During our recent Clean Indoor Air Expo, two of our speakers, Jose-Luis Jimenez and Lisa Brosseau, gave great talks which referenced infection prevention control in indoor environments. Click here to watch the full Clean Indoor Air Expo
Link: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3486610/v1 Summary of the highlights of the paper Quantitative errors in the Cochrane review on “Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses” Yaneer Bar-Yam1,2, Jonathan M. Samet3, Alexander F. Siegenfeld1,4, Nassim N. Taleb5 1New England Complex Systems Institute, 2World Health Network, 3Colorado School of Public Health, 4MIT, 5Tandon School of Engineering, … Continued
We want healthcare to be safe for both healthcare workers and patients. The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) is the body that advises the CDC on infection control in healthcare. HICPAC is currently discussing drafts on infection control policies. Here is our letter to tell HICPAC not to weaken protections. To CDC Director … Continued
Global prevention risk level: HIGH We are in a new wave of uncertainty and an increasingly infectious “variant soup” in the community, even before the winter months have started. We are flying blind with little-no testing and under-reported data. There is pandemic fatigue amongst citizens and little-no government or public health communication about the airborne … Continued
Thank you for your interest in signing up for the HICPAC meeting. Here is the link to signup: https://www.cdc.gov/hicpac/meeting.html. The meeting is scheduled on November 2 (9am-5pm ET) and 3 (9am-12pm et), teleconference only (Zoom). The agenda may not be available until the day(s) of and will be posted at the signup link above, along … Continued
This month, take part in the world’s first all-virtual Clean Indoor Air Expo, as we highlight innovative technologies – and the people behind them – that are working to expand access to clean indoor air. Why the Clean Air Expo? The world is in the early stages of a paradigm shift that will see huge … Continued
It is essential to shift from relying on a single strategy to embracing multiple strategies and effective solutions when addressing the pandemic and avoiding conflicts. Various pandemic precaution measures can complement each other and be combined in different ways to achieve an effective response. Unfortunately, the politicization of these precautions, like masking and vaccination, has … Continued
Everyone should know that Long Covid is often devastating. Thank you to @BerlinBuyers and @sophsoph_psd for creating this powerful design and making this billboard happen. Do you want to create your own Long Covid awareness billboard? lizwhatsherface.bsky (@RealGayArbys) and @pickle_juice29 made an easy-to-understand toolkit to do just that (see below).
1. Which content does the WHN publish? 2. How does WHN decide about what teams to make and what those teams should work on? 3. How does WHN determine the responsibilities and projects for individual members? 4. How do teams make decisions on their projects and their work process? 5. What is the high level … Continued