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𝙋𝙝𝘿⚛️in physical chemistry: 𝙖𝙞𝙧 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩.🌬 infection prevention & control. Previously: multi-disciplinary research; ex-LA director of education; ex-director of a national children's charity. Governor of an NHS Foundation Trust Hospital
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Patrick Vallance made a minister in Sir @Keir_Starmer’s government – an important appointment given that the #SARSCoV2 virus is continuing to reek havoc - in terms of infections, and their impact on health, well-being, and the economy.
Article: @LabourList
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Source of data and unannotated charts:
1. Patients admitted to hospital (England)
Daily number of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital.
2. Patients in hospital (England)
Daily count of confirmed COVID-19 patients in hospital.
🚨Latest data end of May!
ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/topics/covid...
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Source of data and unannotated charts:
1. Patients admitted to hospital (England)
Daily number of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital.
2. Patients in hospital (England)
Daily count of confirmed COVID-19 patients in hospital.
🚨Latest data end of May!
ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/topics/covid...
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COVID England latest:
#SARSCoV2 infections surging - likely due to new variants circulating, waning immunity, & failure to adopt optimum 'infection protection & control' approaches in much of health & care sector.
Weekly cases up 95% in 4 weeks.
🚨Worrying lag in hospital data!
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COVID England latest:
#SARSCoV2 infections surging - likely due to new variants circulating, waning immunity, & failure to adopt optimum 'infection protection & control' approaches in much of health & care sector.
Weekly cases up 95% in 4 weeks.
🚨Worrying lag in hospital data!
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COVID England latest:
#SARSCoV2 infections surging - likely due to new variants circulating, waning immunity, & failure to adopt optimum 'infection protection & control' approaches in much of health & care sector.
3,230 Weekly cases to 26 Jun 2024
Up 95% in 4 weeks.
🚨🏥Data lag!
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Perhaps, in the spirit of working together with all those who share much of your hopes and dreams for building a better, and fairer, country - you might consider offering a cabinet position to the Leader of the Liberal Democrats and to the Green Party - to work on shared agendas?
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Full of hope, aspirations, and optimism, based on integrity, reality, and a passion to bring our country together - and to move us forward into a much brighter future. Good luck Prime Minister, to you, and all those close to you.
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A Labour landslide!!! At last!!! It's only an exit poll, but if correct, what a result for the UK!!!! Thank you @SkyNews .
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Time is nearly up for the 'party' that has spent the last 14 years destroying the UK - thank goodness.
Lack of integrity, a disgrace, and embarrassment, to the 'mother of all parliaments'.
Open the 'gate' and let this party out, please!
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'Brain scans have found that long COVID changes to the brain parallel the effects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME.
A landmark study has confirmed that CFS/ME is "unambiguously biological" with multiple organ systems affected.' @CarlyCassella @MEAssociation
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'Although there's a lot of clinical/symptom and pathological overlap between Long COVID and ME/CFS one important difference may be that in some people with LC there's evidence of persisting viral infection with COVID-19.'
Dr Charles Shepherd @MEAssociation
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Long COVID is a brutal illness without a known mechanism or cure. Far from being psychosomatic in nature, new study adds weight to the idea that this misunderstood disease is very much biological.
@CarlyCassella @MEAssociation
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'Tess Finch-Lees: "The BMJ, reported unequivocal evidence that SARS2 is airborne”, noting: “[Hospital] infections occur despite strict contact and droplet precautions and reduce when airborne precautions are added.” Respirator masks are a vital IPC tool.'
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Now in the middle of a summer #SARSCoV2 surge in the UK too - most likely due to the new variants circulating, waning immunity, failure to adopt optimum 'infection protection and control' approaches in much of the health and care sector, and government and political negligence.
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Now in the middle of a summer #SARSCoV2 surge in the UK too - most likely due to the new variants circulating, waning immunity, failure to adopt optimum 'infection protection and control' approaches in much of the health and care sector, and government and political negligence.
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The reality of the rise in COVID infections - hidden from view, in a world so desperate to move on from this pandemic.
Sadly, the virus hasn't gone.
Hospitals that succumbed to inadequate forms of infection prevention and control, now being exposed.
