The proposals to revise RIDDOR’s list of occupational diseases omit reference to COVID‑19, airborne infectious diseases, or Long COVID. A significant gap. SARS‑CoV‑2 remains an occupational hazard in health & social care, education, & public‑facing roles. 🔗 consultations.hse.gov.uk/hse/proposal...?

The guidance is still wrong. This is appalling after a Covid inquiry.

For an airborne risk you need to wear respirators which seal your the face.

Surely better PPE must be provided? @who.int I feel as a fellow doctor & as one impacted significantly with the aftermath of an airborne infectious disease (Covid 19) - that must not let these healthcare workers catch Ebola as a result of substandard face masks. They need FFP2 or FFP3 protection!

We need these for Ebola because the virus can be aerosolised and still each day are photos of medical staff sadly wearing FRSM masks. 🧵

@greenpartyhan.bsky.social Labour are too busy to pay attention to public health. The covid19 inquiry concluded 5 weeks ago that the guidance was flawed and that sars-cov-2 is airborne.

@zarahsultana.bsky.social please can you ask why after a Covid inquiry nothing has been mentioned yet about changing guidance that is incorrect and leaves us all at risk for any future Pandemic.

The knew it was airborne from day 1.

Covid spreads through the air. The evidence is clear. Professor Trisha Greenhalgh explains what that means for healthcare workers who are still at risk. Watch on our resources page. shh-uk.org/airborne-...

This is why surgical masks were inadequate -Covid was airborne & we were told to wear gappy surgical masks & handwash for a predominantly airborne virus. A lot of the impacts from lockdown could also be from mild or asymptomatic COVID infections caught in the supermarket or hospital or bubble!

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Worth watching this video for further explanation of microclots. bsky.app/profile/elho...

If you want to avoid covid and long covid this news is relevant to everyone. Long covid is a risk to all of us. bsky.app/profile/citl...

I don’t know why the announcement isn’t on the front of every newspaper in the country? This is an enormous story.

409 million people have long covid. How many were given advice that prevented airborne transmission- none from governments.

infections and still can. This is an ongoing situation.

Surgical masks have gaps, they are used for droplet surface transmission only not airborne transmission. We should have been told to wear ffp2/3 respirators which seal to the face. There was no advice on opening windows or cleaning the air. Advice that could have prevented countless

The Covid inquiry stated 16 days ago that the guidance was ‘flawed’ Covid is officially airborne. So that means the surgical masks worn would not give much protection in poorly ventilated places. It was so stuffy in the vaccine centre I visited I stood on a chair and opened the window.

My latest in the @bmj.com on needing to learn the lessons from the COVID Inquiry and implement its recommendations www.bmj.com/content/393/...

The background to the origins and evolution of CATA may be found here. tinyurl.com/CATA-history

We hope that our detailed submissions to the Inquiry and our independent investigation reports will be of help to the thousands of people impacted by the pandemic and have suffered ill health or bereavement resulting from flawed and incompetent planning and IPC measures.

CATA was only granted Core Participant status for Module 3. As that report has now been published we have now fulfilled our task. It has been an honour and privilege to serve in the Executive Team with Dr Barry Jones (Chair), Ms Kamini Gadhok MBE (Vice Chair) and Prof Kevin Bampton

The Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance (CATA) has stood down. The Executive Team has completed its mandate from its 12 member organisations i.e. to represent them at the UK COVID-19 Inquiry. A copy of our final letter to members is attached. tinyurl.com/CATA-stands-...

On this #WorldHealthDay, a reminder that Covid-19 is airborne. #CovidIsAirborne

The PHE report was not published on 23 Dec 2020 as stated (the Inquiry was misled on this matter). It was ‘buried’ by PHE senior management and only saw the light of day when adduced into evidence for the Inquiry by Dr Ritchie & Prof Susan Hopkins. tinyurl.com/PHE-Paper-23... /10 of 23

The Inquiry investigated meetings of the IPC Cell on 22/23 Dec 2020 at which Public Health England recommended wider use of FFP3s beyond AGPs. Paragraph 1.133 is untrue, as shown by CATA’s independent investigations tinyurl.com/CATA-rpt-2 (section 2.8) /9 of 23

🚨🚧🚨🚧🚨🚧🚨🚧🚨🚧🚨🚧🚨 CATA Press Release following publication of Baroness Hallett’s report: tinyurl.com/CATA-PR-Apr-... MAJOR WINS for CATA (and true scientists everywhere!) Complete vindication (see thread below) BUT There were some major omissions (see Press Release) /1 of 23

On Sunday, we remembered the 252,499 UK covid dead with a Walk of Memories, with volunteers stopping at each panel to do a reading and observe a minute’s silence. We will never forget them. ❤️

The WHO told the world 6 years ago today that "COVID-19 is NOT airborne." This is disinformation. They have not deleted the post and have not apologized for the tens of millions of lives lost and hundreds of millions of people now with #LongCOVID because of their misguidance.

