Benjamin Veness

🇦🇺 Medical Doctor (Psychiatrist), MPH, Co-Founder Health Care Workers Australia, @RealOzSAGE, @ChurchillTrust Fellow, 🏳️‍🌈

[Benjamin Veness @venessb]

@sarah_sasson Looks delicious, Sarah, well done :D

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@mbismark Kindness and humanity.

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@TheRMH Good on you, wearing N95 respirators to help keep your staff and patients safe! 👏

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@thea_m_bloom @VictorianCHO Oh, how awful; I hope you and your baby recover quickly.

There’s so much more that could be done to prevent disease.

I don’t understand why masks are not mandatory in health facilities and the updated boosters aren’t being promoted more.

[Chief Health Officer, Victoria @VictorianCHO]

Data released today confirms that Victoria is seeing increasing levels of COVID-19 in the state, driven by the dominance of a new Omicron subvariant JN.1.

Don’t let COVID spoil your Christmas.

Remember the key actions that we know help to protect you and your loved ones.
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[Benjamin Veness @venessb]

The 12-week study, conducted in Chile, can be accessed here https://t.co/dTC1qnSHmM

[Benjamin Veness @venessb]

'It’s never too late to lift: Older people can still build muscle mass' - good news from a new study, which showed resistance exercise training can increase muscle mass and function in older adults, including those aged 85 and up https://t.co/6yhya4MLXu

[Benjamin Veness @venessb]

Australian pharmacies and GPs are finally starting to receive the updated #Covid19 XBB.1.5 vaccines (available in the US since September).

If you’re eligible (eg all adults who haven’t had a Covid-19 vaccine in 2023) and haven’t been infected recently, consider getting boosted.

[Benjamin Veness @venessb]

@PeterTMcKenzie @nytimes @TanyaChipsanova Congrats, Pete, and great story!

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@BigBadDenis Well said, @thisgirl_writes. Aside from opening the window, the other thing I do in Ubers is check that the driver has the air conditioning set to fresh air instead of recirculated. It makes a dramatic difference to ventilation (CO2 on recirculated is often in the thousands).

[Benjamin Veness @venessb]

@CrabbBrendan Well said, @thisgirl_writes. Aside from opening the window, the other thing I do in Ubers is check that the driver has the air conditioning set to fresh air instead of recirculated. It makes a dramatic difference to ventilation (CO2 on recirculated is often in the thousands).

[Angry Redhead [email protected] 😷🌈🐈⛩ ⚔️ @sidherian]

Greens politician @DrAmandaCohn impressive speech in NSW Parliament about difficulties experienced by vulnerable (& sensible) people when accessing healthcare. She mentions patients right to safe healthcare. Please share
#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
https://t.co/Olquj52Jf9

[Benjamin Veness @venessb]

“The virus was wafting through the air, set adrift in coughs and conversation, even in song. The pandemic raged for 6 months before global health authorities acknowledged that it was driven by an airborne pathogen.” Indoor air quality standards must be set https://t.co/P9otTebLd3

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“The original sin of the pandemic was the failure to recognize airborne transmission,” says Harvard professor Joe Allen. He believes this lag in understanding cost tens of thousands of lives in the U.S. https://t.co/BoLUHiG27U

[Raina MacIntyre @Globalbiosec]

Another study showing that mRNA vaccines in kids 1-4 years protect against #COVID, even #XBB: 63% effectiveness in fully vaccinated, infection-naive kids & 75% against reinfections in previously infected kids with at least 1 dose. We should be allowing children <5 years the opportunity for vaccination. It's a huge risk to repeatedly infect young kids, the future of humanity, with a cardiotropic and neurotropic virus. https://t.co/jtwVlvaYZD

[Benjamin Veness @venessb]

@JulieLeask @Thou_global The point of that article is that there are actually very few absolute contraindications to prescribing Paxlovid, which is the first line antiviral.

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@JulieLeask @Thou_global Older patients are more likely to be on other medications and thus Paxlovid prescribing requires consideration of drug-drug interactions and possibly temporary modifications to other medications. Here is a good piece that aimed to address this barrier https://t.co/f0y22yHCE5

[Rosie Tressler OBE 💖💜💙 @rosietressler]

Know a senior #leader that would make a fab #charity CEO? I'm fortunate to be preparing for mat leave from Jan24!🤰 @StudentMindsOrg has the wonderful opportunity to appoint an Interim Chief Executive ⭐PT or FT.
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