Repeating a prev. angry comment:
My (Dr) sister is BANNED from wearing FFP in a NHS covid ward.
I handed her a spare N95 (I'd flown from USA to UK) in Scotland & tears welled up in her eyes. She said I wear better PPE in shops than she's allowed on covid wards.
Think on that.
Yay !
France breaks ranks and goes for universal booster!
Stark contrast to the sick and morally empty Plague Island countries restricting booster access
Liberte, Egalite, fraternite, Humanite et Sante !
France has just announced a campaign for early Covid19 booster vaccination & intends to make it
accessible to all.
An urgent recommendation is being made for at-risk groups.
It will be free for everyone.
Starmer infected for second time in 3 months.
GDB Herd immunity seems to involve a lot of infection and not much immunity.
Are PHE properly counting reinfections yet?
@danaparish
@michaelryan756
@CDCDirector
"unknown stomach virus"
There is no excuse in this day and age of precise molecular diagnostics.. e.g. PCR tests...
for a 7 year old to DIE of an 'unknown stomach virus'.
How the flip do they even know it was a virus if they didn't run a test that showed it?
1. 'I am saying we should acknowledge reality and fix it. COVID changed the world and trying to force “normalcy” without changing anything is going to perpetually end in tragedy for many'.
@PippaCrerar
@evansma
Never before have the police engaged in pre-election purdah because up till now it was expected that politicians seeking election should be law abiding.
Don't the electorate have a right to know?
@thoaidngo
Are you breathing without O2?
Have you avoided hospital?
Then it's mild.
Your scale of severity and clinical scale of severity differ.
So does mine.
This is a con job on the public, using 'mild' - a technical term - which public interpret differently.
@amandalhu
California health officials new covid isolation rules.
If you test positive:
1) Go to bathroom.
2) Lock cubicle.
3) Take a dump
4) End isolation.
@nadhimzahawi
To drive attendance back to pre-pandemic rates:
drive infections back to pre-pandemic rates.
Vaccinate, Filtrate the air and invest in HVAC.
Stop mucking about & penny pinching kids vaccines, HEPA filters and heat exchanging HVAC.
Short term: high quality FFP2 masks.
Just flown in middle of omicron, 3M aura masked.
Holy crap, it's stressful. Lots careless people.
3M Aura mask stayed on continuously over 2 flights, 3 airports. (Tanked up on water outside after check-in)
Our kids forced daily unmasked into schools?
For their mental health?
Flu: R<2
Covid: R>10
Flu deaths 2019: 1223
Covid deaths 2021: 78,000
Why should we learn to live with covid *in the same way* we have learned to live with Flu.
Covid is more infectious and more deadly, so we need to take MORE precautions to live with it.
@mdc_martinus
Lawyer to employer: "CDC said right here that the virus is airborne and potentially infectious for an unknown period of time and you did not put everyone in the space in N95 masks? Obviously you were negligent.".
They got something right.
@Itisallacademic
@SunnyL723
I'm afraid you are right.
This was ridiculous.
Race director going for drama and not rules based decision making.
It's a show, not a sport.
Press finally waking up to absence of affordable, simple air filter protection responses in schools. That have been in place in other countries and which our herd immunity fetish Government has refused to act on.
😂😂😂 So the Govt plan to get covid numbers under control gets clearer:
You have to pay EXTRA to report your test to HSA
(and presumably get access to medical care or welfare if
you develop long covid).
#BeatWinterViruses
with good handwashing 🧼.
Airborne viruses like flu and COVID-19 linger on surfaces we touch daily.
Washing your hands with soap and water for at least 30 seconds will eliminate germs before passing them on.
@fearnley_k
Sad to hear this.
Lawsuit time.
No RPE, lied on FRSM.
Your employer didn't protect you,
Harmed you.
Discarded you.
There is nothing special about the NHS.
It is an employer subject to same laws as any other, with same duty of care.
