😷 + 💉+ 🔄 +🧴 Multi-layer prevention, not infection! We 🩵 mask & clean air protection. PH Education Campaign: instagram.com/masktogetheram…

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Please sign this @theactionnet petition urging @POTUS to extend the Emergency Declarations & promote comprehensive prevention. That will ensure continued access to #COVID19 tests, shots & treatment for all – & especially for the most vulnerable people: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
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At LC Defense IV, NIH RECOVER patient rep @Rob_DeRosa shares his symptom relief from antivirals to support “viral persistence” as a key cause of Long COVID despite Paxlovid trial failure, calling for trials on drugs like ensitrelvir. 🔗Watch: masktogetheramerica.org/blog…
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TY @TogetherWeMask. Symptom relief while on an antiviral is why I keep asking for trials using extended combination therapy with newer & potentially more effective/less harmful drugs eg ensitrilvir & obeldesivir (@GileadSciences). One failed study does not mean we stop looking or trying!
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A Global Policy Repository tracked 53 nations: only 8 have a gov't lead on #IndoorAir, just 7 have binding health standards, and only 25/253 policies address schools. Call your local reps and demand #CleanAir in schools! Fight for the kids! Watch: airclub.org/unga-2026
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So excited to see old and new friends at the UN event. Friendship, camaraderie, shared goals and love for our community brought us together. It has been over 6 years! @luckytran @myrabatchelder @HNewlevant @ChristinaAuria
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clean air in schools Please our students all have The cough
Healthy #IndoorAir in schools is a health & human right demanding action! We must address "canary in the coal mine" warnings from rising chronic illnesses caused by virus-laden air & pollution. Proud to represent my community at the global #CleanAir event at the UN today.
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Yes, we need clean air in classrooms, but also in public transportation. It's really important to have masking in public transportation and healthcare settings. And let's not forget about sick time — the most important strategy in infection control!
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A Global Policy Repository tracked 53 nations: only 8 have a gov't lead on #IndoorAir, just 7 have binding health standards, and only 25/253 policies address schools. Call your local reps and demand #CleanAir in schools! Fight for the kids! Watch: airclub.org/unga-2026
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There were a few of us wearing high quality masks including one of the lead organizers, @DrBronKing!
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Thank you @HNewlevant for letting us know about a bill we can support (@NYCCouncil Introduction 699) which would set air quality standards in schools and implement real-time reporting! intro.nyc/0699-2026+ @luckytran @myrabatchelder @COVIDAdvocacyNY @PosDevNYC @NYCMayor
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I learned that there’s a bill we can support RIGHT NOW (NYC Council Introduction 699) which would set air quality standards in schools and implement real-time reporting! intro.nyc/0699-2026+
At the #ClimateWeek "Healthy Air in NYC Schools" event, I was moved by the projected impacts of implementing ASHRAE Standard 241, with ⬆️ ventilation & filtration + real-time AQ reporting. So happy to sit with @HNewlevant, @VSicaKasabach, @ChristinaAuria, and to meet @DrBronKing!
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We are looking forward to collaborating with US and global advocates to help decision-makers adopt this pilot #CleanAir model. Together, we can reduce sickness, student absences, and parental productivity losses in major cities like NYC!
At the #ClimateWeek "Healthy Air in NYC Schools" event, I was moved by the projected impacts of implementing ASHRAE Standard 241, with ⬆️ ventilation & filtration + real-time AQ reporting. So happy to sit with @HNewlevant, @VSicaKasabach, @ChristinaAuria, and to meet @DrBronKing!
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At the #ClimateWeek "Healthy Air in NYC Schools" event, I was moved by the projected impacts of implementing ASHRAE Standard 241, with ⬆️ ventilation & filtration + real-time AQ reporting. So happy to sit with @HNewlevant, @VSicaKasabach, @ChristinaAuria, and to meet @DrBronKing!
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At LC Defense IV, Dr. David Putrino (@PutrinoLab) explained why @CoRESinai uses the NASEM definition of Long COVID for clinical diagnoses, ensuring all patients unable to recover from COVID can receive care. 🔗Watch the forum: masktogetheramerica.org/blog… 🛑COVlD is surging. #MaskUp
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Wastewater monitoring has fallen off a cliff in Spain, but known COVlD cases are spiking. pmc19.com/spain
Covid Para que se aprecie bien la situación en Cataluña, ahí va una comparación de las incidencias en los picos de los últimos 4 años ("era ómicron"). Adiós a lo que parecía una tendencia a la baja. 🤔Montaña rusa por mutaciones y pérdida de inmunidad.
