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NHS Doctor on pause #LongCovid | Registered Nutritionist (Public Health) RNutr | MBBS MSc BSc #SARSCoV2IsAirborne | We need #cleanair yesterday.

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Dr Rebecca

4 months

“If it were really dangerous, someone would have told us.” “the doctors would have told us.” The long term harms of cumulative C19 infections are becoming harder to ignore. How much longer will we choose ‘not to know’? #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAirNow

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The dangers of willful blindness

Gayla Benefield was just doing her job -- until she uncovered an awful secret about her hometown that meant its mortality rate was 80 times higher than anywhere else in the US. But when she tried to...

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Dr Rebecca

4 months

Isn’t it time we stopped measuring the burden of C19 solely by deaths & hospitalisations? What about: Brain damage Blood vessel damage Heart disease Stroke Dementia Autoimmune disease Long Covid Death isn’t the only way to destroy a life. #COVIDisAirborne #CleanAirNow

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Ziyad Al-Aly, MD

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Covid-19 leaves its mark on the brain. My piece in @ConversationUS

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4 months

“the reason he doesn't do that is that he can't afford to catch colds or an illness or the flu which would hamper his treatment.” Covid. He can’t afford to catch Covid. In a country that has dropped *all* protections and failed to invest in #cleanair . 1/

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Queen Camilla ‘won’t be bullied’ by men in grey amid Charles’s cancer battle

A royal insider has claimed Queen Camilla is holding her own among the palace men in grey after taking on a larger official role following King Charles’s cancer diagnosis.

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3 months

“And Charles will sit with Queen Camilla but apart from other Royals to shield him from infection during his treatment.” Where to start with this. 1. SARS2 is airborne. This won’t work for far-field transmission indoors unless there is good IAQ. 1/

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King Charles will arrive at traditional Easter service 'by car'

Last year the monarch led his family on foot to St George's Chapel in Windsor, where he was joined by William, Kate and their three children.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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3 months

“There will be a reduced number of members of the royal family present in order to avoid the health risks associated with large crowds.” ie airborne pathogens. Of which, a key risk is Covid. Why can’t we say the word Covid? 1/

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King lauds friendship ‘in time of need’ in first comments since princess’s diagnosis

Pre-recorded message for Maundy service in Worcester Cathedral will be played as Camilla stands in for monarch

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Rebecca

4 months

“..how much COVID illness and death are we willing to accept?” Herein lies the problem. Consent should be informed. The public aren’t informed on the harms of Covid beyond the acute infection. They don’t realise what they’re potentially accepting. 1/

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Is COVID-19 Still a Pandemic?

Or is it becoming an endemic disease? A BU virologist, epidemiologist, and physician reflect on the status of the virus as the CDC cuts isolation period to 24 hours

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3 months

“Companies would benefit economically by making the buildings safer for their own workers” … “That way there are less sick days and people are more productive” … “It shouldn’t be up to the individual...” Exactly this. 1/

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Protecting yourself from COVID these days is hard and costly - Marketplace

Governments and businesses need to invest in ways to prevent transmission, experts say, instead of leaving people on their own.

www.marketplace.org

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Dr Rebecca

1 month

10-15% mortality if you’re infected with Covid whilst in hospital, for an op that would otherwise be 1%. I am disgusted by the total absence of patient protections for airborne #SARSCoV2 transmission. How is this remotely legal, let alone acceptable?

@BuDs_UK

Buckinghamshire Disability Service BuDS

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Our member had her pre-cardiac-surgery interview at a leading university hospital today. Her risk of dying during or after the op was only 1% - or between 15% to 20% if they've recently had Covid or catch it on hospital. Despite this, still no Covid precautions in the hospital.

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3 months

▶️ Not too much alcohol: Agreed ▶️ Have a balanced diet: Agreed ▶️ Minimise stress: Agreed ▶️ Don’t smoke: Agreed ▶️ Regular exercise: Agreed ▶️ Get sleep: Agreed ▶️ Minimise SARS2 infections: Don’t be ridiculous. 1/

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Dr Rebecca

3 months

False, @LBC . ‘Doctors’ aren’t saying this. One doctor, who produced a deeply flawed study that isn’t even published, says *he believes* the term shouldn’t be used. This is all about denial of culpability wrt lack of SARS2 protections, & nothing to do with actual science. 1/

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LBC

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No such thing as long Covid, say doctors as new study finds lab leak ‘most likely’ cause of the global pandemic

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Dr Rebecca

3 months

If we really want to safeguard the King’s health, why not advise him to wear a well fitting #Respirator ? Queen Camilla too? That way, he could safely continue doing the things he says he so wishes to. Who is advising them on this? 4/

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Dr Rebecca

4 months

“The best outcomes in relationships are when partners with polar extremes of safety move toward the other in a way that is a little bit uncomfortable for them”. Where to start with this. It is *never* okay for one partner to pressurise the other into

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3 months

3. The most likely airborne infection, in a crowded indoor space, in March 2024, is Covid. It hasn’t gone away. It’s still a global health threat, still a pandemic. Say the word Covid. Stop hiding it. 3/

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Maria Van Kerkhove

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It’s marked by reduced impact compared to the peak of #COVID19 a few years ago, but it’s still a global health threat and it’s still a pandemic causing far too many (re)infections, hospitalisations, deaths and long covid when tools exist to prevent them.

