mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 21:41:33 JST

@regordane @dalias @luckytran

Trump already admitted that they knew it was both deadly and airborne as early as Feb 2020, but that they didn't want to "create a panic."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-told-bob-woodward-he-knew-february-covid-19-was-n1239658

And hospitals in China were already writing guides for doctors in other countries in early 2020, saying that if you only use surgical masks, that your hospital staff will get Covid and possibly die, but if you treat it as airborne, and make sure to use N95s, masks, full PPE, and do all intubation in negative pressure rooms, and airborne infection isolation rooms (AIIRs), that you can eliminate patient to staff transmission. They said "treat it as airborne."

The US hospitals that took this advice to heart, and that could get sufficient PPE to follow it, were the ones that had the best results with staff safety.👍🏿