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Colin Kinner

@ColinKinner

4 days

Open letter to the Premier: Queensland needs a new Chief Health Officer 🧵. . .

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Colin Kinner

@ColinKinner

1 year

In 10 years your kids will want to know that you did *everything in your power* to protect them from COVID.

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2 years

Australia's COVID situation is out of control. A mega-thread looking at where we are, how we got here, and what we need to do to get out of this shitshow. 🧵 . . .

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1 year

Frustrating chat this morning with son’s teacher on first day back to school. Says he expects “COVID will rip through the school in the next few weeks, same as last year”. Then tells me “there’s not much we can do about it, but we do disinfect the desks every day.”

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1 year

“The withdrawal of COVID mitigations. . . was carefully orchestrated to transpire as quickly as policy makers thought the public would be willing to shift, yet in steps small enough to make those who expressed concerns appear to be over-reacting to every individual step.” Nailed…

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1 year

These synchronised "anti-clean-air" tweets have to be among the most ludicrous of the entire pandemic. . . and there has been some stiff competition 🤡🤡

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Colin Kinner

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1 year

It's hard to fathom that we're in the 4th year of an airborne pandemic and still there are many people who do not know how COVID spreads, or why we should be trying to prevent infection - including those we trust to provide a safe environment for our kids. @CrabbBrendan @latingle

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1 year

We need a new term: “clean air theatre”. Most people know about “hygiene theatre” - providing hand-sanitiser, wiping down surfaces, reminding folks to wash their hands, even though COVID is an airborne virus. It looks like it's doing something, but really it's having very…

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Colin Kinner

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3 months

Every parent should watch this interview with Consultant Cardiologist Dr Rae Duncan summarising the latest research on #LongCOVID and potential long-term impacts on kids from repeat COVID infections. @Sunny_Rae1 @BBCOne @mmgeissler

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Colin Kinner

@ColinKinner

1 year

Australian schools can apply for $25k funding for COVID mitigations such as improving ventilation and purchase of HEPA filters. Applications close 24 Feb.

Schools Upgrade Fund

The purpose of the Schools Upgrade Fund (SUF) is to provide more equitable access to resources to support schools to help keep students and school staff safe, and get students’ education back on...

www.education.gov.au

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Colin Kinner

@ColinKinner

1 year

The #CleanAirRevolution is underway. More and more countries are getting on board. Widespread use of HEPA filters in hotels in Hong Kong, kids routinely wearing masks in schools in Thailand, CO2 levels displayed in shopping centres in Japan.

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Colin Kinner

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6 months

When a leading cardiologist and long covid researcher says “We are risking the long term health & future of a whole generation of children by pretending covid is just a cold”, schools & parents should pay attention. Thanks @Sunny_Rae1 @drclairetaylor for your continued advocacy.

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@Sunny_Rae1

6 months

Absolutely this 👇Claire & I have been shouting about this both publicly & to Policy makers for 18 MONTHS! We are risking the long term health & future a WHOLE GENERATION OF CHILDREN by pretending Covid is “just a cold” in the quest for the “fallacy of normal”….1/

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Colin Kinner

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2 years

A compilation of Queensland CHO Dr John Gerrard’s greatest hits: 🦠 COVID is Mild 🦠 Wall of Immunity 🦠 Kids Don’t Get Sick 🦠 Waves Getting Milder 🦠 Endemic Any Day Now and the all-time favourite: 🦠 It’s Inevitable and Necessary

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Colin Kinner

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2 years

COVID has been widely mis-characterised as an acute respiratory infection (like the cold or flu). It is in fact a long-term multi-system disease which affects the entire body. 10/

Long COVID - COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group

Summary There is intrinsic uncertainty in associating a deterioration of health with an illness suffered months earlier. Where the prevalence of an illness is on a global scale, as with COVID-19,...

covidactuaries.org

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Colin Kinner

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1 year

Advocating for #CleanAir to reduce the impact of COVID at the #CleanAirForum at Parliament House @DALupton @BlairWilliams26 @plumskyjam #COVIDisAirborne

