Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

Experts feared it would take 193 years to reduce London's deadly levels of NO₂ air pollution to legal levels. This week Mayor Sadiq Khan announced his team had defied the howls of pro-fossil fuel and motoring lobbyists to achieve the life-saving target in just 9 YEARS. Here's how they did it 🧵

A 'mum whose daughter has struggled for years with the effects of Covid is inviting SNP health secretary Neil Gray to hear her story in person at their home' “Her room is like a hospital. She’s very sick and that’s what I want him to see.” @helen-goss.bsky.social bit.ly/3IJ3PZY #LongCovidKids

Japan: "Okayama study underscores risk of long COVID, new variant" Of the 774 long COVID Omicron patients, 370 were in the ‘early recovery group’ (within 6 months). The other 404 (52%) had symptoms 180+ days, with some lasting 2–3 years. Women made up about 60% of this persistent group. #LongCOVID

Brilliant article by a teacher highlighting the current dire situation for teachers and kids every winter when it comes to infection risk and spread. We continue to fight for our kids to have the right to breathe clean air. stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...

The accompanying editorial tells the sad truth that is largely being ignored www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Proud to have been involved in this work! Not surprised by this major under-recording of #LongCovid in healthcare records but it proves that using healthcare records/coding as evidence of the number of p/w Long Covid is substantially inaccurate…and downright dangerous.

New York Times: “Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds” ‘The new research provides evidence that Covid reinfections can increase the risk of long-term health consequences’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...

important article highlighting the continuing benefit to both mother and newborn of vaccinating pregnant women against Covid. The US under RFK Jr just stopped recommending vax for pregnant women. The UK has withdrawn vax for pregnant women too - I think both are very stupid decisions.

📣 1/4. Paper out from the UK’s LOCOMOTION study on incidence of #LongCovid diagnosis.   🚩 Huge under-recording of Long Covid in primary healthcare records!   Big thank you to our Members & co-authors @nikki-s.bsky.social & @ruairidhm.bsky.social for their hard work🙏 Link to paper on below 🧵 ⬇️

"We teach our children to say sorry. It’s time the government did the same for children and young people with Long Covid" @sammiemc.bsky.social CEO & Founder, LCK www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2550166... #Dorset #COVIDInquiry #RockSolidAction #LongCovidKids

AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities Bias-reflecting LLMs lead to inferior medical advice for female, Black, and Asian patients. None of this should be surprising, considering the terribly flawed data that these tools are based upon. Garbage in, garbage out.

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

'Rather than addressing the fundamental problems with existing verification systems, the Britcard threatens to digitise and amplify the very hostile environment policies that created these problems in the first place' blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

A few days out from #UNGA80, I wanted to reflect on the session we took part in and the media responses since. Mount Sinai was one of the 150 organizations that signed the global pledge to advocate for healthy indoor air. The event itself featured four panels of speakers who 1/

#Research Impact of COVID-19 #infection on the sleep of #infants and #toddlers Conclusion: Our findings demonstrate that COVID-19 infection causes significant and prolonged disruptions to sleep architecture in infants and toddlers pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40993557/ #LongCovidKids #LongCovid #Sleep

While we welcome the Scottish Government announcement of £4.5 million recurrent #LongCovid and #MECFS funding, serious concerns remain. Patients are told money is being allocated, but there is no clarity on how it will be used. Read the full statement on our website: www.longcovid.scot/blog/res...

The strongest predictor of autism is genetics. Data: • If one identical twin has ASD, the other has a 90–99% chance. • Compare that to 31–67% chance for fraternal twins. • Non-twin siblings have ~20% likelihood of ASD, 7-fold higher than general population. 1/

‚„Immunity debt” doesn’t exist, but immune damage does. Children are sicker now than pre-pandemic – many with disabling chronic illnesses. This cycle of harm can only stop when we accept reality – there’s no off ramp without cleaning classroom air.‘ #LongCovid

Will @hsph.harvard.edu take action given they hired Andrea Bacarrelli in 2024 AFTER he falsified links between Tylenol use in pregnancy & autism in federal court (& was paid $150,000) and THEN published the same claims in a journal with a history of fake peer review & falsified data 1/

I know there’s a lot going on in the world but you all have to stop and look at my kittens. They were abandoned in our street 2 months ago. When we took them in not quite 4 wk ago, they were terrified and hid all the time. Now they’re on the sofa right next to me snoozing happily.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... A 2024 study published in JAMA involving 2.4 million children in Sweden, used sibling-control analysis. When comparing siblings—one exposed to #acetaminophen in utero & one not—the researchers found NO increased risk of #autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability.

