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I wrote a letter to @jhieditor with @philnorville to prompt discussion on getting towards standardisation of hospital wastewater sampling reflectionsipc.com/2024/05/22/tow… This should help us to meaningfully compare all of the hospital wastewater microbiology that's out there!

Hi everyone. We are partnering with people with Long COVID to write a rehabilitation textbook on the subject. Please feel free to pass on the attached invitation to anyone you feel would be interested. @IHT_Deakin @Covid_Rehab @OTforLC @DeakinOT

@oznick77 @AndrewPatrick_ It’s in both major Oz supermarkets…

@AndrewPatrick_ I loved this stuff but haven’t seen it for close to twenty years!!

This shit should come with a warning . 🔥

Testing patients on admission and ensuring staff wear masks are cost-effective measures to reduce hospital-acquired COVID-19 infections, research from Burnet and the Vic Department of Health, led by Fenella McAndrew, A/Prof Nick Scott and A/Prof @majumdar_suman shows.

ACIPC President Stéphane Bouchoucha has called for greater consistency between health services in mandating N95 masks, amid concerns about the high number of patients catching COVID-19 in Victorian hospitals. To read the full ABC News article, click here: abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

In an article on @ABC News, Stéphane Bouchoucha asks why aren't we aiming for zero hospital infections with COVID? Read more ab.co/3WLXce7 @DeakinQPS

@EvonneTCurran This AGP business needs to be put in room 101 never to be heard of again alongside surgical masks

Catch 22 of the pandemic Close to a source transmission = droplets unless AGP AGP causing transmission = close to a source airborne transmission -- However -- If airborne can happen close during an AGP, It can happen close out with an AGP when pt (not AGP) generates aerosols

This from @WHO @CERN, together with the landmark publication yesterday on mandating indoor air quality standards (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…), is game-changing both for the here & now & for pandemic preparedness where it is the lowest handing fruit for protection. The #PandemicAccord process should not ignore it. 1/

March @ACIPC newsletter available now. Update on the Science of clean Indoor Air event organised by @BurnetInstitute

Great representation of Deakin University @drjameslucas1 and others!

A reminder to register now for the 2024 GAMA Healthcare and ACIPC IPC Tour! Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne & Perth. Keynote speaker: Dr Jon Otter, Director of IPC, Guys' and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London. For more info follow this link: acipc.org.au/gama-ipc-tour-…

@EvonneTCurran There are still documents published in 2024 stating that Covid transmission is droplets??

Just did a 12 tweet🧵on the Scottish Mode of Transmission It is wrong The NIPCM England MoT is wrong The Professional Society guideline MoT 'probably droplet' is wrong. Who is going to blink first and say we were wrong? Dominant MoT is via the inhalation of infectious aerosols.

@CollignonPeter What nonsense. A flawed study with conclusions not supported by the results. And not even peer-reviewed. I have been a research professor for 30 years. If this study was submitted by an undergraduate research student I’d fail it

@CollignonPeter Gives too little details to support the sweeping statements made actually.

This site gives some details on the methodology on this controversial study and its findings. Long COVID ‘indistinguishable’ from other post viral syndromes EurekAlert! eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

@EvonneTCurran We need to stop using IPC as punitive measures. We can safely facilitate visits with the right PPE and clean indoor air!

We must create environmental conditions that minimise airborne transmission of airborne pathogens with airborne controls. Hand & environmental hygiene won't do it alone.

Congratulations to @drjameslucas1, @AmieOShea and @LouisaESmith1 for securing more than $2.75 million in MRFF funding specifically for research projects to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for LGBTIQA+ people.

Fantastic outcomes for @IHT_Deakin researchers, congratulations to all!

A good take on the changes proposed to COVID isolation recommendations

@DALupton @BigBadDenis @Mon4Kooyong @Mark_Butler_MP Infection prevention and control is apparently not in the remit of the OzCDC, the government decided it would stay with the commission… not sure what’s the rationale behind that is…

Government asked why COVID air quality recommendation was not accepted. #COVID19 #Australia #AirQuality @Mon4Kooyong @Mark_Butler_MP #auspol

Much better messaging in Victoria than across the State border…