If you’d like a free air quality monitor and some great curriculum resources for your school, there’s just 2 days left to sign up to the SAMHE Project. Understand your environment, support maths and physics, and become citizen scientists. HeadteacherChat Pie Corbett Dr Dan Jones

Our choir leader did some accompanying yesterday....a very rare occasion indeed 😅 It wasn't easy but it was totally worth it...what a beautiful sound the girls made together!

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The DWP consultation on PIP is out. The gov is trying to take away a vital benefit for so many disabled people

Closes 22nd July

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There’s an interesting little nugget of data in the ONS Winter Infection Survey report:

➡️ Teachers were up to 44% MORE LIKELY to test positive for Covid compared with the reference group…

…EXCEPT during wave 2.

Now guess when wave 2 was…?

Yup. That was the Xmas holidays.

Save the date! Wednesday 1 May - 6pm BST

Dr Binita Kane & Helen Oakleigh present 'The Long Covid Clinic - What You CAN Do'. In partnership with Long Covid Support.

Fireside Chat - Using Visible - Binita Kane talks with Harry Leeming

#LongCovid
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Episodic Nature of Long COVID
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Nice job Anna.
She is making her own choice to take care of herself and others.
#LongCovid Kids #LongCovid #HealthCare #MaskUp

Desperately need advice from #POTS #LongCovid community. Very severe LC patient with diagnosed but not controlled POTS (ivabradine not tolerated other beta bs tried but no luck). Uncontrolled vomiting despite strong anti sickness meds. Has now kept no food down in over 20dys

For anyone interested in pursuing a similar path to the doctors seeking litigation, please join our group and complete this form.
#longcovid #Longcovidteachers

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“Reinfection prevention as part of the “Treatment Plan” is key”

Reinfection has felt like a huge barrier to my ability to make sustainable progress

#CleanAir #LongCovid #LongCovid Kids
#StopReinfectingUs

An estimated 3.3% - ~2 million people - in private households across England & Scotland are experiencing self-reported #LongCOVID symptoms.

Obtaining data helps better identify the magnitude of the challenge that needs to be tackled - urgently.

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An interesting read by the remarkable journalist and campaigner Dame Esther Rantzen from 2011.

Coeliac_UK ME Association are you able to share any #research 🙏?

#Gluten #MECFS #coeliac

#LongCovid #LongCovid Kids
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'The grim reality is that #AirPollution , particularly from sources like #Diesel vehicles, is causing staggering numbers of premature deaths globally'.

This is why we need our policymakers to commit to a diesel phase-out. #LE2024 #LondonElections
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❗️And there we go again:
'Our findings demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 infection seems to have a LONG-TERM impact on the brain, even in patients who presented mild acute disease.'
➡️ Braindamage🔥 nature.com/articles/s4138…

1/Pls have a look at our preprint first authored by our brilliant master student ⁦@chloeconnor7 in collab with ⁦Sammie McFarland⁩. Instead of the media reporting on our research we analysed their reporting of #LongCovid kids. The results are fascinating medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

I shared a while ago about a local family whose mum had been hospitalised twice by pneumonia during covid waves, and who pulled her younger kid out of school last spring because he kept catching Covid at school and bringing it home to her...

Mark my words: we are entering another SARS2 wave. I’m an occupational physician trained to see patterns at work. Looks like 1st wave-large nos people coming to work with virus-rolling around in fits of coughing, faints/collapsing, grey with nausea.1/

WHO says the risk of H5N1 bird flu is 'evolving with the virus and needs real-time monitoring.'

'WHO and partners are asking countries to rapidly share information to enable this.'