Oh come on @samjnichols.bsky.social ABC News. When reporting on important health topics, you need to get the basic facts right. The person you quote on droplet spread of covid and flu etc is dead wrong. abc.net.au/news/2025-04... 🧵

Latest C19 wastewater graph for Perth, Western Australia (up to 14 March). We have not seen levels this low for a long time. What do you make of it @mikehoney.bsky.social? @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...

Today is Long COVID Awareness Day. We recognise those living with LC and those caring for people with LC. We must all provide support and join the call for research and a remedy for LC. This Billboard was captured in Melbourne, Australia. #LongCovidAwarenessDay

IMPORTANT CAUSE ⤵️ #LongCovidAwarenessDay #CovidIsNotOver

Latest C19 wastewater graph for Perth, Western Australia (up to 7 Feb) shows downward trending line. Remains to be seen if it will reach the low points of previous waves 👀 @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social @oncewasarnold.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...

Latest report shows the downward trend in #Covid19 wastewater for Perth, Western Australia has continued (up to 31 Jan). School return effect may show next week. @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social @oncewasarnold.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...

Latest #Covid-19 wastewater for Perth, Western Australia (up to 24 Jan) shows a small downturn. The rollercoaster rattles on without a controller. @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social @oncewasarnold.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...

Latest #Covid wastewater graph for Perth, Western Australia, up to 17 January. Last report's upward trajectory continues 😒 (No updated variant analysis since 5 Jan) @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...

Even mainstream news magazines are starting to grasp the horrors of the #LongCovid issue. When will the medical establishment and govts catch up? #Scandalous time.com/7206080/long...

Latest C19 wastewater graph for Perth, Western Australia, up to 10 January. Unsurprisingly, an upward turn following Xmas/NY period. #Covid @mikehoney.bsky.social @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @oncewasarnold.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...

Latest C19 wastewater report for Perth, Western Australia - up to 3 Jan '25. Pleasing to see downward trend, incl. over Xmas/NY. Note that aged care cases (residents + staff) have risen since then. #Covid @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social

Hi Andrew, you may have received a response too but here's mine from WA Health CDCD Directorate:

Prof Jeffrey Townsend, Yale School of Public Health: “Preventing this disease in anybody, no matter how healthy you are, is a really good thing. ... It’s not just a matter of feeling ill. It’s doing bad things to you that we can’t fully understand.” #Covid www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Perth Childrens Hosp not on Bsky but: Aug 24: child's mum grateful for many air purifiers in ED, incl treatment rms, all turned on Dec 24: NO air purifiers in ED, even as Dr mentions covid, flu, HPIVs rampant How is it ok to remove airborne infection control for sick kids? @flinty01.bsky.social

Hang on a minute - what's with the discrepancy between last 2 weeks of @WAHealth's Virus WAtch report?? Peak of this C0VID wave's positivity rate revised to a lower level ⤵️ #Covid @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social

WA Health has updated West Australia's C19 wastewater graph up to 13 Dec. A small levelling off of the wave. In light of the recent PCR positivity rate + aged care data + Xmas gatherings upcoming, this may well be another short-lived downturn. @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social

Week ending 8 Dec: big rise in Western Australia’s C19 positivity rate and officially reported cases (noting most go unreported). Take care amongst the Xmas crowds 😷 #Covid

Latest C19 wastewater for Perth, Western Australia - up to 6 Dec. Up it goes again - sharply - after a brief reprieve ☹️ @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social @oncewasarnold.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...

My story from the weekend on this important research. If you think COVID is just a cold, think again.

Australia: when getting updated JN.1 Cvd vaccine, ask to check the vial with your own eyes 👀 Awful, cautionary tale below! ⤵️

💠 #COVID moves around body & persists in organs - incl brain + heart - for years 💠 Lowers IQ 💠 Children can also get L-CVD Important article from @flinty01.bsky.social @westaustralian.bsky.social

Good to see this critical information in msm: “virus that causes COVID-19 accumulates & persists in the body - esp the brain - for years after infection.” Thanks @flinty01.bsky.social @brendancrabb.bsky.social @picklemelissa.bsky.social #Covid #NotACold

Inconvenient truth: Just as every cigarette smoked increases the risk of lung cancer, every Covid infection increases the risk of serious, post-Covid health damage involving multiple bodily organs/systems. Avoid Covid, not reality.

Providing Covid-informed healthcare measures now will also protect against in-hospital spread of the next airborne pandemic pathogen. I do not think this is rocket science. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Latest C19 wastewater graph for Perth, Western Australia (up to 27 Nov). Nice to see it 🎶 heading in the right direction 🎶 but Xmas impact yet to come 🎄 @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...

