Tag: infection control

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Doctor avoided contracting dengue while doing research — with precautions.

2024-09-17

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Stanford University to host right-wing trucker convoy adjacent political event.

2024-09-08

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A large gathering should at a minimum specifically ask people who are sick with covid or flu to stay home instead, or at least strongly recommend masking for anyone who is currently unwell. This is the minimum, to adhere to the recommended guidance of the CDC. That’s the minimum. Less precaution will likely precipitate an event becoming a superspreader. www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/prevention/precautions-when-sick.html

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The DNC was a superspreader event because they failed to adhere to CDC guidance recommending masking — at least for actively sick people!

2024-09-04

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Voting by mail is a safe option.

2024-09-03

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AI and poor infection control standards at hospitals, what could possibly go wrong?

2024-09-02

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Cory Doctorow still masking.

2024-08-27

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don't wait for everybody - Chloe Humbert

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Don’t assume CDC HICPAC will recommend controlling infection in hospitals

Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 008

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"I don't always need to go to the hospital. But when I do I don't want them to GIVE me diseases there." https://actionnetwork.org/letters/hospitals-should-not-spread-disease/

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Healthcare tech pitfalls that universal masking and common sense isolation rules could fix.

2024-08-17

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drawing of NIOSH N95 mask

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Ableist mask bans raise questions of how they could be enforced, and also questions about why there’s not another way to deal with the issue of juvenile delinquent vandals.

2024-06-30

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Kite in sky over Scranton Pennsylvania USA

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Thanks to those using podcast paid membership shoutouts to spread public health messaging.

2024-06-27

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Anti-mask was always a dark money campaign. Mar 28th, 2024 wat3rm370n on tumblr Image Alt Text: The disinformation didn’t just happen, it was deliberate. Teams Human. State Government Leadership Foundation openly bragged on social media about an advertising campaign that specifically targeted liberals to persuade them of the lie that masks supposedly do more harm than good.16 There is evidence that mask requirements are beneficial. But the State Government Leadership Foundation appears to have used old school advertising and simple repetition that uses the mere exposure effect, where people come to believe something simply because it seems familiar after hearing it a lot.17 teamshuman.substack.com/p/anti-mask-woke-washing Dark money from big corporations funded a right-wing think tank to do a deliberate advertising propaganda campaign to convince liberal Democrats that masks are bad. ProPublica headline: Buying Your Vote Big Corporations Put Up Seed Funding for Republican Dark Money Group IRS files show that some of the biggest companies in the country provided more than a million dollars a decade ago to launch a Republican dark money group. by Justin Elliott Feb. 14, 2013, 8 a.m. EST Tweet from State Government Leadership Foundation brags about an anti-mask advertising campaign targeting liberals.

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The pandemic era is now, and mask bans are unethical.

2024-05-17

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Farm bill should include regulating the bird flu in cows situation.

2024-05-15

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Where a disease is permanently circulating, mitigation must be permanent.

2024-05-14

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The memory holed knowledge of presymptomatic and asymptomatic spread of infectious diseases.

2024-04-07

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Partial front page story from a December 1918 Daily Telegram: RIGID QUARANTINE ORDERED IN ADRIAN - Board of Health Says All Influenza Cases Must Be Segregated. SMALLPOX UNDER CONTROL Vaccination Continues; Cooperation of Public Is Urged by Members of Health Department Here. Rigid quarantine of influenza cases was established in Adrian yesterday by the board of health, and the same regulations now apply to those homes in which there is influenza as to those in which there are cases of smallpox.

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Everything is political.

2024-03-18

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Geisinger Healthcare System to nurses: “Work sick!”

2024-03-14

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CDC made medical guidelines please Delta Airlines, and now lots of people work sick and contagious in every industry - Image is the letter from Delta Airlines to the CDC Director asking for shortened guidelines because of the impact on their business caused by 10 day isolation.

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The CDC, Media and PR: a public health disinformation campaign.

2024-03-04

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Anti-Science MAGA CDC: “It’s like the flu”

2024-03-02

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Yes, Paxlovid is recommended for covid and the science says it works pretty well.

2024-01-16

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Image is the meme of the little girl in the car seat looking skeptical and disgusted and the caption reads so it’s ok if I catch covid because there’s room at children’s hospital?

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Pandemic patient displacements

2024-01-14

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CDC made medical guidelines please Delta Airlines, and now lots of people work sick and contagious in every industry - Image is the letter from Delta Airlines to the CDC Director asking for shortened guidelines because of the impact on their business caused by 10 day isolation.

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CDC made medical guidelines please Delta Airlines, and now lots of people work sick and contagious in every industry

2024-01-10

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The problem is, we’re not post pandemic.

2023-12-03

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