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Content warning: What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, who identified a chemical tweak to messenger RNA that laid the foundation for vaccines against #Covid19, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine.
As this photo shows, both scientists are wearing masks and NOT relying on the "vax and relax".
#WearAMask #WearARespirator
#MaskUp #NobelPrize #Covid #CovidIsNotOver #SarsCov2 #COVIDisAirborne
Here we go #DrupalCon!!
Please stay home if feeling unwell.
Please take a rapid test before traveling.
Please test while at the conference.
Please, wear an N95 mask with over the head straps, flatten the metal nose piece and bend to fit, check no gaps, and verify tight seal for the best protection for yourself and others.
Please eat outside, when possible.
https://johnsnowproject.org/primers/who-advice-to-protect-against-long-covid/
#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsntOver
World Health Organization Advice to Protect Against Long Covid - John Snow Project
The World Health Organization has joined the US CDC and HHS in providing new guidance on the ongoing public health threat posed by Long Covid.John Snow Project
Mask wearing should never have ended when there is currently over 500 deaths a day.
"WHO backs mask wearing on long flights as new Omicron variant spreads"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/1-backs-mask-wearing-long-114908581.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACM6-W-lzglc9BvjuzgCT6hsy_hTCAqK2Ec_8G7kKOPTkdqGLFNCSm9m3BCt4Fw9Xk7wiV3YFDykE_hER18BiN8PSlEzwgsct2EwER3jG7V6WL9_ftkQDuOoDXgpHgHka3s_vEqltl9R6R6Ou-xVufoCoZRsOgDT6C4c4PpbKwUD&a20_comeback_from_auth=1&guccounter=2
#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #PublicHealth #BringBackMasks #COVIDisAirborne
UPDATE 3-WHO urges travellers to wear masks as new COVID variant spreads
Countries should consider recommending that passengers wear masks on long-haul flights, given the rapid spread of the latest Omicron subvariant of COVID-19...Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Natalie Grover (Yahoo News)