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4 months

Dear ⁦ @BBC ⁩ , 1. We are not ‘since Covid’. We are in Covid. ⁦ @WHO ⁩ have not declared pandemic over. They are concerned about this indifference. Please stop confusing #PHEIC with pandemic. 2. Children are experiencing more mental health

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Rise in pupils self-harming since Covid

Asking if pupils are self-harming is a common question since the pandemic, one school says.

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Dr Rebecca

3 months

2. Re near-field transmission, Queen Camilla has been mixing everywhere, unprotected. The King is exposed to infection via Queen Camilla. 2/

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Dr Rebecca

1 month

Handwashing will not prevent spread of airborne viruses. Handwashing will not prevent spread of airborne viruses. Handwashing will not prevent spread of airborne viruses. Handwashing will not prevent spread of airborne viruses.

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Sue J

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🧵 Mask confusion/inconsistency in Melb hospitals as wave grows Dear @VicGovDH @VictorianCHO I needed echocardiogram yesterday at Epworth Eastern No mask signage, no masks available🤨 Just “take a moment to save a life” hand hygiene station & clean yr hands to stop flu sign

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3 months

Please stop with the droplet precautions. Just stop. @WHO have now published on airborne transmission. Experts globally are calling for IAQ standards. ⬇️ Enough non evidence-based SARS2 denialism. No more, please. 5/

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4 months

Unfortunately, millions of other vulnerable people, and people who wish not to become so, are not supported in ‘staying home’, often much to their detriment. Because the illusion that the pandemic is ‘over’ (false) must be maintained at all costs. 2/

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Dr Rebecca

4 months

“..to use this term ‘long Covid’ is misleading and I believe harmful.” Oh, the irony. No, Dr Gerrard. You do not get to erase Long Covid on International #LongCovidAwarenessDay . Yes, it is a political embarrassment that prevalence is so high

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Time to stop using term ‘long Covid’ as symptoms no worse than those after flu, Queensland’s chief...

Researchers compared the symptoms and impairment of Covid and influenza patients a year after they tested positive

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Rebecca

4 months

If you were told, in 2021, we could stop C19 precautions, but in rtn ➡️ : ▶️ recurrent infections 2-3 times/year ▶️ potential brain damage with each infection (+ cumulative risk of numerous other multi-systemic harms) Would you have been ok with this?

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Cognition and Memory after Covid-19 in a Large Community Sample | NEJM

Cognitive symptoms after coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), are well-recognized. Whether objectively measurable...

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Dr Rebecca

3 months

We’re in a pandemic, Callum. The primary driver of absence is *sickness*. Schools are not mitigating the risk of airborne SARS2 in school environments, as they should be per the Health & Safety at Work Act. Trust you are aware of that.

@CRobertson_LD

Callum Robertson 🔸

3 months

Young people who they have a responsibility. If, every time I didn’t feel like it at school or had a runny nose, I took the day off. my parents would’ve been letting me down by enabling me. As a teacher, you see students who lack resilience. When we think of the impact of

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Dr Rebecca

4 months

So much that could be done. #CleanAir ( #HEPA ) at engagement venues. Respirators for attendees. Test before attending. Stay away if sick. An opportunity missed to demonstrate what accessibility looks like. Instead, we normalise the exclusion of vulnerable ppl from society. 3/

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3 months

Covid is not just ‘another respiratory illness’. SARS2 is a neurotropic, vascular-damaging virus that can cause significant long term harm. Care homes include some of the most vulnerable people in our society. This policy change will cause avoidable harm & avoidable death. 1/

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Sky News

3 months

BREAKING: The government has announced it is to halt routine Covid tests for people being discharged from hospital into care homes 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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5 months

@BBCWomansHour @ELHopkins @ITV @doctor_oxford @JoFroggatt @Emmabarnett Please stop referring to the pandemic in the past tense. Current situation: Ongoing pandemic per WHO High prevalence 1 in 10 infections ➡️ long term harms Clinically vulnerable excluded from society NHS staff & patients *still* not protected Children not protected

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3 months

“The Covid-aware are having isolation imposed on them and want to have their human rights restored.” 🎯 Excellent article by @janestevenson68 in @WCountryVoices on the Covid misinformation recently depicted by @BBCCasualty .

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Don't let TV soaps make Covid reality a casualty

A recent episode of the hospital drama Casualty misrepresented the very serious risks that Covid still poses. Jane Stevenson wrote to the BBC to explain just how wrong they’d got it. On Saturday 9...

westcountryvoices.co.uk

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Dr Rebecca

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This is poor & potentially harmful advice. Please don’t do this. All it will achieve is more SARS2 exposure in schools, more child sickness, more staff sickness. If symptomatic, test. If positive, stay away until testing negative. We can’t ignore SARS2 away. 1/

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3 months

When deciding if your child is too unwell to go to school, one of the key symptoms to look out for is a temperature of 38°C or above. Much-loved family GP @ChristmasRowena shares her advice on how to make your decision 👇 Read @NHSuk 's guidance here:

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2 months

“..at least 6,212 patients caught COVID in hospital in 24 months”..”Of those, 586 died”..”with men dying at a higher rate than women (11 per cent vs 8 per cent).” 8-11% mortality, for a preventable HAI. But we’re not preventing it. What happened to us?

