Tracie Edward
@tracieedward.bsky.social
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Schools must improve air quality to slow spread of respiratory illness, advocates say
Proper air filtration could help mitigate the rapid spread of flu and other illnesses, say experts and parents
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Covid can leave lasting mark on the brain.
New study adds to literature showing long-term damage to the central nervous system following SARS-CoV-2 infection
#LongCovid
news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/16/c...
New study adds to literature showing long-term damage to the central nervous system following SARS-CoV-2 infection
#LongCovid
news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/16/c...
COVID-19 leaves a lasting mark on the human brain - Griffith News
COVID-19 does not just affect the respiratory system, but also significantly alters the brain in people who have fully recovered from the infectious
news.griffith.edu.au
December 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Covid can leave lasting mark on the brain.
New study adds to literature showing long-term damage to the central nervous system following SARS-CoV-2 infection
#LongCovid
news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/16/c...
New study adds to literature showing long-term damage to the central nervous system following SARS-CoV-2 infection
#LongCovid
news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/16/c...
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How workers died last week: Trench collapse, skid steer, fork lift, coal mining, fall, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average, over 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.
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Weekly Toll - Confined Space
On average, over 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work. Here are how a few died last week.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
How workers died last week: Trench collapse, skid steer, fork lift, coal mining, fall, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average, over 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.
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jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...
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Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial
No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm
Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance:
bsky.app/profile/mama...
No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm
Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance:
bsky.app/profile/mama...
Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial
No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm
Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance
preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1297...
No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm
Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance
preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1297...
Clean Indoor Air Toronto
cleanindoorairto.ca
December 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial
No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm
Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance:
bsky.app/profile/mama...
No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm
Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance:
bsky.app/profile/mama...
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Sick and tired?
Influenza test positivity is very high in Ontario and remains the highest in children (5-11 yrs) at 73.3% and adolescents (12-19 yrs) at 67.3%. COVID-19 and RSV are also circulating.
These viruses are airborne: we get sick by breathing them in!
But it doesn't have to be this way!
Influenza test positivity is very high in Ontario and remains the highest in children (5-11 yrs) at 73.3% and adolescents (12-19 yrs) at 67.3%. COVID-19 and RSV are also circulating.
These viruses are airborne: we get sick by breathing them in!
But it doesn't have to be this way!
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Sick and tired?
Influenza test positivity is very high in Ontario and remains the highest in children (5-11 yrs) at 73.3% and adolescents (12-19 yrs) at 67.3%. COVID-19 and RSV are also circulating.
These viruses are airborne: we get sick by breathing them in!
But it doesn't have to be this way!
Influenza test positivity is very high in Ontario and remains the highest in children (5-11 yrs) at 73.3% and adolescents (12-19 yrs) at 67.3%. COVID-19 and RSV are also circulating.
These viruses are airborne: we get sick by breathing them in!
But it doesn't have to be this way!
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Forcing workers back into the cramped and unfit offices flies in the face of everything the government is trying to achieve – savings, innovation, and productivity. There’s a better way. Join the fight to protect remote work. 👇
www.foryoucanada.ca/remoteworks
www.foryoucanada.ca/remoteworks
December 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Forcing workers back into the cramped and unfit offices flies in the face of everything the government is trying to achieve – savings, innovation, and productivity. There’s a better way. Join the fight to protect remote work. 👇
www.foryoucanada.ca/remoteworks
www.foryoucanada.ca/remoteworks
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Air Canada in flight air quality.
Runway wait CO2 very high. CO2 did not go sub 1500 ppm the entire flight (even at altitude).
#WearARespirator
Runway wait CO2 very high. CO2 did not go sub 1500 ppm the entire flight (even at altitude).
#WearARespirator
December 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Air Canada in flight air quality.
Runway wait CO2 very high. CO2 did not go sub 1500 ppm the entire flight (even at altitude).
