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The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier Original
The CSA Group — a not-for-profit standards organization — released for review a new draft standard on the “Selection, Use, and Care of Respirators” (CSA Z94.4:25) for workplaces, specifically including health care. This new standard is designed to ensure much better protection for health-care workers and for everyone seeking health care.
Improving indoor air is critical to public health, productivity and competitiveness
âWeak productivity is making life less affordable for Canadians and beginning to strain our governmentâs finances and starting to put at risk the social programs on which Canadians rely,â Prime Minister Mark Carney recently remarked.
Airborne pathogens: controlling words won’t control transmission
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Airborne pathogens: controlling words won’t control transmission
WHO has proposed new terminology for “pathogens that transmit through the air”. 1 WHO Global technical consultation report on proposed terminology for pathogens that transmit through the air. The stated rationale is that “[d]uring the pandemic, the terms ‘airborne’, ‘airborne transmission’, ‘droplets’ and ‘aerosols’ were used in different ways, by different stakeholders, which contributed to confusion in communicating how this pathogen was transmitted”.
Prioritizing the economy over health will sink both.
Skip to Content Advertisement 1 • • Article content By Joe Vipond, Julia M. Wright, and Dan Furst It’s time for our society to admit that we’ve made a mistake and change course. The COVID-is-mild experiment, despite the wishing and the hoping, has been a tragic failure. We aren’t just accepting ongoing hospitalizations and deaths to protect the economy, but also ignoring the social and economic costs of continuing high levels of acute infections.
Fresh air has long been seen as important for our health, even if we haven’t always understood why
Julia M. Wright is George Munro Chair in Literature and Rhetoric at Dalhousie University. The New Brunswick legislature recently passed a motion to improve indoor air quality in the province’s public buildings “to reduce the spread of airborne illnesses, such as COVID-19.” There are many ways to improve the air we breathe indoors, including filtration and ventilation: bring fresh air in, send exhaled air and contaminants out. And we have good reasons for looking at indoor air quality.
Fresh air has long been seen as important for our health, even if we haven’t always understood why
By: Julia M. Wright, George Munro Chair in Literature and Rhetoric, Dalhousie University, The Conversation Tweet Print Email Save to Read Later This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Disclosure information is available on the original site. Read this article for free: Email Address: Password: I agree to the Terms and Conditions, Cookie and Privacy Policies, and CASL agreement.
Fresh air has long been seen as important for our health, even if we haven't always understood why
By Julia M. Wright, George Munro Chair in Literature and Rhetoric, Dalhousie University The New Brunswick legislature recently passed a motion to improve indoor air quality in the province’s public buildings “to reduce the spread of airborne illnesses, such as COVID-19.” There are many ways to improve the air we breathe indoors, including filtration and ventilation: bring fresh… Read complete article © The Conversation - Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Fresh air has long been seen as important for our health, even if we haven't always understood why Original
The New Brunswick legislature recently passed a motion to improve indoor air quality in the province’s public buildings “to reduce the spread of airborne illnesses, such as COVID-19.” There are many ways to improve the air we breathe indoors, including filtration and ventilation: bring fresh air in, send exhaled air and contaminants out. And we have good reasons for looking at indoor air quality.
How Books, Movies and TV Help Us Understand the Infodemic, Anti-Vax Messages and Conspiracy Theories
Julia M. Wright | February 14th, 2022 'The Cow Pock or the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation', published by H.Humphrey, 1809 (coloured engraving). Photo: Art Images/Getty Images The World Health Organization defines an infodemic as “too much information including false or misleading information in digital and physical environments during a disease outbreak.” While the term is new, the problem is not.
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