🧵THREAD: a new wave has started in England (and likely about to or has in rest of UK) TLDR: this will be 3rd wave within 6 months. Long covid an increasing issue - particularly in overexposed professions. We don't need a UK ventilator challenge we need a ventilation one! 1/xx

Last week, The New York Times printed another really demeaning article: “Sabrina’s Parents Love Her, But Her Meltdowns Are Too Much.” Today my Letter to the Editor is in the Metropolitan print edition. #ListenToNonspeakers

BREAKING: Privilege Style was granted a permit for a flight from Stansted to Kigali, Rwanda at 9.30pm tomorrow, Tuesday 14th. Is this THE flight Chema Alvarez? it's not too late to do the right thing - say you won't send refugees to Rwanda #StopTheFlights

Last year 49 London GP surgeries were sold off to American healthcare giant Centene - including three here in Streatham. BBC Panorama has now found damning evidence that shows these surgeries are putting profit before patient safety. The Government must reverse the sell-offs.

Managing a patient who’s struggling with mental health issues The reason they gave? They can’t afford the petrol to get to work, but they can’t afford food for their family if they don’t work. This isn’t depression This is the government driving people to crisis point!

It costs around £2.30 to feed a school child and £20-30,000 to fly a refugee to Rwanda. Guess which one the Conservatives consider a priority?

You can directly ring the airline responsible for the Rwanda deportation flight (Privilege style) and tell them what you think. As of a minute ago they're still picking up the phone.+34971408985

Dr Sally Witcher If gvt, don’t get their finger out then not only will the cost of losing valuable ppl form the workforce be damaging, the cost of many benefits, housing & continuing NHS treatment for those with #LongCovid will spiral. It’s time they did their sums properly.

Dr Sally Witcher People can’t just be left #disabled with #LongCovid due to inaction from gvt at the height of the pandemic. Gvt now owe it to us (keyworkers) to repair the damage & support us medically & financially & try to ensure jobs will be there when we recover.

Dr Sally Witcher 1. Mixed messages - it’s “mild” but you should protect yourself 2. Too much focus on hand washing so many don’t understand the transmission in the air and how that can be stopped 3. Polarisation of freedom vs lockdown. Having a range of protections like masks isn’t lockdown

Dr Sally Witcher #OLSX BackOffice Protections that prioritise the vulnerable benefit everyone. Plenty of us weren't knowingly high risk before we got Covid; it can ruin the healthiest among us. EVERY reinfection increases risk of long-term harm. Fatigue isn't tiredness or apathy; it's debilitating.

Dr Sally Witcher #OLSX BackOffice Also, please make vaccine boosters available to carers and family members of the immunosuppressed; you keep shooting vaccines into people it may not work on, but vaccinating those in close contact with us would protect us more.

Dr Sally Witcher Claire Coast There is no way for me to assimilate back into society until govt get infections under control. What may be mild for many will be disabling for 20% (10% if vaccinated), and each reinfection increases chances of becoming disabled, unable to work, with no treatment. SOS!!!

Dr Sally Witcher @[email protected] That the neglect and lack of thought regarding those with disabilities/CV has been despicable. In the UK anyway- but it's unsurprising, given decade of cruel policies. The removal of mask wearing requirement is detrimental/dangerous. Lives are not valued if you need help.

Dr Sally Witcher Communication was very general and wasn't useful if you were particularly vulnerable. Even with the CEV group there is a vast difference in therms of risk. Developing more specific guidance is important.

I am confused. Is Rwanda a dead cat for breaking the NIP, or is the NIP a dead cat for Rwanda, or are they both dead cats to save Johnson's sorry arse? Either way, there are real people at the sharp end of these stupid, illegal and dangerous actions, and I am worried for them.

Please read this thread about my Dad who died of Covid in May 2020. He had no PPE and was driving his bus in dangerous conditions. Department for Transport TfL Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan and #Metroline and other bus operators have a lot to answer for. We need the public inquiry to start ASAP. Pls RT

Hard to imagine any govt being dumb enough to try & trash NHS nurses to the press, but I wouldn’t trust this one not to. Please know that your NHS nurses are paid pathetically poorly, work insanely hard & are balloting for strikes out of desperation. Please support them ✊💙