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Anne-Marie Newton

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Colin Kinner @colinkinner.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Oh come on @samjnichols.bsky.social ABC News. When reporting on important health topics, you need to get the basic facts right. The person you quote on droplet spread of covid and flu etc is dead wrong. abc.net.au/news/2025-04... 🧵
"It's important to know that the influenza virus, along with RSV, para-influenza, and COVID, are what we call 'droplet-spread viruses',"  Professor Hespe said. 

"Each time you do the coughing and sneezing, those fluids are actually then potentially spreading to somebody else," Professor Hespe said.
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Latest C19 wastewater graph for Perth, Western Australia (up to 14 March). We have not seen levels this low for a long time. What do you make of it @mikehoney.bsky.social? @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...
Line graph of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance trends in Perth Metropolitan area, Western Australia, 01/07/2022 to 14/03/2025
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Cleaner Air Collective @cleanerairau.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Today is Long COVID Awareness Day. We recognise those living with LC and those caring for people with LC. We must all provide support and join the call for research and a remedy for LC. This Billboard was captured in Melbourne, Australia. #LongCovidAwarenessDay
Long Covid Awareness Day Billboard.

Text: International Long COVID Awareness Day
15th March 2025
Recognition, research, remedy.

White background, black text with image of Long COVID Awareness Day ribbon.
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
IMPORTANT CAUSE ⤵️ #LongCovidAwarenessDay #CovidIsNotOver
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nrp...
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Invisible inclusion
YouTube video by The Safer Air Project
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Latest C19 wastewater graph for Perth, Western Australia (up to 7 Feb) shows downward trending line. Remains to be seen if it will reach the low points of previous waves 👀 @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social @oncewasarnold.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...
Line graph of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance trends in Perth Metropolitan area, Western Australia, 01/07/2022 to 07/02/2025
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Latest report shows the downward trend in #Covid19 wastewater for Perth, Western Australia has continued (up to 31 Jan). School return effect may show next week. @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social @oncewasarnold.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...
Line graph of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance trends in Perth Metropolitan area, Western Australia, 01/07/2022 to 31/01/2025
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Latest #Covid-19 wastewater for Perth, Western Australia (up to 24 Jan) shows a small downturn. The rollercoaster rattles on without a controller. @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social @oncewasarnold.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...
Line graph of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance trends in Perth Metropolitan area, Western Australia, 01/07/2022 to 24/01/2025
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Latest #Covid wastewater graph for Perth, Western Australia, up to 17 January. Last report's upward trajectory continues 😒 (No updated variant analysis since 5 Jan) @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...
Line graph of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance trends in Perth Metropolitan area, Western Australia, 01/07/2022 to 17/01/2025
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Even mainstream news magazines are starting to grasp the horrors of the #LongCovid issue. When will the medical establishment and govts catch up? #Scandalous time.com/7206080/long...
time.com
Dismissed and Disbelieved, Some Long COVID Patients Are Pushed Into Psychiatric Wards
The chronic illnesses that make doctors doubt their patients often start after what “should” be a short-lived sickness—like COVID-19.
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Latest C19 wastewater graph for Perth, Western Australia, up to 10 January. Unsurprisingly, an upward turn following Xmas/NY period. #Covid @mikehoney.bsky.social @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @oncewasarnold.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...
Line graph of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance trends in Perth Metropolitan area, Western Australia, 01/07/2022 to 10/01/2025
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Latest C19 wastewater report for Perth, Western Australia - up to 3 Jan '25. Pleasing to see downward trend, incl. over Xmas/NY. Note that aged care cases (residents + staff) have risen since then. #Covid @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Hi Andrew, you may have received a response too but here's mine from WA Health CDCD Directorate:
Thank you for contacting the Department of Health. We appreciate your concern about the temporary disruption in the reporting of the COVID-19 wastewater surveillance over the Christmas and New Year period.

