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"One week following the implementation of universal masking on March 31, 2020, we observed a significant decrease in the cumulative incidence rate of healthcare-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections among HCWs." Red line=hospital
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I'm on the side of extra precautions, and not all schools can open. But this headline? (Culled from an AP report). All the outrage at school openings? Read the fine
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Wait, what? Woodward had Trump on tape that the coronavirus was airborne BACK IN FEBRUARY (seems he learned this from Xi) and sat on it, presumably to release his book
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New piece. Hear me out. What if Xi Jinping didn't even *know* of key details of the coronavirus outbreak until it was too late? What if his authoritarian blindspot was
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Exactly. Aerosols are like short-range mist—the closer you are to the person emitting it, the more exposure *but* under the right conditions (poorly ventilated indoors space), the mist can accumulate
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We urgently need to focus on ventilation. Six months into a respiratory pandemic, we're still not given sensible and practical guidance against short-range aerosol—airborne—transmission of COVID. I wrote about the
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*is this thing on* *is it quiet enough to say something*? I.. couldn't connect to the brouhaha. Here's an article I wrote before. IMO, nostalgia-based discussions of free speech do
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Enough with the beach-scolding! It's not scientifically-sound and it's counterproductive. It's a virus—not a moral agent geared to smite people who dare enjoy themselves. Six months in, we *know* most
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2020 may well be the end of the American century. Here's the reason to say all this now. Maybe, just maybe, we will get lucky because of some aspect of
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Good morning in sad, jealous tweets. All schools in Taiwan have been open since February. They did not listen to China or WHO in January and immediately masked up and
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Can we please have a talk with the photo editors? ENOUGH WITH THE BEACH PICTURES ruining articles. Beaches are one of the least risky environments. Indoor bars and restaurants. House
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Note on K-pop stans and Tiktok teens playing the algorithms a they fake-snatched Trump tickets. From my 2016 book: Activists etc. are *always* attuned to such algorithms. But also note
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