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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 45m

Note HEPA is not connected to CO2. CO2 level utility should also not be discarded in a similar manner.

Fresh air is good for you. Filtered air when the air outside is too yucky.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 47m

I agree. Kids would benefit in many ways with smaller class sizes…

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Andrew Dobbie @a-dobbie11.bsky.social · 47m

Daycare (and/or classroom) overcrowding is also a big factor.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 48m

Don’t leave kids in dirty air. #longCOVIDkids

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 48m

Importantly… make sure enough clean air is being delivered.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 49m

There is a study concluding HEPA in day care doesn’t work… but it raises more questions than it answers.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 51m

I’m going bald from stress???

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 51m

*recorded* not receded!

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 51m

ie better tracing of infection pathways using frequent sampling (saliva might be more acceptable) and checking for correlation with CO2 levels at the time of contact.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 53m

And no study should conclude air filtration doesn’t work unless close range transmission has either been accounted for in the data… or eliminated using respirators.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 53m

Better matching to *maximum* receded levels and disease transmission is needed.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 54m

For studies about CO2 and disease transmission… plotting a graph that shows continuous readings per day as three lines would be better than using medians. Maximum recorded, minimum recorded and average.

Because a lot of transmission of COVID can happen in a very short time.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 3h

Practise source control. Wear a well fitted mask or respirator.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 3h

Reduce the viral loads on air by ventilating and filtering air. Many diseases are less severe when the exposure dose is lower.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 3h

Attempting to “live with” (aka ignore) airborne viruses circulating at high levels *is a choice*.

We could do much better.

#MedSky

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 3h

No… I’ll check it out. :-)

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 23h

🚨🧵 by @david.notesforfriends.com:

"We Protected Our Children By Homeschooling During COVID, And The Science Proves We Were Right
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For years, those of us who chose to homeschool during the pandemic were labeled paranoid. Overprotective. Helicopter parents..."

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We Protected Our Children By Homeschooling During COVID, And The Science Proves We Were Right

I’ve had it with the gaslighting.

For years, those of us who chose to homeschool during the pandemic were labeled paranoid. Overprotective. Helicopter parents overreacting to what everyone insisted was “a cold” for kids.

Now the studies have come in. And guess what? We were right all along.

The data is brutal and vindicating. Children who catch COVID more than once face double the risk of long COVID. Their chance of myocarditis jumps 3.6 times higher than kids with just one infection. They’re developing kidney damage, brain issues, and symptoms in practically every organ system researchers have bothered to check.

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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 5h

The cost of doing nothing☠️‼️

@binitakane.bsky.social 🙏🏻

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Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 19h

Clean indoor air as vital as clean water – By Research Associate Professor Amanda Kvalsvig and Australian Academy of Science chief executive Anna-Maria Arabia
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Clean indoor air as vital as clean water

Introduction by Croakey: Clean air experts will come together at a conference in Melbourne next week in the wake of

www.croakey.org

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 19h

AUSTRALIA Weekly COVID Update — 10 October 2025

COVID cases down nationwide:

ACT down (-32.3%), WA down (-32.0%, 34/day in hospital), SA down (-23.9%), QLD down (-14.8%, 34 in hospital), NSW down (-10.1%)

Aged care down (-16.9%) 1 death reported

TAS & VIC report fortnightly. Next update: 17 Oct