President Trump has claimed that Leucovorin is a “gamechanger” in autism treatment, and that “it could help make our kids healthy again”. This is entirely false. BuDS has prepared a detailed briefing on this matter, which can be found at the link: buds.org.uk/president-tr...

"described for the first time widespread abnormalities in the function of unmyelinated C fibers, both somatosensory and sympathetic, that could represent a common pathophysiological mechanism explaining the multiplicity of symptoms in #longCOVID" #MECFS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Nasal Azelastine and COVID Prevention: What a New Study Tells Us — And Why It Might Matter for Long COVID / ME/CFS danilobuonsenso.substack.com/p/nasal-azel...

🌬️ Clean air isn’t a luxury - it’s a necessity. At SHH UK, we’re calling for urgent action for #SafeAir4All. Everyone deserves to breathe safely. It’s time to act. 🌍💙 #LongCovidAwareness #PublicHealth #SafeAir4All

Same cartoon with added medical reference. The link is in the ALT+ Justice4ME #Plan4ME @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social @davetuller1.bsky.social @decodemestudy.bsky.social @tomkindlon.bsky.social @bmhughes.bsky.social @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social @whitneydafoe.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.com

#COVID causes vascular damage. Here is Dr Rae Duncan talking about the risks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydRl...

‚He adds: 'we are the unfortunate aftermath of the pandemic that people don't want to think about. They just want to put their things in their ears and move on with life. We can't do that though, because we're living with long Covid.'‘ #LongCovid

TV tonight #LongCovid 2/2

"A systematic review and meta-analysis published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases reported a pooled prevalence of long COVID as 36% worldwide." #LongCovid remains common and a public health emergency www.eatg.org/hiv-news/mor...

Important study (that rather flies in the face of recent vaccine decisions) that considers the risk of Covid (and long Covid) on the cardiovascular system and the need to note and rehabilitation to better manage CV symptoms. Also suggest vaccines are an important tool to prevent such complications

Can anyone explain to me what counts as legitimate protest in the U.K. these days? I’m baffled. We should celebrate attacks on police as vibrant free speech but condemn pensioners with slogans on t-shirts and @ledbydonkeys.org with a projector?

Poverty is evil and must be tackled to achieve a well society, but poverty is not the cause of racism. Racism is an ideology which may be nurtured by all sorts of things including ignorance but it is false to simplistically say that poverty generates it.

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

What we know about protests. When it’s morally right it’s peaceful and when it’s morally wrong it’s always violent. Tells you everything you need to know about which side you should be on. Fvck nationalism and fvck the far right.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

Why the surprise, doctor? I think there is a reasonable consensus that is emerging about mid-term trends ourworldindata.org/un-populatio...

Michael Peluso’s team at UCSF is looking for pre-Covid #pwME in the SF Bay Area. I've heard great things about their Long Covid work and suspect this study will be fruitful!

Ann Arbor and New Haven researchers reviewed 429 studies with over 2 million people and found long COVID affects 36% worldwide, lasting up to 2 years, with fatigue, respiratory and neurological issues most common, and higher risk if unvaccinated. academic.oup.com/ofid/advance...

Covid is not kind to the poorest amongst us 💔 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

Clean the air FFS.

1/4 This morning, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry opened Module 9: Economic Response, looking at how government decisions in the early years of the pandemic affected people’s lives. Dr Lucy Moore and Nigel Rothband, Chairs of @longcovidsos.bsky.social and Long Covid Support, were present. 🧵👇

Do they really think we are all sitting around waiting for drugs? While we obstinately refuse to consider other ways to recovery? If they had any inkling of what it‘s like living with #LongCovid and #ME, they‘d know that we try anything to get better. If any of it worked, we wouldn’t be here.