This morning I worked for 4 hrs conceptualising why family courts and psychologists mangle attachment assessments with Aboriginal families. It puts racial trauma as a critical variable impacting caregiver responsiveness to children and why it erroneously shows up as “disorganised…

𝘒𝘦𝘺 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺 : 𝙎𝘼𝙍𝙎-𝘾𝙤𝙑-2 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙫𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙫𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙤𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚

H/t Christine Cooper💪🙋‍♀️🦹‍♀️ 🇨🇦
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38574059/

It’s official: A new Lancet Infectious Disease paper solidifies evidence of long-term viral persistence after #COVID -19.

Up to a quarter of people in the study harbored viral proteins indicative of persistent virus for up to 14 months after infection: polybio.org/covid-19-virus…

Replacing the 2+ year old hepa in the kids bedroom. New filter at left in both images; Old filter pre-external dust removal (left image; we do this every few months) & after dust removal (right image).

As this shows, indoor air is not clean unless you make it so, often…

France implements an 800ppm CO2 limit in classrooms. They recognise clean air is vital to reducing COVID transmission.

Meanwhile, in many Australian schools:
a) No idea what CO2 has to do with COVID
b) One CO2 monitor, in a drawer in the principal's office
c) Zero mitigations

Please help spread the word about our #MECFS study with Putrino Lab 👇🏼 thank you 🙏🏼

“He stressed people underestimate the risk of COVID infections in general.. One study from Statistics Canada found around 15% of people reported having #LongCovid after their first infection. That number approaches 40% after the third & subsequent infections.” texasobserver.org/long-covid-tex…

Thanks to People magazine for covering my piece on the Covid-19 and brain health

COVID-19 poses a serious risk to brain health, even in mild cases, and the effects are now being revealed at the population level

Link here: people.com/covid-linked-l…

Alzheimer's Society have you seen this study?⚠️

Please inform everyone that SARS-COV-2 (re)infections cause all subtypes of dementia, irrespective of patients’ previous dementia types, to behave like rapidly progressive dementia (according to Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease Reports)

Today, many will tell you we overreacted then

But you’ll never hear that from someone, anyone who worked in the hospital then

Covid scarred a generation of healthcare workers

Many watched their colleagues suffer.

Struggle to breathe.

Then die.

A huge point missing from the 'cumulative risk' discussion is that it's not just about the cumulative risk of developing long-COVID population-wide, but also what happens to the quality of life of those who have long COVID with subsequent infections. Or does no one care?

Something seems to be missing from this summary about childhood infection-related mortality in the last 3 years. Any ideas?
A clue:

Exactly correct. Huge fallacy here aiming at risk per infection when cumulative infection is what is important. Covid is not a cold or the flu. Much more complicated. Finally, self-reported LC is only the tip of the iceberg for what is happening.

1/ New paper in Science Magazine: 'Mandating Indoor Air Quality for Public Buildings'

Explaining current status of indoor air quality standards (in short: bad or non-existent), the huge health benefits that would arise from them & proposing a path forward
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

BREAKING: WHO unequivocally uses the word “airborne” to depict infectious particles transmitted in the air (fits with “waterborne”, “foodborne” etc). Hopefully this easy-to understand terminology will be used throughout WHO.

iris.who.int/handle/10665/3…

🚨🚨Team #COVIDisAirborne this looks like the real deal

World Health Organization (WHO) teams embracing reality, & the word AIRBORNE

Technical advisory group co-chairs Lidia Morawska & Nancy Leung 💉💉🦠💉

Also

Raymond Tellier
Julian Tang et al

AND

🚨John Conly !!

Is this what repentance looks like?

Today, a group of international experts led by Prof Lidia Morawska FAA (QUT) has presented a blueprint for national indoor quality standards for public buildings, in Science Magazine. How can indoor air quality standards be monitored and enforced? Read: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

This is a landmark paper on the path to better indoor air quality. Outdoor air, the water we drink and food we eat is regulated by standards that protect us from harms. This is not the case for the air we breathe indoors where we spend 90% of our time. This is the most definitive…

Data I was analysing on outbreak clusters from Victoria in late 2021 confirmed that schools were the source of far more clusters of cases than everywhere else combined.

Henry is right: improving ventilation in schools would have a big impact.
1/