Nancy Malek
@n95anaesthetist.bsky.social
Anaesthetist in Sydney. Advocates for N95s and clean indoor air. Waiting for Novavax. Believes that doctors have a duty of care to learn about covid.
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Nancy Malek
@n95anaesthetist.bsky.social
· Jun 22
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Doctors: we've accepted too many myths about Covid.
My presentation explains why - and gives you the science you're missing.
youtube.com/watch?v=GPUT...
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My presentation explains why - and gives you the science you're missing.
youtube.com/watch?v=GPUT...
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Exactly!
September 30, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Exactly!
Calling all Australians who want safer healthcare: please consider completing this brief survey. Even if you simply answer "bring back masks in healthcare" for every question, that would be a huge help. 🙏
www.surveymonkey.com/r/5PWCFTJ
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September 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Calling all Australians who want safer healthcare: please consider completing this brief survey. Even if you simply answer "bring back masks in healthcare" for every question, that would be a huge help. 🙏
www.surveymonkey.com/r/5PWCFTJ
www.surveymonkey.com/r/5PWCFTJ
letsair.org/documents/2-...
Here's a wonderful collaborative effort to explain and amplify the importance of airborne disease transmission and mitigation. Well done, @nousaerons.bsky.social!
Here's a wonderful collaborative effort to explain and amplify the importance of airborne disease transmission and mitigation. Well done, @nousaerons.bsky.social!
letsair.org
August 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Here's a wonderful collaborative effort to explain and amplify the importance of airborne disease transmission and mitigation. Well done, @nousaerons.bsky.social!
Here's a wonderful collaborative effort to explain and amplify the importance of airborne disease transmission and mitigation. Well done, @nousaerons.bsky.social!
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Massive announcement! We have a huge opportunity to take Safer shared air to UN Climate Week – but we can only do it with your help. Support our crowdfunding campaign to make this happen by donating or sharing our post.
Click here 👉 globalcall.saferairproject.com
#LivedExperienceMatters #UN
Click here 👉 globalcall.saferairproject.com
#LivedExperienceMatters #UN
August 13, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Massive announcement! We have a huge opportunity to take Safer shared air to UN Climate Week – but we can only do it with your help. Support our crowdfunding campaign to make this happen by donating or sharing our post.
Click here 👉 globalcall.saferairproject.com
#LivedExperienceMatters #UN
Click here 👉 globalcall.saferairproject.com
#LivedExperienceMatters #UN
The deadline for the Canadian Respirator Standard is fast approaching. If you'd like to make a submission, here's an excellent resource:
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Support a National Standard for N95s (and other respirators) in Healthcare
The Canadian Standards Association is looking for public feedback on an update of a national standard for N95s (and other respirators).
donoharmbc.ca
August 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The deadline for the Canadian Respirator Standard is fast approaching. If you'd like to make a submission, here's an excellent resource:
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donoharmbc.ca/national-sta...
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If a health care worker can see I'm wearing a respirator and doesn't offer to put one on themselves, asking them to wear one is only ever counter productive ime.
I have no interest in wasting my limited energy on arguing with someone with a duty of care who is willfully looking away from eugenics.
I have no interest in wasting my limited energy on arguing with someone with a duty of care who is willfully looking away from eugenics.
July 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
If a health care worker can see I'm wearing a respirator and doesn't offer to put one on themselves, asking them to wear one is only ever counter productive ime.
I have no interest in wasting my limited energy on arguing with someone with a duty of care who is willfully looking away from eugenics.
I have no interest in wasting my limited energy on arguing with someone with a duty of care who is willfully looking away from eugenics.
Hospitals should be safe.
Patients and their carers shouldn’t have to fight for infection prevention.
EVERYONE DESERVES SAFE ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE.
@pandemicresistance.bsky.social
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Patients and their carers shouldn’t have to fight for infection prevention.
EVERYONE DESERVES SAFE ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE.
@pandemicresistance.bsky.social
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July 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Hospitals should be safe.
Patients and their carers shouldn’t have to fight for infection prevention.
EVERYONE DESERVES SAFE ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE.
@pandemicresistance.bsky.social
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Patients and their carers shouldn’t have to fight for infection prevention.
EVERYONE DESERVES SAFE ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE.
@pandemicresistance.bsky.social
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It goes without saying, yet it needs to be said: EVERYONE DESERVES SAFE ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE. @pandemicresistance.bsky.social
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July 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
It goes without saying, yet it needs to be said: EVERYONE DESERVES SAFE ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE. @pandemicresistance.bsky.social
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“If HCWs wear N95 respirators and surgical masks throughout [the treatment], the total infection risk can be reduced by 94.7 % and 53.9 %, respectively.”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Transmission of respiratory infectious diseases based on real close contact behavior in an emergency room
The risk of transmission of respiratory infectious diseases in emergency rooms is high, posing a severe threat to the health of healthcare workers (HC…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
“If HCWs wear N95 respirators and surgical masks throughout [the treatment], the total infection risk can be reduced by 94.7 % and 53.9 %, respectively.”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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If you work in healthcare, wear a mask.