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Hundreds of patients died after catching COVID in hospital, and experts say their deaths were...

Thousands of patients caught COVID in Victorian public hospitals in the past two years and hundreds died, fuelling concerns that health services aren't taking strong enough precautions against...

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Dr Rebecca

2 months

I don’t think we should (still 🙄) be ranking masks below handwashing for viruses that are *airborne*. 1/

@WADeptHealth

Washington State Department of Health

2 months

There is no one way to stop the spread of respiratory viruses. Simple prevention strategies can protect yourself, and others around you. If someone is sick or immunocompromised, level up with even more strategies for even better protection.

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4 months

The pandemic is *ongoing*. 3,024 UK deaths this year to 23 Feb 2024. 1 in 35 in UK with Long Covid March 2023 (when govt stopped counting). SARS2 is airborne. We *at least* need #CleanAir in all public indoor spaces. 4/4.

@mvankerkhove

Maria Van Kerkhove

6 months

Long🧵 #COVID19 and where we are. I’m worried. We are entering the 5th year of the pandemic and we are certainly in a different phase. This phase is marked by an evolving virus (with the XBB and BA.2 sublineages circulating and JN.1 becoming dominant).

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2 months

“Officials are reminding the public that despite the pandemic being long over, the virus is still causing hospitalisations and severe illness - especially among people in at-risk groups.” 🤯 The pandemic is not over. It certainly isn’t ‘long over’. 1/

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Covid warning with cases rising once again as scientists plead with public

Brits who are infected with Covid are being asked to stay at home or use a face mask if they have to go out in public, after scientists confirmed a rise in cases

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Dr Rebecca

28 days

There is something deeply disturbing in seeing no issue whatsoever with infecting another person with a vascular-damaging virus with significant chronic sequelae, only to blame their subsequent disability *on them*. 🧵 1/

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@beccyjaneh I am not, never have been, nor will I ever be responsible for your health.

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Dr Rebecca

3 months

Pneumonia is an umbrella term describing the pathophysiology, not the pathogen. Both SARS2 & influenza can cause pneumonia. Why, then, are we reporting ‘influenza or pneumonia’ as one entity, & comparing that to Covid19? Is this not misleading? @ONS

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Office for National Statistics (ONS)

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11,249 deaths were registered in England and Wales, week ending 22 March 2024 (Week 12): ▪️ 5.8% lower than the expected number (687 fewer deaths) ▪️ 14.9% involved influenza or pneumonia (1,678 deaths) ▪️ 1.2% involved #COVID19 (133 deaths) ➡️

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3 months

“Long Covid may be the body trying to fight off other viruses” This headline. 🙄 Other viruses. Nothing at all to do with SARS2, an airborne neurotropic vascular damaging virus with multi-system sequelae. 1/

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Long Covid may be the body trying to fight off other viruses

Scientists find the immune system is still active for some time after a coronavirus infection has cleared up

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Dr Rebecca

3 months

Bizarre that those who are taking proactive steps to avoid SARS2 reinfections, in a world ▶️ devoid of collective protections (ie #CleanAir #HEPA ) ▶️ with significant & growing evidence of chronic SARS2 sequelae should be so stigmatised. 2/2 #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAirNow

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Dr Rebecca

1 month

Covid-19 “decreased life expectancy approximately as much as reductions in communicable diseases and NCDs have improved over decades.”

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COVID-19 shatters decades of global health progress, slashing life expectancy

Study in The Lancet reveals COVID-19 as the second leading cause of death in 2021, disrupting three decades of progress in global health and reducing life expectancy by 2.2 years from 2019 to 2021...

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Dr Rebecca

2 months

“Pupils in England ‘facing worst exam results in decades’ after Covid closures.” 🙄 We are indeed ‘after’ Covid closures. They happened 3-4 years ago and lasted ~5 months combined. We were in the 1st year of the pandemic. 000s per week were dying. 1/

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Pupils in England ‘facing worst exam results in decades’ after Covid closures

GCSE results in key subjects to steadily worsen until 2030, predicts research that blames failure to tackle impact of schools lockdown

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Dr Rebecca

2 months

What are we doing to our children? I don’t think the general public are at all aware of the risk of longer term consequences to #SARSCoV2 infections. The public did not consent to this. Consent should be informed. #COVIDIsAirborne #CleanAirNow #LongCovidKids

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Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧

2 months

ONS LONG COVID DATA: I’m still working through the raw data released yesterday by ONS revealing the prevalence of Long Covid in England & Scotland. Some interesting (& concerning) data points are emerging so I wanted to do a quick thread on what it reveals for CHILDREN… 🧵

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Dr Rebecca

4 months

When studies have estimated hospital acquired Covid mortality at ~10%, is it acceptable to not mitigate against this risk? We are harming patients. Especially clinically vulnerable patients. #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAirNow #WearARespirator #Breathtaking

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Medic warns government risking lives

Covid doctor slams downgrading of infection prevention and control

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Dr Rebecca

2 months

Would you ever have imagined, four years ago, that this is where we’d end up? Sociopathic level lack of concern for fellow humans’ right to health & life. Public health abandonment. #SARSCoV2 is still killing & still disabling. Every infection risks chronic sequalae.