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Colin Kinner

@ColinKinner

2 years

The World Health Organisation has described allowing COVID to spread unchecked as “unscientific, unethical and epidemiological stupidity”. 25/

WHO warns of ‘epidemiological stupidity’ of early Covid reopening

Mike Ryan issues warning over letting people catch Covid earlier as England prepares for ‘big bang’ reopening

www.theguardian.com

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Colin Kinner

@ColinKinner

2 years

We won’t be sending our son back to school on Monday. A thread for any QLD parents who are still undecided. . . @DrShaneRRR @drkerrynphelps @PMGPSC @NjbBari3 @DrCatherineBall @CrabbBrendan @DrZoeHyde @MackayIM @drgregkelly @1CeliaGreen @YouAreLobbyLud @normanswan #covidschools

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Colin Kinner

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1 year

👉 We’re in the 4th year of an airborne pandemic that’s killed ~20m and left ~65m w Long COVID 👉 Most infections come from breathing shared air containing virus 👉 Ventilation & filtration reduce virus in the air, lower risk of infection But sure, let's not clean the air. . .

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Colin Kinner

@ColinKinner

2 years

Australia's COVID situation is out of control. This Medium post builds on my Twitter thread from last week and looks in depth at where we are, how we got here, and what we need to do to turn things around. 1/

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Colin Kinner

@ColinKinner

2 years

There is no cure for Long COVID. Many experts are predicting it will be the most significant chronic health condition of our lifetime, leading to a tsunami of disability. 8/

A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of 'Long COVID'

We need to plan for a future where millions of survivors are chronically ill

www.scientificamerican.com

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Colin Kinner

@ColinKinner

2 years

To put that in perspective, the current death rate is around 50 people per day, and increasing. This makes COVID the leading cause of death, ahead of heart disease and cancer, and puts us on track to have 20,000 people die from COVID this year. 3/

Australia: Coronavirus Pandemic Country Profile

Australia: What has been the impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)?

ourworldindata.org

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Colin Kinner

@ColinKinner

1 year

France implements an 800ppm CO2 limit in classrooms. They recognise clean air is vital to reducing COVID transmission. Meanwhile, in many Australian schools: a) No idea what CO2 has to do with COVID b) One CO2 monitor, in a drawer in the principal's office c) Zero mitigations

LET'S AIR / NOUS AÉRONS

@nousaerons

1 year

We offer a translation into English of our synoptic on the new French environmental code relating to the measurement of CO2 in schools. A PDF version is available at This is intended for foreigners who have expressed an interest in this new code.

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Colin Kinner

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2 years

In reality, abandoning all COVID mitigations has been a deliberate and cynical attempt by federal and state governments to downplay the seriousness of the pandemic for political purposes. 21/

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Colin Kinner

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2 years

Many people are oblivious to the fact that COVID is airborne. Just go to the supermarket. Watch old people hand-sanitise and wipe down the trolly handle, but not wear a mask. They don’t want to get COVID, they just haven’t been given the right info. 31/

Jess

@MeetJess

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It’s been 2 years … 2 YEARS!!!! I am running out of both patience and words …

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Colin Kinner

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Schools have a legal obligation to provide a safe workplace. That means understanding the health risks from COVID, how it spreads and how to prevent it spreading. It also means taking all reasonable steps to protect the health and safety of staff, students and others.

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Colin Kinner

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7 months

Yesterday 30 of the world's foremost experts on COVID transmission, aerosols, ventilation and infection control spoke at @TheWHN #CleanAirExpo . Today our state CHO told Queenslanders that they should *wash their hands* to stop the spread of COVID, an airborne virus.…

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Colin Kinner

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2 months

Fascinating that Rolling Stone Magazine has better advice on masks than Queensland's Chief Health Officer. What a time to be alive!

N95 Masks vs. KN95 Masks: Which Face Coverings Should We Be Wearing Right Now?

