Tom Andrews

Hello all. I’ve joined and not sure how to find everyone. I hope to reconnect w/ everyone that followed me & I followed on other site. Let me know you’re here. Let’s work together to save lives.

Economic burden of Long Covid in the UK estimated to be >$20 billion per year from real cohort data
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Plot of covid outcomes by age for A&E attendance, hospital admission, severe hospital admission and death. Apart from death, rates were highest for babies under 6 months.

THREAD: we urgently need to talk about babies & Covid - AGAIN.

A new paper has dropped looking at acute Covid-19 outcomes from Sep 2023-Apr 2024 by age for all England.

Except for deaths, babies under 6 mths old have HIGHEST risk of A&E, admission & SEVERE hospital admission across ALL ages 1/10

Petition to quickly add group chats to #bsky🙏.

Reason: They are very important for community building, to have a bit more private space to connect & discuss issues.

Pls like/reskeet (repost) if you agree or add your own reasons💛.

@pfrazee.com

"Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 9-22, 2024

SEVERE: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, North, NS, ON, PEI, QC, SK
VERY HIGH: NL
HIGH: none
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 31 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected."

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An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of vaccines. THREAD👇

Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7 #history #skystorians

Maternal COVID-19 infection associated with offspring neurodevelopmental disorders - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Maternal COVID-19 infection associated with offspring neurodevelopmental disorders

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠

May as well start here too🤬🤬

Model Georgina Cooper, the Face of Cool Britannia, Dies at 46 The British model was best known for her gapped front tooth and working with photographers such as the late Corinne Day and Elaine Constantine.

"A source close to the model said that she died on the Greek island of Kos and that she had suffered from a blood brain hemorrhage as a result of long COVID." (Not officially confirmed as yet?)

wwd.com/fashion-news...

Don't listen to those with silken tongues saying that the pandemic is over, it's "only" like a cold or seasonal flu, people aren't badly affected & that it's mild now, that we have to live with it

They are covering up their failure to act and protect society

Wear a well fitting respirator 😷

“Heartbreaking”: Supermodel Georgina Cooper Tragically Passes Away Months After Getting Married Georgina Cooper, the British supermodel and friend of Kate Moss, has tragically passed away at the age of 46. Georgina, a mother of one, was vacationing with her new husband, Nigel, on the Greek isla...

The public need to realise that in a very large number of cases, the serious, chronic and often fatal health problems that patients are developing during and after recent COVID (re)infections are BECAUSE of those infections

It is VITAL to avoid these (re) infections

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A spike in COVID deaths has driven a decline in Australian life expectancy for the second year running A COVID-era surge in the death rate has shaved months off the life expectancy of Australians, who remain among the longest-lived people in the world.

"A spike in #COVID deaths has driven a decline in Australian life expectancy for the second year running"

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Infection Aftershock: COVID-19’s Long-Term Impact on Your Heart New research indicates that people who contracted COVID-19 early in the pandemic faced a significantly elevated risk of heart attack, stroke, and death for up to three years post-infection. Those with...

I’m imagining this headline on abc news for 6 months when the government decided to open up before any air safety upgrades…

instead of “The Denmark Model” mild thing ad nauseam while thousands of Aussies were killed.

scitechdaily.com/infection-af...

Obviously enough people didn't read between the lines to see the unsaid "Make America Mordor" promise on the Trump ticket 😬

#Project2025

Le risque de COVID longue augmente après plusieurs infections Le risque de développer la COVID longue atteint 37 % après trois infections, selon l'INSPQ, qui note aussi une hausse de ce syndrome dans la population.

Huge new report out of Quebec

The risk of long COVID reaches 37% after three infections, according to the INSPQ

The Quebec health system is unable to help the growing number of people who have had persistent symptoms for months or even years

ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/211...

I'm not asking healthcare professionals to watch TV or keep up with the news. I'm asking them to read the most influential medical periodical in the world? Don't psychologise #LongCovid patients.
#NeuroCovid
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Good morning! And thanks, this helped me to realise I missed a "j" from my handle when I set it up 🤣🤦‍♂️

Fixed!

Thanks, I shall pass on that you haven't expired due to a surfeit of kale 🙃

@christosargyrop.bsky.social Hi Christos, all ok I hope? What happened to your twitter account?

#COVIDpoems #HealthLore

Vaccinate to improve your fate
Heed the herd and harm your heart
Party hearty and invigorate the virus
Viral air brings despair
COVID takes from all it touches
Closing your mind means you shall lose it
Mask your face to maintain your health

Opinion: Sick of your kids being sick? Clean air in schools may be the answer It’s time to take a closer look at air filters in classrooms to prevent illnesses and absences, write Julia Corey and Orla Hegarty

Great piece in the Irish Examiner about clean air in schools

Clean air in schools should NOT be controversial

It is affordable, easily achievable and benefits kids in many ways

And again, this should NOT be controversial

No paywall so please read and share

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Perspective: I Thought I Was Protected but I Still Got Long Covid Some commentators believe the so-called hybrid immunity of vaccines and infections protects people. According to them, Salvatore Mattera did everything right. He's realized the hard way that multilaye...

“Long COVID is the biggest, most mispriced risk facing the United States. Based on the latest studies, it's entirely possible that as many as one-third of Americans could be struggling with Long COVID in just a few years.”

Petition as above showing 9230 signatures

📣We have 1wk to get 770+ signatures📣

How can you help?
💙 Sign (& confirm email)
💜 Ask friends, family, and even children to sign
💗 Find groups of like-minded on other social platforms and ask for help

Tomorrow 6-8pm in the other place #MasksInHealthcare
with
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Especially with the continuing risk of new COVID-19 variants, it is essential to maintain an “occupational hygiene plus” approach at work i.e. integrating vaccination with other control strategies. Relying only on vaccination programmes is asking for trouble.

However, when source and pathway control have been neglected or are insufficient, just as firefighters may have to rely on indispensable Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE) for protection, so too Health Care Workers have to rely on RPE.

Clearly every effort should be made to mitigate risk, first through source control and then through pathway control such as by investment in ventilation / filtration.

During the COVID-19 pandemic "following public health guidance” often became a euphemism for ignoring occupational hygiene science and good practice, and for not complying with health and safety obligations towards employees.

There are indeed many contributory causes leading to death of workers from COVID-19, but there is only one necessary cause of COVID-19 mortality, namely exposure to an infectious dose of viable SARS-CoV-2 viruses!

There was a narrative of “underlying conditions” so deaths of workers seemed to be ascribed to factors specific to the victims; and not to the failure of the employer to provide an environment that eliminated or minimized exposure to known hazards.

Unfortunately the authorities fed false narratives to workers. Workers were worngly told that surgical masks were OK as 'Personal Protective Equipment'.