Thread by @DRTomlinsonEP

Truth. 💙
@FreshAirNHS @theRCN @TheBMA @mancunianmedic @DrLindaDykes @Chakladar_A @KGadhok
tridenthse.co.uk/covid-report.p…

Evidence will be presented that:

• the relevant Government departments (PHE/DHSC) are seriously misleading healthcare workers by referring to surgical masks as ‘PPE’,

• this misinformation leads workers to a false belief that they are being adequately protected, and

• this seriously compromises the health and safety of these workers and endangers their lives @doctorsdilemma @DrPieterPeach @YouAreLobbyLud

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My favourite part:

8. THE ‘UNIVERSAL ETHICAL CODE FOR SCIENTISTS’

@Sir_David_King what do you think: have our ‘politician-scientists’ upheld these values, or have they chosen to ignore wrong-doing? @chrischirp @IndependentSage @globalhlthtwit

But the whole document is genius:

“It takes more than a convenient ‘re-interpretation’ by PHE to overturn a definition that has been the law of the land for thirty years and make something that is not PPE into PPE.”
@PHE_uk @NHSEngland @KamranAbbasi @fgodlee

the HSE provides advice specifically for HCWs: “Until the cause & route of transmission are known, in addition to standard precautions, infection control measures for inpatients should include...airborne precautions, e.g. use of FFP3 filtering masks for persons entering the room”

Take a moment. It’s worth it. 👇

And clearly, but incredibly:

‘They [@WHO, PHE, @DHSCgovuk] do not, DESPITE THE MOUNTAINOUS WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE NOW ASSEMBLED, seem willing to accept that aerosols produced by natural means (coughing, sneezing, talking, etc.) are relevant in disease transmission.

@akm5376 @pash22