#MasksSaveLives
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A poster inspired by the graphics of the 1930’s WPA movement and the many voices on here who give me hope for humanity (thank you.) #MasksSaveLives #KeepMasksInHealthcare #maskup #covid19 #covid #CovidIsNotOver
@billyjoebowers I’m visibly Muslim. I’m already different, and don’t care what people think. #MasksSaveLives, and I have no patience for folks who are too vain to wear one.
Since March 2020, Project N95 has vetted over 9,800 different products.
#Masks #MaskUp #MasksSaveLives #ppe
#COVIDCautious #COVIDIsAirborne #COVID
#Anniversary #Community #HealthEquity
Everyone deserves to be safe. #HereToHelp
#Masks #MaskUp #MasksSaveLives #CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious
#Thankful #JudgementFree
April 2021:
296,000 free masks & PPE provided alongside AMA
#PeopleFirst
#HereToHelp #Community #HealthEquity
#MaskUp #MasksSaveLives #CovidIsNotOver
#AnniversaryMonth #3rdAnniversary
Thank you Danielle! We appreciate you!
#ThankYou #Appreciation #FeaturedSpotlight
#MaskUp #MasksSaveLives #Community
What's at the end of our rainbow?
High quality N95 masks, of course!
#HappyStPatricksDay2023 #EndoftheRainbow
#MaskUp #MasksSaveLives #Masks #N95s
#TrustedResource
Nothing like being stuck in a queue at the chemist with a bunch of sick people! At least I have a mask on. #MasksSaveLives
February 18th, 2021 - New York Times
The marketplace also became available to all!
#Masks #MaskUp #MasksSaveLives
#Community #HealthCare #HealthEquity
#Anniversary #AnniversaryMonth
June 2020 - Single Boxes of N95s could be ordered
#PPE #Masks #MaskUp #MasksSaveLives
#Community #HealthEquity
#Anniversary #AnniversaryMonth
June 2020 - First Group Purchasing (Aggregations) with American College of Physicians.
#PPE #MaskUp #MasksSaveLives #Masks
#Anniversary #AnniversaryMonth #healthequity
#Community
May 15th, 2020 - Project N95 launched a hotline.
A majority of callers were small healthcare organizations.
#TrustedResource #PPE #Healthcare
#HealthEquity #MaskUp #MasksSaveLives #HealthcareWorkers #Community #Mask
#Anniversary #AnniversaryMonth
Mask-wearing bonus, they keep one’s nose and face warm on Winter walks!
#stillmasking #maskssavelives #masks #covid19 #covidisnotover #protection #sensible
"As we reflect on our three year anniversary, I am deeply grateful to the communities that place their trust in us for help during their moments of need - you matter to us and we are still #heretohelp." - Anne Miller
Glad to be able to help, Jessica!
#HereToHelp #YouAreWelcome
#MaskUp #MasksSaveLives #StillMasking
➡️ Please consider boosting; remember on Mastodon there's no algorithm and 'liking' is only seen by the author
➡️ The best mask is an N95, but all masks work
➡️ Double masking or overmasking
➡️ FAQs are:
❓ Does it make a difference?
❓ Which mask should go on top, the cloth mask or the medical mask?
❓ What about two cloth masks?
❓ Or two medical masks?
➡️ Answers at updated page:
https://maskevidence.org/double-masking
#SystemsApproaches #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver.#DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid #N95s #n95 #FFP2 #ffp3 #n99
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#MasksSaveLives #MaskUp #HealthEquity #CleanAir #HealthyAir #IAQ #IndoorAirQuality
New eligibility for PCR testing in Ontario.
#Covid symptoms plus
➡️Everyone >60y
➡️>18y with a high-risk condition
➡️>18y with <2 vaccine doses
➡️>18y with >6m since last vaccine or last Covid infection
➡️ all the previously eligible groups (frontline workers, pregnant people, people who are immunocompromised etc)
https://www.ontario.ca/page/covid-19-testing-and-treatment
#Paxlovid eligibility expanded too (same page, scroll down):
➡️Everyone >60y
➡️>18y with a high-risk condition or immunocompromised
➡️>18y with <2 vaccine doses
➡️>18y with >6m since last vaccine or last Covid infection
Where to get tested:
https://www.ontario.ca/assessment-centre-locations
Self-certify 'I'm eligible' if you are in one of those groups.
