Malgorzata (Gosia) Gasperowicz
@gosiagasperophd.bsky.social
Developmental biologist, researcher. Makes COVID predictions that (so far) come true.
Proponent of preventing transmission and aiming for elimination of pathogens (incl. SARS2)
#StopTransmission, #CleanTheAir, prevent #LongCOVID
Proponent of preventing transmission and aiming for elimination of pathogens (incl. SARS2)
#StopTransmission, #CleanTheAir, prevent #LongCOVID
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The article wants people to hate and exclude mask wearers. Why anyone would set out to pick on older, disabled, higher risk, unwell, or just appropriately concerned minority that doesn’t get invited to anything anyway is well…
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The article wants people to hate and exclude mask wearers. Why anyone would set out to pick on older, disabled, higher risk, unwell, or just appropriately concerned minority that doesn’t get invited to anything anyway is well…
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In fact, wearing a respirator is how we enter society. It’s how we deal with living with people that do not understand the danger, and if they read the telegraph… they never will.
December 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In fact, wearing a respirator is how we enter society. It’s how we deal with living with people that do not understand the danger, and if they read the telegraph… they never will.
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After the devastating loss of the 3 children in Ottawa, it was urgent to get info out re the additional ways avail to protect one’s loved ones from serious illness as we enter the holidays…
and to remind young fams this amt of sickness ISN’T normal.
#VaccinePlus
ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...
and to remind young fams this amt of sickness ISN’T normal.
#VaccinePlus
ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...
Schools have become cesspools for cold and flu, but they don't have to be: Ontario School Safety
The volunteer organization Ontario School Safety is calling on the provincial government to improve air quality in schools as flu spreads.
ottawa.citynews.ca
December 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
After the devastating loss of the 3 children in Ottawa, it was urgent to get info out re the additional ways avail to protect one’s loved ones from serious illness as we enter the holidays…
and to remind young fams this amt of sickness ISN’T normal.
#VaccinePlus
ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...
and to remind young fams this amt of sickness ISN’T normal.
#VaccinePlus
ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...
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JFC. How long are we gonna do this?!
"Exposure to higher aerosol concentrations - at close range or due to concentration build-up in crowded &/or poorly ventilated spaces - &/or longer duration exposures facilitate disease transmission."
Water is wet. Ugh.
"Exposure to higher aerosol concentrations - at close range or due to concentration build-up in crowded &/or poorly ventilated spaces - &/or longer duration exposures facilitate disease transmission."
Water is wet. Ugh.
Reports show how mpox clade 1b spreads through non-sexual contact in DR Congo, Ireland
Large family sizes and crowded living conditions may play a role in transmission.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
Photo: World Bank / Vincent Tremeau
Large family sizes and crowded living conditions may play a role in transmission.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
Photo: World Bank / Vincent Tremeau
December 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
JFC. How long are we gonna do this?!
"Exposure to higher aerosol concentrations - at close range or due to concentration build-up in crowded &/or poorly ventilated spaces - &/or longer duration exposures facilitate disease transmission."
Water is wet. Ugh.
"Exposure to higher aerosol concentrations - at close range or due to concentration build-up in crowded &/or poorly ventilated spaces - &/or longer duration exposures facilitate disease transmission."
Water is wet. Ugh.
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This.
This is the problem.
OH and S standards are different for HCWs and for the life of me (and them) I can't understand why.
This is the problem.
OH and S standards are different for HCWs and for the life of me (and them) I can't understand why.
December 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This.
This is the problem.
OH and S standards are different for HCWs and for the life of me (and them) I can't understand why.
This is the problem.
OH and S standards are different for HCWs and for the life of me (and them) I can't understand why.
“The attraction of substituting EBM heuristics like GRADE for science across the board is their inherent subjectivity and ease of manipulation. At best a structured approach to consensus of whoever is allowed in the room, too often they're just a machine for laundering opinions into "science" “
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The attraction of substituting EBM heuristics like GRADE for science across the board is their inherent subjectivity and ease of manipulation. At best a structured approach to consensus of whoever is allowed in the room, too often they're just a machine for laundering opinions into "science".