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Today, the Boston Globe committed a journalistic error of confusing reported COVlD cases with actual transmission. In the county they were covering (Franklin, MA), levels are near-identical to the national average *during a COVlD wave.* Please share widely.
PMC COVlD Update, Sep 21, 2026 (US) 🔥13th COVlD wave 🔥40 states/territories with outbreaks (see Alt text) 🔥3.8 million estimated weekly infections 🔥Outbreaks in NYC 🔥Extremely high levels on the Big Island of HI Mask up and get boosted. 🧵THREAD (1/4)
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Everyone in #NYC should rush to get boosted and mask up. There are sloppy anonymous and international disinformation accounts pushing mass infection in NYC. Protect your heart, your brain, and your livelihood. Get boosted ASAP. 💉💪😷
Mask up in #NYC, and cancel what you're doing to get your booster today. Kings County is raging with COVlD, per today's CDC update. PMC estimates 1 in 20 residents actively infectious, as of the most recent data on Sep 12. pmc19.com/map
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So happy to see @PeterHotez using @TogetherWeMask advisor Dr. @michael_hoerger's COVID heat map from PMC19.com. Go without saying, Dr. Hotez is promoting "prevention". I wish he would actually say "wear a mask". #MaskTogetherAmerica
Covid going up in Texas, I’m hearing about colleagues and friends getting infected. The new annual Covid vaccine is available, got mine two weeks ago, now’s the time…
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“I wear a mask for health protection and because my mom has health issues.”— Behind the KN95 is AZ Beach. COVlD cases are rising. Masking is an act of self-love and community care. #MaskTogetherAmerica 📸: @MsJulieSLam #IAmNYCC @NY_Comic_Con
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This is a special graph we only post periodically. It shows 2 things that have considerable implications. 1) Transmission has been lower than anticipated since December, and *only* since December. It's a recent phenomenon, not a long-term trend. WastewaterSCAN has poor longitudinal standardization so sometimes people mistakenly believe waves are getting smaller and smaller (or they say this because their listserv subscribers like to hear it). CDC and Biobot make very long-term data difficult to find. On the PMC 13-wave graph (which integrates long-term CDC and Biobot data, some of which is measured weekly by hand!), wave height gets smaller, but the waves are wider (hard to perceive visually). The take-home is we're in a very weird place in the pandemic, not a trend, but either an aberration or shift. 2) Cumulative levels for the current year (Y7) closely resemble that of Year 2. This is where the debate of aberration vs shift gets interesting. If we are in an aberration of lower than typical transmission, that means many people are walking around with limited short-term infection-derived immunity, and most people are not recently boosted. That would be a tinder box for a saltation variant (MANY variants are circulating), and put us on that scary Y2 path. The alternative is that this is not an aberration but a more meaningful shift, some population-level immunity building through a combination of boosters, infection history, and the most vulnerable dying (social murder), meaning time between infection starting to increase. These divergent hypotheses are the difference between 150 million vs 325 million infections for Y7. If I were a gambler, I'd bet about 200 million. However, you can see the uncertainty. This is a time like no other to monitor the data closely. The good news is that wastewater monitoring is not going away. PMC will keep posting. Retired NASA scientist, Dr. Eastman at WHN (@jlerollblues), is close to having localized *forecasts* too. On Instagram, a new entrant is integrating different data sources with other methodologies. @CyFi10, @amethystarlight, and @CovidDataReport post nuanced updates frequently. My advice would be to talk to the people who will listen and remember that much more important than understanding the risk is knowing you can do something about it. Boosting is the easiest intervention. If someone will mask, teach them how to properly fit their nose wire and do a seal check, get them to upgrade from a KN95 with cheek and chin gaps to an N95 like 3M Aura or 3M VFlex in the riskiest or socially easiest contexts. Easier said than done, but if that pessimistic scenario plays out, they may be ready to listen.
PMC COVlD Update, Sep 21, 2026 (US) 🔥13th COVlD wave 🔥40 states/territories with outbreaks (see Alt text) 🔥3.8 million estimated weekly infections 🔥Outbreaks in NYC 🔥Extremely high levels on the Big Island of HI Mask up and get boosted. 🧵THREAD (1/4)
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PMC COVlD Update, Sep 21, 2026 (US) 🔥13th COVlD wave 🔥40 states/territories with outbreaks (see Alt text) 🔥3.8 million estimated weekly infections 🔥Outbreaks in NYC 🔥Extremely high levels on the Big Island of HI Mask up and get boosted. 🧵THREAD (1/4)
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