Dr. Nathan Blackwell

Not a single thing we were told about #COVID turned out to be correct. A long thread 🧵

discovering, horrifically, that AI can't tell the difference between the front and the back of a human ribcage and is all over reference research. behold, the spinal sternum

Here's the latest variant picture for the United Kingdom, to mid-January.

XFG.* "Stratus" remained dominant, but fell sharply to 44%

NB.1.8.1.* "Nimbus" grew steadily to 31%.

BA.3.2.* fell slightly to 20%.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #UK #BA_3_2 #Cicada
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‘Absurd’: decent homes standard for England’s private renters will not be enforced until 2035 Campaigners say government is letting landlords ‘drag their feet’ and ‘denying renters the most basic standards’

Appeasing landlords.

Decent homes standard for England’s private renters will not be enforced until 2035.

Millions of renters are stuck paying hand over fist for shoddy homes that pose a real danger to their health.

Govts put profits before people.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst

Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

Rapid Reaction: UK loses measles elimination status | LSHTM The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today (26 January 2026) that the UK has lost its measles elimination status.The decision is based on data showing 2,911 laboratory confirmed measles cases

Not good.

WHO meeting notes that the UK has lost its measles elimination status.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

More than 70% of US household COVID spread started with a child, study suggests

We were told “children don’t transmit”
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...

“I haven’t been able to find any wind farms in China”

Screenshot of a Positive.News article titled “Mass UK study debunks Covid vaccine myth.” Below the headline is a photo of a masked healthcare worker administering a vaccine injection into the upper arm of a masked young man seated in a clinic. Words by Robin Eveleigh, January 19, 2026.

"Mass UK study debunks COVID vaccine myth."

"A landmark study of nearly 14 million children in England has revealed that the Covid infection carries a higher risk of heart complications than the vaccination"

Source: archive.md/PanVG

Vaccines in Pregnancy, UK | Learn More About Vaccination Today Comprehensive guide to vaccines during pregnancy in the UK, including timing and locations for vaccination. Essential information for expectant parents and healthcare providers.

Vaccination against whooping cough, RSV and flu during pregnancy saves babies lives, but expectant parents are sometimes unsure.

How do I know it's safe? Will it protect my baby?

To answer these questions, we've created www.vaccinesinpregnancy.org

#ObGynSky #MedSky #ImmunoSky

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Long COVID may be fueled by inflammation and tiny clots Long COVID affects an estimated 65 million people worldwide and can damage the brain, heart, blood vessels, and immune system long after infection. Researchers now link symptoms to lingering virus, in...

"Scientists believe long COVID is driven by several overlapping biological problems, including lingering virus, ongoing low-level inflammation (elevated IL-1β, IL-6, TNF-α), and the formation of tiny blood clots formed by interactions between viral spike protein and fibrinogen."

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

The conversation on Threads

Covid is vascular and it’s damaging our blood vessels but we don’t hear about it.

Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation finds

AI has strengths but also clear weaknesses and much more must be done to ensure its safer and ethical as well as supporting the public to check eg sources (which AI doesn’t always give) to ensure that eg health advice searches don’t have serious consequences

Happy New Year!

The Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines | CNN For 10 years, Americans have had access to flu shots that protect against four strains of the virus: two A strains and two B strains. Starting this fall, however, all the flu shots distributed in the ...

As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu.

If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic.

It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.

Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

Third of Reform UK’s council leaders have expressed vaccine-sceptic views Health minister decries criticism of vaccinations by heads of four authorities as ‘dangerous and utterly irresponsible’

A timely reminder that Farage’s Reform party also embrace some of the anti-vaccine rhetoric Trump and RFKJr have been leading.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

GamersNexus respondin gto Eliano A Younes, of Palintir: An endorsement from the Palantir Head of Strategic Engagement himself! Neat. I like when the company that talks about how you're only safe when you make someone else scared accuses others of fear mongering Happy to meet you on camera, Eliano. It's "strategic engagement," right? Quote Eliano A. Younes @elianoayounes · 4h Replying to @tuxpizza and @GamersNexus Let me fix it for you: Wasn't ever expecting GamersNexus to make a video on Palantir, but it's become so polarizing due to misinformation and an abundance of fear

