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just a random human | she/they | in my 30's | bi/pan | isolating since 2020 | love science & social justice | #COVIDisAirborne #TransRightsAreHumanRights #BLM

Mexico Katılım Eylül 2010
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Arijit Chakravarty
Arijit Chakravarty@arijitchakrav·
Many people WANT Public Health to just do their damn jobs, and not get lazy when dealing with a low-probability but high-consequence event such as a hantavirus pandemic. It would be helpful if ID experts focused on holding PH accountable, instead of being complicit like this.
Neil Stone@DrNeilStone

Many people WANT Hantavirus to be a new pandemic so they can just pivot their grift from Covid to that - whether it's the doom mongers or the anti vaxxers

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Julia Marie
Julia Marie@julia_doubleday·
@ashishkjha @cdc Every day people with long covid, all over the world, have woken up and done their own pandemic airborne infection control, with no help, in dire circumstances. They’ve used creative solutions to keep themselves safe bc public health left us to suffer and die
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Julia Marie
Julia Marie@julia_doubleday·
@ashishkjha @cdc We learned the failure rates of RAT tests and moved heaven and earth to access cheap PCR tests, even as the FDA banned their importation from Germany. We learned how to read wastewater data as testing data was purposely buried and removed
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🌙biomimic🐾🍉
🌙biomimic🐾🍉@iseeuliars·
Haven’t heard enough about this, but ship passengers may have infected locals on the remote archipelago Tristan da Cunha. Potentially many of them 💔 White colonizers are never gonna stop casually, indifferently spreading lethal, disabling diseases are they?
Dr. Benjamin Mateus, MD@BenjaminMateus7

7/ At Tristan da Cunha (April 13-15), passengers mingled freely with 250 locals. No hospital. Only accessible by 6-day boat ride. A British man who boarded is now hospitalized with suspected hantavirus. That island could be facing catastrophe.

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Dr. Benjamin Mateus, MD
Dr. Benjamin Mateus, MD@BenjaminMateus7·
THREAD: French & US passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius are now testing positive—exactly as predictable epidemiology warned. This is a catastrophic failure of public health governance.
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PACO
PACO@PacoOnPause·
"Yes but definitely do not use SARS-COV2 - I'm not signing anything with that in it. I prefer we use nCov - intentional. I'm not going to be part of that mess."
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blizzy@GeoBlitzy

@SarahBurssty The virus itself is called SARS-CoV-2 which is a type of coronavirus. COVID-19 is the disease name, caused by the virus. There were no name changes.

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Yaneer Bar-Yam
Yaneer Bar-Yam@yaneerbaryam·
It is encouraging to see WHO update its Andes hantavirus guidance on May 8 to recommend respirators rather than medical masks for symptomatic individuals associated with the outbreak. Recognition of airborne transmission risk and appropriate respiratory protection are important components of effective outbreak response. who.int/emergencies/di…
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Lisa Oshima
Lisa Oshima@lisawhelan·
@CAPublicHealth Can you clarify the evidence basis for saying Andes hantavirus is “NOT airborne” and requires “very close, direct contact”? NEJM’s Epuyén outbreak paper classifies some transmission as “droplet or aerosol.” What definition of airborne are you using? nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1…
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Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis
Yes, a negative result for the Andes Hantavirus doesn't mean somone won't become symptomatic, but ;/c the incubation period is so long and people can be positive before showing symptoms, not testing to keep track is irresponsible when they're letting these people isolate at home!
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BirdieBittern@BirdieBittern

They aren't going to test them because they don't feel that it will yield any results-- because they are asymptomatic, why bother globalnews.ca/news/11843303/…

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Maarten De Cock
Maarten De Cock@mdc_martinus·
A 2020 study provides biological details supporting airborne transmission of the Andes virus . It shows that viral particles replicate in lung alveolar cells and macrophages that reach the airways, which then can be exhaled as a "deadly bullet for ANDV transmission."
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Maarten De Cock@mdc_martinus

WHO: "Limited human-to-human transmission of Andes virus has been reported in community settings involving close and prolonged contact." So a superspreading event with cases spread across four tables counts as "close and prolonged contact"? 🤨 Source: NEJM 2020 (Epuyén outbreak)

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Laura Miers
Laura Miers@LauraMiers·
There’s an epidemiologist on here who I used to come for all the time because he wrote a nasty anti-masking op-ed in the middle of 2021 & was a hardcore Covid minimzer for over 5 years. Well anyway, he’s taking hantavirus SO SERIOUSLY, it’s actually really unsettling.
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Disabled Doctor
Disabled Doctor@DisabledDoctor·
You know the international hantavirus society disagrees with you, right? “Some public discussions have characterized ANDV as having only minimal or negligible human-to-human transmission potential. The available scientific literature does not support such simplified conclusions.” zenodo.org/records/200752… Please don’t spread misinformation at this critical time
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Rex is in the ruins of Raccoon City
One reason Covid spread so easily was the substantial amount of asymptomatic spread + dropping masking. It’s why it’s often too late to wait till you feel ill to mask - you may never feel sick at all even as you’re actively contagious
Roger Seheult, MD@RogerSeheult

A new twist. The American who tested positive who was on the ship was tested without having symptoms and was positive. Interesting thread to read which discusses the implications of this:

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Neena Jha
Neena Jha@DrNeenaJha·
WE DID NOT CONSENT for NHS England to share our private health data to private companies which include Palantir - a company involved in mass surveillance & genocide! This should terrify & ENRAGE us all. This is OUR personal data!!
Financial Times@FT

FT Exclusive: NHS England has granted external staff from companies including Palantir “unlimited access” to identifiable patient data while working on a part of its flagship data platform. ft.trib.al/JmVlilq

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cloverfield ☘️🧚🏻‍♀️
Why is everybody suddenly acting so shocked that respiratory illnesses are in fact airborne like it's kind of their thing
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lay: pinned? what pinned?@laymagdalene·
155/1550 for my june r3nt + b!llz! any movement or shǎres are appreciated!! thank you as always! memo: ♥️/🏠 v: laaylaa-3000 c: bbylay1 p: layskywalker
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Natalie Grace Alford
Natalie Grace Alford@NatalieGABand·
Btw: this is why it was completely irresponsible for Joe Biden to say, “Give the leftover money from Covid to the cops.” That money was supposed to update ventilation in schools, hospitals& public spaces. And they just didn’t.
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