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@crosscutanne @ywlebo correct, which is why $/CADR under required noise levels is so important eg US under 45dBA docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d
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I love our (all 4 of them) but Filtrete MERV 12-13 prices increased so much that it doesn't seem like a cost-effective option anymore. It was cheaper for us to buy new HEPA air purifiers (recs via guide from @cleanairstars) than to buy replacement filters for the CR boxes--even with differences in clean air delivery rate (CADR) and HEPA filter cost considerations included.

COVID causes long-term smell loss in some patients and we don't know why. We've got some initial answers in this great collaboration between Brad Goldstein's lab (where the work was led by John Findlay) and by our lab (with the amazing David Brann and Tatsuya Tsukahara)

science.org/doi/10.1126/scitra

Even mild COVID infection increases risk of blood clots and death

A study in the UK found that mild (non-hospitalized) infections led to a 2.7x higher risk of blood clots and 10.2x higher risk of death compared to controls ( heart.bmj.com/node/174901.full ). H/T: @lauramiers@Twitter.com 🧵 1/

Letting a virus run rampant repeatedly around the globe has negative economic effects. Surprise, surprise.

RT @KawasakiKR11@twitter.com

How fast ppl went from "China must end ZeroCovid" to "oh, nos, supply chain!" is whiplash-inducing.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/KawasakiKR11/statu

Sandy Hook happened 10 years ago today. At the time, people said "how many more children have to die before we do something to stop the killing?"

The answer: 25,000

25,000 children killed by guns in America in the last decade.

And still virtually nothing has been done.

Restarting the free rapid test program is not enough. The White House needs to launch a program to send FREE N95 masks to everyone through the mail. Why not include masks with the tests they send?

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

RT @Antonio_Caramia@twitter.com

The right question is no more
❌"Are you boostered?"
but
✅"*WHEN* did you receive the last vaccine dose?"

👉After 3rd or 4th vaccine dose, incremental VE against hospitalisation with BA.4, BA.5 and BA.2

⚠️after 4-6 months is only 20-40%

⚠️after 6 month is only 10-20% ‼️

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Antonio_Caramia/st

SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence in the human body and brain at autopsy - Nature

A study reports the distribution, replication and persistence of SARS-CoV-2 throughout the human body including in the brain at autopsy from acute infection to more than seven months following symptom onset.

#COVID

nature.com/articles/s41586-022

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

After dumping #Helsinki’s car-centric 1968 plan, the #Finns embarked on a decades-long campaign to slow motor vehicles. “In the 1970s it was normally 50km/h in cities; then in 2000 it went down to 40km/h. Now more than half our urban streets have a 30km/h limit.”

#cities #VisionZero #urbanism #SpeedKills #SpeedLimits #transportation #safety bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

RT @TRyanGregory@twitter.com

Reminder that the claim of two years without RSV and now three years' worth of cases all at once just isn't true. Last year was a record year, but hospitals were not overwhelmed as they are this year.

tvo.org/video/is-covid-19-dysr

🐦🔗: twitter.com/TRyanGregory/statu

Really awoken to the possibility of teaching/learning more about the actual history Thanksgiving based on posts I saw today. I will try using this guide with my son tomorrow.

neaedjustice.org/wp-content/up

Which I found through this article:
edutopia.org/article/teaching-

I know at least some of the massacres, land theft and genocide that we as Americans have committed against Native Americans but oddly I never really saw how badly I was taught/learned about Thanksgiving as a child. Hopefully I will build a stronger foundation for my children in understanding and reconciling with the past.

RT @NeuroscienceNew@twitter.com

Neuroimaging study reveals significant brain changes in areas associated with language comprehension, cognition, and circadian rhythm control six months after COVID-19 infection.

#covid19 #neuroscience #science

neurosciencenews.com/post-covi

🐦🔗: twitter.com/NeuroscienceNew/st

Wow, not only have the MTA taken down the problematic "You Do You" anti-mask signs, they have now reinstated signs encouraging New Yorkers to mask up!

Thank you to high risk and disabled New Yorkers and groups like Mandate Masks NY and Brooklyn BCID for testifying at MTA meetings.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #NewYork #PublicTransport #BringBackMasks

And our pediatric capacity has been eroding over time, in part because of the simple (and ugly) fact that kids are less profitable than adults for hospitals.

bostonglobe.com/2022/10/26/opi

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A tripledemic hurricane is making landfall. We need masks, not just tent hospitals

With Covid, RSV, and influenza hospitals are on the brink. We need masks and other measures to reduce spread.

#COVID #CovidIsNotOver #BringBackMasks #RSV #Influenza

statnews.com/2022/11/22/triple

Hi everyone, I am new here and learning the platform. By way of background, I am a chemical biologist and glycoscientist on the Stanford Chemistry faculty. Known for creating a field called #bioorthogonal chemistry (for which I shared the 2022 NP) and launching biotech companies with new therapeutic and diagnostic platforms, mostly rooted in glycobiology. Passionate about interdisciplinary science, diversity equity and inclusion in STEM, peanut butter, gyms and 70s funk.

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