The risk was obvious and not mitigated.
@thoaidngo
I don't say this to be unsympathetic - I am HUGELY sympathetic.
I say this because people hear medics saying things like 'rarely severe' or 'mild if vaccinated'.
It can be a shit disease that absolutely knocks you flat in 'mild' cases & still risks long covid.
ARD is worse.
@danaparish
They send email reminding that surgical masks only protect outside of aerosol generating procedures, & staff supplying their own PPE will be subject to disciplinary action.
My sister pointed out to me:
Why is coughing NOT an AGP but sticking a tube up someones arse is an AGP?
@Telegraph
Telegraph - when they say kids rarely get severe severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Moderate is in hospital wearing an O2 mask or nasal prongs, number 5 on a scale of to dead.
About 11,000 moderate cases in kids.
@BallouxFrancois
No, ideally as late as possible and definitely AFTER they have been vaccinated.
16383 children hospitalised in England.
- Hospitalisation is a harm worth avoiding.
- 29% of hospitalised get acute kidney injuries
- 15% or so new onset diabetes
- many cardiac & lung conditions
Doctors of the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital must take responsibility for the death of a patient infected with COVID-19 in the treatment facility according to the Court of Appeal of Lithuania in awarding damages to the son of the deceased woman
1/
Johnson boasting that all other countries around us have far tougher restrictions...
they have far lower cases and deaths.
and vaccinate their kids properly.
@theAliceRoberts
"The DfE is expressly telling heads not to give out any lateral flow tests they may have in stock, and to dump them instead."
WTF?
If anything prove it's not about the money, it's about ideology it is this!
So after telling us schools are safe and transmission rarely happens in classrooms, mercurial PH says bigger rooms, fewer kids (half empty conditions of Summer 2020 studies they kept referencing) are needed to make schools safer.
Acknowledges transmission and risk doesn't it?
Do I have this right:
DHSC and Ministers have stockpiled jabs..
(i.e. bought and paid for)
Which JCVI refused to give, despite net benefit, because they couldn't prove a cost benefit equation.
But the cost was paid anyway without the benefit???
“Extending jabs to the over-50s would have ‘unquantified benefits’ including ‘protecting NHS capacity in winter and preventing long Covid-19 in the community’, a Department of Health analysis says”
@British_Airways
I have flown multiple times in this pandemic.
Sod you, British Airways, I will never fly BA again because you do not care for my safety.
Goodbye.
@PeteUK7
@Ride4Truth
RCT is a tool for empiricism in complex pharmacological systems we don't understand.
Engineering and physics have accurate predictive models. Aerosol filtration is a physics/engineering issue, not medical.
If Nasa had designed Apollo by RCT, huge pile of dead astronauts.
@denise_dewald
add the known knowns like rates of kidney damage, diabetes, heart damage and cortex thinning. Parosmia, anosmia, chronic inflammation.
And forgot to mention auto-immune & immune aging.
But, apart from that, it's just a cold.
@uksciencechief
Dear Sir Patrick,
perhaps you could give as a clear summary, as it appears to us that the advice most certainly does NOT support the removal of testing, surveillance surveys and contact isolation.
Does your advice support or disagree with present Government course of action?
@dgurdasani1
Seems like "endemicity" is herd immunity without the immunity part.
Unless you are Sunetra Gupta and it's Schroedinger's immunity - where you are constantly reinfected to keep immunity/not immune to infection.
And circulating virus is magically safer for the CEV.
@kprather88
I'd suggest Infection Control Docs be measured and assessed on their policies ACTUALLY controlling the hospital acquired infections.
Sack the lot of them, they failed.
@RichardJMurphy
QE - an rarely used emergency finance approach invoked by the Bank of England to respond to events of great national peril:
1. Global banking crisis in 2008
2. Emergence of deadly pandemic
3. Liz Truss getting overpromoted.
@Telegraph
11,000 have been hospitalised, and
80% due to.
