Yesterday marked the 1st day of UK COVID19 Inquiry Module 5 So what? Well, we now have access to opening statements from core participants, like this, from saints at @bma.org.uk Thanks to such CPs, ‘everything that is secret will be made known’ 🙏🏻 covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/in...

Recommended reading for all wishing to learn from history ⬇️ Shangguan Z, Wang MY, Sun W. What Caused the Outbreak of COVID-19 in China: From the Perspective of Crisis Management. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 May 8;17(9):3279. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17093279. PMID: 32397199; PMCID: PMC7246516.

One thing I didn’t expect in the wake of the CEO shooting is the sudden attention on health insurance policy. I have seen this video and the BCBS policy itself go viral on almost every platform. People are waking up. Real lasting change in healthcare is coming. youtube.com/shorts/vWA2a...

Tell me again about how nurseries and schools don't drive infections in local communities.

Feb 8th 2020 rewind: China confirms that COVID19 is transmitted through aerosols through the air [Thank you Maarten for passing this on] www.bbc.com/zhongwen/sim...

This is awesome: turning dreams of cleaner indoor air in schools into a reality Bravo 👏

Imagine academic physicians repeatedly signing off guidance denying nurses access to FFP3 for covid19-facing patient care doing 10 Downing Street pressers every day

Team #CATA saints at the National Covid Memorial Wall Heroes forever 🙏🏻 28th Nov 2024

Excellent - we need 6 more IPC people who accept airborne transmission to make a starter pack list - any more on here?

Email of thanks to CATA: final day UK COVID19 public inquiry M3 ‘On behalf of all voiceless, powerless HCWs - THANK YOU I reckon it will be impossible to gaslight a future generation of workers that respiratory viruses are anything other than routinely airborne transmitted’ ❤️🙏🏻 #COVIDisAirborne

My leafy riverside walk has been swept clean by recent floodwaters #spaniel heaven #Diptford

It is however nuts that for literally the most predictable NHS crisis we still rely on the luck of the disease draw (and the weather) every winter. @paulmainwood.bsky.social put it brilliantly a few weeks ago in his substack (which I recommend). 5/6

Magnificent closing statement from Brian Stanton KC today at UK COVID19 Public Inquiry, on behalf of the BMA 🙏🏻 Thank you for speaking truth to power, for valuing HCW & patient safety, & for countering the lies & doublespeak of all NHSE & DHSC-linked witnesses @profraymondagius.bsky.social

This piece by BBC health correspondent Nick Triggle on the replacement of NHS doctors with PAs is disappointingly misleading through omission of key context & reliance on those busy, yet always conveniently anonymous, 'NHS senior sources'. 1/n www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here's my recent piece on PAs. Please read to understand the gravity of the issues involved. I am speaking out for one reason only - because patients & the quality of their care matter to me more than anything. [And by all means quote me, Nick.] Ends/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The NHS has a long & shoddy history of bullying, smearing & discrediting grassroots voices when they try to speak out about matters of patient safety. They're doing it now, using obliging journalists as their mouthpiece. It's infuriating on every level. 6/n

🚨Matt Hancock explained "It was not clinically safe to have cancer treatment during the pandemic" Cancer patients are severely immunosuppressed whilst undergoing treatment. Their immune defenses are low. We ask what is different for this group today?

By request, here is a longer explanation of how the CardioSky feed works. I created the feed so I could have one place to see cardiology related activity on Bluesky beyond just the #CardioSky hashtag. Below are the details, some considerations, and some caveats. bsky.app/profile/did:... 1/5

Hallett: ‘Ms Freeman, a Q I suspect we’re going to put to various health ministers. If a system has had to close down cancer screening, a potentially fatal disease, if it’s had to cancel elective surgery where people can suffer in huge pain for years, why does that not mean the NHS is overwhelmed?’

VT ablation vs medical therapy in VANISH2 🚨Ablation wins Congratulations to the authors, & for describing local RF endpoints like this (pic) to enable greater reproducibility of VT ablation in real world settings #MedSky #EPeeps H/t Bradley Porter www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

THREAD: we urgently need to talk about babies & Covid - AGAIN. A new paper has dropped looking at acute Covid-19 outcomes from Sep 2023-Apr 2024 by age for all England. Except for deaths, babies under 6 mths old have HIGHEST risk of A&E, admission & SEVERE hospital admission across ALL ages 1/10

Pete wrote a nice article about our new paper. thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/lif...