#WearARespirator
Runway wait CO2 very high. CO2 did not go sub 1500 ppm the entire flight (even at altitude).
#WearARespirator
Reminder to travellers. Ventilation on airplanes, trains & buses sucks. Wear a mask/respirator to avoid illness. My trusty Aranet CO2 detector revealed the worst ventilation was found repeatedly in small transportation vans using recycled AC mode. Yikes! #BreathingBackwash
@aranethome.bsky.social
@aranethome.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Reminder to travellers. Ventilation on airplanes, trains & buses sucks. Wear a mask/respirator to avoid illness. My trusty Aranet CO2 detector revealed the worst ventilation was found repeatedly in small transportation vans using recycled AC mode. Yikes! #BreathingBackwash
@aranethome.bsky.social
@aranethome.bsky.social
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It’s not a refusal to re-enter society.
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
December 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It’s not a refusal to re-enter society.
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
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“Schools have become cesspools for cold and flu [AND COVID], but they don’t have to be: Ontario School Safety”
ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...
ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...
Schools have become cesspools for cold and flu, but they don't have to be: Ontario School Safety
The volunteer organization Ontario School Safety is calling on the provincial government to improve air quality in schools as flu spreads.
ottawa.citynews.ca
December 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“Schools have become cesspools for cold and flu [AND COVID], but they don’t have to be: Ontario School Safety”
ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...
ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...
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Study in Helsinki indicating benefits of portable air cleaners on lowering infection risk in daycare centers, less absences & parent absences from work in intervention vs. reference (no air cleaner) groups. Cleaning indoor air is not difficult and it works.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The effect of room air cleaners on infection control in day care centres
The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of air cleaning in reducing the risk of respiratory infection in two day care centres using a si…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Study in Helsinki indicating benefits of portable air cleaners on lowering infection risk in daycare centers, less absences & parent absences from work in intervention vs. reference (no air cleaner) groups. Cleaning indoor air is not difficult and it works.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Yes!
Huge benefits from cleaning up the air that contacts our largest personal interface with the world around us (the surface area of the lungs) - and we can do the same again!
Huge benefits from cleaning up the air that contacts our largest personal interface with the world around us (the surface area of the lungs) - and we can do the same again!
The next leap forward: Clean air for Canadians
“Weak productivity is making life less affordable for Canadians and beginning to strain our government’s finances and starting to put at risk the social programs on which Canadians rely,” Prime Minist...
policyoptions.irpp.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Yes!
Huge benefits from cleaning up the air that contacts our largest personal interface with the world around us (the surface area of the lungs) - and we can do the same again!
Huge benefits from cleaning up the air that contacts our largest personal interface with the world around us (the surface area of the lungs) - and we can do the same again!
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This is a deliberate choice to place patients and healthcare workers at risk in order to shield incompetent leadership from scrutiny.
This link is to section 217.1 of the Canadian criminal code.
Can *anyone* explain how whoever is responsible for this abomination is not guilty of violating it?
This link is to section 217.1 of the Canadian criminal code.
Can *anyone* explain how whoever is responsible for this abomination is not guilty of violating it?
December 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This is a deliberate choice to place patients and healthcare workers at risk in order to shield incompetent leadership from scrutiny.
This link is to section 217.1 of the Canadian criminal code.
Can *anyone* explain how whoever is responsible for this abomination is not guilty of violating it?
This link is to section 217.1 of the Canadian criminal code.
Can *anyone* explain how whoever is responsible for this abomination is not guilty of violating it?
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This.
This is the problem.
OH and S standards are different for HCWs and for the life of me (and them) I can't understand why.
This is the problem.
OH and S standards are different for HCWs and for the life of me (and them) I can't understand why.
December 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This.
This is the problem.
OH and S standards are different for HCWs and for the life of me (and them) I can't understand why.
This is the problem.
OH and S standards are different for HCWs and for the life of me (and them) I can't understand why.
