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sam--10.bsky.social @sam--10.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
GM @felly500.bsky.social In good faith, will ADPH Directors inform communities of rising C19 cases? Re the Inquiry you wrote: "We must tackle the lack of communication & info sharing between central government & those on the ground when dealing with local outbreaks". www.adph.org.uk/2024/08/covi...
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Covid-19 Inquiry - ADPH
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sam--10.bsky.social @sam--10.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
T y for acknowledging the above, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Unlikely that AB will address need for clean indoor air as PM when he didn't as Mayor, please would you consider raising (great if sustainability events would lead, esp #NEBuk). If of use, Co working w Mayor Khan bsky.app/profile/smar...
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The government fully well knows Covid is airborne and carries serious post infection risks to all. Denial of this is the root cause of the issue.
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We have basic rights too. The right to be safe. The right to feel safe. The right to protest.
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sam--10.bsky.social @sam--10.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Much respect for everyone who has worked so hard to achieve this, & my utmost sympathy to the family of Benedict Blythe. I sincerely hope that @felly500.bsky.social, @tracyd-ph.bsky.social & all PH Directors @adphuk.bsky.social & @fphuk.bsky.social support the efforts within their own communities.
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sam--10.bsky.social @sam--10.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Thank you for really listening to caller @annemarie1.bsky.social & as you succinctly said: "The short termism of prioritising the economy has led to the economy suffering because there have been so many people infected (w Covid) & are now unable to work". @zackpolanski.bsky.social #BoldPolitics
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Cat in the Hat @catinthehat.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Frustratingly this data is a year old now & we don’t have more recent data for prevalence of Long Covid in kids because ONS has axed the Covid/Long Covid survey. If prevalence has continued to rise at the same rate as before, there could be as many as 240K children in the UK with Long Covid by now.
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Cat in the Hat @catinthehat.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Hi @mrjamesob.bsky.social, Thanks for discussing Long Covid in children on your show today. As of March 2024, ONS reported that over 111K kids had Long Covid. And that’s just 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. If you extrapolate across the UK, it’s over 120K. The number nearly DOUBLED in a year between Mar 2023 & Mar 2024.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
2. After all, the ground has already been prepared on both sides of the Atlantic, as people with disabilities are accused of being workshy shirkers and subjected to brutal regimes of assessment and coercion. A target has already been put on their backs.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/george...
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Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. The UK government’s pursuit of GDP growth at all costs is an assault on our natural wealth, which will impoverish us all. It might be able to massage the headline figures by converting the living w...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Here, broken down into a thread, is a copy of my last post on X. 1. This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/01/2025
Health officials downplayed COVID risk by overemphasizing "underlying health conditions," leading many to drop their guard. Most people have "underlying health conditions." Anyone can be vulnerable. Everyone should take precautions. It's malpractice that they are minimizing bird flu the same way.
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Following on from yesterday's summary of the organisation and establishment of @independentsage.bsky.social in our @natprot.bsky.social article, here is the summary of the learning points we took from the process. kityates.substack.com/p/what-did-w...
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What did we learn from our experiences with Independent SAGE?
We recently published an article in Nature Protocols about our experiences communicating science. This article summarises the part of the article relating to the learning points from our development.
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This does not bode well at all. Thanks to @profstevegriffin.bsky.social for sharing.🧪
Jay Bhattachyra tweet saying step 1 pandemic preparedness will be too sack all the people with expertise in this field and then spouts pseudoscience to justify this
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Binita Kane @binitakane.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
As someone who works in the NHS, I wasn’t offered a COVID booster through work. Flu - yes, had that early on. These statistics do not surprise me in the least as the NHS seems to have gone backwards in infection prevention and control for airborne viruses. It’s really sad.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Do vaccines cause Long COVID? Tweeps, the overwhelmingly most important cause of Long COVID is *catching COVID-19*. Vaccines protect you against this! [contd]. 17a/
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
In addition, the balance between ‘friendly’ and ‘unfriendly’ bacteria in the gut can change, with the latter getting the upper hand. 13/
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
So who’s at risk? Well, all of us. But this graphic summarises the things that make you *more likely* to get Long COVID. In sum: don’t catch COVID-19. Top up your vaccines. If you do catch COVID-19, get it mildly. [contd] 5/
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Long COVID can make you unable to do your job. 6% of people who are “inactive, not looking for work” have Long COVID (see purple bars in chart above). This *inability to work* represents a huge human & societal burden. We need to prevent it affecting more people and help those already suffering. 9/
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
NHS never really recovered from the pandemic - just look at any of the NHS indicators: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/qualitywatch... As a nation, we seem intent on a communal forgetting of how bad it was. I'm reposting this thread of testimony on the reality of the NHS during first two waves. Pls watch.
