hard to say that infecting patients is “unintentional”. I desperately want to give people the benefit of the doubt - but we are five years into this and we KNOW it’s airborne.

    If you’re working in healthcare and choosing not to test, isolate or mask - is it unintentional when you infect a patient? Or inevitable?

    These questions keep me up at night.

    I feel absolutely sick knowing people like me can no longer access safe healthcare. I feel deep unyielding pain when I think of all those we’ve already lost. I feel anger and rage when I consider how easy it would be to change course - and how few people care enough to even bother to try.

    We can do better. We must do better. We all share the air - we’re not safe until everyone is safe.

    #ukcovidinquiry #masksinhealthcare #sarscov2 #pandemic #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #keepmasksinhealthcare #WearARespie #ableism #eugenics #disability #clinicallyvulnerable #LongCOVID #chronicillness

  13. There are measles outbreaks in the U.S. and Canada. A disease we eradicated is making a comeback due to dangerous anti-vaxx rhetoric.

    We need mandatory masking in healthcare, and we need it now.

    A respirator protects against Covid, measles & more.

    There’s no excuse to expose patients when we have the tools to prevent it:

    disabledginger.com/p/a-plea-to

    #masksinhealthcare #measles #longcovid #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #sarscov2 #n95 #keepmasksinhealthcare #h5n1 #publichealth #donoharm

  14. CDC advisory group HICPAC is facing criticism for proposed guidance to lower infection-control standards in healthcare settings.
    @whn supported by the
    @wfpha_fmasp , successfully amplified these concerns. See #WHNNewsletter: tinyurl.com/2fsdd345

    #covid #covid19 #hicpac #cdc #CovidisAirborne #MasksInHealthcare #WorldPatientSafetyDay

  15. Jeff Bridges opens up about his battle with Covid/Long Covid, and states he thinks he got the virus in a healthcare setting where he was receiving chemo for cancer.

    If the rich & famous can’t get healthcare workers to mask… what chance do the rest of us have?

    Masks in healthcare now!

    cnn.com/2025/05/10/entertainme

    #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #longcovid #masksinhealthcare #chronicillness #disability #ableism

  16. The latest hazard index from the academic-led team at Covid-19 Resources Canada, based on federal government wastewater data. Note that this forecast is provisional, due to missing data due to holiday lags.

    Rates of Covid across Canada are “high” with around 1 in 126 Canadians currently infected (though across the border, rates in the US are around 1 in 50).

    We also have many communicable disease outbreaks declared in healthcare right now, from norovirus, influenza and unspecified “respiratory infection”.

    Stay safe out there: ventilate, vaccinate, educate, mitigate 😷 And join us at donoharmbc.ca/masks-in-healthc to demand masks in medical settings ASAP - the next BC gov update on so-called “respiratory illness season” is expected Thursday, January 9th, and it’s vital to apply pressure in advance!

    #MasksInHealthcare #BCHealthcare #MasksWork

  17. Already emailed BC policy-makers about the need for healthcare mask requirements? Take the next step and leave some phone messages 📞

    It just takes a few seconds. You can use our quick script:

    “Hello, this is ——— from postal code ———. I’m calling to urge you to help restore mask requirements in healthcare. We’ve entered fall and winter with widespread COVID infections, healthcare outbreaks, and now avian influenza. Without consistent healthcare protections, [I can’t safely get medical care / my vulnerable loved one is at risk / as a healthcare worker I face unnecessary risks.] You can learn more about these impacts at DoNoHarmBC.ca.

    “There’s no need to call me back/I’d appreciate a callback about next steps. My number is —-————.”

    You can get more contact deets at donoharmbc.ca/contact-list/ Let’s do this 🌟

    #MasksInHealthcare #BCHealthCare #MasksWork #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne

  18. This week, sign the People's CDC letter to the ACLU and Department of Justice to tell them to take action on HICPAC’s dangerous recommendations to the CDC regarding healthcare infection control practices. Deadline is Feb 1st. docs.google.com/forms/d/15BDyq #MasksInHealthcare #covid #LongCOVID

  19. This @whn editorial really lays everything out there in a concise, grounded, rational manner that I think will appeal to a wide variety of people, especially the educated people who have been pulled into the current false narrative of Covid being over... I'm hoping this will help pull them out to see the severity of the state we are in but also allow them to see and implement the available solutions: whn.global/scientific/sars-cov. #covid19 #covid #LongCOVID #MaskUp #MasksInHealthcare #cleantheair

  20. Dana Farber Cancer Institute Reinstates Masks Dec 18

    "Face masks are currently required for everyone at Dana-Farber, including staff and patients, due to higher rates of respiratory illness in our region.

