Dr Christine Peters

A one sided risk appreciation is cowardice.

It’s clever because it gives you a sense of achievement to “change its mind” and a warm glow because it’s not that easy with humans. But to what effect ?

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There's probably some of that but the big driver seems to be a combination of ego, ignorance, and the authoritarian culture of replacing rigorous science with pseudoscientific "Evidence Based Medicine" heuristics. Arrogant plus hopelessly out of date is...bad.

COVID is the Dunning-Kruger pandemic.

You are the best - don’t let it put you off your stride. We are with you !

When the word authentic is eroded by inauthentic over use, we are in a bad place.

Look to actions not words.

Be wise to the camouflage of policy speak and tickety box cultures

Also leave the hypocrisy behind.

It has an odour that permeates despite the floral bonanza of policy speak.

Top tip for encouraging speaking up - have the people fronting up your messaging be people who have not fronted up bullying and extremely bad speaking up practice in the past.

Staff ain’t dim.

The true aim of infection control is never to get statistical significance. Success is invisible.

That’s why you need evidence base that is not just double blind randomised controlled trials.

We may not want it, but denying something that exists is not a solution based approach.

Great to see this review on IEQ, health, wellbeing and performance in schools from UKHSA and Eurovent www.mdpi.com/2076-3298/12...

I have used every avenue available mentioned.

Reality is so far removed from the sweet words of encouragement uttered by the upper echelons that I think “Speaking up” should come with a formal “this could seriously damage your health” warning.

I would urge NHS staff to be very very careful when they speak up.

Process exists but its safety and efficacy to deliver what it should is very much in the lacking evidence domain.
Indeed we are awash with evidence that it’s a dangerous enterprise for the speaker upper.

We need better.

But still the stigmatisation and mocking undermining of staff who are struggling to carry on continues.

Mental ill health has causes - and weakness is not one of them.

Nice to see @isiaq.bsky.social, ASHRAE, and American Lung Association among those organizations.

Bumper crop this year ! A lot of stewing …

Comparing apples with apples from my tree.

It’s an undervalued skill set.

Oranges don’t enter into it.

It is still a global problem. Along with many infection threats to health.

We need peace, intelligent informed dialogue, open culture of disagreement not being construed as hate, factual integrity and genuine fairness.

These foundations are being eroded at scale and pace. Only the bugs win.

The UK National Action Plan for AMR highlights lPC in health care as a crucial strategy for tackling the threat of AMR.

This specifically includes the health care built environment.

Neglecting IPC will endanger AMR control.

One of the best things in the Hillsborough Law Bill is not the duty of candour on public officials, as welcome as that is, but news that bereaved families will have publicly funded legal representation at inquests. Finally an equality of arms that's been lacking for so long

When you accept bad things as normal and irreducible, you fail to achieve brilliance.

I wonder how many polyclonal infections of many bacteria we miss ?

Single colony typing and purity plating narrows down our understanding of what’s going on in patients.

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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

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BREAKING NEWS

At last, in the UK, we now have official guidance on the use of respirators (FFP3) vs Fluid Resistant Surgical Masks (FRSM) which has been prepared SPECIFICALLY FOR THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR.

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Just when progress was in reach.

It’s infectious aerosols that you don’t want to inhale if you don’t want these respiratory viruses infecting you.

Layers of pain for many.

So short sighted to reduce health care to economics and staff to functional inputs rather than caring humans

I worry that sometimes the world of statistics can become a proxy battleground. Statistical debates about what to measure can be used as a way to transpose a philosophical or political argument about what we actually value in more cloaked and technocratic way. Calls for more measurement of X can be a signalling mechanism and sometimes a displacement activity for the much harder issue of taking action on X. We already know

One of the things I try to bring out in this piece is the worry that sometimes statistical battles are a proxy war about values under the guise of technocracy
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