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janiceplant.bsky.social @janiceplant.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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Binita Kane @binitakane.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Ollie’s story is heartbreaking 💔 Thank you so much to Jacob Collier for speaking on behalf of him and the thousands like him suffering.
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Jeff Gilchrist @jeffgilchrist.bsky.social · 16/03/2024
The web version of this article with a nice table of contents and easy to share with others can be found here ( tinyurl.com/COVIDrealImp... ) and ( docs.google.com/document/d/1... ). 2/
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Real Impact of COVID-19 Infection and Why We Should Care
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
99.8% survival rate would still mean 670,000 dead Americans if everyone were infected. In fact, the actual number is >1.2 million so far, more than all combat deaths in every American war since 1775 combined.
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Binita Kane @binitakane.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
For anyone commenting with appreciation for our masks, of course we’re masked! We’ve all been through airports and aeroplanes, it’s winter and lots of viruses circulating. There are clinically vulnerable people here, and many with CV kids. It’s right thing to do.
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janiceplant.bsky.social @janiceplant.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
“Mark Faghy (needs to sign up) and David Putrino (needs to be searchable!)”
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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
7. Precautions in health care settings 8. Availability of two community antivirals, plus remdesivir in hospital, and the M'abs above (yes, different now, but that's another 🧵) 9. Good data availability 10. Public courtesy, for the most part 11. Revisionists and mis/disinformation still fringe...ish.
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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Think back to when the "living with" policy/farce was launched. 1. Mass testing, including free LFDs. 2. Recent vax for many 3. Only the very beginning of omicron diversity 4. Multiple effective monoclonal antibodies 5. Boosters available 6. Recognition (grudgingly) of airborne transmission
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Storm after storm the roof kept them dry. So dry that they forgot what it was like to be rained on. But they worried about the roof keeping the sunlight from them. So they decided to dismantle the roof altogether.
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RFK JR: Trump picks vaccine sceptic Kennedy for health secretary
Robert F Kennedy Jr has a history of spreading health information scientists say is false.
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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Please don't let the growing potential of a bird flu pandemic distract you from the fact that we are still in the covid pandemic. And repeat covid infections increase your risk of long term health problems. Serious ones.
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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Don't trust anyone who encourages you to get sick. With bird flu, or covid, or anything, really.
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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Hello. My interests are politics, environment, climate, public health, corruption in politics, destruction of the environment because of corruption in politics, harm to public health caused by destruction of the environment because of corruption in politics...
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
From the National #Covid Memorial Wall: “Two hundred and forty five thousand and sixty-nine deaths in the #UK have been officially recorded up to 25th October with covid-19 verified as a cause of death on the death certificates. Men, women+children. Dead from covid. 316 more than 7 days ago.”
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
So in the badplace(TM) I've been compiling a list of actors, politicians, atheletes and other celebrities who have shared their stories of LongCovid. I've now gathered 88 in total. It's a sobering reminder of why avoiding infection is important, and why we need to work harder for a cure.
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Thread by @jvipondmd on Thread Reader App
@jvipondmd: There's a common myth being passed around that longCOVID is rare, that it only affects medically infirm people, that it can't happen to me. Here's a short thread on the famous people (poli...
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Binita Kane @binitakane.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
‘Micah’s story casts light on how parents, especially mothers, are frequently patronised and dismissed by the medical profession’. This story is from the US, but it’s a global issue. Heartbreaking read 💔 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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This mother made six attempts to raise the alarm about her sick toddler. Doctors told her he’d be fine. They were fatally wrong
The death of her son, Micah, highlights the danger of medics ignoring parental concerns. ‘It was like they were gaslighting us,’ says Keri-Sue McManus
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Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
Just for a bit of fun, imagine if, in 2020, instead of hand sanitiser, plexiglass shields and toilet paper, we had bought respirators and air purifiers
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Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Use your brain—read up on the science of how respirators can stop covid damaging the brain—put another way, as they say, "use it or lose it"
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Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
It's easier to get used to wearing a respirator then to get used to having Long Covid
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