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I'm not familiar with that one, but I imagine it is related to this?
It's noteworthy that Guyatt got caught up in this, and illustrative of the fact that whoever picks the pickers picks the cherries.
The process can give good answers, but it really is just formalized GOBSAT - no real safeguards.
It's noteworthy that Guyatt got caught up in this, and illustrative of the fact that whoever picks the pickers picks the cherries.
The process can give good answers, but it really is just formalized GOBSAT - no real safeguards.
December 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“The attraction of substituting EBM heuristics like GRADE for science across the board is their inherent subjectivity and ease of manipulation. At best a structured approach to consensus of whoever is allowed in the room, too often they're just a machine for laundering opinions into "science" “
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Note the linkage between the takeover of medical decision-making by "Evidence Based Medicine" heuristics - where 2+2 can be 5 if those running the process want it to be - and the explicit rejection of the value of the subject matter expertise that provides safeguards against manipulation:
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OK this is ridiculous. The draft new Canadian public health guidance-development mechanism doubles down on excluding subject matter experts from voting roles, restricts membership to people from inside the EBM pseudoscience bubble, and sets up to funnel public money to McMaster-GRADE courses etc.
Draft Implementation Plan for the Renewed Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care - Canada.ca
Feedback will help ensure effective implementation of the recommendations from the External Expert Review and inform a renewed Task Force.
www.canada.ca
December 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Note the linkage between the takeover of medical decision-making by "Evidence Based Medicine" heuristics - where 2+2 can be 5 if those running the process want it to be - and the explicit rejection of the value of the subject matter expertise that provides safeguards against manipulation:
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Discussion of the difference between the protection provided by medical masks and N95s from the same document.
The document on how infection control leaders 🤬'ed up SARS-CoV-1, that they chose to ignore and 🤬'ed up SARS-CoV-2.
The resulting commitment bias is why you don't see N95s in hospitals.
The document on how infection control leaders 🤬'ed up SARS-CoV-1, that they chose to ignore and 🤬'ed up SARS-CoV-2.
The resulting commitment bias is why you don't see N95s in hospitals.
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Discussion of the difference between the protection provided by medical masks and N95s from the same document.
The document on how infection control leaders 🤬'ed up SARS-CoV-1, that they chose to ignore and 🤬'ed up SARS-CoV-2.
The resulting commitment bias is why you don't see N95s in hospitals.
The document on how infection control leaders 🤬'ed up SARS-CoV-1, that they chose to ignore and 🤬'ed up SARS-CoV-2.
The resulting commitment bias is why you don't see N95s in hospitals.
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Hey everyone, it's time to play "guess the year we knew COVID was airborne"!
(answer in link: wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...)
(answer in link: wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...)
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Hey everyone, it's time to play "guess the year we knew COVID was airborne"!
(answer in link: wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...)
(answer in link: wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...)
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Timely article about what happens when decisions on scientific topics are reserved for non-scientists. Skyrocketing rates of prostate cancer diagnosed too late to be curable.
Sketchy tactics to claim *having expertise* is a conflict of interest - yet personal responsibility for past errors isn't?
Sketchy tactics to claim *having expertise* is a conflict of interest - yet personal responsibility for past errors isn't?
December 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Timely article about what happens when decisions on scientific topics are reserved for non-scientists. Skyrocketing rates of prostate cancer diagnosed too late to be curable.
Sketchy tactics to claim *having expertise* is a conflict of interest - yet personal responsibility for past errors isn't?
Sketchy tactics to claim *having expertise* is a conflict of interest - yet personal responsibility for past errors isn't?
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The sheer dedication to avoiding any mention of COVID when talking about things that we know for certain are heavily impacted by COVID is...impressive.
The "after pandemic" bit is a red flag too - someone's either not keeping up, or deliberately trying to manipulate the narrative.