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Angel

2 months

@SGriffin_Lab I just saw a post saying kid has tested positive but doing GCSE's. All the comments are, "nobody tests, go in, no need to mask, Covid is over, guidance is don't test and go to school and work, who cares." God help us.

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Dr Rebecca

4 months

doing something that potentially threatens their health & life. That a psychologist (who is not medically trained), should endorse this potential harm as a necessary sacrifice for the sake of ‘compromise’, in return for the other partner’s enjoyment, is chilling beyond words.

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Dr Rebecca

21 days

“Getting #COVID repeatedly – including asymptomatic infections you never knew you had — can damage your health for years to come and dramatically increase your chances of Long COVID.” 🎯 This sort of public health messaging is long overdue.

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From Long COVID Odds to Lost IQ Points: Ongoing Threats You Don’t Know About

Stuck in a fog of misleading narratives, most of us don’t see the true extent of COVID's persisting—and intensifying—threats. INET’s Lynn Parramore talks to Dr. Phillip Alvelda about the dangers...

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Dr Rebecca

2 months

“They are now more worried about managing the public perception of disease than actually stopping disease.” 🎯 Minimising #SARSCoV2 & misleading the public about ‘immunity debt’. Encouraging ppl to get sick, repeatedly. How can we possibly still call this ‘public health’?

@RPLerias

Pedro Lérias 😷 https://t.me/COVIDzeroPortugal

2 months

It turns out I had whooping cough (pertussis). 🤯 In medicine what is common is common and what is rare is rare and inexperience with the disease and a lack of timely epidemiological warning meant this wasn't top of my differential diagnosis. A 🧵 on this crazy situation. 1/

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Dr Rebecca

5 months

@PeterStefanovi2 @doctor_oxford @JoFroggatt @ITV Peter, I have followed your work for years and have great respect. But the heartbreaking irony here is that Covid is ongoing & millions of people & ⬆️ are becoming chronically ill from reinfections. CEV outcast. Zero public health. Zero acknowledgement of ongoing risk for all.

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Dr Rebecca

5 months

@BBCWomansHour @ELHopkins @ITV @doctor_oxford @JoFroggatt @Emmabarnett Please stop referring to the pandemic in the past tense. Current situation: Ongoing pandemic per WHO High prevalence 1 in 10 infections ➡️ long term harms Clinically vulnerable excluded from society NHS staff & patients *still* not protected Children not protected

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Dr Rebecca

4 months

If Covid-19 infection causes cognitive impairment potentially lasting 1 yr/more, and ppl are infected multiple times/year, what does this mean for our future? Our children’s future? #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAirNow #HEPA #Respirators #MasksInHealthcare

@ImperialNHS

Imperial NHS 💙

4 months

A new study has shown that Covid‐19 may have a small, but lasting impact on people’s cognitive and memory abilities, potentially for a year or more after infection ➡️ @NHSEngland @imperialcollege @ImperialBRC [1/4]

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Dr Rebecca

2 months

@gershbrain We’re in an ongoing airborne pandemic. Cumulative #SARSCoV2 infections have been shown to ⬆️ risk of a number of chronic conditions & immune dysregulation. Long Covid prevalence is rising. Your undergrad class settings need HEPA air filtration & respirator wearing sb accepted.

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Dr Rebecca

3 months

@WHO For explanation of what works & what doesn’t re airborne infection prevention, see @trishgreenhalgh excellent @IndependentSage presentation. ⬇️ (00:20:00) #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAirNow 6/6

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Dr Rebecca

3 months

“I intimately understand the needs of Long Covid patients” … “yet I find myself facing disbelief from doctors who are unfamiliar with the condition.” This is an age-old problem. Doctors disbelieving what they don’t understand. #LongCovidAwareness

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Long Covid Is a Disabling Disease—And It’s Not Rare

It has been over two years since Long Covid stole my career as a pediatrician. Millions of other Americans with Long Covid are waiting for research on effective treatments.

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Dr Rebecca

3 months

We’ve learned nothing. Four years in. Four years. 🤯 #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAirNow #maskup

@wonderartsy

The Lone Masker

3 months

Yet another coworker has succumbed to the latest C19 wave at my office, and got sent home with no voice this morning, so sick their manager worried they couldn't drive... no mask, of course, just freely sharing their illness with the rest of the office 🤢 ! #covidisntover #maskup

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“The truth is that my health has been affected by long Covid and this has limited my strength to undertake the breadth of travel essential to my position.” Sad to hear. Sadly, not uncommon. Long Covid can be life changing, and can affect all ages. 1/

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UN relief czar says long COVID is forcing him to step down

Martin Griffiths decries political leaders who "casually chose war and violence."

