🔥 Thank you to @mrjamesob for hosting an excellent session on LONG COVID on @LBC this morning.
Featuring @alanbarnard1@lara_wong@EllaRobertaFdn & more.
You can listen to the full show on catch up (available for the next 6 days):
https://t.co/iYIWLhzEKi
Reminder: we have lots of lives & films now on our #YouTube channel: "The Long Covid Clinic: What You CAN Do"
@BinitaKane and myself interview world leading doctors and scientists on the huge umbrella of chronic illness
Please do share
@long_covid
https://t.co/dge67qcgUU
Reposting this in the light of the imminent vote on AD - a Times columnist saying the quiet but out loud, that old, dying & disabled people *should* be killed prematurely - to save us the cost of caring for them.
If that doesn’t cause pause for thought, I don’t know what will.
Dr McKenzie’s message is stunningly clear & simple.Please watch & share. This is why many of us have been campaigning for several years for PH protections @kwame_mckenzie - absolutely brilliant sir! 👏If u ever wish to collaborate with like minded Dr/scientists pls get in touch!
After years of shouting "Covid is airborne" "Clean the air" into the void, of helplessly watching the disastrous consequences of IPC failures play out, watching this & @CliveBeggs@covidinquiryuk has been, to coin a phrase, a much-needed breathe of fresh air. Huge thanks 🙏
From today "A week of events will showcase the joy the arts bring to those who take part, & their importance to the nation’s physical, mental & social health". Ensuring participation enhances, not threatens, health must surely be central to this? 🧵 https://t.co/jjP7bVgbgN
Loved the Fringe but saw...
packed venues
stuffy unventilated spaces
fans switched off after one song
unused fans, caked in dust
...and a Blast Mini 🙌
@edfringe instead of fans, choose powerful air purifiers to bring cool, 'quiet', filtered air
#EdFringe#Fringer
Trying to find one of these around Edinburgh is probably an easier task than trying to find accurate information about Covid & mitigations on one of our government or public health (I use the term loosely) bodies' websites... #ProtectTheFringe#ProtectPerformers#ProtectEachOther
THREAD: the summer Covid wave in the UK continues.
Basically, there is a LOT of Covid around and not a lot of other respiratory viruses.
If you have cold or flu symptoms, it's probably Covid.
The latest hospital data from England shows steady, quite high levels. 1/8
@kieranryanphoto Pathogenic E. coli would be BSL-2, and some SARS-CoV-2 can now be handled at BSL-2 rather than 3 (https://t.co/HoVgR8a8Gs) but yes, the difference in effort (and money spent) to protect athletes from one and not the other is astounding.
So now we're in a wave @P_H_S_Official decide it's a good time to restart proper monitoring. Preventative healthcare anyone? Maybe one day they'll grasp that Covid isn't seasonal, not just another respiratory illness, is airborne, etc. Or not🤦♀️ https://t.co/rdqyOBrUoX
This was sad to write. That population of "vulnerable" groups that we're encouraged to abandon? It includes pregnant people and infants.
COVID infections are risky to pregnancies, and yet expectant parents aren't being told.
Read my latest:
https://t.co/PQ6yMibZ25
@stellacreasy COVID is still a serious respiratory virus in the UK (which we could do more to reduce).
Here in Scotland it's on the rise and causing many more acute cases than flu and RSV.
"Number of acute hospital admissions due to COVID-19, influenza and RSV":
🧵 The Cleaner Air Champion Award results are in!
The Cvd conscious community nominated 111 of the most inspiring individuals & groups 💛
@CleanerAirAU members voted
And here are our inaugural Cleaner Air Champions, runners up & honourable mentions in 10 different categories