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19-12-1945 CANADA: The historic 99-day strike at Ford in Windsor, Ontario ends with an agreement to have Supreme Court Justice Ivan C. Rand arbitrate a new collective agreement. His decision leads to adoption of the Rand Formula for union security. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/r...
Rand Formula
The Rand Formula is a feature of Canadian labour law requiring workers covered by collective bargaining contracts to pay union dues — whether or not those wor...
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
December 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
19-12-1945 CANADA: The historic 99-day strike at Ford in Windsor, Ontario ends with an agreement to have Supreme Court Justice Ivan C. Rand arbitrate a new collective agreement. His decision leads to adoption of the Rand Formula for union security. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/r...
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"If HCWs wear N95 respirators and surgical masks throughout, the total infection risk can be reduced by 94.7 % and 53.9 %, respectively Increasing the ventilation rate from 1 ACH to 6 ACH reduced the infection risk. ."
FYI NSW Health & @racgp.bsky.social et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
FYI NSW Health & @racgp.bsky.social et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Transmission of respiratory infectious diseases based on real close contact behavior in an emergency room
The risk of transmission of respiratory infectious diseases in emergency rooms is high, posing a severe threat to the health of healthcare workers (HC…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:26 AM
"If HCWs wear N95 respirators and surgical masks throughout, the total infection risk can be reduced by 94.7 % and 53.9 %, respectively Increasing the ventilation rate from 1 ACH to 6 ACH reduced the infection risk. ."
FYI NSW Health & @racgp.bsky.social et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
FYI NSW Health & @racgp.bsky.social et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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For years, public health bent under pressure to downplay masks. When the same institutions now say “mask up,” it’s not a flip-flop—it’s a warning. If they’re willing to recommend masks again, the airborne threat is serious.
Finally.
A Public Health division released useful public recommendations to helo protect each other from illness spread (including airborne pathogen spread)
www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
A Public Health division released useful public recommendations to helo protect each other from illness spread (including airborne pathogen spread)
www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
December 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
For years, public health bent under pressure to downplay masks. When the same institutions now say “mask up,” it’s not a flip-flop—it’s a warning. If they’re willing to recommend masks again, the airborne threat is serious.
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How new science, real-time monitoring, and smarter engineering are reshaping school air quality – and what it means for kids’ health and absenteeism.
A very good summary article on Indoor Air Quality in Schools.
www.achrnews.com/articles/165...
A very good summary article on Indoor Air Quality in Schools.
www.achrnews.com/articles/165...
How Contractors Can Lead Air Quality Improvement in Schools
A wave of groundbreaking research in Colorado is revealing how targeted measurement and interventions can transform air quality in schools, reduce illness, and help every child breathe easier.
www.achrnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:49 AM
How new science, real-time monitoring, and smarter engineering are reshaping school air quality – and what it means for kids’ health and absenteeism.
A very good summary article on Indoor Air Quality in Schools.
www.achrnews.com/articles/165...
A very good summary article on Indoor Air Quality in Schools.
www.achrnews.com/articles/165...
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A must read, must share article dispelling dangerous misconceptions about the flu vaccine.
If all health journalists were as excellent as
@egpayne.bsky.social we’d be in a lot less trouble. Do consider giving her a follow.
#VaccinesSaveLives
#Flu
#medsky
ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
If all health journalists were as excellent as
@egpayne.bsky.social we’d be in a lot less trouble. Do consider giving her a follow.
#VaccinesSaveLives
#Flu
#medsky
ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
No, you can’t get the flu from a flu shot — and other misconceptions
Dr. Anne Pham-Huy, a pediatric infectious disease specialist, debunks some common misconceptions about the flu and the flu shot
ottawacitizen.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A must read, must share article dispelling dangerous misconceptions about the flu vaccine.
If all health journalists were as excellent as
@egpayne.bsky.social we’d be in a lot less trouble. Do consider giving her a follow.