We review new 2024 top-rated N95 and KN95 masks which doctors say are the best face masks for Covid-19, the JN.1 Variant and measles when traveling.

www.rollingstone.com

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Colin Kinner

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3 months

The @CovidSafetyEd COVID Safety For Schools Course has been live for 24 hours, and already there's been a huge response - not just from Australian teachers and parents, but from many people around the world who are looking for reliable information about COVID safety. 1/

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Colin Kinner

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2 years

We now know that COVID can damage the lungs, heart, brain, liver and kidneys. This increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, diabetes and cognitive impairment – even in healthy people, and even with a mild infection. 9/

Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case

Nature - Massive study shows a long-term, substantial rise in risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke, after a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

www.nature.com

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Colin Kinner

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2 years

First, where are we right now? Some facts. . . Around 50% of all Australians have had COVID, there have been 9,700 deaths from COVID and about half a million people are suffering from Long COVID. 2/

Don’t pump brakes: our COVID strategy must change to reflect reality

The number of COVID infections reported this year is more than 20 times greater than for the two previous years.

www.theage.com.au

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2 years

As a result, very few people are taking simple precautions that would prevent them and their loved ones from getting sick, prompting pleas to listen to experts rather than politicians. @drkerrynphelps 27/

Prof Kerryn Phelps AM

@drkerrynphelps

2 years

Some truths about #covid19 . It may not be what you want to hear, but it is what you NEED to hear. #Medtwitter #health @nswhealth ⁦ @GregHuntMP ⁩ ⁦ @BradHazzard ⁩

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Colin Kinner

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1 year

The Long COVID Inquiry's report is out. Some good recommendations, and a much-needed acknowledgement that addressing indoor air quality will help to reduce transmission. Also several key issues not discussed: - No explicit recommendation to a change of course from "let-it-rip"…

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2 years

We’re also learning that Long COVID is a serious condition that can cause long-term chronic illness and disability. 4/

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2 years

We also now know that a COVID infection gives very little protection against re-infection, and the risk of more serious outcomes increases with multiple infections. 11/

What to Know About the Newest, Most Contagious Omicron Subvariants

They can bypass immunity from vaccinations or past infections, experts say

time.com

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Public health in Queensland is broken. CHO Gerrard has said many times that getting infected with COVID is "inevitable and necessary". He has advised hand-washing and other droplet precautions to protect against COVID, an airborne virus. At the height of the JN.1 wave he…

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2 years

As well as fatigue, breathing problems and heart palpitations, Long COVID can lead to noticeable cognitive decline that can make it impossible to work or function normally. 6/

You're not imagining 'COVID brain' — here's the latest evidence

In an unassuming building behind Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital, some extraordinary research is happening, offering fresh hope for those suffering ongoing symptoms from COVID-19.

www.abc.net.au

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1 year

@WarblerGrey @YouAreLobbyLud @DamianTheAussie “Do we really want elderly patients to be *subject to* carers in masks?” You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. This is dangerous propaganda. MSM are amplifying a call for casual eugenics, and most people are going along with it.

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1 year

Doctors who set out to discourage people from wearing masks during an airborne pandemic should be strongly encouraged by their employers, by @Ahpra and by their peers to consider a career change.

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2 years

Unfortunately COVID-19 will not become endemic, as explained by Australia’s leading authority on biosecurity, Prof Raina MacIntyre @Globalbiosec 19/

Raina MacIntyre 😷💉💉💉💉

@Globalbiosec

2 years

Reality check: #SARSCoV2 will never be endemic. It is an epidemic disease, and always will be. This means it will find unvaccinated or under-vaccinated people and spread rapidly in those groups. It will display the typical waxing and waning pattern of epidemic diseases 1/5.