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
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💯Chance of a lifetime to consign this destructive, incompetent party to third place - who failed the UK with their almost total lack of integrity. @carolvorders
🗳️Nothing certain until 10pm tomorrow, we owe it to our children to get to our polling booth.
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Wales COVID-19 Situation Update
'Overall, COVID-19 infections increased in the most recent week.
At a national level, the weekly number of confirmed case admissions to hospital increased during week 25 and the number of cases who are inpatients increased.'
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Wales COVID-19 Situation Update
'Overall, COVID-19 infections increased in the most recent week.
At a national level, the weekly number of confirmed case admissions to hospital increased during week 25 and the number of cases who are inpatients increased.'
www.gov.wales/sites/defaul...
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'Our NHS in crisis - exacerbated by social care system in even worse crisis – meaning that many people in hospital when they are physically healthy have NO safe place to go - so more people become sick or injured, through lack of preventative care in the community.' 💯@chrischirp
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Great diagram by @chrischirp 'showing how social factors feed into health, how poor health and social care services can exacerbate health issues, and how poor health in turn can influence social factors in a vicious circle'.
Full details of each aspect at: open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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England deaths, latest week: @ONS 2,758 involving diseases of the respiratory system 1,019 due to diseases of the respiratory system 1,291 involving influenza or pneumonia 331 due to influenza or pneumonia 143 involving COVID-19 94 due to COVID-19 Doesn't look like COVID is over!
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Ireland - COVID19 Data Hub, 03 July 2024:
393 Confirmed cases in hospital
75 New confirmed cases in past 24hrs
🌬️Must stop spreading this airborne virus!
By improving:
😷Infection prevention
💉Booster access
🌬️Ventilation & filtration
🧪Testing
🔢Reporting
covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com
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COVID hospitalizations - one of far too few remaining data indicators. Government should allocate resources to collect and report COVID infections among patients -and require reporting COVID hospitalizations and healthcare-acquired COVID infections'.
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'Masks reintroduced at Staffordshire hospitals after rise in COVID'. @BBCNews
This hospital trust 'has made wearing masks mandatory again following a rise of patients infected with COVID-19'.
'It's the right thing to do to protect everybody.'
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Basic virology, aerosol chemistry, fluid dynamics, chemical engineering, whichever branch of science one prefers, growing evidence supports the view that the #SARSCoV2 virus [which causes the disease known as COVID-19] is potentially predominantly airborne.
www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/h...
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'COVID hasn't gone away. It's still here, hurting millions of people. Our governments ignore it, mainstream media ignore it. Even as they herald the end of democracy, they won't admit the role their COVID denial has played.' @JessicaLexicus
Sad, but true!
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Ireland - COVID19 Data Hub, 02 July 2024:
417 Confirmed cases in hospital.
81 New confirmed cases in past 24hrs.
🌬️Must stop spreading this airborne disease!
Improve:
😷Infection prevention.
💉Expand booster access.
🌬️Ventilation and filtration.
🧪Testing.
covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com
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Action needed in relation to COVID vaccination: Access to free vaccines Strengthen national vaccine programme More frequent COVID vaccine updates and option at least every 6 months for all, not just certain risk groups. With thanks to: Kaitlin Sundling, MD, PhD @kaitlinsundling@med-mastodon.com
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Action needed in relation to COVID vaccination:
Access to free vaccines
Strengthen national vaccine programme
More frequent COVID vaccine updates and vaccination option at least every 6 months for everyone, not just certain risk groups.
💯 Dr Kaitlin Sundling
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Findings suggest 'COVID-19 vaccination campaigns should precede peaks in SARSCoV2 incidence and effectiveness of new vaccines against emerging variants should be continually monitored using seasonal vaccine effectiveness approaches'.
@LanieceDelaunay et al
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'Early days, but it certainly looks as though another COVID wave is building. If the rise in hospitalisations continues, this is obviously worrying.' Exactly @SGriffin_Lab, and the decision to restrict booster eligibility looks like a shortsighted decision.
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COVID-19: 🌬️There's a lot of it about!
Look at 'Ireland's COVID-19 Data Hub'.
