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This does NOT show "Air filters don't stop you catching infectious respiratory diseases". It shows 👉even half-assed implementation of HEPA filters by people who don't understand fundamentals like the size of a pathogen👈 yields results consistent with benefit, but without statistical significance.

Not only did only ~12% of participants get in-room HEPA (sharing common areas with the other 1,570 who didn't, with "up to 5" shared HEPAs), in-room HEPAs were only (reportedly) "usually" (which is...not a scientific unit of measure! 🙄) turned on. For "pragmatic" read "sloppy"

All the study did was *fail to demonstrate a statistically significant benefit* of a specific, half-measures combination of filter units - which is unsurprising when you actually read it! Of 1778 residents in "intervention" care homes, only 208 (~1 in 8) got an in-room HEPA (on the lowest setting).

"Canada ranks near the bottom of OECD countries—28 out of 35—for its relatively low share of public health care spending compared to the private share of total health care spending Private health care spending grew nearly twice as fast as public spending in Canada, per person, from 2021 to 2023.."

This is Mike's partner Sylvia Fuller - I am so sorry to say that Mike was found unresponsive while mountain biking yesterday and died despite the best efforts of other riders and Squamish EMS. Thank you to Squamish Search and Rescue for carrying him out and taking care of our dog. We are shattered

And hopefully this will help other places figure out how to follow along

For people with kids, some great info about COVID and masking.

2. The council’s conclusions were universally positive for gender-affirming care: it endorsed the treatments as careful, lawful, and effective, framed quick access as a matter of the right to health, warned that “doing nothing” is harmful, cast aside the Cass Review as not applicable to Dutch care.

Advies Transgenderzorg voor jongeren | Gezondheidsraadwww.gezondheidsraad.nl

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Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding TreatmentThe review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.www.erininthemorning.com

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Incredible shot.

This is the most confounding aspect of this era

One more time. Enjoy your swims but keep an eye.