Alasdair Munro

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NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases University of Southampton and Southampton Children’s Hospital UK alasdairmunro.substack.com

Origami Pegasus model folded with white tissue foil paper

Quote from paper, "N95 masks have been assigned a protection factor of ten. The FFO2 standard is for a filtration efficiency of 92% as worn. Taking an FFP2/N95 to reduce the dose by a factor of f=0.1, I can estimate PT(t) for a person who is a member of a population equivalent to that of the NHS app users when this person wears an FFP2/N95.

CXR showing bilateral diffuse infiltrates commonly referred to as "atypical pneumonia"

Micrograph of the Mycoplasma pneumoniae parasite entering a host cell

An old portrait of a judgemental nobleman being all judgy