Understanding how Covid spreads indoors is the first step toward preventing it. This interactive guide from El Pais uses clear visual examples to show how airborne transmission works in enclosed spaces and what factors increase or reduce risk. 🔗 shh-uk.org/how-covid...

Poor ventilation in hospitals puts staff and patients at risk every single day. Clean air is not optional. It is as essential as clean hands and sterile equipment. Time for healthcare settings to treat it that way. #SafeAir4All #CovidIsAirborne Read more: shh-uk.org/why-hospi...

Tomorrow! 💙 Healthcare worker with #LongCovid? Join us for our online peer support group on Tues 26 May. 🧶 Creative crafts theme 🎨 Share what you’re making 💬 Or just join the conversation You’re not alone. #PeerSupport #HealthcareWorkers #CreativeWellbeing

Tomorrow! 💙 Healthcare worker with #LongCovid? Join us for our online peer support group on Tues 26 May. 🧶 Creative crafts theme 🎨 Share what you’re making 💬 Or just join the conversation You’re not alone. #PeerSupport #HealthcareWorkers #CreativeWellbeing

2 days to go! 💙 Our next SHH-UK peer support group is for all healthcare workers living with #LongCovid (working or not). 🎨 Theme: Creative crafts Bring examples of crafts you enjoy — or simply join the chat. #LongCovidSupport #HealthcareWorkers

Living with #LongCovid can feel isolating — especially when others don’t understand. Our online peer support group for healthcare workers with Long Covid meets on Tues 26 May 💙 🎨 Theme: Creative crafts Bring along something you’re making — or just come and chat.

Repeated Covid infections increase Long Covid risk exponentially. One of the most effective protections is clean indoor air. We have resources on ventilation, CO2 monitors, and air quality in healthcare settings, all in one place. Read more: shh-uk.org/resources...

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🎨🧵 Are you a healthcare worker living with #LongCovid? Join our online peer support group on Tues 26 May for a relaxed conversation about creative crafts. Bring along examples of what you’re making — or just come for ideas and support 💙 #HealthcareWorkers #PeerSupport

Repeated infections are happening, and with each one, the risk of developing Long covid increases significantly. We have put together a clear explainer on the hidden health risks of repeat Covid infections. Read more: shh-uk.org/repeat-co...

🫶 Living with Long Covid affects whole families. For our June newsletter, SHH-UK is inviting short lived experience pieces from carers, partners, families & healthcare workers affected by Long Covid. Your story could help others feel less alone #LongCovid #HealthcareWorkers

A surgical mask and a respirator are not the same thing. If you need to reduce your risk of reinfection, knowing which one to use and how to use it properly matters. We have put together clear guidance — Link in bio. Read more: shh-uk.org/masks-vs-... #LongCovid #CleanAir

📚 Have you visited the SHH-UK Resources page recently? We’ve added lots of new content. Whether you’re living with Long Covid yourself or supporting someone who is, there’s something there for you. Take a look: shh-uk.org/resources...

☕ Reminder: our SHH-UK Coffee and Chat peer support group is tomorrow. A welcoming online space for healthcare workers living with Long Covid to connect and talk with others who understand. 🗓 Tuesday 12th May ⏰ 11am Link: teams.microsoft.com/...

Supporting healthcare workers with Long Covid means support, advocacy, awareness and community. Catch up with the latest news, resources and campaign updates in the newest SHH-UK newsletter 💙 📬 Read here: shh-uk.org/shh-uk-ne...

📢 SHH-UK wants to hear from partners, carers & families affected by Long Covid for our June newsletter. Short reflections welcome on caring, balancing work/family life, fluctuating symptoms & emotional impact. No formal writing needed 💙 #LongCovid #LongCovidSupport

I am tired of going to the GP masking and they act scared and have questions if I'm ill. The waiting room is often full of people coughing, but I with long COVID who want to catch nothing at a doctor's office, must explain my mask. I do. Silence. No follow up questions about how I manage LC.

The UK Covid Inquiry Module 3 report has urged that HEPA filters be prioritised across hospital settings. Low cost, practical, and effective at reducing airborne transmission. This is what safer air in healthcare looks like. Read more: shh-uk.org/covid-inq... #SafeAir4All

2 days to go until our next SHH-UK Coffee & Chat peer support group. If you’re a healthcare worker living with Long Covid, join a supportive online space to connect with others who understand. 🗓 Tuesday 12th May ⏰ 11am Link: teams.microsoft.com/...

SHH-UK’s Coffee and Chat peer support group is a friendly online space for healthcare workers living with Long Covid to connect and support one another. 🗓 Tuesday 12th May ⏰ 11am Link: teams.microsoft.com/...

