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Supporting Healthcare Heroes UK (SHH-UK) @shh-uk.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I promised I would updated the Source to Infection Pathway for all HAI - it is now as it will appear in the book chapter 2 Figure 2.1

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Well, I did this for an IPC book of 11 Chapters. Just final checking / editing to do and it's done. Thank you for your support. I'll post tomorrow the final version of the graphic. There are individual source to infection pathways for the most common HAI & resistant organisms.

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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

What we actually want to know... If you don't know that's fine, say so, but stop with the prolonged, intense close contact scenarios.

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Still writing the book on IPC. Been through every single IPC guideline involving hands - I can find no evidence that handwashing / hand hygiene is the single most important way to prevent HAI. More soon.

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

V4. So I deleted the numbers and dashed the box around "land on people and surfaces" as this is an interim step before contact or further airborne dispersal.

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Very important study and more evidence that #NeuroCovid can contribute to neurodegeneration and cognitive impairment. When they say 'it's all in your head', they might be trying to be dismissive, but are accidentally being very realistic. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #LongCovid #COVID

First page of the manuscript: Distinct brain alterations and neurodegenerative processes in cognitive impairment associated with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

There was a mis-coloured 'n' apologies. Still calling this v3

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Version 3 minor alterations to the last contact box.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The large majority of COVID deaths are attributable to specific clear instances of negligence on the part of medical leaders, made directly against the advice of the world's top scientific experts, and on the basis of an understanding of science that was out of date by nearly a century.

Text from 1 1934 paper by Wells entitled "ON AIR-BORNE INFECTION. STUDY II. DROPLETS AND DROPLET NUCLEI." reading:

It appears, therefore, that transmission of infection through air may take one of two forms depending upon the size of the infected droplet. The form first recognized and most obvious is droplet infection proper. It applies to droplets larger than a tenth millimeter in diameter, which are rapidly removed from the air by gravity, before they can dry, and within a short distance of the source. The second form may be called air-borne infection, and deals with dried infected droplet nuclei, derived directly from droplets less than a tenth millimeter diameter, depending primarily upon air for the buoyancy which keeps them suspended for long times and carries them long distances. Droplet infection may change into air-borne infection when larger drops settle, evaporate and are lifted into the air as dust.
Text from 1 1934 paper by Wells entitled "ON AIR-BORNE INFECTION. STUDY II. DROPLETS AND DROPLET NUCLEI." reading:

It appears, therefore, that transmission of infection through air may take one of two forms depending upon the size of the infected droplet. The form first recognized and most obvious is droplet infection proper. It applies to droplets larger than a tenth millimeter in diameter, which are rapidly removed from the air by gravity, before they can dry, and within a short distance of the source. The second form may be called air-borne infection, and deals with dried infected droplet nuclei, derived directly from droplets less than a tenth millimeter diameter, depending primarily upon air for the buoyancy which keeps them suspended for long times and carries them long distances. Droplet infection may change into air-borne infection when larger drops settle, evaporate and are lifted into the air as dust.

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

It's as HCID instructions. But still thought useful.

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Useful presentation on HCID (England) www.rcp.ac.uk/media/dzujlz...

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

So this is a test 1 for the book... Firstly, not 'single rooms' but 'isolation rooms'. [would love to specify air quality but that is anon]. I think, repeat think, I have got who needs an Isolation Room to an algorithm of 4 questions... I'll take comments.

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Sky News reporting Nottingham Hospitals reporting "critical incidents" Suggest: Need to reduce community infections to reduce demand Need to reduce staff sickness to staff wards Need to reduce HAI to reduce length of stay Need "increased winter capacity" as "winter deficiencies" are not working.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It boggles my mind that in 2026 people are still getting hospital acquired Covid. They’re still having to choose between care and Covid. They’re still having to risk their health to access medical care. We can do better than this. Clean air and respirators save lives!

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Grade school health classes should spend more time talking about toilet plumes... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Photographs of the illuminated aerosol plume at
2.8, 4.4, and 6.4 s (indicated with dotted lines in Fig. 1D) after flush initiation. For these images and for Movie S1, we used a continuous wave laser and a commercial color camera; the images show the illuminated plume as it appears to the human eye in the laboratory.

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Patients with gastrointestinal infections - don't forget the sniff swallow for transmission

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

People continue to be hospitalised and or worse and face further disability because of vaccine restrictions. This lacks empathy from our government. Please support.

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I think we should change "Standard Precautions" to Never Event Infection Prevention, preventing all blood borne virus transmission & transmission from already infected people & the environment (water/air) Reasonable - not yet achievable but don't be scared to reach for excellence.

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The number of criteria in the box below, e.g. 2 sources od pathogen 6 ways to infect..

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Made 1 change moved no 6 transplant / transfusion to be directly from people. to make more sense.

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Just a single slide showing every way any pathogen can transmit and infect in a healthcare environment... One word descriptors wont do...

