We went through years of covid inquiry and yet still the same folks are giving the same handwashing only advice for COVID and are still in their positions, even 5 weeks after the covid inquiry stated the guidance is ‘flawed’ and covid is airborne. Why is this?

Can an MP please ask Labour this question? @greenparty.org.uk @libdems.org.uk @plaidcymru.bsky.social

Zoonotic viruses evolve in reservoir hosts, and each jump to humans is an independent sampling of that changing virus. Endemic and (especially) pandemic viruses evolve in human hosts and change over time, sometimes rapidly. Variation is not noise. Evolution is the signal.

"1, it assumes that financial conditions can ease gradually without triggering renewed inflation or financial instability. 2, it assumes that governments can refinance large debt stocks smoothly despite higher interest costs. 1/2 economiclens.org/the-risk-of-...

Again not one mention of aerosolisation of secretions and from wastewater plumes. It’s not just on surfaces! It can become airborne! ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2026/05/18/w...

Today we congratulate @mareetodd.bsky.social on her Public Health appointment and look forward to engaging to strengthen and build on support and policy responses within Long Term Conditions work for all people living with Long Covid in Scotland.

"Pfizer, Moderna COVID vaccines 70% to 76% effective against severe illness in kids in 2022, data suggest" Incredible that some doctors devoted their nearly their entire pandemic output to making sure kids didn't get this vaccine.

We all need to care & advocate for #LongCovid prevention & care. Many suffering left on their own. We’re all going to need treatments eventually—sooner if you don’t mask & repeatedly sick. Society doesn’t want to acknowledge repercussions of letting Covid go unmitigated, but Long Covid is proof 👇🧵

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We’re also not spreading conspiracies. Is it strange that hantavirus and Ebola are both making headlines at the same time? No, it’s not strange. It’s the consequences that climate scientists have predicted for years now. As Ed Yong wrote in an underrated Atlantic article years ago,

The current outbreak concerns the Bundibugyo strain of the virus, for which we have no approved vaccine or treatments. The incubation period runs up to 21 days. During the first stages of illness, symptoms look very similar to a cold or flu. Patients can spread the disease once they’re symptomatic.

What They Don't Want You to Know About Ebola. Three Big Things. On surviving the next pandemic. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/what-they-do... @jessicawildfire.bsky.social

Contrary to conventional knowledge, many viruses can spread through the air. If we allow them to spread, they can mutate. They can evolve. They can gain functions. They develop new ways to infect. They develop the ability to enter new hosts and become more efficient. That’s what viruses do.

While Musk was destroying USAID, RFK Jr. was dismantling the CDC with deep cuts, layoffs, and purges. I guess he was too busy spreading measles to care about Ebola. Where does that leave us? Well, we’ve never been less prepared for a pandemic.

Ebola viruses can already spread via the air to some extent. They’re undergoing hypermutation. They’re spreading faster than they have at any point over the last thousand years. They have the potential to become truly airborne, like the flu or other respiratory diseases.

The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented; there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past four months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years. Each new infection represents trillions of throws of the genetic dice.

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With ongoing hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks, this paper is worth (re)reading. When someone coughs, sings, talks or breathes they produce aerosols from their respiratory fluids - along with whatever pathogens are in those fluids. COVID screwups have committed PH/IPC leaders to covering that up.

By this point in the Covid pandemic you should know to worry about the rising numbers of cases and death in the Ebola outbreak. And by this point in the Covid pandemic you should know to worry even more should a day come when they stop even trying to keep count.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania broke the all-time record high for the month of May today at 98°F (36.7°C)! Human-caused climate change is making these temperature at least twice as likely across the region. Explore the attribution data from @climatecentral.org at csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Major fires are threatening homes and ecologically sensitive areas following a hot, dry winter. www.wired.com/story/califo...

