Hi. We're in the Age of Diarrhea. I'm a global health expert on helping children survive diarrhea. Here's what to do if you might have picked up cyclospora. 🧵 1. Call your primary care if possible. 2. Take oral rehydration therapy, which isn't just drinking fluids. 1/

Sometimes you wonder who originally named those things.

short video on what is going on with birthright citizenship in the US and a couple of other things! youtube.com/shorts/P7BIC...

We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild its land. Join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Of note in the South: Cornwall and Devon are predictably showing an increase, as is Brighton, London, Oxford - all the tourist & holiday spots. West Berkshire is highest on 5.26%. 2/5

We clearly need clean air in schools to protect children & staff from preventable risks to their health. It's hard to see how any politician could possibly be against this. Even "we can't afford it" makes no sense. The avoided costs of illness would justify it purely on economic grounds!

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"The new guidance ... identifies excluding children from attendance rewards because of a medical condition or allergy as unacceptable practice and expects schools to ensure their policies do not disadvantage pupils because of their health." Excellent!

New: OECD report on Long COVID #longcovid www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

🚨 2 *HUGE* WINS for children's health have just been written into DfE statutory guidance - and the media didn't notice them! If your child is Clinically Vulnerable due to asthma or allergies, this changes what you can demand from their school. 1/🧵 www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/allergy...

The rig I'm on has put up first aid guides that were made with AI. Wouldn't bother with CPR there, would be more concerned by the fact is head isn't connected to his body

Even though our public health institutions have (very quietly) admitted that the science that guides their recommendations is completely out of date, they're doing essentially nothing to inform the public or even update HCWs.

Some haunting images capturing 250 years of American history through wars, prohibition, gold rush, slavery, and Woodstock

STAT opinion piece on pseudo-acting CDC director Bhattacharya and others from HHS working hard to create vaccine controversies and sow doubt. www.statnews.com/2026/07/02/m... 1/4

If you are Clinically Vulnerable - or you just believe protest should be safe for everyone - follow us, share this thread. Also, please consider writing to your MP using our template email: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Find their email at: theyworkforyou.com/mp/ 9/

🧵 They do not care, folks. Not a bit. "Among CDC's 23 centers, institutes, and offices...more than half have no permanent leadership, raising questions about direction and morale at the agency....On top of that, the agency remains without a permanent director." www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

This is from 2025 but new to me and made me chuckle. So glad the wombles are still about.

🎯Last year a mask ban was applied in a small town in Wiltshire and advertised retrospectively in social media. The politicisation is insane. There are many legitimate reasons why people mask. Have we forgotten masks health protection purpose? Beards, sunglasses, hijabs are these illegal too?

🚨 WARNING: As of Monday, wearing a mask at a protest is a criminal offence in England & Wales. This is now the law. 🧵 on what this means for Clinically Vulnerable people... 1/ #ProtectVulnerableProtesters

Being in a standard classroom with windows that don't fully open on an exceedingly hot day, with 30+ teenagers, makes you feel incredibly unwell. Learning grinds to a halt, tempers flare, misery ensues. Any journalist writing that schools are making a fuss over nothing should spend a day in one 🥵

“……..Many people can only protest safely with a face covering, while restrictions on repeat protests strike at the heart of what makes many protests successful,” @cvcev.bsky.social

Painting by Algernon Cecil Newton. ‘The Backs of Houses, Harley Street, London’ 1925. Oil on canvas. Measurements H 39 x W 50.8 cm.

Kids these days, eh? #NiceThings

👀 Very scary news.

Last week we made the case for safer indoor air at the first Parliamentary Friends of Clean Air Quality meeting, where we spoke with several federal parliamentarians about this important issue. This is the kind of work your generous support makes possible. Support us: bit.ly/sap-eofy26

Great to participate in 'Delivering a National Allergy Strategy: Next Steps for Allergy Care' last week in Parliament joining, Chris Bloore MP. The National Allergy Strategy recognises IAQ and gives practical steps to improve it including training and air filtration.

A breeze in paint.

"I have spent more than 40 years in pulmonary and critical care medicine. I have seen children harmed by disease, poverty, by bad luck. I had not, until now, seen them harmed so methodically by their own government."

