5. After a bit of digging, I managed to identify what seemed to be the source of the zombie stat. ...via this press release: www.newswise.com/articles/nee... ...I zeroed in on this grant application call: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

A thread. 🧵 1. First of all, what is a "zombie stat"? you may ask. Well, it's a statistic or factoid that persists in the literature despite, and possibly even because of, there being no obvious original source of its existence.

What Martin said. Independent SAGE were not cranks, not extremists, not over-reacting. #covidinquiry

Our paper, that we worked hard to produce before the second wave, estimated that 21,000 excess deaths were caused by the 1 week delay in lockdown. The paper was held up & eventually rejected by the Lancet. By the time it came out it could only offer a post mortem. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Our latest blog by @evonnetcurran.bsky.social has just gone live: shh-uk.org/in-pursuit-o.... In the blog she reflects how infection prevention & control guidelines have been used & how IPC professionals need to become experts in error, prevention, detection and correction. Part 2 on Weds.

So hand hygiene cannot be no 1, can we now have a chat about all modes of transmission ? shh-uk.org/hand-hygiene...

When you accept bad things as normal and irreducible, you fail to achieve brilliance.

So lets do a thread on www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/defaul...

Taking the data from a systematic review and using a Pareto. It can be seen preventing Bloodstream infections is C. auris control. I see not national/international guideline that includes preventing BSI. Secondly it is also airborne distributed and we are not recommending air cleaning either...

1. 'Overall, our findings raise compelling questions about the potential role of SARS-CoV-2 infection in accelerating or triggering neurodegenerative diseases linked to protein amyloidosis'. An example of such a disease is Parkinson's Disease (PD). pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Thanks to @evonnetcurran.bsky.social for another great blog. I look forward to the day when those responsible for infection prevention and control acknowledge that covid is airborne and ensure guidelines are updated to reflect this. Read more about the changes needed: shh-uk.org/shh-uk-posit...

🚨 Want to deliver the NHS 10-Year Plan? Start with Covid protections. 🦠 Less infection = less pressure = better outcomes. 📖 Read our latest blog by our chair @alitwy.bsky.social: shh-uk.org/how-covid-pr... #SafeAir4All #CovidIsAirborne #NHS

Me again. Calling for IPC epistemic responsibility shh-uk.org/a-call-for-i...

Every so often... the idea for an essay arises?

Read about @shh-uk.bsky.social’s #SaferAir4All campaign and how you can join in here: shh-uk.org/making-the-i...

This is about people and people safety. We can do better when we are honest about the issues we face.

179 experts. 28 countries. 1 message: Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared. New global consensus just dropped. link.springer.com/content/pdf/10… 🧵

Persistence of dysfunctional immune response 12 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection and their relationship with pulmonary sequelae and long COVID - Respiratory Research

The admissions officer we saw at the hospital last week 'felt' that Covid vaccines are unsafe & cause Long Covid, welfare recipients are mostly lazy. Nothing to do with her catching Covid while suffering from COPD. Or welfare statistics that prove most people are in genuine need. 🤷‍♀️

This seems really important: The Australasian College of Infection Prevention and Control is advocating for the use of N95 respirators in healthcare settings. Canada? UK? US CDC? WHO? your turn. www.acipc.org.au/wp-content/u...

Patients being admitted to hospital in Texas with symptoms indicative of vitamin A toxicity- RFK jr has been promoting vitamin a and nutrition over and above vaccines to manage the measles outbreak in USA 🧪

Can we stop with the Semmelweis nonsense. He should have copied the midwives and not taken his students to the PM room (every day). The recommendation for a disinfectant akin - that burned the skin - was never a sustainable solution.

Disability advocates have been screaming for years that letting Covid spread unchecked would be devastating to the economy. It’s a mass disabling event. We can’t ignore it forever. The cost of clean air and respirators would be far less than the cost of disabling millions of people:

Watch Dr Joffe. No holds barred. ‘Twas perfect! 👌

If you’re interested in a crash course from the beginning in chronic issues with COVID I recommend this excellent interview with David Putrino. Perhaps the least well understood consequence is the damage every infection likely causes everyone, symptomatic or not. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Well done France! UK next please!