Someone wrote Omicron has a lower long COVID rate than older variants… but it’s not zero. My friends… they wrote 4% at 18 months. On a population level, that’s massive. And it’s not a static number. If repeat infection increase risk of long COVID… the number will probably increase. ☹️

Any assisted dying scheme should command the confidence of disabled people. Bringing another Bill back without any attempt to address the real concerns of disabled people looks like another attack on disabled people, and brings the Government into disrepute. buds.org.uk/another-assi...

Public health can be hard to grasp like that. We deal with huge numbers, then get upset about "small" numbers... but it's not just numbers. It's about progress towards better health so people don't suffer terrible, *preventable* loss.

Had an appointment at the hospital today. Got in and the radiologist asked me if I was wearing the mask for my protection. I replied "yes, and to protect you too!" Only mask all day, seeing as we live in an ostrich society in the UK that likes chugging dirty air....

Both caffeinated and decaf coffee altered gut bacteria in ways linked to better mood and lower stress. Decaf even improved learning and memory, while caffeine boosted focus and reduced anxiety.

Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Britain gets experimental drug from Japan to bolster hantavirus response reut.rs/3RggNlQ

I have heard 
you do not need
to worry (to really worry)
about the hantavirus outbreak. And I have heard 
you do not need
to worry (to really worry)
about the ebola outbreak. 
And I have also heard
you do need 
to worry (to really worry)
about the suffering of others.

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My job is to study viruses and I can't keep up with everything going on right now. I can't imagine the rest of the world

Maybe folk will start listening when sea levels rise suddenly 🤔 #SeaLevelRise

This is the kind of work, published today, that should be fully supported and prioritized at the highest level. Currently, there is no vaccine vs the Ebola Bundibugyo virus, the source of a major outbreak www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Critics Say Infectious Disease Cinematic Universe Becoming Increasingly Oversaturated

Ebola Asked To Hold While Hantavirus Situation Concludes

Learn from the locals who know the Andes Hantavirus best. In Chile, they serially test exposed contacts at 7, 14, 21 & 28 days. In her update for the WHO, Dr. Claudia Campillo from Chile's Ministry of Health, flagged a case became PCR+ while asymptomatic, then developed symptoms 4 days later

I don’t think it’s negative I think it’s common sense at this point. The situation is, uh, bleak. Turns out all the people who “learned to live with COVID” were the ones still masking and taking precautions, not the one who just pretend it never happened to begin with 🫠

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What did the most of the media cherry pick from the Covid inquiry? The vast majority of coverage focused on no new stories. The PPE scandal but failed to talk about airborne risks and PPE. The VIP lane, same old but this wasn’t the most important part.

The media did a very poor job of reporting on the Covid inquiry. Not balanced at all imo.

Immune damage in children from Covid infections.

Countries aren’t going to be equal on Covid. Those encouraging masking and giving vaccines to all will do much better in the next 10 years. The UK and US have had one of the poorest responses, we will be dealing with large amounts of disability and vascular damage.

@andyburnham.bsky.social Labour needs to talk about Covid. It’s been 6 years and Covid is airborne. No one in the party wants to change the guidance and this has led to widespread misinform. Clinically vulnerable have been marginalised and left without therapeutics and everyone is at risk from long

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The problem is a clear one. Vaccines alone are Not enough.

For so many reasons, including breakthrough infections leading to long covid risks, a vaccine only policy is not working. 1/3 of the UK are clinically vulnerable. Any infection can lead to long covid. Covid is airborne.

Labour has been appalling on health. Pandering to Trump and failing to change the Covid guidance. Cutting vaccines & vaccine funding. Wasting vaccines, making antiviral access difficult. Cutting access to Asthma drugs, it’s a long list. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I’m sorry, but if you dread PPE and are in charge of infection control of serious outbreaks… 😬 It’s like fire fighters dreading the hose… or me being terrified of a stethoscope.

Precautionary Principle Alive But In Critical Condition, Confirm Friends

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