Wastewater sampling continued as scheduled during this time and the reporting from 10 January 2025 onwards will include the data collected over the Christmas and New Year period.
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Prof Jeffrey Townsend, Yale School of Public Health: “Preventing this disease in anybody, no matter how healthy you are, is a really good thing. ... It’s not just a matter of feeling ill. It’s doing bad things to you that we can’t fully understand.” #Covid www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Covid surges across US after holidays amid low booster uptake
Test positivity, emergency room visits, hospitalizations and deaths are increasing as expert warns: ‘It’s still dangerous’
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Perth Childrens Hosp not on Bsky but: Aug 24: child's mum grateful for many air purifiers in ED, incl treatment rms, all turned on Dec 24: NO air purifiers in ED, even as Dr mentions covid, flu, HPIVs rampant How is it ok to remove airborne infection control for sick kids? @flinty01.bsky.social
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Hang on a minute - what's with the discrepancy between last 2 weeks of @WAHealth's Virus WAtch report?? Peak of this C0VID wave's positivity rate revised to a lower level ⤵️ #Covid @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
WA Health has updated West Australia's C19 wastewater graph up to 13 Dec. A small levelling off of the wave. In light of the recent PCR positivity rate + aged care data + Xmas gatherings upcoming, this may well be another short-lived downturn. @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social
Line graph of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance trends in Perth Metropolitan area, Western Australia, 01/07/2022 to 13/12/2024
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Week ending 8 Dec: big rise in Western Australia’s C19 positivity rate and officially reported cases (noting most go unreported). Take care amongst the Xmas crowds 😷 #Covid
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Latest C19 wastewater for Perth, Western Australia - up to 6 Dec. Up it goes again - sharply - after a brief reprieve ☹️ @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social @oncewasarnold.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...
Line graph of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance in Perth Metropolitan area, Western Australia, 01/07/2022 to 06/12/2024
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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John Flint @flinty01.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
My story from the weekend on this important research. If you think COVID is just a cold, think again.
thewest.com.au
Chilling fact you need to know about COVID
A landmark study has found that the virus accumulates and persists in the body, especially the brain.
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Australia: when getting updated JN.1 Cvd vaccine, ask to check the vial with your own eyes 👀 Awful, cautionary tale below! ⤵️
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
💠 #COVID moves around body & persists in organs - incl brain + heart - for years 💠 Lowers IQ 💠 Children can also get L-CVD Important article from @flinty01.bsky.social @westaustralian.bsky.social
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Good to see this critical information in msm: “virus that causes COVID-19 accumulates & persists in the body - esp the brain - for years after infection.” Thanks @flinty01.bsky.social @brendancrabb.bsky.social @picklemelissa.bsky.social #Covid #NotACold
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Inconvenient truth: Just as every cigarette smoked increases the risk of lung cancer, every Covid infection increases the risk of serious, post-Covid health damage involving multiple bodily organs/systems. Avoid Covid, not reality.
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Providing Covid-informed healthcare measures now will also protect against in-hospital spread of the next airborne pandemic pathogen. I do not think this is rocket science. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
medpagetoday.com
Want to Limit Respiratory Virus Infections? Mask and Test in Hospitals
Healthcare workers masking makes a difference, study found
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Latest C19 wastewater graph for Perth, Western Australia (up to 27 Nov). Nice to see it 🎶 heading in the right direction 🎶 but Xmas impact yet to come 🎄 @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...
Line graph of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance trends in Perth Metropolitan area, Western Australia, 01/07/2022 to 27/11/2024. Downturn in detected virus.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Australia on alert: World Health Organisation urges efforts to prevent bird flu strain with pandemic potential. By John Flint #Australia #BirdFlu #H5N1 @flinty01.bsky.social Source: archive.md/hM5B7
Australia on alert: World Health Organisation urges efforts to prevent bird flu strain with pandemic potential. By John Flint
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 01/12/2024
Long COVID is keeping people from their jobs and their lives, and as COVID cases continue, it is unclear whether the rate of new long COVID cases is increasing faster than the old cases recover, writes @jasemurphy.bsky.social. Read it here: www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/02/l...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The meme I didn't know I needed
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Mike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Thanks Anne-Marie. Astounding to see that latest big wave of deaths play out, yet some healthcare settings could not even be bothered to mandate masking. Many of those deaths are directly attributable to that incompetence.
