NZ Wildfire Guidelines 2021
February 1st, 2022
Just before Christmas, the Ministry of Health published a new guide for public health units on addressing public health hazards during wildfires:
Response to Wildfires – Guidelines for Public Health Units
This guide includes the (recently) harmonised Australian PM2.5 hourly guidelines as well as brief advice on face masks which are a hot topic now that the Omicron variant has found New Zealand.
As an aside, readers wanting more advice on masks are directed here:
The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
February 1st, 2022
All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.
[Source: Wired]