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Colin Kinner

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6 months

Unpopular opinion 👇 It shouldn’t be up to well-informed members of the public to continually point out the egregious factual and logical errors made by media-hungry doctors or ill-informed CHOs. Downplaying the seriousness of covid, failing to mention long-term impacts of…

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2 years

Around 1 in 10 infections lead to Long COVID, and there could be more than 1 million Australians suffering with Long COVID by the end of the year. 5/

newsGP - Long COVID clinics likely to be required across the country

South Australia is the latest state to open dedicated facilities aimed at addressing a chronic health issue that is expected to escalate in coming months.

www1.racgp.org.au

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Colin Kinner

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9 months

Much of society is pretending that Long COVID doesn’t exist or won’t affect kids - but it does, and can be devastating. Schools need to take COVID seriously and do *everything in their power* to protect kids from getting infected.

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6 months

If you’re an Australian journo who covers health policy, and you’re not *pointedly* asking the PM and Health Minister why Australians don’t have access to the latest monovalent vaccines when many other countries do, what exactly is it that you’re working on? Is there a bigger…

Mike Honey

@Mike_Honey_

6 months

@DavidJoffe64 @KashPrime @AndrewHewat @BigBadDenis Given the new XBB.1.5 vaccines could have been in Australian arms weeks ago, I suppose some proportion of the deaths from here on are directly due to this delay. If the delay goes on through this wave to next year, it could easily be thousands of avoidable deaths.

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2 years

Each re-infection harms the immune system and increases the risk of serious outcomes such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cognitive impairment. @EricTopol 12/

Eric Topol

@EricTopol

2 years

A new report on Covid reinfections is particularly concerning. I've written about it here

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2 years

Long COVID also affects kids. Around 25% of kids who have a symptomatic infection go on to develop Long COVID. 7/

1 in 4 symptomatic children hit by long COVID, says new study

Data from more than 80,000 children with COVID suggests a quarter of them had symptoms that lingered for at least 4-12 weeks.

www.euronews.com

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2 years

In Australia, the silence of governments on the risks of COVID, plus a winding back of mitigations, has led to a widespread (but incorrect) public perception that COVID is a non-issue. 26/

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2 years

Gaslighting the public about COVID has become something to behold. 24/

Henry Madison

@RageSheen

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‘Gaslighting’, political attempts to make you doubt your (very sane) incredulity at being asked to return to ‘normal’ life with the pandemic still raging. But it’s closer to a type of grooming I think. Gradually breaking down your resistance to being infected. #auspol

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2 years

This is just unbelievable. We’re in the middle of an airborne pandemic, cases are rising, experts are calling for masks, and the health minister decides to do an indoor photo op with a bunch of kids with a chronic health condition. Not a mask in sight.

Mark Butler MP

@Mark_Butler_MP

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Celebrating with @JDRFaus and @DiabetesAus this morning. We've delivered on our commitment to give every Australian with Type 1 diabetes access to a potentially life-saving continuous glucose monitoring device.

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@ColinKinner

5 months

"[QLD CHO] Dr John Gerrard said the sudden rise in Covid hospitalisations was unexpected." Really? Amid a global wave driven by immune-evasive variants, with a large chunk of the QLD population not boosted, and no masks in healthcare? A child could have predicted this.

Denis - The COVID info guy -

@BigBadDenis

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Warning as COVID just one part of huge wave of sickness sweeping Queensland. "A wave of illness is sweeping Queensland this holiday season, with hospitals recording a significant spike in COVID hospitalisations and children with respiratory infections."

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2 years

Given everything we know about COVID, as @YouAreLobbyLud advises, there is only one strategy. . . 16/

Dr David Berger, aBsuRdiSTe cROnickLeR

@YouAreLobbyLud

2 years

Your regular reminder that there's only one smart game: 1. Don't get infected 2. Don't get infected 3. If you do get infected, get infected as few times as possible, with as low a viral load as possible, while as vaccinated as possible

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2 years

Hardly anyone is wearing masks despite the fact that they greatly reduce the risk of transmission. 28/

Mary-Jane Kohler MT(ASCP)

@TruthAbout_ME2

2 years

@YouAreLobbyLud This graph has been updated to include the Omicron strain. They also give more optimistic results for both persons wearing fit-tested N95's.