    "...will continue for the foreseeable future.

    t.co/SqtzZvHE4p

    #MasksInHealthcare #Mask #covid #covid19 #longcovid #healthcare

  21. Please join us and sign this letter calling upon CDC Director Mandy Cohen to reject HICPAC’s recommended draft and begin a new process to develop new draft guidelines that will protect healthcare personnel and patients from infectious diseases in healthcare settings

    Read the full sign-on letter. docs.google.com/document/d/1ad

    Sign the letter using this form. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI THE DEADLINE TO SIGN IS FRIDAY DEC. 8, 2023.

    #Covid #LongCOVID #MasksInHealthcare #n95 #CovidIsntOver #covid19

  22. Just caught this action, today (Monday 11-13) is the last day to comment to HHS about the inability to access healthcare and need for reasonable accommodations like masking, more info at actionnetwork.org/events/hhs-c #CovidIsNotOver #covid #longcovid #MasksInHealthcare

  23. What pissed me personally off most about HICPACs draft that they signed through (illegally) and is now in CDC hands to review is: You don't reduce and confound the safety measures when the problem is non-compliance (for staff wearing a respirator as opposed to surgical); you fix the non-compliance! Patients are there to get care, not COVID! It is the duty of healthcare workers to follow the infection control guidance. We need airborne protections for routine care. End.

    #n95 #MasksInHealthcare

  24. Naked Capitalism: "It’s plain as day that HICPAC’s membership is not “divergent” as FACA understands the term; every one of its members is affiliated either with a hospital or a medical care facility... CDC has an entire institute, NIOSH, with expertise in “respirators and masks.” Are we seriously to believe that NIOSH has nothing to contribute to HICPAC on masking? Or ventilation? Or training?" #MasksInHealthcare #n95 #HICPAC #cdc nakedcapitalism.com/2023/11/cd

  25. Looking back on my comics from 2022, and realizing it really is as simple as this:
    Mandate N95s vs Mandate COVID-19. The real Smokey Bear would #WearAMask #n95 because #CovidIsNotOver #LongCOVID and would require #MasksInHealthcare
    For more free Covid Awareness Works visit the-maskers-comic.yolasite.com

  26. HICPAC November 2023 Meeting:
    Public has until midnight EST Nov 6th to submit a 1 page written comment to HICPAC bc at: [email protected] (include name, affiliation, city/state) to be included in their meeting minutes.

    A Backgrounder from me on the HICPAC meeting that took place on Nov 2-3rd, and my written public comment can be viewed at

    docs.google.com/document/d/1UN

    Please write a comment, together we are stronger!

    #MasksInHealthcare #n95 #covid #LongCOVID #LongCovidKids #CovidIsntOver

  27. @whn filed a Gross Misconduct complaint with HHS over HICPAC’s violation of the Federal Advisory Committees Act. Complaint alleges the composition of HICPAC’s membership and its failure to be transparent violates FACA guidelines: whn.global/hhs-complaint-on-hi #covid #MasksInHealthcare #CleanAirIsAHumanRight #cleanair #covid19 #CovidIsntOver

  28. Apparently according to the WHO infection control should be based one ones values and preferences (I guess whether you prefer to infect your patient while wearing a more comfortable ineffective mask like a surgical aka medical masks or whether you prefer to not infect them by using a respirator mask better able to reduce airborne spread diseases).

    iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/

    #MasksInHealthcare #WearAMask #N95 #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #Long COVID #covid19

  29. We can make demands all day to #BringMasksBack , #CleanTheAir #MasksInHealthcare but imo we need a OR WHAT.. I have one for schools (I homeschool) I have one for stores (curbside), I don't have one for healthcare (besides telehealth, but that's not gna help in an emergency or hospitalization). We need an or what for healthcare. We need some hospitals to stand up and compete.. are our numbers big enough, can we even get one to commit to keeping masks? #CovidIsntOver #LongCOVID