Your king avoids crowds because of the health risk, your prime minister takes private planes and helicopters wherever he goes, your MPs breathe filtered air in parliament, your pop stars make all around them mask.
And yet, England, you think it's just a cold. 🤔

BREAKING: WHO unequivocally uses the word “airborne” to depict infectious particles transmitted in the air (fits with “waterborne”, “foodborne” etc). Hopefully this easy-to understand terminology will be used throughout WHO.

iris.who.int/handle/10665/3…

🧵OUT TODAY: New economic analysis reveals Long Covid could be a long-term drag on economic growth and add pressure to already strained NHS 📊🔍 1/8

Find out more here: bit.ly/3PtysTs #LongCovid Awareness #LongCovid #PublicHealth #EconomicInactivity

🧵 Pipe down Callum

Even with your reductionist ‘attendance’ lens on, can you not see that bringing airborne germs into school & infecting other children is the surest way to affect everyone’s attendance?

My son has #LongCovid . He HATES missing school 1/n

Ok The Guardian. Why are you publishing this unscientific, damaging, discriminatory rubbish? Why the wholly misleading headline? Why on #LongCovidAwarenessDay of all days? You have some serious explaining - & apologising - to do 🧵
theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

Dear #MedTwitter
To help understand #LongCOVID I believe there are important lessons we first need to learn about the acute phase of #COVID -19. This is because (as I see it) they are different phases of the same disease.
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
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1/ I don't know about the rest of you proles, but I'm staying away from this frickin' virus as much as I possibly can. Nothing - repeat NOTHING - I have seen in clinical practice or the scientific literature in the past four years makes me think repeated infection is 'fine'.

This afternoon (US time) I was asked for comment on the recent statements on #LongCOVID in Australia. Here is the statement I provide:
As a scientist, an Australian and one of the world's leading authorities on LongCOVID I was disgusted to see John Gerrard's irresponsible 1/

So sad to hear this, he was a truly remarkable human.

From another of our amazing Advisors, Dr Clare Rayner:

“Reinfections significantly increase risk of heart disease, blood clots, organ damage, hospitalisation & death. Preventative measures against SARS2 infections in the workplace are essential”

#LongCovid
#LongCovid Awareness

The 'NHS DAY OF INFAMY'
13 March 2020

Today is the 4th anniversary of the issue of the 4-nations IPC guidance for COVID-19 when the step-down from FFP3/RPE to surgical masks was mandated.

We all know the consequences!

This blog is dedicated to all our brave healthcare workers.

Day 23 of the Inquiry's Health and Social Care Impact Hearings begins at this morning at 9.45am.

Today we will hear evidence from PAMIS, Long Covid Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, Kidney Care UK and Dr Claire Taylor.

Watch online: covid19inquiry.scot/hearing/impact…