The "after pandemic" bit is a red flag too - someone's either not keeping up, or deliberately trying to manipulate the narrative.
November 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The sheer dedication to avoiding any mention of COVID when talking about things that we know for certain are heavily impacted by COVID is...impressive.
The "after pandemic" bit is a red flag too - someone's either not keeping up, or deliberately trying to manipulate the narrative.
The "after pandemic" bit is a red flag too - someone's either not keeping up, or deliberately trying to manipulate the narrative.
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🔴230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🔴230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social has provided excellent coverage throughout the pandemic of the biases and conflicts of interest that resulted in COVID being so lethally mismanaged. With H5N1 on the horizon, the #UKCOVIDInquiry has only scratched the surface of the errors and systemic failures involved.
Top World Health Organisation COVID-19 Advisor Bankrolled by Great Barrington Declaration Successor Organisation
Nafeez Ahmed raises asks why the global health body is seeking input from scientists linked to the discredited theory of herd immunity by natural infection
bylinetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
@bylinetimes.bsky.social has provided excellent coverage throughout the pandemic of the biases and conflicts of interest that resulted in COVID being so lethally mismanaged. With H5N1 on the horizon, the #UKCOVIDInquiry has only scratched the surface of the errors and systemic failures involved.
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“While the EBM movement has indeed contributed greatly to the push for better evidence and ever more rigorous standards for research, it has also created a plausible mechanism for opponents of scientific progress to discount enormous volumes of data using scientific language and ritual as costume.”🎯
In sorting my own thoughts about the moment, I began writing about the way science is being used by bad actors under the guise of "evidence-based medicine". I also talk about the limits of our ability to fully boil down evidence into axioms that make subjectivity irrelevant.
The myth of an apolitical science — Jessica Kant
What we might call the modern anti-science movement, starting with efforts to hide the obvious linkage between tobacco and cancer, and the rise of “climate skepticism”, has grown in scale enormously i...
jessk.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
“While the EBM movement has indeed contributed greatly to the push for better evidence and ever more rigorous standards for research, it has also created a plausible mechanism for opponents of scientific progress to discount enormous volumes of data using scientific language and ritual as costume.”🎯
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The information that could have stopped the pandemic in 2020, that Dr. Morawska was desperately trying to teach WHO infection control leaders in 2020, was known for 👉84 years👈 before these events (documented in @carlzimmer.com's excellent book AIR-BORNE):
(figure: academic.oup.com/aje/article/...)
(figure: academic.oup.com/aje/article/...)
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The information that could have stopped the pandemic in 2020, that Dr. Morawska was desperately trying to teach WHO infection control leaders in 2020, was known for 👉84 years👈 before these events (documented in @carlzimmer.com's excellent book AIR-BORNE):
(figure: academic.oup.com/aje/article/...)
(figure: academic.oup.com/aje/article/...)
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The second report of the UK COVID Inquiry is out. The two volumes are here: covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/mo...
The section on "The focus on handwashing over ventilation" begins in section 12.32 of the second volume (page 167 in the PDF of voume 2).
#itsairborne #COVID #longCOVID #aerosol
The section on "The focus on handwashing over ventilation" begins in section 12.32 of the second volume (page 167 in the PDF of voume 2).
#itsairborne #COVID #longCOVID #aerosol
Module 2, 2A, 2B, 2C Report - Core decision-making and political governance UK Covid-19 Inquiry Archives
A report by The Rt Hon the Baroness Hallett DBE, Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on the core decision-making and political governance, dated 20 November 2025.
covid19.public-inquiry.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The second report of the UK COVID Inquiry is out. The two volumes are here: covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/mo...
The section on "The focus on handwashing over ventilation" begins in section 12.32 of the second volume (page 167 in the PDF of voume 2).
#itsairborne #COVID #longCOVID #aerosol
The section on "The focus on handwashing over ventilation" begins in section 12.32 of the second volume (page 167 in the PDF of voume 2).
