We’ve been living with air that is full of pathogens and dirty.”—@linseymarr

nytimes.com/2023/08/27/health/

In conversation with Prof Marr on this critical but widely neglected issue
erictopol.substack.com/p/linse w/ transcript

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Sudden DECREASE IN AIR POLLUTION improves HEALTH immediately & over 3 yrs

Pittsburgh: a highly polluting coke plant is suddenly closed

- Emergency visits for cardiovascular disease decreased 42% immediately, continued over 3 yrs

- No change in control

dx.doi.org/10.1088/2752-5309/a

@Cha_Knewlton

Thanks for the nudge. The think is that I don't have enough time as it is to do either Twitter or Mastodon or anything else. E.g. I ended up writing a thread this morning because I couldn't sleep, and saw some interesting responses to something I tweeted last night.

I am under the impression that mastodon has very little engagement in terms of users and posts, compared to Twitter. And a lot of folks not using mastodon, including outside the US. Am I mistaken?

Excelente explicación del Dr. José Luis Jiménez, @jljcolorado, explicando las medidas básicas de protección contra el virus #COVID19

Germicidal UV: a tradeoff between disinfection and indoor smog

A Substack (blog) post with a first estimate of the magnitude of the tradeoff.

TLDR: still uncertain, but GUV smog is likely to be a significant concern, needs to be carefully evaluated.

jljcolorado.substack.com/p/ger

"Germicidal UV lamps: A trade-off between disinfection and air quality"
Modeling shows that with poorly ventilated spaces, #UVGI can create secondary compounds, some that may be harmful.

My take: Best to add UV to spaces with at least moderate #ventilation & #filtration, not as a substitute.

New from Zhe Peng, Shelly L. Miller & @jljcolorado pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/

The first black child ever allowed to attend a white school is only 68 years old now.
White parents pulled their children from school. White teachers refused to teach her.
Ruby Bridges now works as an activist & public speaker
This wasn’t a million years ago. /1

RT @who
Every child has the right to #vaccines!
#VaccinesWork & protect against:
Cervical cancer
Cholera
COVID-19
Diphtheria
Hep B
Flu
Jap. encephalitis
Measles
Meningitis
Mumps
Pertussis
Pneumonia
Polio
Rabies
Rotavirus
Rubella
Tetanus
Typhoid
Varicella
Yellow Fever

Given what's going on on Twitter, I am going to try to move some of my key threads (on which I put a lot of effort, and that have some historical value) to Substack.

Just started, it does take some work:

jljcolorado.substack.com/p/the

Hi #introduction from me..!
I'm a Prof of Operational Research at UCL & member of Independent SAGE.
As such, I've been tweeting about Covid for 2.5 yrs now so expect more of that here!
Plus occasional forays into politics, women in science, general science & stuff about London.
Hope I get the hang of it soon!

Hi All,

🧀Version 5.4 of my adaptation of a Swiss cheese risk reduction graphic (not really a 'model'), applied to any respiratory virus but drawn and evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic.

🧀Story of the image up to ver4.2 is on my blog:
virologydownunder.com/the-swis

🧀Editable files for making translations are (check if one made already though!):
figshare.com/articles/figure/T

🧀Thread:
twitter.com/MackayIM/status/13

In 1938, Guy Callendar was the first person to use observations of temperature from across the world to demonstrate that the land areas were warming.

He also collated CO2 measurements to show that atmospheric CO2 levels were increasing.

And he also showed that the expected warming from the increase in CO2 was at least half of the observed warming.

The theory was understood much earlier, but this was the first attribution of observed climate change.

84 years ago.

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

An optimistic outlook (with caveats)
My daily pandemic briefing, #6
erictopol.substack.com/p/an-op

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