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Dr Rebecca

1 month

Are we really okay with children being regularly reinfected with #SARSCoV2 , ad infinitum? A vascular-damaging, neurotropic virus, with significant long term sequalae? 🤯 If protecting our children from chronic disease no longer matters, what sort of society have we become?

@karamballes

Karam Bales

1 month

🧵The Covid in Schools Scandal While much of the media claims the inquiry is accomplishing nothing, its slowly revealed the gov knew transmission occurs in schools and causes harm to a not insignificant number of children

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Dr Rebecca

3 months

At what point do we acknowledge the enormity of this? There is no #LongCovid without Covid. We need to prevent worsening of these numbers from SARS2 reinfections. This means *at least* #CleanAir in all public indoor spaces. #CovidIsAirborne #LongCovidAwareness

@CambridgeEcon

Cambridge Econometrics

3 months

Based on current estimates, #LongCovid costs the NHS £4.2bn a year. Our analysis shows that to meet the healthcare needs of Long Covid, 46,300 Health & Social Work staff would be required each year. 6/8 #LongCovidAwareness

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Dr Rebecca

3 months

Dear @Jeremy_Hunt , We may be after the acute phase, but are not “after the pandemic”. We are seeing ⬆️ chronic illness from sequelae of unmitigated SARS2. Ignoring this fact, won’t help our collective health, or our economy. 1/

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Sick people leaving workforce at record highs

The number of people opting out of the workforce due to long term illness is at its highest since the 90s.

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Dr Rebecca

4 months

@o_bel_ Partners like this author everywhere: The issue is not your partner’s ‘fear’. The issue is public health abandonment during an ongoing pandemic. Please advocate for ⬆️ public health protections that allow your partner to access public spaces safely.

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Dr Rebecca

3 months

“Get people arguing with you about their very existence; they won’t have time to argue about their rights.” Brilliant- @julia_doubleday 🙏 This, for me, explains well the globally orchestrated denial cruelly platformed on #LongCovidAwarenessDay . 1/

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Media celebrated Long COVID Awareness Day by denying its existence

Long COVID is a thorn in the side of "back to normal." Attempts to silence patients are intensifying.

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@LordOfTheYeti1 I would also describe it as a form of grief. Grieving the common values & ethics you assumed those around you also upheld. Grieving the community you once felt was safe & inclusive. Covid has shone a light onto deeply ingrained ableism that was probably always present.

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Especially when the other partner’s side of the ‘compromise’ holds no risk of harm to them. This is essentially collusion against the vulnerable partner disguised as ‘compromise’. But true compromise should be equitable. This isn’t it. No disabled person should have to

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For me, the worst part of this pandemic isn’t the ongoing health threat caused by #SARSCoV2 . The worst part is witnessing *a lot* of previously hidden ableism viciously unleashed, often in those I least expected to find it. Including HCPs. I cannot unsee this. 1/

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Even in hospitals - the one place we have no choice but to go - masking is not required & you run the risk of being labeled difficult or anxious for requesting a HCW mask in your presence. We’re expected to just go along and risk our health & baseline for the comfort of others /4

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ONS #LongCovid estimates are out. ▶️ March 2023: Estimated 2.9% ~ 1 in 34 people. ▶️ March 2024: Estimated 3.3% ~ 1 in 30 people. I don’t think this is an encouraging trajectory. #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAirNow

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It’s hard to see this changing when we consistently use the wrong tense. The pandemic is *ongoing*. We can’t expect govt to prioritise this unless we stress it is a *current* problem. #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAirNow

Hospital emergency departments must put infection control ‘top of their agenda’

Hospital emergency departments in the UK have been urged to return infection prevention and control to the “top of their agendas” or risk putting patients’...

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Dr Rebecca

4 months

The politicisation of RPE in this ongoing airborne pandemic has got to stop. How on earth have we gone from ‘people who don’t wear masks are psychopaths’ to ‘people who wear masks have anxiety’? It’s insane. Wearing a quality FFP2/3 in poorly ventilated indoor settings,

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗

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Hi @BBCCasualty , your recent episode will contribute to the discrimination faced by people who are Clinically Vulnerable to Covid. It concerns a character called Aishling, a lady wearing an FFP2 mask, who had isolated herself for four years. 1/🧵

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It’s #breathtaking to think the protections we so needed then, are *still* not in place now. Covid is airborne. Prevalence is high. Repeat reinfections ⬆️ risk of long term harms. We mustn’t ignore what happened then. But we certainly mustn’t ignore what’s happening now.

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Great protest today outside @GSTTnhs calling out totally inadequate protections against Covid-19 and other airborne pathogens. National infection control guidelines are #scientific_garbage : they have been a disaster for patients and staff and still have not changed. ..../2

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@anna_de_garis This is what public health leadership looks like. Well done, Anna 🙏

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compromise their human right to health and life, ever. It shouldn’t even be considered. Psychologists & therapists everywhere: Please don’t do this. Please read the presentation ⬇️ by @o_bel_ and humbly consider that you may be wrong.