Join SHH-UK’s online Coffee and Chat peer support group on Tuesday 12th May at 11am. A relaxed, confidential space to meet others who understand the realities of Long Covid. There’s no need to book — just come along. Link: teams.microsoft.com/...

📚 Have you visited the SHH-UK Resources page recently? We’ve added lots of new content. Whether you’re living with Long Covid yourself or supporting someone who is, there’s something there for you. Take a look: shh-uk.org/resources...

An online singing-based breathing and wellbeing programme (ENO Breathe) in people with long COVID breathlessness in the UK: a cohort study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #LungSky #RespEd @btsrespiratory.bsky.social

Reminder that there are more kids with #LongCovid than #asthma(!!).

Long COVID affected 3.8% of community residents after China's zero-COVID policy ended. People with underlying conditions had 3.7x higher risk. Full vaccination reduced risk by 43%. Most had 1-2 infections in Shenzhen community cohort. (n=3,246) #LongCovid

Nature Reviews Neurology: Understanding the long-term neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection #ThatCovidLife #CovidIsNotOver

Listen with caution, we all know how they lied about airborne transmission last time www.youtube.com/live/5hHFECR...

So stoked to see people taking direct action for long covid and other chronic illness 🩵🙌

There is this myth that children have been untouched by covid but it’s overtaken Asthma in the US. #Longcovidkids jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I hope that the former members of the "IPC Cell" and those who oversaw their secretive activities during the height of the pandemic are taking careful notice. Ditto: Their supporters and current proponents of the big lie that surgical masks protect against an airborne disease.

This letter, signed by so many experts and representatives of millions of healthcare workers around the world (including Dr Barry Jones, Chair of CATA, {Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance}) must surely persuade WHO to come clean and change policy.

The situation brings to mind a historical analogy: Marie Antoinette: “Let them eat cake” WHO/World Health Leaders: “Let them breathe virus” PS For the avoidance of doubt: I’m not recommending the same fate for WHO/Health Leaders as Marie-Antoinette…!

Why no change in WHO guidance? Why no change in Government position? Simple! Too many big backs to cover. Too many reputations at stake. Too much concern about pending litigation.

Sir Jeremy's arrival, echoing what so many of us knew from the get-go, gave hope that we'd see a step change in respiratory protection for HCWs. But 3 years later UK Gov watches dispassionately as the healthcare system reels under wave after wave of airborne respiratory diseases.

And her successor as WHO Chief Scientist, Sir Jeremy Farrar, accepts that this would have led to better decisions around aerosols and PPE for nurses and doctors “that would have saved an enormous number of lives” tinyurl.com/5n72dy6c

Nov 2022: Retiring Chief, Soumya Swaminathan apologises that WHO was not more forceful about saying “This is an airborne virus” tinyurl.com/2ydvb4jp

It is now over 3 years since the WHO Chief Scientists admitted that their failure to acknowledge the airborne route of transmission of COVID-19 was a big mistake.

SURGICAL MASKS DO NOT PROTECT So encouraging to see the sheer strength of feeling amongst so many highly-respected scientists & medical practitioners from across the world making representations to WHO This letter from World Health Network is a must-read tinyurl.com/WHN-Letter-t...

Why weren’t we advised on respirators with COVID being airborne, known from day 1? Why aren’t we now being given better advice 4 weeks after the covid inquiry stated ‘covid is airborne’. CATA have done such important work here.

Well Covid is also airborne! bsky.app/profile/safe...

www.luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/l... Ffp3 due to airborne risk. This is what we should have been advised to wear with covid.

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Breakthrough infections happen all the time and whilst vaccines reduce severity of risk for COVID we are not at a point where they are enough alone to fully protect against long covid. The government doesn’t even offer to enough people. It’s airborne, we share the air!

📢 #CallForPublicHealthAction 📢 Everyone is at risk of #LongCOVID. #CleanAir reduces that risk and has no downsides. Demonstrating🪧 for prevention. We had and have the tools. Reasonable demands of your government👇

@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social Are JCVI looking at this? @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social

'Dutch broadcaster ‌RTL said the ⁠woman ‌was a stewardess at Dutch airline ⁠KLM, ‌who had been in contact with ⁠a woman who ⁠died from a hantavirus infection in Johannesburg'. Extremely important to confirm whether the patient has hantavirus as soon as possible. www.rte.ie/news/2026/05...

This is exactly why everyone should wear N95s when they travel. They’re effective at preventing the spread of airborne viruses. You never know what you might encounter on an airplane, cruise ship or public transportation. We have the tools, it’s time to use them.

Remember governments abandoned the precautionary principle, our kids were put last. link.springer.com/article/10.1...