Jane Gilks

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Good to see you here! 😊

We are still ‘during the pandemic’ just not the emergency phase as per the WHO.

This is so disappointing. Interim recommendations on respirators would have been so helpful and her reasons really don’t ring true. So much more harm will be done now. Such cowardice.

What I don’t understand is - Covid is still a notifiable disease so why aren’t they already obliged to test in order to notify. Non of it makes sense 🤷‍♀️

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If you are anti-Brexit and pro EU and want to find some extra followers.

RT and reply to this post and add each other.

No fun speaking to yourself.

What a hellish mess. I’m having an op soon and am dreading the risks I’ll have to take. Don’t particularly wish to be a nosocomial statistic 🤬

🚨 Prof Banfield of the BMA on nosocomial Covid infection:

“Beggars belief we report MRSA infections when you have a cluster of 3 or 4 yet we had clusters of 100s of #Covid infections & we are not taking those into account… it certainly should be relevant to patients now”

#LongCovid

Clinical and functional assessment of SARS-CoV-2 sequelae among young marines – a panel study In this population of healthy young adult US Marines with mostly either asymptomatic or mild acute COVID-19, one fourth reported physical, cognitive, or psychiatric long-term sequelae of infection. Th...

Not so mild:

"In this population of healthy young adult US Marines with mostly either asymptomatic or mild acute #COVID19, one fourth reported physical, cognitive, or psychiatric long-term sequelae of infection"

#PASC #LongCovid 🩺

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The British media need to stop treating Trump and his campaign like this is all normal. It's bad enough that American democracy is powerless to stop him. What his presidency would mean to the world needs to be forcefully spelled out. These are extraordinary times and the ordinary rules do not apply.

Long COVID symptoms prevalent among healthcare workers New research has found that 33.6% of surveyed healthcare workers in England report symptoms consistent with post-COVID syndrome.

“New research…found that 33.6% of surveyed healthcare workers in England report symptoms consistent with post-COVID syndrome (PCS), more commonly known as Long COVID. Yet only 7.4% of respondents reported that they have received a formal diagnosis”

NHS canary in coal mine for healthcare everywhere

I bet he doesn’t want it published!

“Jeremy Hunt, the former Conservative chancellor, has protested about the OBR’s plan to publish the review on Wednesday, calling it “a surprise and a significant concern”.
Hunt, who claimed in July that the £22bn “black hole” was nonsense.”

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Why are only a few of us joining the dots? Are people being deliberately obtuse? Am starting to despair. . .

So much hate. Terrifying.

Reviewing the evidence for vaccinating children against COVID 19 Highlighting recent research on the impacts of COVID-19 in children and adolescents.

Great substack by @sheencr.bsky.social on the latest evidence to inform Covid vaccination in children (and pregnancy)

sheenacruickshankimmunology.substack.com/p/reviewing-...

Meanwhile in the UK healthcare carries on acting as if non of these illnesses exist and certainly aren’t airborne 🤯

The NHS needs vital improvements to 'infection prevention and control' practice, and to acknowledge that viruses like #SARSCoV2 are airborne - putting into place controls and actions that minimise virus transmission. 🤦And in doing so, limit the spread of infections in hospitals!

The NHS needs vital improvements to 'infection prevention and control' practice, and to acknowledge that viruses like #SARSCoV2 are airborne - putting into place controls and actions that minimise virus transmission.
🤦And in doing so, limit the spread of infections in hospitals!

I personally would love patient led research. I have a condition (Lipoedema) that few doctors have even heard of despite being on the NHS website. TBH if a doctor even listened to what I know about my condition it would be a miracle! 🤷‍♀️

👋 well I follow you on the bird site and love your content so hi! 👋

YouTube video by The Safe Air Schools Foundation Dr Amir Khan Speaks to Lorraine About Ventilation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sinm... ventilate !!

What you need to know about the link between Covid and heart attacks As a new study shows that a Covid infection may raise the risk of a heart attack, here’s what you can do to protect your heart

« In my view, it could be many years before we can assess how much additional damage was done to people’s hearts by the Covid pandemic »

www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne...

Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 20 October 2024 The BuDS Covid-19 Risk Assessment for the week ending 20 October 2024

Covid infection levels in England remained high but static last week, with around 1 in 99 people in England now infected with Covid as of 13 October. The risk of meeting an infected person in your everyday life remains Very High.

buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...

I have to go into a UK hospital soon for a knee replacement and am dreading the risk I have to take in terms of catching Covid. It shouldn’t be like this 🤬

Outpatient treatment of COVID-19 and incidence of post-COVID-19 condition over 10 months (COVID-OUT): a multicentre, randomised, quadruple-blind, parallel-group, phase 3 trial Outpatient treatment with metformin reduced long COVID incidence by about 41%, with an absolute reduction of 4·1%, compared with placebo. Metformin has clinical benefits when used as outpatient treatm...

Why isn’t metformin used routinely in acute COVID to reduce risk of long COVID? It’s cheap, effective, long-tested in other conditions and pretty harmless. Something to do with being off patent maybe?

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Use of Alternative Medicine for Cancer and Its Impact on Survival Abstract. There is limited available information on patterns of utilization and efficacy of alternative medicine (AM) for patients with cancer. We identifi

Dear Elle MacPherson
You and I had the same kind of breast cancer, HER+ (tends to be aggressive). I embraced conventional treatment (chemo, mastectomy, biologics); you eschewed these. We’re both alive years later. Here’s evidence that others should NOT copy you. 🧪

academic.oup.com/jnci/article...

‘General Hospital’ Icon Emma Samms Talks Latest Return to the Show Amid Her Battle With Long COVID (EXCLUSIVE) 'General Hospital' icon Emma Samms returns as Holly Sutto and gives fans a hint of things to come and opens up about her battle with long COVID

“I’ve been like this now for 4.5 years nearly. All they keep finding is more and more damage that COVID has done to people’s bodies. I had myocarditis, which has scarred my heart. The consequences of COVID — ... and it’s terrifying to me that people think we are no longer in a pandemic.”

I feel your pain. I have two gorgeous granddaughters (UK) who have never been offered a vaccine and have definitely had Covid once and likely several times. What does their future look like?