#VaccinesSaveLives
#Flu
#medsky
ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
If all health journalists were as excellent as
@egpayne.bsky.social we’d be in a lot less trouble. Do consider giving her a follow.
#VaccinesSaveLives
#Flu
#medsky
ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
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Over 400 Canadians have been detained by MAGA.
Crickets from our leaders.
@amnesty.org has released a damning investigation into torture and abuse at ICE detention centres.
This is a @meidascanada.ca investigation into torture state USA.
@meidastouch.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxKz...
Crickets from our leaders.
@amnesty.org has released a damning investigation into torture and abuse at ICE detention centres.
This is a @meidascanada.ca investigation into torture state USA.
@meidastouch.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxKz...
CANADIANS HELD IN TORTURE STATE USA !!!
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Over 400 Canadians have been detained by MAGA.
Crickets from our leaders.
@amnesty.org has released a damning investigation into torture and abuse at ICE detention centres.
This is a @meidascanada.ca investigation into torture state USA.
@meidastouch.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxKz...
Crickets from our leaders.
@amnesty.org has released a damning investigation into torture and abuse at ICE detention centres.
This is a @meidascanada.ca investigation into torture state USA.
@meidastouch.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxKz...
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You know it’s bad when even Fox News is reporting it
December 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
You know it’s bad when even Fox News is reporting it
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CHAIR is offering to fund facility-wide installation of Upper Air UV disinfection to a select number of acute care & long-term care facilities in 🇨🇦 as part of the world’s first large-scale UV pilot project for healthcare.
chaircoalition.org
chaircoalition.org
CHAIR Canada
A coalition of members working on introducing engineered solutions to reduce HAIs.
chaircoalition.org
December 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
CHAIR is offering to fund facility-wide installation of Upper Air UV disinfection to a select number of acute care & long-term care facilities in 🇨🇦 as part of the world’s first large-scale UV pilot project for healthcare.
chaircoalition.org
chaircoalition.org
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COVID vs Flu (New York data)
New York State Health Commissioner reports:
🔹Nearly 3,000 COVID deaths in 2024
🔹Roughly 700 flu deaths (2024)
That’s about 3× more COVID deaths than flu.
Source: x.com/PrognosticCh...
New York State Health Commissioner reports:
🔹Nearly 3,000 COVID deaths in 2024
🔹Roughly 700 flu deaths (2024)
That’s about 3× more COVID deaths than flu.
Source: x.com/PrognosticCh...
December 8, 2025 at 3:59 AM
COVID vs Flu (New York data)
New York State Health Commissioner reports:
🔹Nearly 3,000 COVID deaths in 2024
🔹Roughly 700 flu deaths (2024)
That’s about 3× more COVID deaths than flu.
Source: x.com/PrognosticCh...
New York State Health Commissioner reports:
🔹Nearly 3,000 COVID deaths in 2024
🔹Roughly 700 flu deaths (2024)
That’s about 3× more COVID deaths than flu.
Source: x.com/PrognosticCh...
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SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
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SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
A landmark new study shows COVID-19 isn’t ‘just a cold’: One infection left people with long-lasting immune damage, and those with heart disease lost up to 70% of key immune cells. Reinfections may wo...
johnsnowproject.org
December 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...
johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...
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Three things that a worker who has just experienced a violent incident need to hear:
1) Are you okay?
2) I’m so sorry that this happened to you.
3) What can I do to help?
You’ll note that “What did you do to cause this?” is not on this list.
1) Are you okay?
2) I’m so sorry that this happened to you.
3) What can I do to help?
You’ll note that “What did you do to cause this?” is not on this list.
December 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Three things that a worker who has just experienced a violent incident need to hear:
1) Are you okay?
2) I’m so sorry that this happened to you.
3) What can I do to help?
You’ll note that “What did you do to cause this?” is not on this list.
1) Are you okay?
2) I’m so sorry that this happened to you.
3) What can I do to help?
You’ll note that “What did you do to cause this?” is not on this list.