60% with no underlying conditions.
Last time I said "yeah, I put him in hospital but it was a moderate hospitalisation, and he lived" the bloke with the wig wasn't satisfied.
Instead of vaccinating kids for the benefit of adults, the are infecting kids to give free whole virus boosters to adults.
Giving a swathe of the next generation long Covid for the immunity benefit to the older generation.
Remember what was done to you kids.
@farid__jalali
I honestly don't think I said anything unreasonable.
Frankly disappointed to be blocked by someone on the Lancet Covid commission for this comment.
If public health leaders circle wagons and ignore criticism, there's something sick - and I don't mean the public.
@SGriffin_Lab
SUMMER HOLIDAYS CAUSE IMMUNODEFICIENCY
Children are out of school for TWO MONTHS every year and it harms them because they are NOT CONSTANTLY INFECTED.
If there's a DISEASE they miss for a few months it PERMANENTLY HARMS THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEM.
BAN SUMMER HOLIDAYS
(sarcasm)
@fitterhappierAJ
If constantly reinfected, what is it you are immune to?
Mental gymnastics by herd immunity advocates refusing to concede they were totally wrong and advocated mass death.
What are you left with when you take the "immunity" out of "herd immunity"?
⚠️Over 70% of household
#COVID19
spread **started with a child**, says new study of 850,000 US households. Younger kids under 8 more likely source of transmission than kids 9-17. 📌In-person schools “also resulted in substantial spread”. Just the facts. 🧵
@denise_dewald
Known unknowns:
- FIP
- MS autopsies finding hCov in brains
- Covid19 infecting and replicating in neurons and WBCs
- Viral persistence in gut epithelial cells
- Some weaker evidence of viral persistence in lungs.
Then there's unknown unknowns.
H/T
@fitterhappierAJ
New JCVI minutes (many) went live.
See:
Minute 33rd JCVI COVID-19 Sub-committee May 20_FINAL.pdf
Natural immunity in kids, broad strain immunity for those not given long Covid. Adults get breakthrough upgrades
Parents think a duplicitous policy of forced infections in unmitigated schools, witholding vaccines, with attendance sanctions for cev families broke the spell of the bond with schools.
Social contract of schools being safe was shattered
For flu the herd immunity threshold (R0-1)/R0 is 30%
We can survive the summer with many immune.
For covid the threshold is 90%. There will be no summer off season.
Why are we being told by CRG politicians that SAGE is being stood down?
Isn't it a decision for the Chief Scientific Advisor, as to what advice structures he needs?
He needs advice on all manner of topics, so surely he can set up whatever committees he needs to feed his advice?
@Oldboatie
@Dr_FarrisD
@TV4
UK medical leadership response:
Self reported "brain fog"
Delay and deny full vaccination for children, seek adult immunity boost from unmitigated child infection.
Precautionary principle out the window.
@eilise
And likewise I handed her my spare to go into "John Lewis" and it was massively better than she HAS to wear on Covid ward.
I could see the tears in her eyes, and we both felt shock that I'm wearing better to get lettuce and mince than when she's treating covid patients.
@Gab_H_R
After a liver transplant, they're only immunosuppressed for the rest of their lives.
What's the worst that could happen?
It's a mild transplant.
Failure to acknowledge the consequence of Delta and then Omicron breakthrough reinfections.
Warp Speed 2.0 should have been started EARLY in the Biden presidency, when they still had congress.
Watering down masking advice instead of respirator recommendation.
I disagree.
Rochelle is a personal mentor (so I'm biased) & one of the most impressive, hyper-competent people I've ever met. Many
#onhere
disagreed with one policy or another since she's led the CDC; I have too. Just know that if you think you'd have done a better job, I think you're wrong.
@CDCDirector
If only there were some high quality easily portable filters we could stick over our mouths and noses to cut down on the circulation in indoor settings with lots people.
