Helen Call

[Martin Kiernan @emrsa15]

New episode out today and I talk to @tinaljoshi about C. difficile; attachment to surfaces, effect of disinfectants and strain variations https://t.co/Yel4GmFRqu

[Scottish Rugby @Scotlandteam]

Time to vote for your October Try of the Month ✨

Which try gets your vote? ⬇️

[Jon Otter @jonotter]

My first podcast! And with @emrsa15 too. SSI surveillance - who cares? (I care, and we should all care very much!) #ip2021

[Paul Weaving @APaulW]

This stinks. It's outrageous that Johnson can lie with impunity and MPs that call him out are punished 😡

[IPS @IPS_Infection]

#IPS Good to see so many members at the #IPSScot Scottish Branch meeting today. Special thanks to Teresa Inkster who provided a session on Mucormycosis. Hope to see you all again soon @hcall01 @APaulW @kdwares @NykomaHamilton @shepherdlesley7 @gillian_irvine @teresaink

[Nicola Sturgeon @NicolaSturgeon]

For info: there will be no @scotgov briefing at 12.15pm today. Instead I will make a statement to @ScotParl at 2.20pm. And I will make a TV address - setting out the current position in Scotland - at 8.05pm on BBC.

[Pat Cattini 🔶 @patcp66]

I am so cheesed off by the way this government has handled the pandemic. Their lack of engagement with professionals like ⁦@IPS_Infection⁩ is breathtaking! Now they are not even involving their own advisory teams. #BeggarsBelief. https://t.co/LNcDJtUbPr

[NHS 24 @NHS24]

The Protect Scotland app from NHS Scotland’s Test and Protect is a free mobile phone app designed to help us protect each other and reduce the spread of COVID-19. It's available for download now- read more here: https://t.co/TXrLYvodtc

[The National @ScotNational]

'It boils down to this: Scots are being penalised because the UK Prime Minister is too lazy and cowardly to front his own daily briefing' // Kirsty Strickland (@KirstyStricklan)

https://t.co/hGaSjfhqrM

[Dr Phil Hammond 💙 @drphilhammond]

One of the many reasons we advise against travel if you have #COVID19 symptoms is that you may spread to an area of lower infectivity, and need to use the NHS, which could then seed a local outbreak. So please don’t.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

It’s that time again. A mumpsimus (16th century) is someone who refuses to budge/insists that they are right, despite clear evidence that they are wrong. Plural: mumpsimuses.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

'The legal rules inevitably do not cover all circumstances, including those that I found myself in.' - Dominic Cummings

Your wife was ill, you thought you were infectious and you've got a kid. Those circumstances are not exceptional. They're commonplace.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Watching Johnson. This is despicable. Parents all over this country have abided by the lockdown rules, even while ill themselves. Hundreds of thousands managed toddlers while shut up inside cramped accommodation, purely for the common good AS THE GOVERNMENT TOLD THEM TO DO.

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

Boris Johnson and his supine gaggle of entitled gargoyles have just insulted the nation. That's the word for their brazen contempt. Insulting.
A slippery Parliamentary gang of cynics, fools and cretins who feel they are untouchable.

[Lisa Johnson @KernowDIPC]

So many mask don’ts.
Just little mistakes in busy times.
Each one risks contamination.
PPE fails = transmission risks. ⚠️

[Helen Call @hcall01]

@Emmainverness @NHSHighland @NHSGrampian @nhshkpq @kaycordiner @nhshslochd @nhshheidimay @FionaCMcQueen Thank you Emma xx

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

At the risk of upsetting those who are really on the frontline, I can't help this. We need to decrease involuntary touching near the face. My infection control instincts are shouting. From my chair this is my advice:

[Jennie Wilson @TalkJennie]

To aerosolise respiratory particles - a current of air has to move over respiratory mucosa. To create droplet nuclei (which FFP3 masks designed for) the air needs to travel at high velocity. Use science to inform IPC! @IPS_Infection @patcp66 @SMHopkins #PPE