If you’re going to a hospital, wear a mask.
If you see your patient masking, don’t accuse them of anxiety. Don’t try and make them take off their mask. Don’t punish them with substandard care.
If you’re going to a hospital, wear a mask.
If you see your patient masking, don’t accuse them of anxiety. Don’t try and make them take off their mask. Don’t punish them with substandard care.
July 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
If you work in healthcare, wear a mask.
If you’re going to a hospital, wear a mask.
If you see your patient masking, don’t accuse them of anxiety. Don’t try and make them take off their mask. Don’t punish them with substandard care.
If you’re going to a hospital, wear a mask.
If you see your patient masking, don’t accuse them of anxiety. Don’t try and make them take off their mask. Don’t punish them with substandard care.
Doctors and healthcare professionals: there are consequences to your actions.
Airborne pathogens are often transmitted asymptomatically. Choose to protect your patients by wearing a well-fitting N95 mask.
Everyone deserves safe access to healthcare. @pandemicresistance.bsky.social
Airborne pathogens are often transmitted asymptomatically. Choose to protect your patients by wearing a well-fitting N95 mask.
Everyone deserves safe access to healthcare. @pandemicresistance.bsky.social
Our billboard will be running again from 4-7pm today.
We will also start to share some of the, frankly shocking, submissions we have received so far.
Please share your story at pandemicresistance.org/safe-access
Everyone deserves safe access to healthcare.
We will also start to share some of the, frankly shocking, submissions we have received so far.
Please share your story at pandemicresistance.org/safe-access
Everyone deserves safe access to healthcare.
July 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Doctors and healthcare professionals: there are consequences to your actions.
Airborne pathogens are often transmitted asymptomatically. Choose to protect your patients by wearing a well-fitting N95 mask.
Everyone deserves safe access to healthcare. @pandemicresistance.bsky.social
Airborne pathogens are often transmitted asymptomatically. Choose to protect your patients by wearing a well-fitting N95 mask.
Everyone deserves safe access to healthcare. @pandemicresistance.bsky.social
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Worth your time.
Thank you to @abc-news.bsky.social for having me on Sydney Breakfast Radio yesterday to dispel some common myths about COVID
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Dr Nancy Malek - ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast with Craig Reucassel
This is "Dr Nancy Malek - ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast with Craig Reucassel" by Nancy Malek on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who…
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July 5, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Worth your time.
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Thank you @n95anaesthetist.bsky.social for this great piece of #scicomm for your peers. I hope it is watched and acted upon widely.
Doctors: we've accepted too many myths about Covid.
My presentation explains why - and gives you the science you're missing.
youtube.com/watch?v=GPUT...
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My presentation explains why - and gives you the science you're missing.
youtube.com/watch?v=GPUT...
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youtube.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Thank you @n95anaesthetist.bsky.social for this great piece of #scicomm for your peers. I hope it is watched and acted upon widely.
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Great 7 minute listen highlighting some common myths regarding COVID from a physician following the science. Appreciate especially how she points out that COVID is not just a risk for “the vulnerable.”
Thank you to @abc-news.bsky.social for having me on Sydney Breakfast Radio yesterday to dispel some common myths about COVID
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vimeo.com/1098792353
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vimeo.com/1098792353
Dr Nancy Malek - ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast with Craig Reucassel
This is "Dr Nancy Malek - ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast with Craig Reucassel" by Nancy Malek on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who…
vimeo.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Great 7 minute listen highlighting some common myths regarding COVID from a physician following the science. Appreciate especially how she points out that COVID is not just a risk for “the vulnerable.”
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A wonderful interview with Dr Nancy Malek on @abc-news.bsky.social focused on common myths about COVID. It's short and accessible, so excellent to share. Both New Zealand and Australia have rising levels of Flu and Covid this Winter, so the science here is important.
#CovidMyths
#CovidScience
#CovidMyths
#CovidScience
July 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
A wonderful interview with Dr Nancy Malek on @abc-news.bsky.social focused on common myths about COVID. It's short and accessible, so excellent to share. Both New Zealand and Australia have rising levels of Flu and Covid this Winter, so the science here is important.
#CovidMyths
#CovidScience
#CovidMyths
#CovidScience
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Great great interview form @n95anaesthetist.bsky.social and debunking COVID myths. Highly recommend it.
Thank you to @abc-news.bsky.social for having me on Sydney Breakfast Radio yesterday to dispel some common myths about COVID
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vimeo.com/1098792353
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vimeo.com/1098792353
Dr Nancy Malek - ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast with Craig Reucassel
This is "Dr Nancy Malek - ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast with Craig Reucassel" by Nancy Malek on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who…
vimeo.com
July 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Great great interview form @n95anaesthetist.bsky.social and debunking COVID myths. Highly recommend it.