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2 years

Facilitating rampant COVID transmission in an attempt to achieve endemicity has been widely discredited in the scientific community. Prof Brendan Crabb describes it as “flawed, not scientifically sound . . . and dangerous”. @CrabbBrendan 22/

Prof Brendan Crabb

@CrabbBrendan

2 years

The notion that there’s nothing we can do as the Qld CHO & many other advocate - that everyone getting infected, regularly & repeatedly, is ok & desirable so some magically benign endemicity will be achieved - is flawed. It is not scientifically sound. 1/

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2 years

NSW Premier @Dom_Perrottet even boasted about lying to the public about COVID in order to boost business confidence. @GeoffHanmer 23/

Prof Geoff Hanmer

@GeoffHanmer

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Perrottet on the hollowness of his government’s approach to COVID. It’s about giving people a false sense of security for the economy’s sake. #auspoI

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1 year

I’m glad we’re seeing more mainstream media reporting on Long COVID and talking about the devastating consequences of a condition that's affecting (so far) half a million Australians.

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@ColinKinner

2 years

How did we get here? The fed govt most state govts adopted a “Let It Rip”™️ approach of unmitigated spread when Omicron arrived in early 2022. They abandoned almost all efforts to limit spread of the virus. @CrabbBrendan , @profmiketoole 17/

Don’t pump brakes: our COVID strategy must change to reflect reality

The number of COVID infections reported this year is more than 20 times greater than for the two previous years.

www.theage.com.au

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2 years

The Queensland Government even launched a "Smiles are back" campaign which actively encouraged people to stop wearing masks. It worked, and no doubt caused many avoidable deaths. 29/

Annastacia Palaszczuk

@a_palaszczuk

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Smiles are back from March 4 😄

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3 months

Hospitals aren't using basic infection control, so patients are dying of hospital-acquired COVID. This won't end well for decision-makers who abandoned safety of patients. It will indeed be the Robodebt of medicine @drajm . 💥 piece by @Hayley_Gleeson

'Robodebt of medicine': Patients are catching COVID and dying in hospitals, doctors say

Hospitals have become a strange new battleground in the fight against COVID, with doctors and public health experts concerned that too many patients are catching the virus — and an alarming number...

www.abc.net.au

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@ColinKinner

11 months

Absolutely blistering interview with @c_s_wallace @CrabbBrendan @markgkenny about the catastrophic failures in Australia's p-ndemic response. Some nuggets from Chris: "The government is pursuing an actively Darwinian strategy, based on very bad health advice, that's leading to…

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1 year

Looking back on Queensland CHO Dr John Gerrard’s statements about C-VID, it is startling how wrong he has been. His advice has been wildly optimistic and at odds with the emerging science. Watch to the end to hear what experts think of his views. Full analysis in next tweet 👇

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11 months

This was a truly remarkable exchange. Some observations. . . 1. It was a masterclass in unrelenting, well-informed questioning by @CassyOConnorMP (Journalists please take note, you could learn a thing or two. Other @Greens MPs, now would be a good time to step up). 2. It was…

Cassy O'Connor🪲

@CassyOConnorMLC

11 months

For an insight into why Tasmania has the highest SARS-Cov 2 transmission rate in the nation, here’s our part time Health Minister trying to explain why he led the National Cabinet charge with Perrottet to remove mandatory 5 day isolation #politas

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It’s now beyond question: Federal & state govt public health policies are *designed* to infect & re-infect Australians with SARS-CoV-2 *despite* overwhelming evidence that this will kill and disable many, and *without* any prospect of achieving meaningful hybrid immunity. 🧵. . .

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1 year

It’s hard to believe that as a society we’ve allowed COVID to become the no.3 cause of death without batting an eyelid. Most Australians are oblivious to the risk, and taking zero precautions against getting infected. Massive public health communication fail.