Australia on alert: World Health Organisation urges efforts to prevent bird flu strain with pandemic potential. By John Flint #Australia #BirdFlu #H5N1 @flinty01.bsky.social Source: archive.md/hM5B7

Long COVID is keeping people from their jobs and their lives, and as COVID cases continue, it is unclear whether the rate of new long COVID cases is increasing faster than the old cases recover, writes @jasemurphy.bsky.social. Read it here: www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/02/l...

The meme I didn't know I needed

Thanks Anne-Marie. Astounding to see that latest big wave of deaths play out, yet some healthcare settings could not even be bothered to mandate masking. Many of those deaths are directly attributable to that incompetence.

Data visualisation specialist @mikehoney.bsky.social powerfully demonstrates the ongoing toll of C-19 in Australia. Almost 20,000 lives lost so far, every person loved & missed. Tragically, more will die. Many deaths would be avoidable if we had a proper public health response. #Covid

More good sense from @brendancrabb.bsky.social & team on the obdurate problem of C0VID & post-C0VID conditions. Better therapies should be fast-tracked, and for now we need #CleanAir, 😷, testing + access to vaccines.

Grateful that a good journo is pursuing this. But it’s galling that Novavax (and TGA) are treating C19 as if it’s a winter season virus. It is, of course, prevalent all year, with high winter AND summer waves. Truly protecting Australians would mean providing ADEQUATE immunisation coverage.

Latest C19 wastewater for Perth, W. Australia (up to 20 Nov) shows a small but welcome downturn. Now we wait to see whether this trend will continue. If govt/policymakers would action #CleanAir the perilous rollercoaster might stop RIP Gemma 🕯️ @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social

A thread worth reading and sharing widely 👇 Prof Brendan Crabb can be relied upon to communicate important and accurate information/advice during this ongoing pandemic, something we need when official channels stay silent (or minimise). Thank you @brendancrabb.bsky.social 🙏

Highly recommended reading ⤵️ A hugely important initiative fighting for #SaferAir in all indoor spaces in Australia. Everyone has the right to breathe #CleanAir. This is an #accessibility and #inclusion issue!

‘We must break the cycle of COVID infections and disability. Clean indoor air, the wearing of N95 masks in crowded public places, and vaccinations are keys to preventing new cases of acute COVID-19 and Long COVID.’ ✍️ @KevinTKavanagh via @ICT_magazine www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/breakin...

A plea to maskless health-care workers from vulnerable patients. "If your trauma is so severe that you can’t mask for a vulnerable patient – or worse, you lash out at a patient for masking – then you need to carefully assess whether you should be in a patient-facing role."

Kaboom. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Thanks for covering this issue @flinty01.bsky.social - good to have important public health information being communicated (esp when there's no good C19 messaging from WA's Health Dept)

Latest C19 wastewater for Perth, Western Australia (up to 15 November) shows upward trajectory continuing - albeit less steeply. Local anecdata confirms plenty of C19 around. 😷 @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @mikehoney.bsky.social www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...

And the next wave builds in Australia. Without #auspol action, this will continue to happen.

Update: looks like Pfizer JN.1 confirmed for 9 Dec in Australia (some pharmacies may have a little earlier) www.ppaonline.com.au/wp-content/u...

Comparison of last 2 weeks of Aged Care outbreaks in Australia. Biggest increases in cases (residents and staff) in Victoria and WA

C19 PCR positivity rate and hospitalisations up in Western Australia, as well as wastewater. www.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/Corp...

So ATAGI met on 9 Oct & recommended use of the latest vaccine formulation avail, namely JN.1. On 10 Oct TGA granted full registration to Pfizer’s JN.1 Yet here we are over 5 wks later with no access to JN.1 - stuck with the old, less effective XBB as the latest Cvd wave builds 📈 #auspol

1. For a government committed to a policy of moving from a treatment to prevention model in the NHS, this makes no sense (vaccination is obviously a powerful preventative intervention). It betrays a focus that is entirely on acute Covid-19 disease. www.gov.uk/government/p...

90-minute Primer on COVID Safety For Schools. A free resource for teachers and parents to get an overview of the issues and practical tips on what they can do to minimise health risks from COVID. www.covidsafetyforschools.org/primer @covidsafetyed.bsky.social

Latest C19 wastewater graph for Perth, Western Australia, up to 8 Nov. The upward trajectory has continued. Allowing access to updated boosters in time for Xmas seems prudent #ATAGI #auspol www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...