Laws of physics-1 IPC establishment-0 Aerosol-borne viruses swirl through the air like deadly invisible smoke in unventilated indoor spaces. Fix this & we can #StopTheSpread without lockdowns. Fix this & CV folks can rejoin society. Fix this & your kids might enjoy lives unblighted by #LongCovid

The #CovidInquiry isn't in the past @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social @england.nhs.uk It's the present. NHS workers and patients are still exposed to Covid-19 daily in hospitals now without the correct (or any) PPE😷 As the Report says, they need FFP masks, not baggy blue👇

Why is it so seismic for the Covid inquiry to state this week that ‘Covid is airborne’? 1. It means that we never had the correct advice to protect ourselves and still don’t! Covid hasn’t stopped being airborne. 2. It means so much could have been prevented. 3. It means healthcare has been …

In the wake of the Module 3 report from the #CovidInquiry, I'm resharing this and wondering what criminal prosecutions will now take place: COVID Cover-Up UK: The Wrong Side of the Law? by Freda Sinsen medium.com/p/covid-cove...

Why are UK officials more concerned with “not panicking the public” and sticking to droplet dogma, the same deadly mistake they made with Covid, instead of informing the public properly of precautions to take, like masking to protect against dangerous meningitis infection? 🤬 Reposted with alt text

Surely UKHSA should at least be considering the possibility of AEROSOL transmission? Many official public health websites (the UK Green Book, NICE, ECDC, and, until a day ago when it was suddenly deleted, the WHO) all mention aerosol as a mode of transmission for meningococcal bacteria…

And here’s a scientific article which describes practices for safe handling of Neisseria meningitidis in labs: “Transmission of Neisseria meningitidis MAINLY occurs by formation of AEROSOLS generated in the nasopharynx.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

COVID is airborne, it travels through the air, it spreads in the air Links provided by #CATA who will publish its assessment of @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social’s Module 3 report when report is published on 19/03/26. 🔗 @barryjmjones.bsky.social counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/cata-expos...

Here we go again! The Anti-Aerosol brigade rides again! 'Airbrushes to the ready - Charge!

“They decide how long we’re involved — and they decide if we put boots on the ground. And it doesn’t seem to me that there’s a way around that, if we want to save face.” - anonymous White House source "History does not repeat itself. But it does rhyme." - probably not Mark Twain Here we go again.

In this presentation to the Safer Healthcare Biosafety Network, some of CATA's key findings are discussed, including some highly questionable activities by the former '4-Nations IPC Cell' & ARHAI, which blocked the provision of respirators to HCWs at the height of the pandemic. tinyurl.com/CATA-SHBN

Many countries dealt with Covid 19 very effectively. The UK pursued the wrong strategies and failed miserably, with hundreds of thousands of deaths. Rather than learn the obvious lessons, the plan is to pretend there is no solution, and bestow honours on the architects of our negligent disaster.

NHS England: “It will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so.” This has got to be one of the most 🤯 things I’ve ever seen written down in an official document.

The volunteers were invited to a reception at Parliament today - the memorial wall was looking splendid across the Thames. ❤️

At 12pm next Thursday, the @covidinquiryuk will publish its Module 3 report on the impact of the pandemic on Healthcare systems. Here is what the Inquiry’s report must do next week. 🧵 1/10

SURGICAL MASKS DO NOT PROTECT So encouraging to see the sheer strength of feeling amongst so many highly-respected scientists & medical practitioners from across the world making representations to WHO This letter from World Health Network is a must-read tinyurl.com/WHN-Letter-t...

Disgraceful. It reminds me of 2023 when Rishi Sunak's government brought a High Court challenge against the Covid Inquiry's request for unredacted documents. And lost. Breathtaking lack of transparency at so many levels.

CATA (Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance) has today issued this press release ahead of next Thursday's publication of the Inquiry's module 3 report: tinyurl.com/CATA-press-r...

Any of the studies including times when infection could occur when there was no mask worn aren't mask studies: they're studies on the infection risks of the behaviors/locations of the non-masking period. Mask efficacy is tested like parachute efficacy is tested: how they work when they're deployed.