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

5. After a bit of digging, I managed to identify what seemed to be the source of the zombie stat. ...via this press release: www.newswise.com/articles/nee... ...I zeroed in on this grant application call: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Screenshot of my tweets:

I think I'm getting closer. I found another reference to the NIH announcement in 1999: a Science article (by Greenberg et al.) "comes in the wake of the NIH announcement to make biofilm research a priority." [link to newswise press release]

...which leads to this document: [NIH grant application call]

...which makes this (unreferenced statement):

"Biofilms are medically important, accounting for over 80 percent of microbial infections in the body."

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

A thread. 🧵 1. First of all, what is a "zombie stat"? you may ask. Well, it's a statistic or factoid that persists in the literature despite, and possibly even because of, there being no obvious original source of its existence.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

What Martin said. Independent SAGE were not cranks, not extremists, not over-reacting. #covidinquiry

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Our paper, that we worked hard to produce before the second wave, estimated that 21,000 excess deaths were caused by the 1 week delay in lockdown. The paper was held up & eventually rejected by the Lancet. By the time it came out it could only offer a post mortem. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Estimating the effects of lockdown timing on COVID-19 cases and deaths in England: A counterfactual modelling study

Background During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Kingdom experienced one of the highest per-capita death tolls worldwide. It is debated whether this may partly be explained by the...

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.

"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

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Supporting Healthcare Heroes UK (SHH-UK) @shh-uk.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Our latest blog by @evonnetcurran.bsky.social has just gone live: shh-uk.org/in-pursuit-o.... In the blog she reflects how infection prevention & control guidelines have been used & how IPC professionals need to become experts in error, prevention, detection and correction. Part 2 on Weds.

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In Pursuit Of Truth IPC Needs To Become Experts In Error Prevention, Detection And Correction (Part 1)

In Evonne T Curran's latest two part blog she reflects on her life working in infection prevention and control (IPC) and how guidelines have been used and how

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Dr Christine Peters @microlabdoc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

When you accept bad things as normal and irreducible, you fail to achieve brilliance.

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Rapid infection control will only work if it is targeted on how transmission arises. So off to find how transmission happens I can't find it...

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Critical intelligence here! It says either HCWs are not following guidance or the guidance is ineffective at preventing transmission and infections.... I am for the latter.

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This is a single celled fungi. It has no ability to cause outbreaks - its not a general with complex battle plans ready to invade. IT IS US who provide the perfect niches - the ICU is an agar plate promotes transmission and enables proliferation on invasive devices and various liquids...

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

So lets do a thread on www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/defaul...

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Taking the data from a systematic review and using a Pareto. It can be seen preventing Bloodstream infections is C. auris control. I see not national/international guideline that includes preventing BSI. Secondly it is also airborne distributed and we are not recommending air cleaning either...

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

1. 'Overall, our findings raise compelling questions about the potential role of SARS-CoV-2 infection in accelerating or triggering neurodegenerative diseases linked to protein amyloidosis'. An example of such a disease is Parkinson's Disease (PD). pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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An Amyloidogenic Fragment of the Spike Protein from SARS-CoV-2 Virus Stimulates the Aggregation and Toxicity of Parkinson’s Disease Protein Alpha-Synuclein

Emerging evidence suggests that the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection may have long-term deleterious effects on the central nervous system and even contribute to p...

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Alison Twycross RN PhD @alitwy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Thanks to @evonnetcurran.bsky.social for another great blog. I look forward to the day when those responsible for infection prevention and control acknowledge that covid is airborne and ensure guidelines are updated to reflect this. Read more about the changes needed: shh-uk.org/shh-uk-posit...

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SHH-UK Position Statement: Urgent Changes Needed To UK Infection Prevention And Control Guidance

Outdated Infection Prevention and Control Guidance Is Putting Lives at Risk

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Every so often... the idea for an essay arises?

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This is about people and people safety. We can do better when we are honest about the issues we face.

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

179 experts. 28 countries. 1 message: Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared. New global consensus just dropped. link.springer.com/content/pdf/10… 🧵

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The admissions officer we saw at the hospital last week 'felt' that Covid vaccines are unsafe & cause Long Covid, welfare recipients are mostly lazy. Nothing to do with her catching Covid while suffering from COPD. Or welfare statistics that prove most people are in genuine need. 🤷‍♀️

You can't use reason to convince anyone out of an argument that they didn't use reason to get into.

Neil deGrasse Tyson.

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

This seems really important: The Australasian College of Infection Prevention and Control is advocating for the use of N95 respirators in healthcare settings. Canada? UK? US CDC? WHO? your turn. www.acipc.org.au/wp-content/u...

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Patients being admitted to hospital in Texas with symptoms indicative of vitamin A toxicity- RFK jr has been promoting vitamin a and nutrition over and above vaccines to manage the measles outbreak in USA 🧪

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Some measles patients in West Texas show signs of vitamin A toxicity, doctors say, raising concerns about misinformation | CNN

Doctors treating people hospitalized as part of a measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico have also found themselves facing another problem: vitamin A toxicity.

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Evonne T Curran @evonnetcurran.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Can we stop with the Semmelweis nonsense. He should have copied the midwives and not taken his students to the PM room (every day). The recommendation for a disinfectant akin - that burned the skin - was never a sustainable solution.

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