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Covid-19 Boosters – Statement by UK Leading Neurologists Covid-19 Boosters in the UK – Statement This autumn is the first since the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) changed its policy on who can receive Covid-19 vaccination bo…

The exclusion of people with MND from automatic eligibility for a Covid booster is not only medically indefensible, it is economically disproportionate.
See yesterdays statement signed by Professor Ammar-Al-Chalabi and other leading neurology consultants. united2endmnd.org/2025/11/14/c...

Black background with white and red text: NEW CONCERNING FLU STRAINS FOR 2025 MEAN THE NHS FLU PLAN IS KICKING IN... [Image: stop watch] FLU? 48HRS TO ACT... You will qualify for antivirals if you are in a risk group: Under 6 months Pregnant Over 65 years Clinically Vulnerable You don't need a positive test. Contact your GP or 111: IF EXPOSED TO SOMEONE WITH FLU OR, YOU HAVE RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS Clinically Vulnerable Families [logo]

For some, the first 48 hrs of 'flu are critical.

Call your GP or 111 for treatment if you receive an NHS 'flu vaccine based on risk, even if you have only been exposed.

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🇦🇺 Australia is looking into future-proofing their air. 💨

Why aren't others?

Here is my blog on the recent Covid Inquiry hearings - module 8 Children & Young People. It highlights how clinically vulnerable children/households are ignored, indeed punished for needing to stay safe. Change is needed: improved safety; support and status. livingonplagueisland.blog/2025/11/03/t...

Petition: Fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people – keep covid boosters 'Protect the NHS' and 'Save Lives' by continuing to fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people, including most previously shielded as CEV, rather than limiting them to over-75s, care hom...

Please sign and share our petition to ##KeepCovidBoosters 🙏

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

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⚠️ Spot the UK on the @who.int map of hospitalisations and ICU admissions due to Covid.

...Then, explain whether the UK's vaccination strategy is working?

#KeepCovidBoosters
Clinically Vulnerable people are at risk!

CTI "Is there anything you think we can learn from your experience[...]?"

IM "We also need to plan for a pandemic that also high-risks to children, and of course children didn't come out unscathed from this."

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"In conclusion, there are no easy answers to the issues identified in this module... but if you focus on SAFETY, SUPPORT, and STATUS, that would go a long way to protecting Clinically Vulnerable families, now, and in the future."

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CVF💙💜💗's Closing Statement

⚠️SAFETY
- Schools must be made safe.

👩‍🏫SUPPORT
- Children must be given appropriate support to continue their education at home.

🛡️STATUS
- Clinical Vulnerability must be recognised as a distinct group in the Equality Act.

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@adamwagner1.bsky.social KC

🚨Gavin Williamson former Education Secretary

Sadly, there were no inquiry questions of CVF's children but we had 8 mins of questioning. However, Gavin did raise them - without prompting.

Do watch the highlights!

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Exactly. Cathy and many people I know from the CV community are completely well informed, well balanced rational people who navigate the appalling situation facing those who need to avoid catching COVID with aplomb. I am proud to know them

Autumn 2025 Covid-19 Booster Programme – update Update 28 June and 14 July 2025 The government has approved the Joint Committee on Vaccines and Immunisation (JCVI) proposals for this Autumn’s booster programme which were published over seven mon…

Over 12 million people previously eligible will be denied a COVID booster this Autumn. This is cruel, dangerous and creates a two tier health system benefiting clinically vulnerable people and their households who can pay for a private jab livingonplagueisland.blog/2025/06/30/a...

Local elections 2023: Woman in mask turned away at polling station - BBC News Andrea Barrett attempted to cast her vote at Eastleigh Masonic Centre but says she was turned away.

CVF has been collaborating with the Electoral Commission and has requested clarification on this point. However, because the legislation isn’t published, they can’t comment yet.

2/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Clinically Vulnerable children have needs - spread the awareness

Inclusion in education:

For Clinically Vulnerable children and those in CV families, attending school shouldn’t mean risking their health.

💨 Clean air
😷 Respect for masks

Children are among those most frequently challenged for mask wearing.

5/ #CVAwarenessDay

Clinically Vulnerable people have needs - spread the awareness Clinically Vulnerable Families logo Ribbon with blue, purple, and pink QR: www.clinicallyvulnerable.org

🩵💜💗 July 19
= Clinically Vulnerable Awareness Day

4 yrs ago, “Freedom Day” left millions behind. For CV people, it wasn’t freedom but exclusion.

Health and safety should be inclusive rights, not a privilege.

Show solidarity:
Share a masked selfie with #CVAwarenessDay

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We Can Make an Impact. Release the Leftover COVID Vaccines to Those Who Want Them

Please sign. By agreeing to the wrongheaded, partial advice from the JCVI, the government refuses to vaccinate clinically vulnerable people at serious risk of serious illness if they catch Covid. Please sign this petition asking for the release of spare vaccine doses
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Ondine Sherwood obituary Other lives: Founder of a group campaigning for the recognition of Long Covid

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Ondine did such a huge job to get recognition for all with Long Covid👇

@threadreader.bsky.social unroll please

Please can we have a bluesky 🌊 of reposts. Last day to try to get 3,000 signatures to help keep everyone safer in healthcare. Especially Cancer patients and elderly. Please sign our petition below 🙏

Please sign the petition. Everyone should have the right to feel and be safe in medical settings petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

RFK Jr. has BLOCKED me on Threads.
I can't search or view his profile anymore. All because I asked him to resign as HHS Secretary.

This is what happens when you speak the TRUTH.

But I won’t be silent.

I will continue exposing the Trump administration’s failures no matter the cost.

Long Covid in NHS staff going undiagnosed, study suggests | Nursing Times Read about a new study revealing the prevalence of long Covid symptoms among the NHS workforce and the lack of formal diagnoses.

This article is the reality of the situation. www.nursingtimes.net/respiratory/...

Read and weep.

Terrifying

A massive thank you to the young people who shared their experiences and voices in order to raise awareness #LongCovidAwarenessDay

‘I don’t feel part of society’: how Covid is still taking its toll five years on The social, educational and financial impact is still making itself felt, especially for those who continue to mourn

5 short Stories of people still impacted by the pandemic
- Long Covid and the impact it has on their partner
- A mother with an autistic child due to education issues from lockdown
- A fathers death
-Someone CV
- PTSD from all the deaths

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

This is excellent. Thank you @francesryan.bsky.social

Secretary of State, Wes Streeting, recently announced that thousands of jobs are to be axed from the NHS.

Hopefully, between them, he and Sir Jim will resolve the crisis of incompetence and indifference to health and safety legislation which pervades senior management in NHS/IPC.

Sir Jim recently posted this message: “I have been asked by Government if I would lead the NHS through its transition from the current crisis to getting back on its feet, as transition CEO of NHS England...

Sir Jim - please recognise that the 'current crisis' is being fuelled by flawed IPC 🙏

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CATA wrote to the 4 Nations Chief Nursing Officers in October last year.

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