One of James Gilbert's victims just shared this with me. She & the others fought for over 4 years to be believed - to be heard. Above all, these 4 young female surgeons now fear that future perpetrators will be emboldened by the extraordinary leniency shown by GMC & MPTS 😔

Department for Education Sending children in with 'mild' illness means spreading infections to others, some of whom will be Clinically Vulnerable.

Department for Education Disease≈pathogen, host, & environment. What's "mild" for one person may not be for others. Long-term illness reduces attendance. #LongCovidKids Hence, crucial to mitigate TRANSMISSION, along with vaccination. As you say, respiratory illness is key. #CovidIsNotOver #CleanTheAir

🚨 💉 GOOD NEWS! 💉🚨 The NHS Autumn booster campaign will be using the latest JN.1 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. Our campaigning may have helped! We wouldn't have dropped this one otherwise... Thank you Wes Streeting & @GwynneMP assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66e7fbf6…

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 Stephen Griffin Wes Streeting @GwynneMP Shame hardly anyone is eligible, including unpaid carers. How the hell do we protect our loved ones if we can’t acces the booster/can’t afford to pay privately?

For everyone interested in COVID transmission, my report to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry can be found here covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/inq0… #COVIDー19 #COVID_19 #CovidIsAirborne #SARSCoV2

Prof. Clive Beggs Thank you for your blistering testimony. Many of us are appalled by the flawed guidance that still stands, without scientific merit, 5years on. I hope 🙏your public testimony finally triggers real change and many are STILL being disabled now x

Absolutely unbelievable….. The U.K. Guidelines produced by the woman & her team have resulted in the deaths/disability of so many…. To hear her, even now, despite MOUNTAINS of evidence, deny Covid is airborne, & refuse to take ANY responsibility for failing to protect HCW…😮

And this is why we are still in a pandemic and 1.8 million people are #stillshielding, and those who aren’t shielding are constantly getting sick from Covid. For chrissake. #CovidIsAirborne Deep down she knows this, her body language at the end says it all. #CovidEnquiry

🧵/ This is, I believe, unprecedented in the history of UK medicine. 28 eminent UK doctors have written publicly to Layla Moran 🔶🕊️, the new chair of Health and Social Care Committee, to report something nothing less than scandalous. Read their letter here (1/n) 👇 bmj.com/content/386/bm…

This is Prof Susan Hopkins, Chief Medical Advisor at UKHSA, explaining why she doesn’t think that FFP3 masks should be recommended (instead of fluid resistant surgical masks) in hospitals - even when there is an accepted risk of airborne transmission. 🚨Paging Trisha Greenhalgh

The incredible thing is not that Huw Edwards might genuinely still be clinging to this grievance about being snubbed by BBC poshos but that it was thought a sufficiently credible injury to bring up in court. Emma Brockes theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Dr Warne: Coughing is likely to produce as much or more aerosols than many procedures on the list of AGPs. Ms C: So on that basis you should be wearing FFP3 around anyone coughing? Dr W: Yes, bear in mind that 2 in 3 people who come to hospital with Covid present with coughing.

NZ's initial pandemic response was an elimination strategy: we knew the health system was under-resourced for mass outbreaks. There was very real hardship in NZ. But there was terrible mortality in the UK, US, Italy, & others. After 2 years NZ had lost just 53 people. 1/2

Please consider context and proportionality of risk. Independent SAGE have worked hard to advocate for protections for Clinically Vulnerable people. As expert scientists, they are capable of making their own risk assessments. Zero risk is neither viable nor everyone's choice.

In light of this bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… I am reposting my thread about how we need to take Period pain MORE seriously not LESS. The solution is NOT to force girls in pain to attend school. The solution is to fucking address their pain so they don't lose days every month.

Come on Labour. Listen to the environmentalists, listen to your scientific advisers, fulfil that election promise. Ban bee-killing pesticides now. Not next year. Not the year after. NOW.

Please can the offer of Covid vaccines be extended to carers and household members of immune suppressed. Please can novavax be approved and available on the NHS. UK Health Security Agency

In wake of Sarah Everard, men were rallied to speak out against male violence. Instead #NotAllMen trended. Here we are again, Gisèle Pelicot’s case is a moment. Many men silent, again. “Everyday” men committed this, everyday men must speak out against it.independent.co.uk/voices/gisele-…

More than 51 men raped a woman who is choosing to walk tall and carry not an ounce of shame, yet many men still can’t utter a word in support. To acknowledge the remarkable, brave and inspiring. It is nothing short of long history of othering women. Or in other words: patriarchy.