If “everyone is tired of wearing masks” means we don’t wear masks, the government should also know that “everyone is tired of paying taxes”
Don Vinh
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Don Vinh
@DonaldVinh
Infectious disease MD. Medical Microbiologist. Clinician-Scientist (Inborn Errors of Immunity). Clinical section head (ID-Heme/Onc/Transplant). FellowCIS. FIDSA
- My major concern: abandoning all public health/safety efforts, because of "endemic delusion", is essentially rolling out the red carpet for the next big surge (followed, of course, by the "we didn't see this coming" response).
- That's not how air worksMasks no longer mandatory in Quebec workplaces as long as there are physical barriers iheartradio.ca/cjad/news/mask…
- Blue surgical masks are NOT better than N95. No physician wears a blue surgical mask to go into the room of a patient with tuberculosis, measles, or varicella (despite most being immune to the last 2). Why? B/c blue surgical masks do NOT protect against airborne transmission
- Stranger coming up to me, without a mask: "Hey! I see you on TV! Talking about COVID!" Me: "Did you hear the part about me saying that we need to continue to wear 😷 indoors?"
- Very tragic: One of my immunocompromised patients. 41 yrs old Fully 💉 Caught COVID (suspected Delta; confirmation pending), before 3rd dose. ➡️ respiratory failure, needing ICU. Then deteriorated. Found to have intracerebral bleeds 👇 is why we need to 💉EVERYONE. 😷. Distance.
- So, if the hepatitis/super-antigen hypothesis holds true: COVID + adenovirus = bad. We also know that COVID + flu = bad. I see a common factor here 🤔
- If these 13 suspected cases of monkeypox are confirmed, and the start of an outbreak, let’s hope that we’ve learned something over the last 2+ yrs in outbreak control
- The hospitalization “from” vs “with” COVID is irrelevant. Here’s why: Backlog (a simplified explanation): Let’s say that, of the current hospitalizations, 75% are “with” (3/4).
- Risk for CoV-2 infection is 1000 times greater after exposure to airborne virus particles than contact with a contaminated surface Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in air and on surfaces and estimating infection risk in buildings and buses on a university campus
- Presser prediction: * We didn't see this coming. But, it was expected. * We're not going to re-implement safety policies. Everyone is individually responsible for their safety. If you want to know how to keep yourself safe, look at all the safety measures we removed, but do them.
- Beware the false dichotomy: No one is saying that kids at home is better than kids in school. Everyone is saying that kids SAFELY in school is better than kids in school
- Should we let people get infected, so they could develop immunity? No. That’s the opposite of what medicine does. We don’t encourage people to get UTIs or cancers to build immunity against future UTIs or cancer. My latest 🤔 💭 montreal.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2…