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Dr Rebecca

4 months

Thank you @doctor_oxford 🙏 Still failing staff. Especially CV staff. Also failing patients. Especially CV patients. No respirators. No #CleanAir . Staff encouraged to work when C19+ / encouraged not to test. Masking frowned upon. It’s unethical.

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Good Morning Britain

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'Not only is the government not prepared for a next pandemic, they're still failing staff now.' @ITV 's new drama 'Breathtaking' is based on the book by palliative care doctor, Rachel Clarke. It's a harrowing account of the real-life emergencies NHS staff faced in the pandemic.

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This is not healthcare. Hospitals should be safe places for patients and staff. We’ve had *4 years* to update IPC guidance. It remains fixated on droplet transmission. For airborne pathogens. 🤯 We’ve learned nothing. #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAirNow #MasksInHealthcare

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2 months

🧵So it’s all kicked off now. I learn a Covid positive patient who should be in this side room with the door closed has been allowed to sit in the corridor to chat wearing a ‘baggy blue’. I further learn the HCA who put my new cannula in came straight from treating him. 1/

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@o_bel_ C19 vulnerable partners everywhere: You’re not alone. Please don’t allow a partner to pressurise you into risking your health for their enjoyment. If your health isn’t sufficiently important to them now, neither will it be should you become disabled/ more disabled as a result.

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@gregfoley2002 I’m so deeply saddened to read this. Thank you for courageous and brilliant efforts to educate others to the end. There is much misinformation out there and your thread eloquently and bravely fights back against it. Sincere condolences to all your family. Rest in peace 🙏

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“Every time a Covid-minimizer says, “There’s nothing to worry about, look at everybody else out there living their lives, just resume your old ways,” they are undermining faith in public health measures..” 🎯 Every word of this. ⬇️

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Honesty About Covid is Essential for Progress

Governments and certain key opinion formers aren’t being open and honest about the risks associated with COVID-19 and their actions will have long-term consequences for public health and trust in...

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Dr Rebecca

4 months

Whilst optimising nutrition is always a good thing, it won’t prevent Covid infection, or in turn, Long Covid. It also isn’t a magic cure for either. 1 in 35 people in the UK were recorded as having long Covid in March 2023 (when the govt stopped counting). 1/

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4 months

Rise in long-term sickness ‘stifling economic potential’ The problem is clear but this article doesn’t discuss solutions - like improving our dreadful diet

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Dr Rebecca

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“the vulnerable will fall by the wayside” 🤯 Are we really okay with this? Did we agree to this? Check the conditions considered ‘vulnerable’ to SARS2 (hint, it’s a long list) and it becomes very clear, very quickly, that we shouldn’t be. #COVIDIsAirborne #CleanAirNow

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Dr. Lucky Tran

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Fauci to BBC: "Even though you'll find the vulnerable will will fall by the wayside, they'll get infected, they'll get hospitalized, and some will die. It's not going to be this tsunami of cases that we've seen." So disappointing. Never ok to minimize the harm of any community.

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@doctor_oxford It’s still happening, Rachel. Can you appreciate how triggering it is for so many to hear this referred to in the past tense. BMA called for revisions to IPC guidance in December 23. #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAirNow #WearARespirator

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Letter from BMA to NHS England: Need for revisions to the IPC guidance to protect healthcare...

Letter from BMA to NHS England on the IPC guidance on Covid-19

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“The best way to not get Long Covid, is to not get Covid in the first place.” Thank you, @VicGovDH , for reminding us what Public Health education in a pandemic should look like. 🙏 #LongCovidAwareness #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAirNow

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Jordan’s long COVID story

Jordan shares with us how his life has been impacted by long COVID and urges Victorians to stay ahead of the virus. For more information, visit https://www.b...

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Dr Rebecca

4 months

@Alina_MSN_RN An estimated 59% of Covid infections are transmitted pre/asymptomatically. All may be accumulating silent harms. It’s still very difficult to watch others taking zero precautions, knowing the LT sequelae. I feel anger too, along with immense sadness.

SARS-CoV-2 Transmission From People Without COVID-19 Symptoms

This decision analytical model assesses the proportion of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmissions in the community that likely occur from persons without symptoms.

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Dr Rebecca

2 months

Employers must recognise that airborne #SARSCoV2 in the workplace poses a significant LT risk to employee health - & *act* on reducing exposure. This ⬇️ should not be happening. We’re four years in. How is this ‘building back better’? 🤯 #COVIDIsAirborne #CleanAirNow

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Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK

2 months

3rd Covid infection in 9 months. All 3 most likely caught at work. I’m not sure that this frequency of Covid infection is sustainable. “No worse than the flu”? Never had the flu 3 times in less than a year…

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2 months

Don’t be surprised that people are complacent with preventable diseases for which vaccines exist, when you’ve spent years minimising a preventable disease for which vaccines exist. The (impossible) notion of ‘herd immunity by infection’ was always going to lead to this.

