Following on from our 2023 ECCMID poster on hospital mask mandate, the peer-reviewed paper has been published. Suggests that HCW surgical mask mandate had at best a very limited effect in protecting patients after 2021 journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-…
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This painted sign looks like it should be in Ireland, but it's in Sherborne, Dorset. Irish Type

...but one question is how easy/affordable to apply in practice: they had dedicated research scientists manning the analysers in the AMU/ASU

#stevebarclay #JuniorDoctorsStrike Eventually (probably) there will be talks and an agreement. We should take a lesson from the Vatican: the leaders on both sides to be locked into a building, fed coffee and doughnuts, and only released after the white smoke is seen.

latimes.com/science/story/… Our study on the HCW mask mandate has generated some interest, but important not to overstate conclusions. We found that removing the HCW mask mandate in our hospital did not lead to a rise in the risk of nosocomial COVID, in a highly immune population.

Our paper on transmission dynamics of #COVID in St George's NHS FT during Alpha, Delta & Omicron waves is being published doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.jh…. Overall 15% SAR. During Omicron, infectivity increased but mortality decreased. 80% of 2ndary infxns </= 5 days. Well done to the team

This is beautiful.

Interesting easyJet experience now: 6 hours waiting in a plane in Krakow airport, then flight cancelled, another 90 minutes to be allowed to disembark, 100+ passengers wandering around an otherwise deserted airport trying to find out where their promised hotel room is....

I think I may have found the inspiration for the Custard Cream 🙂 a 13th century baptismal font in Killaloe, Co Clare and a popular biscuit....

I am so bored of the Harry and Meghan shenanigans. In happier times Harry would have raised an army against the King, with William meeting him somewhere in Leicestershire where Harry would have died in battle, his body never found, and Meghan would have ended up in a convent.

Journeys of a train commuter. By Vani Subbarao. Thought I'd try and get through to the crappy Avanti West line via Trust Pilot. #avanti westcoast #avanti #avanti rail

One pretty cool geological fun fact is that the Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range, once connected as the Central Pangean Mountains

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Thanks Damien, and @jonottter for pulling it together. We wanted to demonstrate the current level of harm with Omicron in hospitals, so as to help inform appropriate risk-balanced control measures.

900 years of European border changes

Journalists stuck in 1970’s Belfast absolutely hating it

I've no problem with limited prescribing powers being granted to other professionals, but it is depressing when the response to inadequate access to healthcare is never 'train more doctors and nurses', but rather 'let more people do their job'.

This cartoon is from 1982

Tone-deaf #Ryanair Comms regarding a 3-hour flight delay Ask Ryanair. Imagine they worked in healthcare: 'We are pleased to inform you that the wee tumour we mentioned has now spread to your lungs', and your esteemed survival time is now until November 2022'.

I guess everyone did their best during the Pandemic, but I always thought that some important ethical issues were overlooked. This is an interesting open-access paper on the topic.

Even though I'm on holiday there is no escaping the day job. A poster on display in Yosemite.