Oh that equaliser. "It's the hope that kills you".

Johnny K-Drama Jasnah Kholin - 8964 - ACAB Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 CDC suggests the US have created a new reservoir of H5N1 that can keep spilling over into poultry all year round. Also these cattle viruses are partially mammalian-adapted which makes them better at jumping into people than normal poultry H5N1 - poultry can act as amplifying hosts

Picking up on one bullet from the covid inquiry: The UK being prepared for the wrong pandemic: influenza. When Hancock became health secretary in July 2018 his day one briefing said: “Pandemic flu is the government’s highest risk”. But, are we truly even prepared for flu?

The first Report from the Covid Inquiry has been issued this morning covering Module 1 on pandemic preparedness and resilience. Download it here. covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/upl…

The UK Covid Public Inquiry has published its first Report, on Resilience and Preparedness. It is the most urgent report, as we are still ill-prepared for the next pandemic. 🧵

Have to say, the covid inquiry really helps with a lot of the gaslighting that was going on in the earlier stages of the pandemic. Some things were so obvious at the time but many of us got flak for pointing then out. It's good to hear from other parties about this.

COVID-19 origins: plain speaking is overdue - The Lancet Microbe thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

Not now, goat lockdown, not now. apnews.com/article/greece…

Thread on our new state of the science review on #LongCovid. Commissioned by The Lancet, peer-reviewed, coauthored with MANOJ SIVAN, Dr. Alice 💕 and Janko Nikolich. Link for free access is here kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2… (after 50 days that won’t work, then you’ll have to

Looking for the latest interdisciplinary review on long covid? Excellent synthesis of a rapidly moving field, where we now know a lot more than is often acknowlwdged.

I'd like to think it isn't a lost cause; join a union and more importantly organise. timeshighereducation.com/news/improving…

Oh Long-term cognitive and psychiatric effects of COVID-19 revealed in new study | University of Oxford ox.ac.uk/news/2024-08-0…

I'd like to say these far right riots come as a surprise, but this has been bubbling under, and been variously tolerated, normalised and stoked for years. This is the time for zero tolerance for them.

So let me get this straight. Twitter is in dispute with the UK?

I stand with everyone who has been made to feel unwelcome and fearful as a result of these coordinated far right riots. They are few, and are trying hard to make their presence felt but they won't succeed.

Not a sight I wanted to have to see again, fires near Athens