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Jessica Wildfire's COVID bookmark list
COVID-safe dentists: (thanks sovietknuckles)
New wastewater tracking (replacing biobot): https://data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker
Found this site which has a lot of info on cleaning the air, specifically for covid. So a lot of resources on UV-light, ventilation, and air filtration.
Also, if you want to check co2 levels in places you live or work, to test air quality, the Vitalight mini-co2 detector is very useful and inexpensive compared to what is normally recommended. I just got one to test air quality at work. It's basically 30-40 dollars compared to other models which are sometimes hundreds of dollars each.
Anything to help in tracking progress/communicate info on vaccines, long COVID treatments or prophylactic developments would really help in keeping hopes up.
Some immediate family has (thankfully non-life-threatening) brain lesions from LC and trying to find good info and manage the sources you do find trying to understand when you might one day be able to leave your cave to rejoin civilization can feel like watching the bombers go out, if you catch me drift.
Info on the effectiveness of air filtration might be good:
Real-world data show that filters clean COVID-causing virus from air
DIY box fan filters – Corsi-Rosenthal box
Also this: How scientists are protecting themselves from COVID-19
air filtration is great but I feel like it's much less important than getting people to wear masks
Yeah, if everyone wore an n95 in public for a while we would get rid of a bunch of diseases. Its frustrating.
Air filtration is just another layer of protection. If you are at home with someone sick, it helps prevent transmission. Or if you have a shared workplace, you can run one and be reasonably safe if you are alone and need to eat lunch or whatever. It's not going to help if someone is close range and coughing in your face, but it does help keep the virus from accumulating or staying in the air.
In hospital wards where they ran HEPA filters, they pretty much eliminated transmission, but I assume that was on top of mask protocols in place.