Hello everyone. I am now on this platform for social media. Do please repost this message so that more people can find me!

Thread for those new to BlueSky. First of all, welcome. It feels like a safer space, doesn’t it? But also perhaps a bit disorienting initially? Here’s some tips for getting your bearings.

☣️ UK pandemic PPE stockpile as of 18th Feb 2020 Gowns: zero FFP3: 2 million, most beyond use by date Tell me again why JVT requested SARS2 HCID declassification leading to IPC guidance downgrade, 13th Mar 2020?

🚨Airborne transmission CATA Q: "Please can you explain why you so confidently and assertively felt the need to rule out airborne transmission so early in the pandemic?" Prof Sir Stephen Powis, National Medical Director NHS England "This is early in the pandemic and represents the position then" 1/

Maybe this version works better here? bsky.app/profile/cvce...

CVF💙💜💗 Questions asked today by Rosa Polaschek to Amanda Pritchard, CEO, NHS England. Q1. Ventilation - Do you accept Technical Memorandum (guidance) is out of date? 1/

Great Q from CATA today 11th Nov 2024 @covidinquiryuk Steve Powis making an untrue statement under oath in response ⬇️ x.com/cv_cev/statu...

H/t Dr Matt Butler petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

Clade X 2018 airborne pandemic exercise: executive summary centerforhealthsecurity.org/sites/defaul...

🚨 Why do I wear FFP2 at work? I am a cardiac electrophysiologist I don’t have a #LongCovid clinic, but most patients I see have Long Covid

🚨NHS Trust leadership 101 Forget truth: protect the organisation www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

It will be a mixture of EP & IPC for the foreseeable But for now: resource-driven IPC guidance Mar 2020 proven here Obvs narrative we have from liars on the stand @covidinquiry UK to-date is quite the opposite covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/u...

‘If a Resident gets COVID19 they stay in the Home until they recover or die’ AKA best Pandemic planning according to UK Gov-linked scientists

We need to keep everyone safe.... How much irreparable damage before actions. www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024...

Join Us for World Ventilation Day – 8th November Mark your calendars for World Ventilation Day…

How were so many liars ever given ultimate power over IPC safety standards in the NHS? x.com/drtomlinsone...

Whistleblowing surgeon @GreatOrmondSt was told to "keep quiet" by managers. MP @Meg_HillierMP has now taken up the scandal involving 721 children. Read: hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024... GOSH has announced a new inquiry into its leadership & governance aft the Yaser Jabbar affair:

~30h ambulance care before heart attack patient could be admitted to hospital Thinking about this on my drive home today #NHS

We welcome today's announcement by the Department of Health and Social Care of a new independent review of #patientsafety across the health and care in England. You can read our full response in the blog below⬇️ www.pslhub.org/learn/patien...

PHILOSOPHERS OF SCIENCE: new postdoc position at U of Manchester (collaborating with Exeter and Oxford) on mechanistic evidence in systematic review. 🧪 more detail in reply www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

BMJ finally published our pushback against claims by witnesses to the UK Covid inquiry that high-grade (respirator) masks are no better than baggy blue surgicals. Is not true, as we set out here: www.bmj.com/content/386/...

Good 🧵 by @drtomlinsonep.bsky.social (on Twitter) regarding Covid, IPC. List of failures is 🎯 "Over the last 2 days at #covidinquiryuk the NHS has shown its dark & ugly side. There was never going to be an apology from IPC guidance authors..." threadreaderapp.com/thread/18364...

Keynote address @jeremyfarrar.bsky.social at the first WHO Europe indoor air conference Finally, a cause for hope with the acknowledgment that humans need clean air Thank you www.youtube.com/embed/R0xmqJ...

Where are our leaders? johnsnowproject.org/insights/whe...

COVID-19 is not "just the flu." New research by @zalaly shows that COVID-19 is significantly more harmful than flu, and that most of the harms come after the acute phase of the illness has passed. Read More: johnsnowproject.org/primers/covi...

I’ve been offered the opportunity to present at a medical grand round How would you convince a group of [heavily propagandised] medics into believing they had been systematically misled? How would you win them over to the clean air campaign?