Jane Arbury

Research scientist. Pseudonym account so I'm not declaring my medical history to my professional network.

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

Five reasons why #asthmaticsatrisk are still worried about Covid https://t.co/gcoHPllmlA

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

@Kit_Yates_Maths They have to keep increasing it, from twin to triple to quad-demic, so they can keep claiming each year that it's something unprecedented that no one could have seen coming, rather than something they should have been controlling with clean air measures for three years already.

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

@_CatintheHat Or did they compare rates in those who did and didn't take the offered boosters, as if that's not a mess of confounding variables?

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

@_CatintheHat So does that mean they used data from a year when 65-74s and CV WERE eligible for vaccination and are assuming future rates would be no higher WITHOUT further vaccines?

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

COVID VACCINE ELIGIBILITY 🇬🇧,
a thread🧵

JCVI have just advised that, going forwards, eligibility for Covid vaccination will be even more tightly restricted.

But the ‘bespoke cost-effectiveness assessment’ upon which this is based is heavily flawed…

https://t.co/NGpmRaMtfs

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

JCVI: You can only get vaccinated if the virus is likely to hospitalise or kill you, no other levels of illness count.
DWP: Why is sick leave going up and productivity going down? 🤷 {Baffled}

[Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cv_cev]

🚨 ATTENTION Clinically Vulnerable 🚨

The JCVI’s new Covid vaccine guidance for 2025 restricts vaccines to:

75+
care home residents
and immunosuppressed people

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[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

@Jo_11__ @ScotsSazza @Steffanaquarone @jim_reed It seems they can go as far as they like with no question or accountability.

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

@Iggy_up_North @Jo_11__ @Steffanaquarone @jim_reed Officially it will be the same as the current spring boosters but might be a bit of a postcode lottery in practice.

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

@Iggy_up_North @Jo_11__ @Steffanaquarone @jim_reed It is for this year, but the latest JCVI proposal for next autumn is to cut 65-74 year olds and all underlying conditions except immunocompromised.

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

@harmoniousland @cv_cev They're saying £25 is the cost to the NHS, covered by the NHS, free to patients in the eligible groups. They probably get a better deal from suppliers than the private providers, as well as private providers adding a profit margin, so privately it will still be more than £25.

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

@cathy_finnis @UKHSA So they've got away with their 'bespoke' cost-effectiveness calculation for long enough that they're now calling it the "standard"?

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

@aluk_research I'm on the Be Part of Research mailing list after being in a vaccine trial and I ticked the box for asthma, but the only study so far was a questionnaire about triggers, no treatment trials.

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

@MeddygLou @HelenDodds17 @MichaelRosenYes You couldn't until a couple of weeks ago but now private vaccines are open to anyone over 12.

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

This. These are the protective measures that could make the pandemic really be over instead of just pretending harder and harder. We don't want more lockdowns. Nothing on this list is a lockdown.

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

TOP 10 COVID MITIGATION WISHLIST 🎩

1. Clean indoor air. Priority should be air filters in schools & hospitals. New ventilation & air filtration standards for all public spaces. Grants available to businesses to upgrade ventilation.

2. FFP2/3 masks in all healthcare settings.

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

@drclairetaylor Also booster access!

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

@miroirdufou @_CatintheHat And even for the NHS, it's only the cost of hospital admissions for acute covid. Not primary care/ outpatients, not longer term health impacts.

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

@ShaunLintern Yes, and this option should have been in place BEFORE they started cutting NHS eligibility based on (flawed) financial calculations which consider hospital treatment as the only cost of infection.

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

@premnsikka And this was the science minister! Does he know what postdocs earn?

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

More healthcare costs ignored by JCVI's "bespoke" analysis!

[Jane Arbury @ArburyJane]

More of the usual BBC line. Hand washing, send them in with coughs, and no mention at all of that virus. https://t.co/xazwy6iuKm