#itsairborne #COVID #longCOVID #aerosol
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When the data speaks for itself (source: www.alberta.ca/stats/dashbo... ):
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
When the data speaks for itself (source: www.alberta.ca/stats/dashbo... ):
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"But how *many* decades out of date is the misinformation @ubcmedicine.bsky.social has been teaching med students?"
Review from 1945, citing a 1934 paper. Since UBC partially corrected their materials in response to my email in 2024, the answer is "At least 9."
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
Review from 1945, citing a 1934 paper. Since UBC partially corrected their materials in response to my email in 2024, the answer is "At least 9."
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
March 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"But how *many* decades out of date is the misinformation @ubcmedicine.bsky.social has been teaching med students?"
Review from 1945, citing a 1934 paper. Since UBC partially corrected their materials in response to my email in 2024, the answer is "At least 9."
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
Review from 1945, citing a 1934 paper. Since UBC partially corrected their materials in response to my email in 2024, the answer is "At least 9."
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
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Yeah, and it's just so bonkers that it bounces off a lot of people because it sounds like satire, or hyperbole.
It's ridiculous that (at least) one of the country's most prominent medical schools taught students concepts that were out of date before their grandparents were born!
Yet...here we are.
It's ridiculous that (at least) one of the country's most prominent medical schools taught students concepts that were out of date before their grandparents were born!
Yet...here we are.
June 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Yeah, and it's just so bonkers that it bounces off a lot of people because it sounds like satire, or hyperbole.
It's ridiculous that (at least) one of the country's most prominent medical schools taught students concepts that were out of date before their grandparents were born!
Yet...here we are.
It's ridiculous that (at least) one of the country's most prominent medical schools taught students concepts that were out of date before their grandparents were born!
Yet...here we are.
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Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
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The 3rd annual Canadian Long COVID symposium wrapped up yesterday. It was a great meeting, and I got some nice news at the end!
PDF of the poster is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8wh6...
MP3 of a 5-minute verbal overview is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ej0lw...
PDF of the poster is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8wh6...
MP3 of a 5-minute verbal overview is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ej0lw...
October 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The 3rd annual Canadian Long COVID symposium wrapped up yesterday. It was a great meeting, and I got some nice news at the end!
PDF of the poster is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8wh6...
MP3 of a 5-minute verbal overview is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ej0lw...
PDF of the poster is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8wh6...
MP3 of a 5-minute verbal overview is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ej0lw...
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Call for help!
Looking for a HCW who got covid in the workspace, and suffered a consequence (likely long COVID)
For an interview for a piece I am working on.
Anonymity guaranteed.
Thanks for considering!
DM2 open.
Looking for a HCW who got covid in the workspace, and suffered a consequence (likely long COVID)
For an interview for a piece I am working on.
Anonymity guaranteed.
Thanks for considering!
DM2 open.
a cartoon chicken is asking can you help me .
ALT: a cartoon chicken is asking can you help me .
media.tenor.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Call for help!
Looking for a HCW who got covid in the workspace, and suffered a consequence (likely long COVID)
For an interview for a piece I am working on.
Anonymity guaranteed.
Thanks for considering!
DM2 open.
Looking for a HCW who got covid in the workspace, and suffered a consequence (likely long COVID)
For an interview for a piece I am working on.
Anonymity guaranteed.
Thanks for considering!
DM2 open.
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The concepts of "overdiagnosis" and "overtreatment" are trendy right now, but it's important to recognize that they are themselves subject to overdiagnosis, especially with the accelerating rejection of expertise and replacement of scientific understanding with subjective, easily biased heuristics.
Trump’s cronies aren’t what broke public health
The structural blind spots that undermine medical progress and how to fix them.
canadahealthwatch.ca
October 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The concepts of "overdiagnosis" and "overtreatment" are trendy right now, but it's important to recognize that they are themselves subject to overdiagnosis, especially with the accelerating rejection of expertise and replacement of scientific understanding with subjective, easily biased heuristics.