In #HamOnt|Hamilton
https://www.stjoes.ca/coronavirus/covid-19-test-home
Don't rely on test-and-treat or vaccination. Prevent community transmission to a vulnerable person and prevent #LongCovid with #Masks and #Ventilation
#SystemsApproaches #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver.#DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid #N95s #n95 #FFP2 #ffp3 #n99 #CovidTesting #BringBackTesting
Please boost
➡️*New resource* for advocates for Masks in Schools
➡️We have created a FAQ page and a downloadable, customizable template summarizing arguments for mask requirements in schools:
https://maskevidence.org/masks-in-schools
➡️Mask mandates in schools reduce student and teacher absences
➡️4% of children with COVID will get long covid
@MyraBatchelder @nilikm #WeNotMe
#SystemsApproaches #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver.#DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid #N95s #n95 #FFP2 #ffp3 #n99
"Staff from Johns Hopkins plan to continue mask donations until our community is in the clear from COVID-19.
Masks donated by the @FXBHarvard@twitter.com and the national nonprofit Project N95."
#MaskUp #HealthEquity #MasksSaveLives #Community #Masks #Thankful
This time with working links
➡️One of the wisest commentators on the climate crisis for years, @georgemonbiot writes about our need to take care of each other
➡️We need to #WearAMask https://maskevidence.org/mask-types
➡️We need to #Ventilate
https://itsairborne.com/
https://cleanaircrew.org/
#SystemsApproaches #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver. #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid
Have you tried the Vitacore Can99?
Some curated lists of N95s on our website
https://maskevidence.org/findingn95s
Which mask should I wear?
Includes downloadable infographic/poster
https://maskevidence.org/mask-types
Also I'd like to post curated lists of where to get FfP2/3 in Europe and Australia. Does anyone know of any sites like @ProjectN95 or #masks4Canada outside North America?
#CovidIsAirborne and #CovidIsNotOver. #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid
Small point with masks:
Disposables have a genuine usability problem with enabling visually-impaired folks to figure out which side is the top. Yes, you can feel for the nose wire, but it should be simpler and more automatic than that.
A differently-colored stripe inside the mask over the nose wire area (or some other obvious visual feature) would make a big difference.
Thank you Andi! We are glad to be able to help!
#Community #MaskUp #MasksSaveLives #IAQ #Thankful https://t.co/nuMfHAOcHZ
So...1 in 24 Canadians has Covid, XBB1.5 (kraken) variant is projected to be at 22% in Ontario by the end of the week, people are still dying of Covid (279 in Canada in the first week of January), and though voluntary mask wearing is low, 69% of Canadians support mask mandates if necessary.
Public health in many regions recommends or strongly recommends mask wearing.
But no mask mandates?
Not even in education and the workplace?
Nothing?
Mandates would make it so much easier for the caring majority to normalize wearing a mask again. Many people understandably don't want to #WearAMask unless it is clearly necessary. #MaskMandates are necessary to get mask wearing in public up to >80%, which IHME estimates would halve deaths from covid with a month.
In the absence of clear direction from public health, #MaskUp and protect yourself and those around you as best you can.
https://maskevidence.org/why-masks-matter
#SystemsApproaches #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid #BetterMasks
Tara Moriarty's lab's estimates of current infections and risk: https://twitter.com/MoriartyLab/status/1614737208602230784
Incomplete count of deaths from Covid in Canada: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/current-situation.html?stat=num&measure=deaths_weekly&map=pt#a2
CTV/Nanos Nov 2022 poll of Canadians: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/majority-of-canadians-support-return-of-face-masks-in-indoor-public-spaces-if-deemed-necessary-survey-1.6144419
IHME projections: https://covid19.healthdata.org/canada?view=daily-deaths&tab=trend
Thank you Marilyn! We are beyond grateful to have you with us!
#Pandemic #Community #MaskUp #IAQ #MasksSaveLives #HealthEquity #Volunteers #grateful
Hi again. Thanks for the feedback and for engaging, much appreciated.
We think overhead elastic is critical to getting good fitted-filtration (ie, net filtration of a mask on a face). We summarize this here ⬇️
https://maskevidence.org/head-attachments
In North America, #N95s must have overhead elastic simplifying our advice in favour of these over #KN95 or #KF94
There are data on beards, too!
