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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

1,100 patients in hospital every day last week. 1 in 5 are likely to end up with long covid, that’s 220 patients needing long term care. Much cheaper to mitigate hospitals This is part of the reason the NHS is under such a constant strain. COVID happens 365 days a year! @wesstreeting.bsky.social

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Wes Streeting Fan Page (@wesstreeting.bsky.social)

Here to bring you all the fresh Wesmond Streeting updates.

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Ruth @ruthcp.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Excellent polite template to adapt to ask for clean air action in your children’s schools. Research info included. Not just for kids who have already got long covid.. prevents more transmission. Please share widely. @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @carolvorderman.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Farage’s refusal to condemn Musk’s outrageous statements shows total unfitness for public office. But @bbclaurak.bsky.social fails to hold him to account & allows whole interview to be on his terms. No focus on Reform’s divisive policies & no effective challenge to his dangerous insinuations

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

111k kids with long COVID 20k kids with severe long COVID I don't understand why every parent is not insisting on hepa filters for clean air in every classroom 10m kids in school, 111k affected Why is sacrificing the health of 1% of kids ok?

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j... @carladenyer.bsky.social @adrianramsay.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social This would be an excellent time for your party to point out the disparity between WHO & UKHSA and the need for all hospitals to have the correct PPE as patients are dying needlessly.

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Cambridge hospital’s mask upgrade appears to eliminate Covid risk to staff

Hospital infection study shows use of FFP3 respirators at Addenbrooke’s ‘may have cut ward-based infection to zero’

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Ruth @ruthcp.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Could we try Cat in the hat ‘s wish list in the UK please @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social @gwynnemp.bsky.social

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Ruth @ruthcp.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Bit early for the UK but it’s already started elsewhere!! Hopes for a positive 2025 where possible and some progress and peaceful solutions round the world. Do your little bit in whichever small corner of the world you are!

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Nurses have been asking for a while for it to be defined. How are we 5 years into this and the Public not be aware of the need to protect themselves with ffp2 masks/hepa/opening windows and have also such a poor vaccine offering. nursingnotes.co.uk/news/nurses-...

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Nurses say long Covid should be classed as an ‘occupational disease’

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has been campaigning since June 2022 for the condition to be acknowledged by the Government.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I hope this will also raise awareness with parents reading this that children need urgent protection in schools. We need clean air everywhere.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The #IPPscandal is one of the most shocking, cruel, inhumane, degrading & monumental injustices of the past half-century Let’s not wait for the next ITV drama to end it www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Hospitals are very overloaded at the moment due to a range of viruses like COVID, Flu & RSV most are spread via airborne transmission. Please help to change the guidance to get the correct PPE & improve indoor air quality. Please sign & RT or even just RT! 🧵 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Petition: Introduce new air quality and PPE rules for health and social care settings

We want the Government to set new rules on air quality and infection control in health and social care settings, to prevent and control airborne infections, with new ventilation and filtration require...

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND please join me & the British Heart Foundation in inspiring the nation to learn LIFE SAVING CPR❤️🙏 450,000 people have now engaged with the FREE online training course to learn CPR in JUST 15 MINUTES! Let’s be ready👇 www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...

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Long Covid UK @longcoviduk.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Now in South Wales (ok, they just refer to ‘flu’ but at least they are bringing back masks!): “Patients and visitors at hospitals across south Wales are being told to wear masks to control the spread of infection amid concerns about an increase in flu cases.” Link below ⬇️ #LongCovid #WearAMask

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 27/12/2024

Yorkshire Bylines was the one that kicked off the Bylines Network in 2020, setting a new gold standard for citizen journalism. Can you share this with encouragement to follow, to get them to 20k today? 🙏 @yorksbylines.bsky.social

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage again calling for the UK to leave the ECHR Why is UK media struggling to get across the points I make in this film? How hard can this be?

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Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Today our legal team has written to the Chair of the UK COVID Inquiry to invite her to make urgent interim recommendations to make healthcare settings safe. 🙏 wear a mask 😷in all healthcare settings this festive season, help reduce risk. #CovidInquiry #LongCovidKids #NHS #HealthCare

