The geopolitical impacts of COVID policy will be seen in a decade or less. Countries that prevented infection will have healthy populations. Countries that did not will be incapacitated by chronic disease and disability.
Raina MacIntyre
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Raina MacIntyre
@Globalbiosec
Physician. Field Epidemiologist🔎 Expert in prevention, detection and response 2 epidemics and pandemics. Founder of @Epiwatch_BSP 🇦🇺
- If anyone tells you that "getting infected to prevent infection" (herd immunity) is good, and measures to prevent infection are bad ("immunity debt") it is incorrect and goes against the principles of public health. And sounds ridiculous unless
- Did my RAT just now and have advised guests coming for 🎄 lunch they will need to do so too. All windows open, masks when.not eating, air purifiers on. Providing RATs and masks at the door.
- Is it rude to be coughing your lungs out, unmasked, in a waiting room, office or at shops? Or is it a problem of mass disinformation that leaves ppl thinking it's fine?
- Was in hospital just b4 Xmas for 10 days. Wore mask. No staff masked, despite rising covid in Sydney. One day I saw staff were suddenly masked..asked why. Was told there was covid on ward. No other patients told or protected. I had masked from day 1 and used antiviral nasal
- The pandemic is already reducing living standards globally. In a post-pandemic world we face lower life expectancy, less access to healthcare, higher cost of living, greater job insecurity and the loss of many comforts we took for granted. Sad to see so many ppl cheering this on.
- Reality check: #SARSCoV2 will never be endemic. It is an epidemic disease, and always will be. This means it will find unvaccinated or under-vaccinated people and spread rapidly in those groups. It will display the typical waxing and waning pattern of epidemic diseases 1/5.
- "You do you"..this is how we do it. Including RAT test for all before the meeting, provided by my program. We also provide KFN94 and N95 to all. Part of investing in our people
- Just explained to a public health person that "immunity debt" is a manufactured term and disinformation, and that the logic of the term would lead to cessation of all childhood vaccination. And that it was as illogical as "car accident debt" or "heart attack debt" - drink and
- The denial and anger on Twitter around COVID is likely part of the Kubler-Ross stages of grieving for the world as we knew it in 2019.
- Went to shopping centre yesterday - hardly anyone was wearing a mask - compared to ~40% prior to ending of mandated isolation. People think COVID is over. Sending the message "pandemic is over" explains the poor booster rates - yet another missed opportunity for COVID control.
- MPX is an orthopoxvirus closely related to #smallpox. It has 2 clades- the milder one has a fatality rate similar to #SARSCoV2 - the other, closer to SARS1 at 10%. UK outbreak caused by the milder clade. #monkeypox has surged since 2017 due to (thread) wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27…
- Is the fatal pneumonia in Argentina a mutated #SARSCoV2 that evades current testing? Or a new virus? Is there mild/asymptomatic infection that is being missed, thereby allowing spread, just as occurred in Wuhan?