Learning from Led By Donkeys. (Or could be the real thing, who knows.)

Michelle and I loved reading to this bright group of kids today! We hope this new Chicago Public Library branch at the Obama Presidential Center will be a place where folks come to read, check out books, and connect with one another for years to come.

Netherlands nursing homes were left without preventive face masks for months in 2020 after experts rejected calls to supply them. A later inquiry called it a “silent disaster,” as care homes accounted for over half of all official COVID deaths that year.

Can buildings fight airborne diseases the way they fight fires? I went to Washington to meet scientists showing off works in progress. Here's my report (gift link): nyti.ms/3SijML2

Some good news for a Friday morning.

Professor Adam Fox OBE’s message was clear: no more reports, no more delay. The time for action is now. Safe Air Schools has shown that cleaner classroom air can be achieved for as little as 3p per pupil per day, with improved attendance already being seen in a Hampshire school.

This #CleanAirDay, please consider adding a line about classroom air to your message or letter. The job now is to act. 🛟 Clean air in schools is not a luxury. It is a safeguarding issue. cleanairhub.org.uk/clean-air-day

#CleanAirDay is a significant national movement and an important opportunity to highlight the new National Allergy Strategy, which recognises clean classroom air as essential for prevention and protection.

In light of the Long Covid presentations at #RCPsychIC today it is worth sharing this thread again #LongCovid #ME

The UK’s leading far-right figure was on Saturday detained by police under terrorism legislation at London’s Heathrow airport, after a week in which he played a key role in encouraging protests that later turned violent in Northern Ireland ft.trib.al/ClsT3a3

Billions of gallons of toxic oil field wastewater are injected below Oklahoma each year. Some of it is spreading uncontrollably and blasting out of old wells. Our new film with @readfrontier.bsky.social exposes what regulators knew — and how they did little about the risks.

Yorkshire, indeed the world, has lost some of its colour today. Garrowby Hill, a Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney, 1998. So long, David.

Worse than I thought. I saw Kushner’s Albania resort up close — it is an environmental disaster. The damage at Vjosa-Narta is not fake news. Bulldozers are tearing into one of Europe’s most precious wetlands www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

I and @independentsage.bsky.social advocated kids vax vs SARS2 since day 1. Even when transiently available to u12s, they were sold as a damp squib by those in authority. As vax coverage dwindles, the lack of foresight gets harder to reconcile. #LongCovidKids is a major neglected issue 💔

When indoor air quality is poor, the burden too often falls on individuals and families to assess risk, ask questions, advocate for safer conditions, or even leave altogether. This is why lived experience is central to our work.

The last working ochre mine in the U.K, Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean, where colour has been mined for 4,500 years. A beautiful range is still mined & milled there: yellow ochre, red ochre (Terra Rosa d’Inghilterra), brown ochre, & rarer purple ochre, akin to ‘caput mortuum’.

Not a footie fan so for me this data seems like the only positive side of the gathering of thousands in the Land of Trump.

1/ "The #CleanAirForKids campaign has calculated that over the 20-year lifetime of an air filter running all day in schools during term times, including installation & running expenses, it would cost less than a tenner per child per year... @ruthbrooker.bsky.social youtu.be/27cH_0E8HQQ?...

OB-GYN association, deviating from CDC guidance, issues its own vaccine recommendations ACOG recommends that pregnant people receive Tdap, RSV, influenza, and Covid shots during pregnancy.

Treatments based on the same mRNA technology that delivered COVID vaccines to market in record time are showing lasting benefit against the deadly skin cancer melanoma and early promise in pancreatic and ​brain cancers. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

🎯🧵by Dr. @daniellebeckman.bsky.social on XTwitter, replying to a Q: "If the cells are frequently turning over and they are still detecting viral persistence, what other plausible explanations are there for this other than replication?" 🚨Dani replies w/ 5 options: threadreaderapp.com/thread/20646...

🚨NEW: Our 2026 Voting Accessibility Audit looked at whether the Electoral Commission's new guidance for Clinically Vulnerable voters was actually being implemented at polling stations. The headline finding? It helped people vote more safely! ⬇️ 1/