The 15th of March is LC Awareness Day! I acknowledge people everywhere impacted by LC, & am very grateful for the leadership of those with LC who's awareness raising is the single most important factor in finding solutions - @sickandtiredaus.bsky.social @plumskyjam.bsky.social & many others.

NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s What should we make of this? www.ft.com/content/a801...

Today, 15th March, is #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay We stand with the millions who suffer in silence. The cost of inaction is too great. Never let a good crisis go to waste—now is the time to demand a #longCOVID moonshot research project to find effective treatments. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

1/ "Covid-19 has not gone away. We know that more infections mean more people are at risk of developing long Covid": @alitwy.bsky.social, via @elhopkins.bsky.social www.nursingtimes.net/respiratory/...

Science World is lit up all teal tonite, along with other major landmarks across Canada, for International #LongCovid Awareness Day I'm not crying, you're crying

An important graph and caption on the impact of Covid www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Truly Courageous Blog accepts it will take truly courageous steps to admit errors. But the health of so many is dependent on these courageous steps. The population, specifically HCWs, cannot afford to be made more sick because decision makers cannot admit their errors.

No 5 in the Truly Courageous Blog Last for just now. Don't make a decision based on whether or not you like the outcome... More soon.

Step 4 in the Truly Courageous blog IPC have to answer 'How' questions with mechanistic evidence (ME) to use RCTs would be inappropriate. Many things in IPC were discovered by ME How surgical infections happened The best ventilation for theatres How pathogens spread.....

Step 3 in the Truly Courageous blog Acknowledge where risk is highest for HCWs. IPC guidance considers high-risk = AGPs The highest risk is to people caring for infectious, symptomatic people in close range. For goodness sake give the most exposed RPE.

Step 2 in the Truly Courageous blog Admit AGPs did not & do not turn droplet or sprayed on transmission to mucous membranes into airborne (inhaled infections) The whole of 2 NIPCMs (England & Scotland) is written based on this nonsense. Droplets unless AGPs is make-believe.

So here is the blog in bits for @alitwy.bsky.social found at shh-uk.org/enough-of-th... 🙋‍♀️🙋🙋‍♂️ Truly Courageous Step 1 for decision-makers Admit its airborne

Read Part 1 of our powerful new blog series and join the movement for safer healthcare workplaces. @evonnetcurran.bsky.social 🔗 shh-uk.org/enough-of-th... #HealthcareSafety #ProtectOurWorkers #CourageForChange #PatientAndWorkerSafety #longcovidrecovery #coronavirus #health #healthcare

Excellent and detailed piece by @chrischirp.bsky.social showing how Trump et al are targeting science and Universities which is straight out of authoritarian playbooks - we can and should fight back though!

Five years on from the pandemic, the right’s fake Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream (MT @profstevegriffin.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A critical point to understanding the lack of good public health guidance around COVID and #longCOVID: the people whose job it is to provide you with an honest assessment of the risk COVID poses to your health are the people who let it rip while insisting there wouldn't be a risk to your health.

UK govt. website: “The Government expects that the population's defences against new variants will continue to strengthen as immunity increases through…repeated exposure to the virus.” Dr Fauci: “..We cannot apply the standard criteria of herd immunity. It's not applicable with SARS-CoV-2.”

Increased cerebrospinal ACE2 fragments as a read-out of brain infection in COVID-19 encephalopathy patients ✅ Just Accepted #IDSky

IPC guidance needs answers to HOW questions before intervention effectiveness Qs, i.e., HOW TRANSMISSION HAPPENS 1) How does MRSA, or SARS2, or CDI transmit? The answer will/must/can only involve mechanistic evidence. This is why IPC guidance was & is wrong There were/are no HOW Qs#

So Chiara, a singer-songwriter describes her long covid as a monster... The song is called Tyrannosaurus worth a listen for those who don't understand the impact... www.mixcloud.com/SunnyG103/ch...

I would do anything not to get sick..