@UKHSA

UK Health Security Agency

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#Whoopingcough is a preventable disease. Make sure you and your family are protected: 🔵 childhood vaccination schedule: 🔵 whooping cough vaccination in pregnancy:

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Dr Rebecca

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This is wrong. The pandemic is ongoing. It’s not the role of the media to declare it over. @WHO declared #PHEIC over, not the pandemic. They are worried about complacency. We should all be concerned about the long term harms of reinfection. 2/2 #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAirNow

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Maria Van Kerkhove

6 months

Long🧵 #COVID19 and where we are. I’m worried. We are entering the 5th year of the pandemic and we are certainly in a different phase. This phase is marked by an evolving virus (with the XBB and BA.2 sublineages circulating and JN.1 becoming dominant).

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My 1st Covid infection led to #LongCovid , at a time we were told SARS2 wasn’t airborne. This turned out not to be true. I now wear a respirator to minimise risk of repeat, in absence of #CleanAir , for myself & others. The former ⬇️ is sustainable. The latter is not. 1/

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HCPs: Please consider that absence of a mandate should not = absence of morals & ethics. If you know that: ▶️ #SARSCoV2 is airborne (as are measles & pertussis) ▶️ NHS ventilation is poor ▶️ every infection risks chronic sequelae Why would you not want to protect patients?

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▶️ Waterborne 💧 ✅ ▶️ Bloodborne 🩸 ✅ ▶️ Foodborne 🥩 ✅ ▶️ Airborne 💨 ✅ Makes sense, doesn’t it? New terminology: ‘Infectious respiratory particles that travel through the air in a turbulent puff cloud.’ Puff cloud? Seriously? Why complicate it? 1/

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To all those *still* expecting #CV / #Covid conscious people to ‘just stay home’, because society is not willing to make public spaces safe for all yet are *still* complaining about having had to do just that, for 16 weeks, 4 years ago. Can you not see the problem with this?

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Why can’t we implement #CleanAir #HEPA & other measures to ⬇️ such ‘health risks’? Are we really okay with ignoring airborne SARS2 while its chronic sequelae goes up, at what has been described as an ‘alarming’ rate? ⬇️ 2/

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‘Alarming’ rise in Americans with long Covid symptoms

CDC data shows nearly 18m people could be living with long Covid even as health agency relaxes isolation recommendations

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4 months

@Saffiya_Khan1 This is a very important issue. All the treatments in the world mean nothing, if the person with Long Covid is sent back to square one (or worse) every time they’re reinfected. We also need an @ONS update on current Long Covid prevalence in the UK. Most recent was March 2023.

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Dr Rebecca

4 months

@doctor_oxford @Oldboatie @LibDemPatrick @PeterStefanovi2 @JoFroggatt @ITV I think many were hoping that the crux of the issue the series is advertised as highlighting- lack of collective public protections in an ongoing airborne pandemic- would be acknowledged in the present, as well as the past.

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4 months

@doctor_oxford The early weeks & months of the pandemic were horrific. But we’re still living it. The public are not being informed on risks to long term health with repeat reinfection. This is wrong. Acute effects ⬇️, but chronic disease ⬆️ and ⬆️ . The harm continues - insidiously.

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Dr Rebecca

5 months

@BBCWomansHour @ELHopkins @ITV @doctor_oxford @JoFroggatt @Emmabarnett Please stop referring to the pandemic in the past tense. Current situation: Ongoing pandemic per WHO High prevalence 1 in 10 infections ➡️ long term harms Clinically vulnerable excluded from society NHS staff & patients *still* not protected Children not protected

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2 months

“..this new definition of “herd”…”is a strategy that not only produces forever reinfections, it is dependent upon forever reinfections. It not only doesn’t protect vulnerable people, it is dependent on harming and killing them.” Exactly this. 1/

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Does the public understand that "variant" means "vaccine resistant"?

Getting boosted is critical because the virus is changing. Other forms of mitigation are critical to slow the rate of change.

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This is poor & potentially harmful advice, We’re not ‘since the pandemic’. SARS2 infection often presents with mild illness, fever may not be present. Symptoms warrant testing. +ve = infectious. Children should stay home *whilst infectious* , to protect others. 1/

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Great advice for parents and carers: Is my child too ill to go to school? The link to the NHS guidance is also available on our school website.

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UKHSA quietly admit the pandemic is ongoing. #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAirNow #MasksInHealthcare

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗

2 months

CVF Member FOI Request to UKHSA: “Is the COVID-19 pandemic currently ongoing? Please provide a yes or no answer.” The response was an indirect YES, redirecting to the WHO’s statement. "This does not mean the pandemic itself is over..." Why can't the UKHSA simply respond "YES"?

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@theBrianaMills That is horrific. Absolutely not okay. Neither the conditions nor the minimising language. ‘Dirty’ isn’t an adequate description of being soiled and at risk of subsequent infection & pressure sores. Even aside from the medical risks, it’s dehumanising, & just plain negligent.

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@DrCharlesL “Meta-analysis showed children who had previous COVID-19 infection had more than two times higher odds of having anxiety or depression, and 14% higher odds of having appetite problems, compared to children with no previous infection.” 1/

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Prevalence of mental health problems among children with long COVID: A systematic review and...