Prof Kathy Eagar

@k_eagar

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@CrabbBrendan The top 3 causes of death in Australia are now (in order): 1.heart disease, 2.dementia 3.COVID No one should be deceived into thinking that COVID is a mild disease

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One Chief Health Officer even boldly stated that widespread infection is “inevitable and necessary”, and that this will lead to a pleasant-sounding state of “endemicity”. @Adrian_Cush @qldhealth 18/

Adrian Cush

@Adrian_Cush

2 years

@YouAreLobbyLud QLD CHO Dr John Gerrard again telling us it is "inevitable AND necessary" for the virus to spread. He is dangerously assuming the virus will become benign as it becomes endemic. Many viruses become more virulent as they mutate (eg polio, measles, HIV)

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The QLD government has abandoned its own COVID risk traffic light system. QLD is experiencing a large number of cases and is well into a wave - that's beyond doubt. This places QLD in "RED", which means masks are recommended in all indoor spaces.

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2 years

BA.5 is 25% more transmissible than BA.2, due in part to lower vaccine effectiveness. 14/

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If we were generous we’d say our political leaders were suffering from a heavy optimism bias. 20/

Frontiers | Unrealistic Optimism and Risk for COVID-19 Disease

Risk perception and consequently engagement in behaviors to avoid illness often do not match actual risk of infection, morbidity, and mortality. Unrealistic ...

www.frontiersin.org

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The @abc730 interview last night with @CrabbBrendan @nadahamad @RDNS_TAI was probably the single most important piece of media coverage about COVID in Australia so far. Some thoughts about what it means for public discourse on COVID going forward. . . 🧵

Is the current public health strategy for dealing with COVID working?

Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs journalism and interviews that hold the powerful to account. Plus political...

www.abc.net.au

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@ColinKinner

2 years

Australia is at the start of the next wave - Omicron BA.5. @Mike_Honey_ 13/

Mike Honey

@Mike_Honey_

2 years

Here's the latest variant picture for Australia. BA.5 (Spike L452R mutation, others) seems the likely winner of the race to replace BA.2, beating out BA.2.12.1 and BA.4. BA.5 has risen to 15% of recent samples. Data from VIC and SA lag by several weeks. 🧵

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Thanks everyone who replied with more examples of “clean air theatre”. . . ❌ Public health advice that masks are “optional, but strongly recommended” 🙄 ❌ Only putting the mask on when other people enter the space (a classic in retail) 🤔 ❌ CO2 monitors that show high CO2…

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BA.5 may also be more pathogenic (ie. more likely to cause severe illness). 15/

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1 year

Vulnerable people are everywhere. It's unacceptable to expose them to risk of COVID infection when they access healthcare. N95 masks should be mandatory in all healthcare settings.

Rare Cancers Australia

@RareCancers

1 year

Citing the mortality rate for people who catch COVID in hospital, Plum rejected the idea of ‘exclusively’ protecting vulnerable populations because vulnerable people are, in fact, everywhere. 👇

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2 years

Vaccination rates are unbelievably low. 60% of 5-11 year-olds are NOT vaccinated, and 30% of eligible adults haven’t had a booster despite the fact that two doses no longer provide meaningful protection against Omicron. 30/

COVID-19 vaccination statistics

See our collections of data on Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination program.

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Australia needs to reset its public health advice, starting at the top My latest article with @BlairWilliams26

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9 months

Every school leader should watch this series of videos about keeping schools COVID-safe. @AbromeEd decided to do more than what’s required, because they recognised that what’s “required” isn’t nearly enough to keep their community safe. They invested time and effort to…

Abrome

@AbromeEd

9 months

Here's a recap of our COVID-19 mitigation efforts for the 2022-23 academic year, in the hopes that it may support school leaders and decision makers who want to keep their students, staff, and local communities safe. I’ve broken this into 10 videos. Abridged text included.

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I’m not a doctor or infectious diseases expert, but I’ve stayed across the science by following experts and informed commentators like @Globalbiosec @CrabbBrendan @enenbee @RealOzSAGE @YouAreLobbyLud @doctuhjay @PMGPSC @drkerrynphelps @Mike_Honey_ You can too 👍 39/

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This seems like an important precedent, and one that could be relevant to many other sectors.