For a 10mm beard, an N95 is still more effective than all other masks.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-021-00337-1
If the stifling feeling is specifically associated with headstraps for you, they could be too tight. Aura 3M has simple band elastic straps that lengthen with a good hard tug. This is a pro in this situation for you.
For straps that don't lengthen so easily, consider an #N95 with braided elastic such as Vitacore's #Can99.
Vitacore's Can99 also has superb breathability so if the problem isn't the attachments, this might help.
Apologies for a N American reply to a European question.
Anyone curating info on #FFP2 or #FFP3 and suppliers please let me know: we would love to put this on our website.
#COVID #BetterMasks #MaskUp #MaskMandates #Masks
#WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsntOver #BetterMasks #MaskUp #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid #Beards
➡️ I'm seeing a lot of "N95s work and other masks do not"
➡️ Filtration is relative, not absolute
➡️ Summary and infographic ⬇️
https://maskevidence.org/mask-types
⬇️%s are filtration percentages for submicron (less than 1 micron) particles - aerosol data - the relevant size because #CovidIsAirborne
90% N95s without fit testing
70% Level 1 medical with cotton overmask
50% Level 1 medical or well-fitting 2-layer cotton
What does it mean?
➡️ Wear the best mask available
If you have access to N95s or FFP3s with overhead elastic, wear them
Otherwise use what you have: any mask is better than no mask
A certified medical mask with a good-fitting cloth mask over the top to improve the edge seal is a great low-cost combo
Mask braces are a bit uncomfortable but is you are in a high-risk situation (eg health care worker not supplied with routine N95s) they greatly improve the filtration of medical masks
#COVID #BetterMasks #MaskUp #MaskMandates #Masks
#WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsntOver #BetterMasks #MaskUp #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid
We have #hurricane warnings, #tornadoes warnings, flood warnings, #riptide, poor outdoor air quality warnings.
Why can’t we have standardized #alerts that say #covid is high, #MaskUp, turn on the #airpurifier.
Why should we all be at risk for a potentially debilitating condition (#LongCovid) just because other people don’t want to wear a mask?
Certain times of year we are at higher risk — for colds and COVID. It only makes sense to #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives
It's taken me a while to figure out how to write an #Introduction. Here goes:
I’d appreciate a boost to help meet like-minded here.
I’m a professor of medicine at McMaster University #MacDeptMed, #McMasterU
Clinically, I work as a #KidneyDoctor (#Nephrology)
I’m an associate member of #HEI (#Epidemiology) at #McMasterU
I’m a member of the Centre of Excellence in Protective Equipment and Materials (#PPE, #N95, #CEPEM) at #McMasterU
My #ClinicalResearch is in #KidneyDisease #KidneyEpi (#CKD, #Potassium, #CKDProgression) and #Masks
I’m editor-in-chief of #CJKHD (@CanJKHD on the birdsite, not here yet) an #OpenAccess kidney journal with #PublishingPolicy:
#SupportiveReview (#Kindness, #KidneyKindness) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20543581221080327
https://theconversation.com/peer-review-can-this-critical-step-in-the-publication-of-science-research-be-kinder-182142
#PortableReview (was your hard work rejected by a journal with IF>=4? Submit clean, redline, point-by-point response-to-reviews, and tell us which journal and undertake that you responded to all reviews received)
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/canadian-journal-of-kidney-health-and-disease/journal202590#aims-and-scope
I’m editor-in-chief of https://maskevidence.org/ which curates evidence on #BetterMasks and #MasksWork
For the pandemic, we need #SystemsApproaches because #CovidIsAirborne and #CovidIsNotOver. #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid
I’d like to see #KidneyVerse as the tag to find others with interest in #KidneyHealth and #KidneyDisease. #AskKidney #AskRenal
Also trying to be #LGBTQ #LGBTQ2 ally, working on #EDI #equity #diversity #inclusion, interested in #SocialJustice #UrbanPlanning.
