Have any football clubs or individual footballers decided to withdraw from the World Cup as it’s being held in the USA?

We will be watching the trial outcomes closely - and cheering it on! 📢 We hope that people at higher risk of poor outcomes will benefit from faster answers and safer care. 3/ www.uhs.nhs.uk/whats-new/pr...

Taekwondoin Tina Sugandh and her black belt kids, who always compete in their masks, warn about #LongCOVID— why they support #MaskTogetherAmerica and @publichealthaction.bsky.social. “This is for all that say you can't compete to your fullest potential at athletic events with a mask on.”

This tragedy was not unforeseeable. Dr Christine Peters, a consultant microbiologist, repeatedly warned that conditions at the hospital were unsafe - especially for immunocompromised patients. Her warnings were ignored. 2/2 news.sky.com/story/it-cos...

“It cost Molly her life.” A teenage cancer patient died after 84 suffered preventable hospital infections. We demand patient safety: Food, water and air. When it’s safe enough for the most vulnerable, it’s safe enough for EVERYONE. 1/2

Minnesota, you are showing the way. You are giving hope to the rest of the world that your country may yet turn things around and, we hope, are inspiring the entire country to follow your courageous lead.

Standard in Davos but not in hospitals or schools.

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

I can’t quite convey how frightening it is that people who think it’s fine to let people catch deadly diseases like polio rather than have a vaccine are in charge of US vaccine policies

Mini-documentary on the rise of the ant-vaccine movement, by @willcarless.bsky.social featuring myself and Kennedy (though not at the same time). www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk8f...

The US has the highest maternal mortality of any developed country … and it’s about to get a lot worse. Why? Pregnant women are afraid to go to the hospital for care. They’re labouring at home alone because ICE will grab them as soon as they give birth. This is dystopian.

This doesn't sound great. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Never forget: never let anyone else forget either.

"My year of living dangerously in Trump's America..." Frightening account by former UK diplomat @alexhh.bsky.social on becoming a US citizen in these dizzying times. @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6W0E...

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions. Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.

Respirator masks for the win.

Breathtaking. Pure MCCarthyism on a global scale. "The email also instructed employees to reject papers with foreign authors if they deal with “sensitive subjects” such as “diversity” or “climate change." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Greenland and Denmark show united front ahead of high-stakes US trip ft.trib.al/W4D6lFE

@kprather.bsky.social @carlzimmer.com @carolinelucas.bsky.social From your different perspectives and expertise in science and public policy please could you help get recognition and practical help for people for whom is Covid still a significant threat by reposting. 🙏 in advance!

I don't live in Toronto. I signed because our whole society needs to shift to recognizing that both clean water and clean air are important public health measures.

Clean indoor air reduces illness. It’s ridiculous that we don’t already have indoor air quality regulations. And it’s ludicrous that we have to petition public health to get them to do something about this. But here we are. Please sign. You don’t have to live in Toronto to sign. cleanindoorairto.ca

Workplace Health and Safety Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from Investigating Workplace Outbreaks in England perosh.eu/wp-content/u... #OHS #COVIDisAirborne #medsky #pandemic #H5N1 #MaskUp

Due to its increasing toxicity, we are no longer posting on X.  You can find us on FB, Instagram, TikTok - and of course here on BlueSky, where we will continue to share news about the wall,  details of our events, and updates on the continually growing covid death toll. ❤️

🌬 It will take you less than a minute to help our Canadian friends in the battle for clean air. NB/ You do NOT need to be from Toronto to sign their petition. DEADLINE: 12th January

Just now: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents. ICE ultimately denied the members their due right to oversight.

WHO urged by dozens of experts to make respirator masks the standard for workers in “all healthcare settings” www.bmj.com/content/392/...

PLEASE complain to the BBC: Can You Keep a Secret? Series 1: Episode 1 7/1/26 This scene stigmatises Clinically Vulnerable people, misrepresents infection control as irrational, and undermines trust in healthcare. Confirm your email. Then reply here “complained”. 11/ www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

Our letter to WHO, signed by over 2,300, calls for respirator use in healthcare to protect patients and staff. Covered by Kat Lay in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Thank you to everyone who signed. The full letter, including the complete list of signatories, can be found here: whn.global/a-call-for-t...

Great initiative! Any UK dentists feel like doing the same? @cvcev.bsky.social

We don’t know who needs to hear this, but the flu is getting out of hand. And we needed to make a post about it. Here are our pretty direct thoughts, because sometimes our social media manager/infographic designer is tired & can’t think of a way to put it more gently. Please make good choices. (1/2)

This should read: ‘Turns off image generator for non-paying customers, but still offers it as a premium service’

Farage: "I believe in vaccinations when they're vaccinations. I don't think what happened with Covid were vaccinations. You have to keep having them every 6 months." Conspiratorial nonsense. Some vaccinations like Covid shots require multiple/seasonal doses because immunity fades & viruses change.

6 years, still no clean air in schools. There has been a huge increase in sickness absence since 2019 due to COVID. Policy isn’t keeping pace with the science. Ignoring #Longcovidkids is part of the problem. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2573814...

Less virus means less viral evolution and fewer co-infections. Reminder that mitigations work against flu: ventilation, air filtration, N95 masks, avoiding exposure. In fact, in 2021-2022 there was very little flu as a result of COVID protocols and one flu lineage may have been driven exctinct.

We are more than just individuals. We are a society. Big challenges like an indundation of severe flu needs systemic responses. Vaccinate, isolate, ventilate.

As we wrote, reducing access to vaccines is a violation of the rights of children www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...

We wish you a wonderful 2026, filled with clean air, so you can fully enjoy the new year in good health. This year, we will continue to expand the resources available on letsair.org: news, infographics, and scientific analyses on indoor air renewal.

"This study reports that in utero SARS-CoV-2 viral exposure results in decreased cognitive skills in toddlers mediated by structural differences in the regions of the newborn brain." Two similar studies published this month - #PedsSky + #IDSky + #MedSky. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

❤️Open to all signatories❤️ Deadline Jan 12 Petition to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance: bsky.app/profile/mama... No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial 🙏✍️&share Thank you

Vaccines do more than prevent viral illnesses, in older folks. There are many other benefits associated with vaccination, too: 🔹️The shingles vax is associated with a lower risk of dementia. So is the flu shot, the pneumococcal vax & the Tdap (which protects... 1/3 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/h...

#2) Air-Borne by @carlzimmer.com Sometimes, as I go to work to be confronted with "Contact/Droplet" precautions with influenza and covid patients, I think I may be the crazy one. Carl reassures me that it is the medical establishment, not me, that has lost its way. 2/3