397 Confirmed cases in hospital 8.00am 01 July 2024.
Must do more, to limit spreading this disease.
Improve:
😷Infection prevention
💉Booster access
🌬️Ventilation
📢Communication
covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com
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'We can substantially reduce #SARSCoV2 transmission rates and safeguard our children from this serious illness by increasing ventilation to maintain CO2 level below 600 ppm and a minimum of MERV 13 [minimum efficiency reporting value rating] air filtration'. @TactNowInfo
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The government's #voterID scheme is a mess that risks the very principle of free and fair elections. See if you can tell what counts as ID and what would see you turned away from the polls.
@electoralreform
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Each human life precious, whether family, friend, or work colleague. #CovidIsAirborne
UK political parties avoid discussing the need to improve understanding, & practice, in relation to optimising infection prevention & control - and its impact on health, wellbeing & the economy.
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The airborne virus, #SARSCoV2, that causes the disease 'COVID-19', simply hasn't gone away.
England latest data via @UKHSA:
2,815 Cases [in 7 days to 19 Jun 2024]: +33.5%
146 Deaths [in 7 days to 14 Jun 2024]: +5%.
So why such a complacent approach to booster vaccination?
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Reports that @UKHSA 'is seeing an increase in COVID-19 across all indicators, including hospitalisations, and those eligible only have until today [30 Jun 2024] to take up the offer of a vaccine, which helps boosts protection against serious illness'.
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Latest @UKHSA data shows 59.6% of all people aged 75yrs and over in England have been vaccinated with a spring 2024 booster dose since 15 Apr 2024. @BBCNews
A causal, and confusing, approach to COVID vaccine protection, could put more people at risk.
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One party has failed Britain - and after 14 years, at the top of the public's list of grievances is the UK's crumbling National Health Service, and how it was desperately underfunded, and unprepared, before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.'
Via @ABCaustralia
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The @P_H_S_Official has now switched to weekly reports as it has detected the increase in COVID in wastewater for several weeks, which it said was accompanied by a rise in laboratory-confirmed PCR and self-reported cases.
#COVIDIsNotOver
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The @P_H_S_Official has now switched to weekly reports as it has detected the increase in COVID in wastewater for several weeks, which it said was accompanied by a rise in laboratory-confirmed PCR and self-reported cases.
#COVIDIsNotOver
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'20 Confirmed Cases in ICU [in Ireland] recorded at 11.30am on Saturday, Jun 29, 2024.'
The highest number in ICU in 2024.
This dashboard provides a daily overview of COVID-19 confirmed cases in ICU and High Dependency Units (HDU) across Ireland.
covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospit...
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Regarding the UK COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Programme - it’s surely common sense, let alone @UKHSA's primary responsibility, to ensure that such an important preventive health treatment is offered to everyone in the UK, as far as is medically appropriate?
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Hey @UKHSA, the @US_FDA 'voted unanimously to continue recommending a COVID-19 vaccine for everyone 6 months and older - as they were concerned that the potentially confusing guidance about who should get vaccinated may lead to a lower immunization rate'!
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Evidence, from the pandemic years so far, indicate ways to limit spread and impact of the virus that causes this disease, include to get vaccinated, wear face coverings in poorly ventilated spaces, and avoid crowded indoor spaces, and test if uncertain to protect self and others.
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'The rise in UK COVID case numbers believed due to combination of waning immunity from vaccines & previous infections & rapid spread of emerging variant: KP.3.' @BawdenTom @theipaper
Stop spreading the disease, improve infection prevention and ventilation!
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🦠New wave 'might' be peaking in Ireland - COVID19 Data Hub, 28 Jun 2024:
404 Confirmed cases in hospital;
66 New confirmed cases in past 24hrs.
Regardless:
🌬️Must stop spreading this disease!
Improve:
😷Infection prevention
💉Booster access
🌬️Ventilation
covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com
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Vital @UKHSA! But why restrict COVID boosters?
In 🇺🇸, ‘everyone aged 6months and older should receive an updated COVID-19 vaccine to protect against potentially serious outcomes of COVID-19 this fall & winter whether or not previously vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine.’ @CDCgov
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