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Data visualisation specialist @mikehoney.bsky.social powerfully demonstrates the ongoing toll of C-19 in Australia. Almost 20,000 lives lost so far, every person loved & missed. Tragically, more will die. Many deaths would be avoidable if we had a proper public health response. #Covid
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
More good sense from @brendancrabb.bsky.social & team on the obdurate problem of C0VID & post-C0VID conditions. Better therapies should be fast-tracked, and for now we need #CleanAir, 😷, testing + access to vaccines.
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Grateful that a good journo is pursuing this. But it’s galling that Novavax (and TGA) are treating C19 as if it’s a winter season virus. It is, of course, prevalent all year, with high winter AND summer waves. Truly protecting Australians would mean providing ADEQUATE immunisation coverage.
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Latest C19 wastewater for Perth, W. Australia (up to 20 Nov) shows a small but welcome downturn. Now we wait to see whether this trend will continue. If govt/policymakers would action #CleanAir the perilous rollercoaster might stop RIP Gemma 🕯️ @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social
Line graph of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance trends in Perth Metropolitan area, Western Australia, 01/07/2022 to 20/11/2024
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A thread worth reading and sharing widely 👇 Prof Brendan Crabb can be relied upon to communicate important and accurate information/advice during this ongoing pandemic, something we need when official channels stay silent (or minimise). Thank you @brendancrabb.bsky.social 🙏
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Highly recommended reading ⤵️ A hugely important initiative fighting for #SaferAir in all indoor spaces in Australia. Everyone has the right to breathe #CleanAir. This is an #accessibility and #inclusion issue!
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A plea to maskless health-care workers from vulnerable patients. "If your trauma is so severe that you can’t mask for a vulnerable patient – or worse, you lash out at a patient for masking – then you need to carefully assess whether you should be in a patient-facing role."
healthydebate.ca
A plea to maskless health-care workers from vulnerable patients - Healthy Debate
Health-care workers have a responsibility to protect their vulnerable patients. Our lives are in your hands.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Kaboom. My @smh @theage cartoon.
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Thanks for covering this issue @flinty01.bsky.social - good to have important public health information being communicated (esp when there's no good C19 messaging from WA's Health Dept)
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Latest C19 wastewater for Perth, Western Australia (up to 15 November) shows upward trajectory continuing - albeit less steeply. Local anecdata confirms plenty of C19 around. 😷 @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...
Line graph of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance trends in Perth Metropolitan area, Western Australia, 01/07/2022 to 15/11/2024
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
And the next wave builds in Australia. Without #auspol action, this will continue to happen.
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Update: looks like Pfizer JN.1 confirmed for 9 Dec in Australia (some pharmacies may have a little earlier) www.ppaonline.com.au/wp-content/u...
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Comparison of last 2 weeks of Aged Care outbreaks in Australia. Biggest increases in cases (residents and staff) in Victoria and WA
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
C19 PCR positivity rate and hospitalisations up in Western Australia, as well as wastewater. www.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/Corp...
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
So ATAGI met on 9 Oct & recommended use of the latest vaccine formulation avail, namely JN.1. On 10 Oct TGA granted full registration to Pfizer’s JN.1 Yet here we are over 5 wks later with no access to JN.1 - stuck with the old, less effective XBB as the latest Cvd wave builds 📈 #auspol
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
1. For a government committed to a policy of moving from a treatment to prevention model in the NHS, this makes no sense (vaccination is obviously a powerful preventative intervention). It betrays a focus that is entirely on acute Covid-19 disease. www.gov.uk/government/p...
gov.uk
JCVI statement on COVID-19 vaccination in 2025 and spring 2026
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Colin Kinner @colinkinner.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
90-minute Primer on COVID Safety For Schools. A free resource for teachers and parents to get an overview of the issues and practical tips on what they can do to minimise health risks from COVID. www.covidsafetyforschools.org/primer @covidsafetyed.bsky.social
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Primer — COVID Safety For Schools
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Anne-Marie Newton @amnewtonphd.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Latest C19 wastewater graph for Perth, Western Australia, up to 8 Nov. The upward trajectory has continued. Allowing access to updated boosters in time for Xmas seems prudent #ATAGI #auspol www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...
Line graph of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance trends in Perth Metropolitan area, Western Australia, 01/07/2022 to 08/11/2024
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