Denis - The COVID info guy -

@BigBadDenis

1 month

"A single mum who continues to suffer from COVID nearly 4 years after catching it at Geelong aged care home has won a legal battle to launch proceedings for pain and suffering." Source:

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#wearamask @AnnastaciaMP @qldhealth

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2 years

Lethal Stupidity: How the Palaszczuk government’s COVID response has thrown Queenslanders under the bus

Lethal Stupidity: How the Palaszczuk government’s COVID response has thrown Queenslanders under…

The Queensland government has taken a massive public health gamble by encouraging widespread infection in an attempt to achieve endemicity…

medium.com

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@ColinKinner

11 months

"Clean air should be a right in healthcare. You should have a reasonable expectation you can go into a modern hospital without contracting a serious disease that will leave you worse off than when you went in." @CraigWtweets @JenniferDoggett @CroakeyNews

Why more needs to be done to reduce COVID-19 transmission in health and aged care settings

Introduction by Croakey: In the first of a two-part series investigating safety in health and aged care in the era

www.croakey.org

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@ColinKinner

5 months

“By remaining silent or downplaying the ongoing risk of COVID-19, governments have abdicated their responsibility to provide their citizens with reliable public health information.” Another important piece from @JohnSnowProject

The John Snow Project

@JohnSnowProject

6 months

Where are our leaders?

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2 years

25/ I don't accept the QLD CHO’s position that infection with COVID is necessary or critical. His view that herd immunity is a way out of the pandemic seems based on hopium, and at odds with accepted science. @YouAreLobbyLud

Dr David Berger, aBsuRdiSTe cROnickLeR

@YouAreLobbyLud

2 years

1/ The Queensland CHO thinks the only way you can avoid catching Covid is by "magic". The person charged with ensuring public health in Queensland literally thinks "magic" is the only way to suppress transmission of an infectious agent. Let that sink in first.

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4 months

Another well-informed piece by @Hayley_Gleeson about why we need to bridge the gap between perception and reality when it comes to COVID. Essential reading for all parents and teachers as they prepare to send kids back to school in a large COVID wave.

Scientist Brendan Crabb broke his own rule and caught COVID. But this is how he had avoided it

Three of Australia's leading COVID-19 experts share their personal safety strategies and reflect on what must happen if we're to blunt the growing health crisis the pandemic is causing — and prepare...

www.abc.net.au

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@ColinKinner

1 year

Somebody needs to make An Inconvenient Truth, but for COVID. If done right it could have a huge impact. Ideas for content sources in the following tweets. @algore @pembertonfilms @mehdirhasan @louistheroux @MadmanFilms @alexgibneyfilm @MagdaSzubanski @SandroDemaio 🧵

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3 months

One Queenslander a day is dying after contracting Covid while being treated in hospital for other medical conditions. “In my opinion the lack of enforced safety protocols, where there is evidence that people are dying, is medical negligence.”

Death every day as patients contract Covid in hospital

One Queenslander a day is dying after contracting Covid while being treated in hospital for other medical conditions.

www.couriermail.com.au

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6 months

Scathing comments about federal and state government failures to take the most basic steps to protect Australians from COVID. Valid criticisms, and quite extraordinary to see such reckless disregard for public health by politicians and health advisers. Thank you…

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@ColinKinner

2 years

Some simple things we can all do with minimal disruption: Get a booster, get kids vaccinated, wear an N95 mask indoors, don’t go to crowded indoor events, eat outside at cafes, choose to go places based on whether they take indoor air seriously. 37/

Anna Davidson | OzSAGE | #CovidisAirborne

@PMGPSC

2 years

We take air quality seriously @CleanAirStars

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@ColinKinner

2 years

In a surgical mask?! Are you fucking kidding me??

Mark Butler MP

@Mark_Butler_MP

2 years

My first visit to a hospital as Federal Health Minister and it’s to the heart of healthcare in our western suburbs - the QEH.

