Thank you to everyone who attended the #COVIDrehab forum in-person and online. It was a great day of knowledge exchange and collaboration!

COVID-19 turns five today. It brought us to our knees, but H5N1 could knock us flat. 🦠 Crawford Kilian writes.

interventions, but there is one incredibly important caveat: they don’t just have POTS, they have POTS + PEM as a result of their IACC. This complicates things. Post-exertional malaise (PEM) is crushing, dangerous and can be worsened by anything that makes the body produce 15/

provider, getting angry at the patient, ignoring the patient, etc. Or you could choose to do the work: partnering with the person in your care, reading more, listening and actively problem solving, referring to a clinician who is more experienced. All of the former are easy, 9/

clinician or scientist that gets (ego-)punched in the face (has a patient that isn’t responding to their usual tricks) can tell you a lot about that person. There are a lot of maladaptive responses: gaslighting, hiding behind credentials, creating hierarchy between patient and 8/

"If you’re a health-care worker who sees a patient in a mask, put one on for them. Don’t make them ask. Don’t psychologize them. Don’t betray the trust they’ve shown you. They’ve put their lives in your hands. Don’t take that for granted, it’s not an easy thing for many of us to do"

My suggestion if we really want safe Indoor Air:

Supplement ASHRAE 241 or 6 ACH with the following:

30 eACH from any combination of:

Upper Air UV

FarUV

Displacement Ventilation

Overhead extraction

Overhead Air Purifiers

I have not stopped masking up in public since 2020, and the quality of masks worn has gotten better over time. If any Bluesky friends would like to #MaskUp again but can't afford the good respirator masks, please reach out to your nearest Mask Bloc. Find yours on this map: www.covidactionmap.org