Treaty 3|Dish with One Spoon, Turtle Island; Hamilton ON Canada. She/her
➡️Canada: #IHME estimates that 80% #mask use would halve daily deaths from #COVID within a month, saving 20 lives every day
➡️Summary of peer-reviewed #evidence at https://maskevidence.org/
#WearAMask #COVIDIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #BetterMasks #n95 #MaskUp #MasksSaveLives #MasksWork #MaskeAuf #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid
Found what I have been told is the least-obnoxious P100 mask, but I still have to keep this speech in my back pocket when I wear it.
Town Hall Live Tweets:
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Our virtual Town Hall with @FXBHarvard@twitter.com is starting now (@3@twitter.com PM EST)! Join us on Zoom!
Help us celebrate the milestone of >1 million masks distributed to communities in need.
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Only 30 more minutes to register for our Town Hall with @FXBHarvard@twitter.com!
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Our virtual Town Hall with @HarvardFXB@twitter.com begins in 1 hour (@3@twitter.com PM EST)!
Help us celebrate the milestone of >1 million masks distributed to communities in need.
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4 more hours to sign up! This afternoon at 3PM EST!
Join our virtual Town Hall celebrating the milestone of >1 million masks distributed to communities in need.
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Panel: Putting Pandemic Lessons into Practice - Moderated by @JuliaRaifman@twitter.com
Panelists: @DrMaryTBassett@twitter.com, @johnnybwicz@twitter.com, @RobinCogan@twitter.com, @sri_srikrishna@twitter.com
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Panel: Lessons from the Front Lines - Moderated by Emy Takinami
Panelists: LaShyra “Lash” Nolen @LashNolen@twitter.com and Carlos Aceves
Register: http://www.projectn95.org/town-hall
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Why Should I Attend the @ProjectN95@twitter.com & @HarvardFXB@twitter.com Town Hall?
A Series of Reasons:
Reason #5 - You are someone that would like to help contribute, either time or resources!
http://www.projectn95.org/town-hall
#MaskUp #Masks #Pandemic #Community #HealthEquity #MasksSaveLives
Why Should I Attend the @ProjectN95@twitter.com & @HarvardFXB@twitter.com Town Hall?
A Series of Reasons:
Reason #4 - Part of a community in need, wanting to learn about how our mask distribution program
http://www.projectn95.org/town-hall
#MaskUp #Masks #Pandemic #Community #HealthEquity #MasksSaveLives https://t.co/UiLwjKFlzm
Why Should I Attend the @ProjectN95@twitter.com & @HarvardFXB@twitter.com Town Hall?
A Series of Reasons:
Reason #3 - Schools within communities in need, wanting to learn about our pilot air purifier program
http://www.projectn95.org/town-hall
#MaskUp #Masks #Pandemic #HealthEquity #MasksSaveLives #iaq https://t.co/9o0Kzg0Ws5
Why Should I Attend the @ProjectN95@twitter.com & @HarvardFXB@twitter.com Town Hall?
A Series of Reasons (Not that you need them!):
Reason #2 - Learn from a great selection of outstanding panelists!
http://www.projectn95.org/town-hall
#MaskUp #Masks #Pandemic #Community #HealthEquity #MasksSaveLives #Mask https://t.co/ACLGLCOO1G
Why Should I Attend the @ProjectN95@twitter.com & @HarvardFXB@twitter.com Town Hall?
A Series of Reasons (Not that you need them!):
Reason #1 -
To help us celebrate this milestone of over 1 million masks!
http://www.projectn95.org/town-hall
#MaskUp #Masks #Pandemic #Community #HealthEquity #MasksSaveLives #Mask
Please join us this Thursday as we commemorate the distribution of > 1 million high quality masks! 3PM EST
Register today!
We are thrilled to announce that we will be joined by Carlos Aceves!
#MaskUp #Masks #Pandemic #HealthEquity #MasksSaveLives #Community #Mask
Please join us this Thursday as we commemorate the distribution of > 1 million high quality masks! 3PM EST
Register today!
We are delighted to announce that we will be joined by Emy Takinami (she/her/hers)!
#MaskUp #Masks #Pandemic #HealthEquity #MasksSaveLives #Mask
Please join us this Thursday as we commemorate the distribution of > 1 million high quality masks! 3PM EST
Register today!
We are delighted to announce that we will be joined by Emy Takinami!
#MaskUp #Masks #Pandemic #HealthEquity #MasksSaveLives #community #mask