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Anne's avatar

Circling back to one of your previous articles "New insights: How much does air exchange really matter for Covid-19 transmission? "

It made me think about all the businesses that invested in new ventilation systems at the beginning of Covid. Why don't we have a sticker on the door or some way of knowing where these systems have been upgraded? There is no reward for the businesses who went the extra mile to protect their customers. Seems like such a waste of the momentum that Covid sparked in the the movement for cleaner air spaces. Sounds like a job for Inside Medicine:)

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Thanks for taking on the new "respiratory isolation" guidelines: my issue with them is lumping all respiratory viruses together and the lack of clarity and actual guidance.

I looked at Canada/France/UK and everyone else stopped recommending 5 days of isolation, but no one lumped Covid in with RSV. Canada has a nice interactive site to give personalized guidance about isolation and masking.

As someone who still tries not to get infected, I find the rolling back of all public health supports and lack of acknowledgement of Covid as still, currently, a more infectious and damaging/dangerous virus than the other "respiratory viruses" quite discouraging and disingenuous.

Katherine Wu wrote a nice article in The Atlantic about the false equivalence of flu/Covid and her final paragraphs were about how we could have ended up with more public health/health but no.

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