Perhaps with some specially good filter material that tech companies like 3M could make.
N95????
@YouAreLobbyLud
Met my sister for business thing today.
She's a doctor on a respiratory ward.
She forgot her mask.
At meeting, I gave her spare N95 import.
She commented this is 10x better than FRSM's she is forced to use to on covid ward.
She'd be sacked if she wore self supplied mask.
@NjbBari3
Oh FFS... It's evil.
If Pestilence as one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was put in charge of the NHS...
... even HE wouldn't think he'd get away with that!
@LucyofL
Dear Lucy,
This term we aiming to learn to live with covid.
If you are lucky enough to fall ill, we'd appreciate it if you could take the time to also infect your child.
Do send them into school. This will give all our children an equal opportunity to learn to live with covid
@HoppySaul
So sorry. We need an all out Teacher's strike now.
They've been placed in an untenable position unable to satisfy their duty of care. They're more lab assistants than teachers.
Strike till they're vaccinated.
And...
look at how the UK hospitalisations are settling into this endemic equilibrium.
Sadly I predicted this well over a year ago, once waning timescale was known.
High R0 *and* rapid waning is new to modern human experience. This is what it does.
I've skimmed Britannia Unchained.
I couldn't keep the contents of my stomach if I actually *read* it.
They've reduced the state income.
Flagging tax cuts.
*Next* will come reducing state expenditure.
Welfare, NHS ...
"We have to live within our means"
Mark these words
@nick_coatsworth
Rubbish.
It's about people that don't volunteer for perpetual covid reinfection every time our immunity wanes and several times a year.
Stop accusing people who actually care about preventing infectious disease as on the take.
Who is paying you? GBD?
Looks like SAGE are worrying about Johnson & Sunak dismantling testing and contact isolation system (points 14,15).
All they can think of is -- better talk to that guy who does the Zoe app, cos we're going to be driven blind!
@nick_coatsworth
Some of us have noticed that many infectious disease doctors have undergone a switcheroo from preventing covid infections to doing sweet FA about them and telling us to take our infections.
We don't subscribe to this change of direction and think public health should do its job.
The NHS has been broken by harsh don't care Govt.
Someone who did everything right; taking all precautions, infected via the Govt's let rip in schools policy.
JCVI minutes show it is policy, not incompetence.
UKHSA is assessing the situation....
They have no idea how it was detected when they cancelled testing and surveillance, so they have to figure out how it was detected and shut that down too.
A case of the COVID-19 variant BA.2.86 has been identified in the UK & a number of other countries. Dr Meera Chand, Deputy Director, has said "We're aware that BA.2.86 has been detected in the UK. UKHSA is assessing the situation & will provide further information in due course."
Dr. Fauci:
"we don't know what the long term effects are going to be on anyone, including children, so it may be that much to our dismay that children who get infected have long term consequences that we don't fully appreciate right now"
"I come down STRONGLY on vaccinating"
'Vaccinate the children' says Fauci, because: 1-they are vehicles of spread, 2-they get ill and die, 3-infected children may suffer unknown long term consequences. He clearly thinks the JCVI are wrong! 4/5
@sameo416
@YouAreLobbyLud
@brentmYYC
I'd suggest Infection Control Docs be measured and assessed on their policies ACTUALLY controlling the infections.
Sack the lot of them, they failed.
@vickyyyf
"Underlying conditions" is a broad church many eminently treatable.
Asthma - 8%
Obesity - 28%
Diabetes - 7%
Kidney disease - 15% over age 35
Heart conditions - 4%
High blood pressure - 30%
Welcome to health eugenics UK!
Roll up roll up, get your disposable workers here!
@tia_loret
@PeteUK7
Point is: Covid is *breaking* standard epidemiology.
It's waning/reinfecting too fast AND mutating too fast to run to saturation & shut down. Their entire received wisdom fails to describe what we see.
I think we're seeing inflexible people try force reality to fit their dogma