janiceplant.bsky.social
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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
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
#BoldPolitics
October 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
#BoldPolitics
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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.
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.
February 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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.
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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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.
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.
February 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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.
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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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.
February 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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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The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/george...
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...
skywriter.blue
January 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/george...
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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.
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.
January 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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.
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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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.
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.
January 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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.
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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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...
kityates.substack.com/p/what-did-w...
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.
kityates.substack.com
December 14, 2024 at 7:43 AM
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...
kityates.substack.com/p/what-did-w...
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This does not bode well at all. Thanks to @profstevegriffin.bsky.social for sharing.🧪
November 29, 2024 at 5:38 PM
This does not bode well at all. Thanks to @profstevegriffin.bsky.social for sharing.🧪
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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.
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.
Only 14% of NHS workers have had this year's booster for Covid-19.
Only 23.6% of GPs.
This will significantly adversely affect NHS services over the winter.
www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinica...
UKHSA issues alert as most healthcare professionals yet to have flu and Covid jab
UKHSA is urging healthcare professionals to come forward for their flu jab and Covid booster, amid 'lower than expected' uptake.
www.pulsetoday.co.uk
December 1, 2024 at 11:29 AM
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.
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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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/
November 24, 2024 at 11:25 AM
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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In addition, the balance between ‘friendly’ and ‘unfriendly’ bacteria in the gut can change, with the latter getting the upper hand. 13/
November 24, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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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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/
November 24, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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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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/
November 24, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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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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.
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.
Prof Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020.
The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.
youtu.be/FPCztlID3Q0
The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.
youtu.be/FPCztlID3Q0
Professor Kevin Fong testifying at the Covid Inquiry Module 3, Sept 2024
YouTube video by Christina Pagel
youtu.be
November 20, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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.
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.
November 20, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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Ollie’s story is heartbreaking 💔 Thank you so much to Jacob Collier for speaking on behalf of him and the thousands like him suffering.
Incredible stuff from @jacobcolliermp.bsky.social!
Thanks for standing up so powerfully for your constituent and all those whose lives have been fundamentally changed by ME/Long Covid 🫡
#ThereForME
Thanks for standing up so powerfully for your constituent and all those whose lives have been fundamentally changed by ME/Long Covid 🫡
#ThereForME
November 19, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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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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/
Real Impact of COVID-19 Infection and Why We Should Care
tinyurl.com
March 16, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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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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.
Why should we care about a virus with a "99.8% survival rate"?
This thread highlights the actual impact a virus with a high survival rate can have on the population and why it is all the people who survive that we should be most worried about. 🧪🧵1/
#covid #CovidIsAirborne #LongCovid #Health
This thread highlights the actual impact a virus with a high survival rate can have on the population and why it is all the people who survive that we should be most worried about. 🧪🧵1/
#covid #CovidIsAirborne #LongCovid #Health
November 19, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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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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.
November 16, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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.
“Mark Faghy (needs to sign up)
and David Putrino (needs to be searchable!)”
and David Putrino (needs to be searchable!)”
Front row seats with @resiapretorius.bsky.social @laelyonker.bsky.social
Mark Faghy (needs to sign up)
and David Putrino (needs to be searchable!)
#longcovidkids
#conferencing
Mark Faghy (needs to sign up)
and David Putrino (needs to be searchable!)
#longcovidkids
#conferencing
November 16, 2024 at 1:45 PM
“Mark Faghy (needs to sign up)
and David Putrino (needs to be searchable!)”
and David Putrino (needs to be searchable!)”
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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.
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.
November 16, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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.
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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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
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
November 16, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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
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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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.
But they worried about the roof keeping the sunlight from them.
So they decided to dismantle the roof altogether.
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.
buff.ly
November 16, 2024 at 8:07 AM
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.
But they worried about the roof keeping the sunlight from them.
So they decided to dismantle the roof altogether.
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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.
And repeat covid infections increase your risk of long term health problems. Serious ones.
November 16, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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.
And repeat covid infections increase your risk of long term health problems. Serious ones.