Eliano A. Younes @elianoayounes · 3h I think we fundamentally disagree on the concept of “peace through strength.” you’re upset that Karp speaks openly and proudly about equipping our warfighters with the best capabilities so they can deter America’s enemies, or eliminate them when necessary. furthermore, you aren’t really grasping the integral role that software plays in preserving privacy and civil liberties while simultaneously allowing our government to protect us from threats. you have every right to question whether or not the government can be trusted, but to assume that Palantir is the tool they are using to break the law shows the lack of accuracy in your research. I’m personally not going to “meet you on camera” but shoot I’ll shoot you a DM and we can work something out with one of my PCL colleagues or a member of the community. It’s an important conversation to have. GamersNexus @GamersNexus · 3h Big change in tone from you. Thanks for acknowledging that we have the right to question you and the government. We'll arrange a time to meet you at your office on camera to do so. All conversations and DMs will be considered on-record and will be shared with the public. We'll be in touch.

lol holy shit

Physician associates and anaesthetic associates in UK: rapid systematic review of recent UK based research Objective To summarise research on the efficacy and safety of UK physician associates and anaesthetic associates in the context of an ongoing policy review. Design Rapid systematic review. Search st...

Here’s ten of the best papers I published this year (thread).
1. A rapid systematic review of the UK literature on physician associates. With @martinmckee.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/388/...

MAHA Wins

An Open Letter to Keir Starmer & Wes Streeting as NHS Resident Doctors Commence Their 5-day Strike 17/12/25 Dear both, In 2016, when junior doctors (as we were then called) went on strike against Jeremy Hunt’s reviled new contract, he deployed exactly the same tactics as you do today. He tried to divide and rule BMA leaders from their members, to turn public opinion against striking doctors, to smear us to the press at every opportunity. His favourite term of abuse was “militants”, though you favour words like “self-indulgent”, “irresponsible”, “dangerous”, “reckless,” “abandoning patients in their hour of greatest need.” Jeremy Hunt learned from his mistakes. He has spoken publicly about bitterly regretting his bullying tactics. You, on the other hand, appear to have learned nothing from 2016. You assume the worst of the young doctors out on strike today – that they care only about self-enrichment, that they don’t give a damn about their patients. You could not be more wrong. They hate striking, which is a desperate act of last resort. But what choice do they have? Today’s young doctors face something beyond ludicrous - the modern farce that is NHS doctor unemployment. You, Wes Streeting, the man responsible for NHS workforce planning, lead a system so broken that there are doctors today literally unable to find jobs in the NHS you claim to be rebuilding. What a travesty in a country so desperately short of psychiatrists, GPs, radiologists, acute medics and NHS doctors of every kind. You offer the creation of some (not enough) new training posts to striking doctors as though this is benevolent, gracious. Well it’s not. It is frankly grotesque to say, “I won’t pay you more, but I am willing to decrease (though not eradicate) the chances of you being unemployed next year.” Small wonder we’re losing resident doctors to Australia in droves. Every attack and smear you deploy against resident doctors over the next five days only exacerbates their despair. Slo…

I've written this open letter to Keir Starmer &
@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social because, though I am desperately worried about NHS patients over the next 5 days, I know this strike by resident doctors is a desperate act of last resort.

Please read.

Graphic showing two orange illustrated hands demonstrating the ‘signal for help’: one hand held up with the thumb tucked into the palm, and the fingers then folding over the thumb. Behind the hands, large white text reads ‘You are not alone, you can ask for help.’ A small EU flag icon appears in the bottom left corner.

Violence against women must end, now!

This nonverbal Signal for Help is a way to discreetly communicate when you need help.

But, of course, a hand sign isn’t enough.

Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures last year that imperils NHS

Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers.

Direct result of racism and insecurity unleashed by major political parties.

Not enough home trained doctors. Takes years and high debt to become a doctor.

A healthcare crisis in the making.

Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.

Cost of abolishing university tuition fees = £17bn

Cost of making care homes free = £8.3bn

Cost of making trains free to use = £11bn

Cost of hitting net zero = £30.7bn

The annual cost of the above is £67bn, which happens to be the amount of money given in tax relief to the richest 20% of the UK.

Is "movember" a thing over there, when guys grow moustaches to raise awareness of things like prostate cancer?

That the virus was more dangerous than the vaccine was pretty clear 4.5 years ago, though an enormous propaganda machine led by our current medical establishment claimed otherwise.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/covid-19-and...