Libby White #CovidIsNotOver

Denying the science and inevitable heath consequences of Covid is like arguing with your roof guy.

Eventually, if you don’t fix it, it’ll cave in.

Elon Musk's call for Germany to 'move beyond' Nazi guilt is dangerous, Holocaust memorial chair says Musk made a virtual appearance at a campaign event for Germany’s far-right AfD party, saying “children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents.”

www.nbcnews.com/news/world/e...

When we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat it.

Please speed it up!

Most people don't know that SARS2 still circulates widely.

When people get sick, they don't test.
When they do test they use single ineffective RATs.
Then, if positive, they don't report.

5 people close to me have suffered through Covid in the last 3 months.
#CovidIsNotOver

One more reason to #maskup and #WearARespirator .

Many people STILL don't know that baggy blue surgical masks are not manufactured to prevent AIRBORNE viruses.

Wear a tight fitting NIOSH APPROVED N95 when sharing air in public spaces.

I like 3MAura and Fangtian N040.
Find one that fits you well!

Petition: Introduce new air quality and PPE rules for health and social care settings We want the Government to set new rules on air quality and infection control in health and social care settings, to prevent and control airborne infections, with new ventilation and filtration require...

Have you signed?
#SarsCov2 #Covid19 #UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thanks @dalupton.bsky.social for your post with the links to some really hardworking people who are tireless in their commitment to public & global health, science, data and transparency and ultimately some accountability.
#CovidIsNotOver
#SARSCoV2
#LongCovid
#scienematters
#datamatters

What a set of titles. All published within the last two years. I really want to read these at some point. Can't believe we're starting year 6 of the covid pandemic.

Yet another reminder that there is a science-based response to COVID that requires taking #longCOVID seriously, and recognizing aerosol transmission and mitigating it with ventilation, standards-compliant PPE (N95+) and vaccines...

...and there are quacks.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

If governments and organisations attended to indoor air quality, we’d be less reliant on masks to prevent transmission of respiratory infections.

Masks Work. Distorting Science to Dispute the Evidence Doesn't New mask studies relying on a medical paradigm do not erase decades of engineering and occupational science that show they work

"Masks work. Especially respirator-style N95 masks."

Don't let politicians and capitalists, who don't care about your health, but only about their own positions and profits, distort reality. Masks work. Protect yourself.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/mask...

We just finished working with our preschool to have Corsi-Rosenthal boxes running in the classroom and indoor play space!

We keep each other safe.

This is very disappointing from Health Secretary @gwynnemp.bsky.social - anyone who heard the evidence of @barryjmjones.bsky.social and others at the covid inquiry would have no doubt that #covid is airborne.

Good article.... but!
The simple way we can all help is to wear a mask - preferably a well-fitting FFP2/3 respirator mask.
Masks work against ALL infectious respiratory diseases (like Flu, Covid), and they are variant-proof.
And open a window, until air-filtration is improved.

This is a good article... but!
The simple way we can ALL help is to wear a mask. Preferably a well-fitting FFP2/3 respirator mask.
The JCVI have significantly reduced the number of people eligible for Covid vaccines.
But masks work - against all respiratory infections - and they are variant-proof.

Cambridge hospital’s mask upgrade appears to eliminate Covid risk to staff Hospital infection study shows use of FFP3 respirators at Addenbrooke’s ‘may have cut ward-based infection to zero’

COVID also can cause strokes & pulmonary embolisms. All of this will be increasing hospital stays and backlogs. You can greatly reduce this problem.
www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...

@uklabour.bsky.social @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social Hospitals are full of airborne infections of Flu & COVID. This is impacting not just those going for treatment but other patients who are catching them in the hospitals in addition to whatever their condition is. This is elongating patient stays🧵

#MaskAbuse Clinically Vulnerable Families (CV/CEV) UK ... I went to see my neurologist this week. I have primary progressive MS and severe COPD. In 2021, 2022 and 2023 he told me that I didn't need to mask. I didn't see him in 2024. This time as I walked in he asked if he needed to put his hands up and was this a hold up? FFS! I saw no-one else masking during the hour that I was in the hospital.

Would such discriminatory behaviour by a senior clinician be acceptable if it targeted any other group?

Clinical vulnerability needs to be added to the Equality Act.

#MaskAbuse

'I was an infectious disease nurse, I've never seen a crisis like the quad-demic' A retired infection control nurse says she has never known a situation in hospitals where four viruses are rife at such high levels Winter flu pressures continue to rage at hospitals across England with an average of 5,408 patients a day in hospital with flu in the first week of January, new figures show (Photo: Jeff Moore/PA) Aasma Day

🧼 “You can’t hand wash your way out of this quad-demic because it is mainly spread by what you breathe in and what you breathe out."

- Dr @evonnetcurran.bsky.social retired infection control nurse.

inews.co.uk/news/health/...

🚨 The Covid Inquiry restarts next week.
It will be focused on a new topic of 'Vaccines and Therapeutics'.

This module is not getting the attention it deserves with only 3 wks and so MANY important witnesses.

1/

The JCVI and Gov't are planning to reduce eligibility for #Covid vaccines even further.
#CovidVaccination reduces #LongCovid, yet for many people, it's more than 2 years since their last vaccination.
Open Letter from CVF.
@jessicaelgot.bsky.social
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
@jessicaelgot.bsky.social

Amen. As an immunocompromised healthcare worker who still wears an N95 for the entire 12+ hours of my shift (as well as indoors everywhere else), and has a constant level of seething rage at healthcare workers who refuse to mask properly *even in areas it’s required*, I heartily co-sign this.

The amount of people I know who have caught #Covid attending regular hospital appointments is ridiculous! 😠
#CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #SaveALife #CovidIsAirborne

First Bluesky Post!! 🤩

Couldn’t resist a photo with the #longcovid research hero’s at @buonsenso.bsky.social ‘s international meeting on Long COVID in Rome 🇮🇹

Excited to engage in discussions on #research and #collaboration

Dr Rachel Clarke.
She's great.
Follow her, if you 'enjoyed' 😭 #Breathtaking.

This is a VERY important thread by @catinthehat.bsky.social.
Read it all!
Blue Sky doesn't seem to have a Thread Reader Unroll function (yet), so make sure you read to the end, where Cat presents the rationale for vaccinating all Over 50 and all at Clinical Risk.

Post, post & repost. We need to show them soundly(!) that there is a big market for Novavax in the UK — so that next time, we’re not made to wait so long!