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2 years

Research has shown that people are 1,000 times more likely to catch COVID via the air they breathe than by touching a contaminated surface. 32/

At U-M, risk from surface contamination of COVID-19 was much lower than air transmission

Air transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the coronavirus pandemic, was much higher than surface transmission at the University of Michigan, according to a study by researchers at U-M's School...

news.umich.edu

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2 years

The federal govt is holding a Parliamentary Inquiry into Long Covid and Repeated Infection. It's an opportunity to tell the government that it needs to do more to protect Australians from repeated COVID infection and risk of Long COVID. Anyone can make a submission. . . 🧵

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Schools are a major source of covid spread in the community. Covid has killed >24,000 Australians and left >half a million with long covid. Therefore schools have a moral obligation to do everything they can to prevent covid spreading & minimise downstream death & disability.

Henry Madison

@RageSheen

2 months

We may be thinking about Covid the wrong way. It remains true it seems that Covid is an overdispersed virus. It has a low dispersion parameter (k), meaning most spread is superspreading events from a very small number of people. /1

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Based on what is now known about COVID, I expect that in ten years' time our kids will be asking us whether we did everything in our power to protect them from getting infected and re-infected.

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1 year

Nobody should have to risk contracting COVID while in hospital. @AlboMP @Mark_Butler_MP you need to make access to healthcare safe, especially for vulnerable people.

Sign the Petition

Vulnerable patients should not be contracting COVID in Australian hospitals

www.change.org

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1 year

Coming soon to a government near you. . . UK Government scientist accuses ministers of throwing people with long Covid 'under the bus' by failing to educate about long-term risks.

Government scientist accuses ministers of throwing people with long Covid 'under the bus'

Leading scientific advisers believe a failure of ministers to take advice in April 2021 has led to millions suffering

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@ColinKinner

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What do we need to do to end this shitshow? To get the pandemic under control we need to reduce COVID transmission. This will drive down the rate of serious illness, Long COVID, death, and strain on the hospital system. 35/

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If you have kids, talk to your school about air quality. Insist they get CO2 monitors and HEPA filters, don’t let them put kids in high-risk indoor settings like camps, indoor assemblies or bus trips. See advice from COVID Safe Schools @CovidSafeEdAus 38/

David R Tomlinson 🇺🇦💙

@DRTomlinsonEP

2 years

Its killed millions, but unmitigated spread in children is the biggest SARS2 gamble ☣️ Immune dysregulation ☣️ Vascular inflammation ☣️ Microthrombi ☣️ Nerve cell death ☣️ Developmental delay, cognitive dysfunction Etc Why risk their future by making them breathe dirty air?

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Every Australian should watch this superb piece of communication from @RealOzSAGE and @JohnSnowProject As a nation we are choosing to allow tens of thousands to die from COVID, when we could easily turn this around.

Will Australia choose to prevent Covid deaths?

We face a choice: continue to ignore deaths from COVID-19 or prevent them. In collaboration with OzSAGE, we call on the Australian government to act urgently...

www.youtube.com

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1 year

The air quality in Parliament House is *very* good. Additional layers of protection provided by HEPA filters from @SmartAirFilters @BSTHealth #CleanAirSummit

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2 years

Now read the article. . . Lethal Stupidity: How the Palaszczuk government’s COVID response has thrown Queenslanders under the bus

Lethal Stupidity: How the Palaszczuk government’s COVID response has thrown Queenslanders under…

The Queensland government has taken a massive public health gamble by encouraging widespread infection in an attempt to achieve endemicity…

medium.com

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@ColinKinner

1 year

. @Mark_Butler_MP Why does the Health Dept have this wildly incorrect advice prominently on its web site? “ICEG recommends the use of surgical masks or well-fitting, triple-layered cloth masks for the general public to reduce transmission of COVID-19.” /1

Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Guidance on community face mask use

The Infection Prevention and Control Expert Group has developed this guidance for community on face mask use in the context of COVID-19.

www.health.gov.au

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2 years

Government mis-information about COVID has led to myths and mis-understandings among everyday Australians. eg: “The pandemic is over” “COVID is mild in kids” “It's once-and-done” “Masks aren’t needed” “Long COVID is just a bit of fatigue”. 33/

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