The number of children with mental health problems has more than doubled since the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the effect of long Covid on children’s mental health is still debatable. Recognising...

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Vulnerable people everywhere are expected to do one way masking or ‘stay home’, indefinitely, to avoid crowds. But for vulnerable royals, we quietly ‘reduce’ the crowds & publicly ignore the problem? What if they end up lifelong immunocompromised? This isn’t sustainable. 3/

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@doctor_oxford @MelJStride @BBCRadio4 @doctor_oxford . Please.🙏We’re in a pandemic now. Please can we stop past tensing this. In the UK we’re seeing: ▶️ On average 1 registered Covid death every 30 minutes 1st 8 wks 2024 ▶️ 1 in every 35 people with long Covid as at March 2023 (when the govt stopped counting).

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Maria Van Kerkhove

6 months

Long🧵 #COVID19 and where we are. I’m worried. We are entering the 5th year of the pandemic and we are certainly in a different phase. This phase is marked by an evolving virus (with the XBB and BA.2 sublineages circulating and JN.1 becoming dominant).

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@o_bel_ Finally, HCPs everywhere (especially medics): Please don’t gaslight patients regarding SARS2. Protect them instead. Please consider that this may be one of the areas in which you need to update your CPD. ⬇️

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Medical Associations Letter

Golda Schlaff and 15 other prominent doctors are calling for more respect for patients, the reintroduction of FFP2 masks in the face of rising incidence rates, and the widespread use of HEPA filters...

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This is a very important question. Why aren’t we acknowledging the problem in the UK? 1 in 15 in the US March 2024 1 in 35 in the UK March 2023 We need an update. Because clearly, 1 in 15 affected warrants action. #LongCovidAwareness #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAirNow

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Gina 😷 SARS2 is Airborne 💚

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The US health agencies acknowledged #LongCovidAwarenessDay yesterday. Why is it that the U.K. authorities don’t? The Government stopped reporting the numbers of people with long Covid a year ago (1.9M). Why aren’t these facts ringing alarm bells? @carolvorders @BBCHughPym

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This. Govt ‘stockpiles’ mean nothing if National IPC Guidance STILL says droplet precautions for C19. Covid is airborne. We need airborne precautions. FFP2/3 HEPA Filtration Ventilation Both BMA & RCN called for this in Dec. Addenbrookes also showed efficacy of #HEPA . 1/

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Dr Rachel Clarke

4 months

@mariacaulfield Thank you for replying, Maria. The issue is that your official guidance still only recommends paper masks for staff seeing Covid patients, despite studies such as this one from Addenbrooke’s demonstrating near 100% effectiveness of FFP3s at preventing infection in staff. Why -

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@MelanieHT1919 Sadly, this isn’t always the case. People are losing access to cancer treatment through absence of protections against C19 ⬇️ And there are many other chronic conditions that may class a person as clinically vulnerable. Including, for example, inflammatory bowel disease

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Message today from a woman whose husband has had to stop his chemo because he caught Covid while being given his chemo. The only place they went was the hospital, the only people they saw were in the hospital, and, of course, none of the staff or other patients were masked.

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@doctor_oxford @LibDemPatrick @PeterStefanovi2 @JoFroggatt @ITV Thank you for acknowledging the risk @doctor_oxford , which still affects the vaccinated population in this ongoing airborne pandemic. Curious as to why you wouldn’t wish to protect yourself? Your health is precious too. Risk of LC/PCC is cumulative with reinfection

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#H5N1 “People don't want to take precautions.” … “They think they skated by disaster on luck, and they forget or even complain about the precautions that kept them safe. So they abandon those steps.” Spot on, @JessicaLexicus 1/

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Worried About Bird Flu? Welcome to The Party, Pal. You're Late.

Everyone's talking about bird flu now. It's an evolving situation. Right now, the mainstream news media is desperately trying to catch up on a story that's been happening for two years now. It would...

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“Very little direct damage from Covid” Interesting choice of words, @JustinOnWeb . What about indirect or long term damage? This includes #LongCovid , autoimmune disease, & #PANS / #PANDAS . ‘Direct damage’ is merely the tip of the iceberg. Also - pandemic is ongoing. 1/

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Gina 😷 SARS2 is Airborne 💚

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What damage did the pandemic do to our children asks #r4today “Very little direct damage from Covid” says @JustinOnWeb Really Justin? Would you like to justify that statement? Also the pandemic is ongoing!

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@ianmSC 1. Clinically vulnerable: At ⬆️ risk of severe disease/death from C19 acutely. 2. Everyone: At ⬆️ risk of chronic disease from cumulative C19 infections long term. 3. SARS2: Airborne. #CleanAir & #Respirators reduce transmission. Not really ‘wild’, is it.

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2 months

Doing absolutely nothing about #SARSCoV2 is not proving to be the most cost effective option.

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Long Covid SOS

2 months

❗️This publication suggests #LongCovid could cost the UK economy £12.4bn in 2024 Surely this must concentrate minds in Westminster? Very interesting report - highly recommended reading

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