Thank you to @abc-news.bsky.social for having me on Sydney Breakfast Radio yesterday to dispel some common myths about COVID
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vimeo.com/1098792353
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vimeo.com/1098792353
Dr Nancy Malek - ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast with Craig Reucassel
This is "Dr Nancy Malek - ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast with Craig Reucassel" by Nancy Malek on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who…
vimeo.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Thank you to @abc-news.bsky.social for having me on Sydney Breakfast Radio yesterday to dispel some common myths about COVID
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vimeo.com/1098792353
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This is all too common in hospitals, and it's unacceptable. Patients need to be heard, and to feel safe. Everyone deserves safe access to healthcare.
July 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This is all too common in hospitals, and it's unacceptable. Patients need to be heard, and to feel safe. Everyone deserves safe access to healthcare.
This wonderful initiative continues. Thank you @pandemicresistance.bsky.social for highlighting the stark deficiencies of the hospital system. Everyone deserves safe access to healthcare.
Week 2 of our billboard campaign kicks off today.
This week's message:
"I had to delay vital healthcare because hospitals refuse to make the air safe to breathe"
"Everyone deserves safe access to healthcare."
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This week's message:
"I had to delay vital healthcare because hospitals refuse to make the air safe to breathe"
"Everyone deserves safe access to healthcare."
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June 30, 2025 at 6:31 AM
This wonderful initiative continues. Thank you @pandemicresistance.bsky.social for highlighting the stark deficiencies of the hospital system. Everyone deserves safe access to healthcare.
Doctors: how is this acceptable? First, do no harm! Thank you @pandemicresistance.bsky.social for giving these patients a voice. Everyone deserves safe access to healthcare.
Our billboard will be running again from 4-7pm today.
We will continue to share some of the submissions we have received so far.
Please share your story at pandemicresistance.org/safe-access
Everyone deserves safe access to healthcare.
We will continue to share some of the submissions we have received so far.
Please share your story at pandemicresistance.org/safe-access
Everyone deserves safe access to healthcare.
June 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Doctors: how is this acceptable? First, do no harm! Thank you @pandemicresistance.bsky.social for giving these patients a voice. Everyone deserves safe access to healthcare.
"Wearing an N95 mask reduces the inhalation risk of spherical-type microplastics by 25.5 times compared with not wearing a mask." Isn't THAT interesting??
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June 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Wearing an N95 mask reduces the inhalation risk of spherical-type microplastics by 25.5 times compared with not wearing a mask." Isn't THAT interesting??
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congratulations! Thank you for advancing our understanding of airborne disease transmission. This is how you challenge and shift droplet dogma! #COVIDisAirborne
Aerosol transmission of SARSCoV2 virus is the dominant route for transmitting COVID-19.
👏'2025 Faraday Horizon Prize for advancing understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on transmissibility of respiratory pathogens.' @rsc.org
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👏'2025 Faraday Horizon Prize for advancing understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on transmissibility of respiratory pathogens.' @rsc.org
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June 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Congratulations! Thank you for advancing our understanding of airborne disease transmission. This is how you challenge and shift droplet dogma! #COVIDisAirborne
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To be clear, this understanding went against decades of aerosol science assumptions. As such, we knew that we needed to prove this. And so, we did. We altered the CO2 levels in the air and found that increasing the acid content of the air (CO2) led to an increase in aerostability.
June 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
To be clear, this understanding went against decades of aerosol science assumptions. As such, we knew that we needed to prove this. And so, we did. We altered the CO2 levels in the air and found that increasing the acid content of the air (CO2) led to an increase in aerostability.
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We just had an article published in ACS Central Science on the how the pH of exhaled aerosol evolves over time.
As we’ve previously reported, respiratory aerosol pH (high pH!) is a driver of SARS-CoV-2 decay. Meaning, understanding the pH dynamics is important for estimating risk.
As we’ve previously reported, respiratory aerosol pH (high pH!) is a driver of SARS-CoV-2 decay. Meaning, understanding the pH dynamics is important for estimating risk.
June 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
We just had an article published in ACS Central Science on the how the pH of exhaled aerosol evolves over time.
As we’ve previously reported, respiratory aerosol pH (high pH!) is a driver of SARS-CoV-2 decay. Meaning, understanding the pH dynamics is important for estimating risk.
As we’ve previously reported, respiratory aerosol pH (high pH!) is a driver of SARS-CoV-2 decay. Meaning, understanding the pH dynamics is important for estimating risk.
Thank you for watching and sharing. 🙏
If you a clinician working in palliative care and concerned about how the issues discussed in this excellent presentation 👇 are affecting the quality-of-life left of people with life-limiting illnesses... Drop me a line (email or DM)
Doctors: we've accepted too many myths about Covid.
My presentation explains why - and gives you the science you're missing.
youtube.com/watch?v=GPUT...
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My presentation explains why - and gives you the science you're missing.
youtube.com/watch?v=GPUT...
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June 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Thank you for watching and sharing. 🙏