Lucy_of_somewhere🇺🇦🇪🇺💙

Would like humanity to make it the 22nd century. Exasperated by Covid denialism. Had hoped we’d build back greener, kinder, wiser

[Lucy_of_somewhere🇺🇦🇪🇺💙 @LucyofL]

Thought for the day:

How might global response to 🦠be different, if there were universal, unequivocal acceptance that post viral illness:

(A) Exists
(B) Is common
(C) Often brings life-changing disablement
(D) Can hit any age or prior health
(E) Is largely untreatable

[tern @1goodtern]

It's probably time to talk about bird flu again.
🧵

[Lucy_of_somewhere🇺🇦🇪🇺💙 @LucyofL]

@kenwoodworld

Please tell me what the grey surface of the blade unit this chopper/grinder is made of (Product support is ignoring my emails)

Grey is wearing off with regular grinding of nuts/seeds to reveal white plastic beneath. Am I eating PFAS/PFOA?

[David Osborn @SafeDavid3]

I wonder whether key stakeholders will be invited to join as participants or observers?
By "key stakeholders” I mean those who will die or be seriously harmed when Gov UK gets it wrong (again!)
Consultation with workers is an absolute requirement of health and safety legislation.

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

1. I'm featured in this #ad for @RAIsonanceGroup's Indiegogo campaign. I often discuss novel tech solutions to build societal resilience to pandemics - ground-breaking technology like this is precisely what I'm talking about: real-time Al-based testing via cough analysis.

[tern @1goodtern]

In 2021 in England, public health decided that the way to get well was to get sicker, and that the way to get rid of disease was to catch it.
It's official policy.
They write it down and everything.

Since then...

[Cat Rubens @catrubens]

1. I don’t often tweet about my personal life, but on 1st November, my mum Jane was hit by a large vehicle as a pedestrian in St. Louis, USA. She suffered a severe brain injury & remains in a coma in hospital.

Here's Jane & me in happier times.

[Lucy_of_somewhere🇺🇦🇪🇺💙 @LucyofL]

@_CatintheHat @Novavax Pharmadoc just told me Novavax have no stock of the new vaccine for the UK. Regardless- it’s clearly not landing soon. I booked XBB. But will boost again with something newer in Spring

[Lucy_of_somewhere🇺🇦🇪🇺💙 @LucyofL]

Any news on when @Novavax JN1 might be available in 🇬🇧 for private vaccination?

[Lucy_of_somewhere🇺🇦🇪🇺💙 @LucyofL]

@Kegel7 @Novavax @_CatintheHat I’m now booked for Nova for better or worse!

[Lucy_of_somewhere🇺🇦🇪🇺💙 @LucyofL]

@Kegel7 @Novavax @_CatintheHat I don’t think so. But had plenty of mRNA before

[Lucy_of_somewhere🇺🇦🇪🇺💙 @LucyofL]

@Kegel7 @Novavax @_CatintheHat I am torn between the arguments:

“Nova is a different technology; needs 2x doses to re-initialise to get full effect”

Vs:

“To avoid imprinting, get different versions”

Vs

“xBB is ancient now”

[Lucy_of_somewhere🇺🇦🇪🇺💙 @LucyofL]

@sstroschein2 Moderna isn’t an option if private…

[Lucy_of_somewhere🇺🇦🇪🇺💙 @LucyofL]

Views on a boost with Novavax XBB vs latest Pfizer? (JN1 or possibly KP2)

I need to decide now - as Novavax XBB will no longer be available.

(No sign as yet of new Nova being approved in 🇬🇧)

????

[Lucy_of_somewhere🇺🇦🇪🇺💙 @LucyofL]

I dunno the cost per 24 hrs of a hospital bed. But I suspect his extended stay (not to mention the other patients & staff who succumbed) would easily pay for 2 or 3 HEPAs on the ward

Why is it impossible for any who matters to grasp this?

[Lucy_of_somewhere🇺🇦🇪🇺💙 @LucyofL]

Nosocomial transmission costs £££ (and more than a few lives too)

My father, admitted a week ago to A&E & needing heart surgery is currently ‘bed blocking’

Because lack of clean air meant he has been infected by a Covid positive patient on his ward

[Lucy_of_somewhere🇺🇦🇪🇺💙 @LucyofL]

Surely @wesstreeting must be desperate for quick wins to save hospitals £££

Why aren’t the sirens aren’t blaring on clean air?

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

In the absence of 2nd generation vaccines (and their widespread uptake), this will never stop until hospital and other healthcare settings realise that infection control for airborne pathogens needs to be rigorous and constant.

https://t.co/gG4H0yyuDF

[Lucy_of_somewhere🇺🇦🇪🇺💙 @LucyofL]

Teachers lambasting parents for host of failures, including ‘sending kids in sick’

Yet attendance policies threaten, bully and scare parents into doing exactly that 🤷‍♀️

https://t.co/fV0Gs7OLN3

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

1. Powerful piece from Tess Finch-Lees. Non-paywalled version in next tweet, but please do click on the official link to demonstrate that this kind of journalism is really needed right now. Please also consider retweeting.

https://t.co/hXfTmoIIFc

[Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cv_cev]

A Clinically Vulnerable med student 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 during a clinical exam. Labelled "less empathetic" for acting to protect health.

Blatant discrimination like this must not be tolerated!

Mask use 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 be protected in law.

[Dr Ben King 🌏 @benking01]

Which type #COVID19 vaccination is @BootsUK currently offering? Will it target older variants? When will the updated vaccination be offered to us all? Does anyone know?