Caz Elle 

[Caz Elle  @Cazzi83]

So nice to see the blossom, butterflies & bees today 🌸

#blossomwatch @nationaltrust

#blossom #springwatch #naturephotography #nature
#twitternaturecommunity #macro

[tern @1goodtern]

Clean the air

[SmartAirUK @SmartairUk]

Big news! 🎉

Smart Air UK is now on the NHS Supply Chain. Hospitals and healthcare settings across the UK can now access our HEPA air purifiers through the NHS Supply Chain framework.

A milestone we are incredibly proud of.

#SmartAir #NHS #NHSSupplyChain #CleanAir

[Dr Evonne T Curran NursD 💙🇺🇦 @EvonneTCurran]

Should recommending the wrong Mode of Transmission or inadequate precautions be considered an Infection Prevention and Control "Never Events"?

[Cathy Finnis @cathy_finnis]

Covid inquiry Module 3 report. One of the most important recommendations, to my mind, to emerge, is this. We, CVF fought for HEPA in the inquiry hearing room and I was the first person to wear a mask to give evidence in the inquiry. Now the work to get this implemented!

[Dr Evonne T Curran NursD 💙🇺🇦 @EvonneTCurran]

1.105 vital... yes yes yes
The use of HEPAs should be prioritised....

[Planty Potter @plantypotter]

Yes @wesstreeting, when will there be a statement about this?

[Caz Elle  @Cazzi83]

Dear @wesstreeting

Please will there be a statement about this?

[Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cv_cev]

"Infection control guidance was flawed because it was assumed at the time that the spread was through contact and not aerosol"

@ashishskynews

[Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cv_cev]

"Infection control guidance was flawed because it was assumed at the time that the spread was through contact and not aerosol"

@ashishskynews

[Caz Elle  @Cazzi83]

@ScribblerPen

[Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cv_cev]

"Infection control guidance was flawed because it was assumed at the time that the spread was through contact and not aerosol"

@ashishskynews

[Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cv_cev]

Today's #CovidInquiry report into healthcare is a victory for everyone at higher risk.

Baroness Hallett accepted our key points:
Covid is airborne
The NHS must improve ventilation
And vulnerable people must be empowered and have the right to wear better masks -not abandoned

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[Dr Evonne T Curran NursD 💙🇺🇦 @EvonneTCurran]

So, IPC & the CNOs really needed a report to tell them this, when aerosol scientists, were telling them, providing evidence for them. Even people like me wrote repeatedly to the CNOs - even met them once.

So bitterly disappointed that they waited.

[Caz Elle  @Cazzi83]

‼️ From Module 3 of the UK inquiry, 18 September 2024

Counsel to the Inquiry:

“….do you think that air filtration, for example the use of HEPA filters, was given sufficient priority in the IPC guidance?”

Prof Hopkins [now CEO of UKHSA]:

“I don't believe it was.”

[Long Covid Support @long_covid]

🚨 1/21 Our #LongCovid Groups’ legal team has written to the @covidinquiryuk Chair on behalf of several Core Participants regarding urgent interim recommendations. ⬇️

#CovidIsNotOver

[Caz Elle  @Cazzi83]

Module 5, Inquiry, 19 March 2025

Mr Stanton, on behalf of the BMA:

“…I'd like to ask, please, whether you were aware of this proposal to manage the demand for FFP3 masks through policy, and whether you could provide any insight into how this reduction in demand was achieved?”

[Caz Elle  @Cazzi83]

“It is perplexing that, just at the point when airborne transmission was becoming more widely acknowledged, a stop order was placed on further procurement of FFP3 respirators from 30 June 2020, when a July 2020 survey by the BMA found that shortages of respirators remained.”
6/12

[Caz Elle  @Cazzi83]

@PeteUK7 @TraceyABurgess So sorry Pete

[Caz Elle  @Cazzi83]

“A more precautionary approach, for example through a focus on ventilation and mask wearing, could have been taken without significant economic impact, and at key moments of easing throughout the pandemic the BMA called for such an approach, which generally was not heeded.”

9/12

[Caz Elle  @Cazzi83]

“…The failure to provide adequate protection against the risks of aerosol transmission is an issue of serious and ongoing concern…”

3/12

[Caz Elle  @Cazzi83]

Some more snippets and excerpts from the closing statement by Mr Stanton, on behalf of the British Medical Association (BMA), for Module 2 of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

13 December 2023.

A thread 🧵

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[David Osborn @SafeDavid3]

Today is Friday 13 March.

Let us remember Friday 13 March 2020.

The NHS day of infamy.

THE DAY ON WHICH HEALTHCARE WORKER WAS REDUCED FROM FFP3 RESPIRATORS TO SURGICAL MASKS.

The day COVID-19 was declassified as HCID.

The day the 'precautionary principle' was abandoned.