A five year old boy who has had covid 6 times develops measles despite being mmr vaccinated. How common is this story going to become. Infection makes you vulnerable to more infection. Covid infection doubly so. 🤬

Do the people worried about causing panic by evoking AIDS realise that avoiding panicking the public about COVID is how we got here? The highly effective anti-smoking campaign (once it got started) used graphic imagery to literally scare people about the real dangers of smoking.

Covid experts in the EU are urging people to start wearing face masks again as cases soar across the UK causing spikes in cases & hospital admissions Experts stressed that wearing a face mask can significantly help curb the transmission of all viruses dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/covi…

Just popping on because people here will get why I’m absolutely appalled. You could have cancer. Just had a stem cell transplant. Be neutropenic. Seriously unwell. And NHS nurses STILL refuse to mask because it’s “not needed.” During a Covid wave. I hate this world so much.

Italy: 1,946 patients now in the emergency rooms of Rome and Lazio. The numbers typical of full winter and flu peak, but we're only at October 20th.

The ideal time to improve ventilation and air filtration in public buildings was *decades ago*. But since we didn't do that, WE MUST DO IT NOW. Let's stop the next airborne pandemic before it even starts.

'Post-pandemic' COVID-19 linked with high numbers of workforce absences and exits "We documented work absences comparable to those seen during flu seasons extending across the entire year as the new baseline." medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-p…

This 👇 would be the same question I’d ask of Boris Johnson today at the COVID Inquiry. Questions are vetted though and we couldn’t possibly have the establishment being shown up, could we?

Can we all agree that it's weird and not good that there has been a 25% rise in hospital episodes of acute myocardial infarction (heart attacks) in young working age adults? And can we all look at that graph and maybe just consider for a moment that it might be due to damage

Boris Johnson is giving evidence to the Covid inquiry today about how his government protected young people, which will be hard, because they didn't.

I checked again. I'm still too angry to write something sensible about this. I keep trying and failing.

“It's very isolating and my own personal struggle... I keep it tucked away because it's hard to explain," says Laith while describing his health condition. bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2d…

Covid infection levels in England remain around the Very High level, although there has been a recent small fall. We continue to recommend taking maximum precautions against catching Covid, as around 1 in every 112 people were infected as of 19 October. buds.org.uk/covid-19-risk-…

Has Chris Whitty read this?

Clinically vulnerable children, and children with long covid are an inconvenience too many would prefer to ignore

The data shows Brexit was a massive mistake and badly hurt the economy. We're all paying for it. It was Nigel Farage who sold the lies that it would make life better. How can anyone still listen to him about anything?

Unions didn't think it was a good idea to go back to normal with 30 kids in a classroom with no measures to reduce transmission beyond hand washing, we did call for all students returning to school on rotas so we could do our safeguarding and pastoral duties

It’s been a long mth/day at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry supported by their incredible staff 🤗 and our legal team led by@Jane_Ryan_ with friends from PIMS_Hub Long Covid Support our community and artwork by the children and young people we represent. Banner design by Rosie Pidgeon 🛌 😴

Spain: Absenteeism is now the main risk for family businesses "Absenteeism is now considered the most pressing threat for 55% of business owners." H/t antonio gonzalez Vozpópuli vozpopuli.com/economia/empre…

So Professor Chris Whitty thinks everyone already knows that children are suffering with Long Covid? What evidence do you have to support this Chris? Where exactly are parents supposed to get this information from?