“There’s going to be a fundamental rebalancing in terms of how we think about indoor spaces," Allen says. "I think people won’t tolerate sick buildings. That era is over. Rightly so, and good riddance.”
#HealthyBuildings
--> WH sends Harvard letter making outrageous (and illegal) demands
--> WH now says it was sent by accident (oops!)
--> WH blames Harvard (?) for reacting to the letter they sent
--> Harvard: The letter “was signed by three federal officials, placed on official letterhead,
I see a lot of people - on both "sides" - making simple mistakes about masks. I've studied PPE, taught PPE, and overseen PPE programs, including teams implementing fit testing in hospitals, long before covid.
A thread
Harvard researcher Dr Sarah Fortune was only two years away from creating a vaccine that could have saved the 1.25 million people killed each year by tuberculosis. But last month, she received a letter telling her that the $60 million grant funding her research was being halted
Fixed it:
--> last year, the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal **combined**
--> every $1 of research funded by NIH generates $2.56 in economic activity
--> more than 1.1M foreign students come to the U.S. each year
3. Cloth masks work, just not as well as high filtration masks
--> a 50% effective mask reduces inhaled dose by...50%
--> when two people where this level mask, the combined efficacy is 75%
It's wrong to say these "don't work"; correct to say they are "less effective" than N95