Dear Chair
Urgent Interim Recommendation
1. We write collectively with the Core Participant groups listed below to invite
you to make the following urgent interim recommendation:
By 1 March 2025, UKHSA, NHSE, DHSC and other public health
agencies (including those in the Devolved Nations), with the benefit of
multi-disciplinary input from experts in physical sciences and the UK’s
Health and Safety regulator, the HSE, revise IPC guidance in the
NIPCM and HTM guidelines to ensure:
(a) recognition of the role of airborne transmission of SARS-Cov-2; and
(b) there is appropriate guidance on measures to limit airborne
transmission of respiratory viruses such as Covid-19 including the use
of FFP3 masks, improved standards of ventilation and air filter devices
in healthcare settings (both clinical and non-clinical) and ensure the
distribution of those guidelines to all employers/providers of clinical and
non-clinical healthcare workers.
Any such review must include consultation with key stakeholders
2. Over the course of ten weeks of hearings into the UK healthcare system’s
response to the Covid-19 pandemic, you have heard evidence from your

experts on Infection Prevention Controls (‘IPC’) and others that SARS-CoV-
2 is transmitted through airborne routes, and that mitigation measures to limit

transmission of the virus are dependent on that recognition (such as
recommendations on the use of respirators outside of Aerosol Generating
Procedures (‘AGP’) procedures, improved ventilation and introduction of air
cleaning devices). You have also heard compelling evidence from clinical
and non-clinical healthcare workers and patients of the devastating impact
that the lack of adequate protections to limit transmission of SARS-CoV-2
has had.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/12/2024

New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton. (Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)

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Ruth @ruthcp.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Could you please put air purifiers in classrooms as a start ? Take this seriously and prevent constant transmission through families? @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social @gwynnemp.bsky.social

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Herdwick Sheep @herdwicksheep.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Good Morning to ewe 💚

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

“On Friday, a grassroots campaign called #ProtectTheHeartOfTheArts 💕 offered face masks 😷 and Covid tests outside Harold Pinter Theatre as part of a health safety awareness campaign, after several performances of the production were cancelled due to illness.” www.broadwayworld.com/westend/arti...

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David Tennant Forced Off-Stage Mid-Show for Second Time as MACBETH Castmate Falls Ill

According to the Standard, David Tennant was forced off stage for the second time this week, after a castmate fell ill and an understudy had to take her place during Friday's penultimate performance o...

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Ruth @ruthcp.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Any response to this please @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social @wesstreetingmp.bsky.social ? Are you reading about prevention? Why are you not attempting to clean air in schools?

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Long Covid UK @longcoviduk.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

“Theatregoers attending David Tennant's penultimate Macbeth performance on the West End on Friday will be offered face masks and Covid tests as part of a health safety awareness campaign.” #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver

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Ruth @ruthcp.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

@lisanandymp.bsky.social @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social protect our creative industries, put air purifiers in classrooms to protect our children and ensure proper masking at the very least in hospitals please. Simple effective measures needed now.

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Austin Jones @austinjones.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This is an excellent interview, especially if you’re new to Long COVID, or need a reminder why masking is good.

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Ruth @ruthcp.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Perhaps read this @gwynnemp.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social @lisanandymp.bsky.social could take mitigations seriously in classrooms, health settings and theatres.. air purification? masking? Protect children, vulnerable, actors

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Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Two years is a long time for any young person to be unwell. #LongCovid is a significant childhood disease. Thank you to @cidrap.bsky.social for reporting on the recent study with a headline that acknowledges the burden on young people. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/alm... #LongCovidKids #LongSky

Screenshot of the article heading which reads - Almost a third of preteens, teens with long COVID still not recovered at 2 years, study shows. The image shows a young person wearing a blue mask.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This will (hopefully) never cease to be staggering to everyone else in the world.

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Ruth @ruthcp.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Please sign and share the petition. The Government is not listening to us urging them to take the transmission of covid seriously in healthcare settings and schools so this might help! @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social @catinthehat.bsky.social

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David Phillips @fijiphil.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

And the newspapers that either ignored or supported 14 years of chaos, monumental corruption and almost unprecedented ineptitude, dares to attack Starmer for acting swiftly and decisively to deal with wrong-doing. Nauseating hypocrisy! It's like the world was created on 4 July 2024!

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Long Covid UK @longcoviduk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

🚨Closing statements at #CovidInquiry today. From @the-bma.bsky.social: “Many staff continue to be seriously impacted by #LongCovid, leaving them unable to work, train and undertake day to day activities” Are you listening Rachel Reeves MP, Wes Streeting MP, @gwynnemp.bsky.social?

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The Gov’t has acknowledged a safety issue with the employment of physician associates & has ordered a review of their role in the NHS If you are not yet with the issues involved watch my last report Gov’t now needs to say how NHS will keep patients safe during this review youtu.be/zgBrrMmx4yg?...

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🚨Important update on the physician associates scandal

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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Ruth @ruthcp.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social How about some mitigations in hospitals and Schools to stop the spread and stop increased chances of getting long covid.. it is so debilitating. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social @carolvorderman.bsky.social

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists. If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.

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