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Jun 30 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
1/ Bad advice. Do not be vaxed relaxed. Omicron variants #BA4 and #BA5 - which are currently driving the new wave of infection, - resist & escape neutralizing antibodies induced by triple-dose vaccination & antibodies induced by prior omicron (#BA1) infection. 🧵
2/ Triple vaccination & prior omicron infection with #BA1 confer no protection against the new variant.
3/ Please ignore notorious Covid-minimiser, Prasad.

‘93-98%’ of people will not get #COVID19 if they wear a good-fitting #FFP2 or #FFP3 mask.

(Re)infection is not ‘inevitable’ and should be avoided. Continue to protect yourself.
4/ #COVIDisAirborne, which means infectious particles are carried in the air the we breathe. The best way to protect yourself from (re)infection is to #WearAMask, a high grade, good-fitting #FFP2 or #FFP3 😷, esp when in indoor public spaces.
5/ Wearing a mask 😷 is especially pertinent given vaccine protection is waning; treatment for acute Covid is not yet widely or easily accessible; (re)infection carries risk of #LongCovid which is currently absent of treatment or cure.
6/ The longer term harms of #SARSCoV2 infection are purposefully being omitted from discussion because they do not fit the political narrative ‘covid is over’ and is ‘nothing to fear’.

This is why you should do all you can to avoid (re)infection 👇🏼

⚠️ Public Health Warning ⚠️

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Jul 1
1/ Dangerous spread of misinformation by @BBC.

Do not be vaxed relaxed. Triple vaccination and prior infection with omicron #BA1 does not offer protection omicron variants #BA4 and #BA5 - which are currently driving the new wave of infection in the UK. 🧵 Image
2/ #BA5 resists and escapes neutralising antibodies induced by triple-dose vaccination & antibodies induced by prior omicron (#BA1) infection.
3/ Please do all you can to prevent (re)infection. #COVIDisAirborne which means infectious particles are carried in the air we breathe. To protect yourself wear a good-fitting #FFP2 or #FFP3 mask 😷 especially when in indoor public spaces.
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Jun 26
1/ Please @sfchronicle retract this misleading article by @MonicaGandhi9 with immediate effect.

sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…
2/ Quoting the results of a small-scale study, @MonicaGandhi9 misleadingly claims “… We should reassure the public that Long COVID can be prevented through vaccination. Studies with good controls suggest that vaccination reduces the risk of Long COVID significantly.”
3/ This is simply not true.
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Jun 26
Great work Ireland. Refreshing to see a public health message which promotes exercising caution and protecting others through social responsibility. @HSELive

This message could not be more timely as the UK starts its third wave of the year.
Last week, cases numbers in the UK increased by nearly half-a-million. This week, rates of hospitalisation increased 25% #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #WearAMask😷 news.sky.com/story/covid-19…
As we start a new wave, a
⚠️ public health warning ⚠️
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Jun 24
Major blow to Boris Johnson as Tories lose two by-elections. bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-p…

“The Lib Dems stormed to victory Tiverton and Honiton in Devon, overturning a 24,000 Tory majority with a 30% swing”
“Their leader Ed Davey hails the ‘biggest by-election victory our country has ever seen’ while winning candidate Richard Foord says it has sent a shockwave through politics”
“Labour won the Wakefield by-election in West Yorkshire, having lost the seat to the Conservatives at the 2019 general election”
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Jun 22
1/ Public health messaging has failed to warn the public on:

➡️ Long term infection harms

➡️ How to protect oneself from infection

Given we’re at the start of a new wave, case numbers & rates of hospitalisation are rapidly rising, here’s a

⚠️ public health warning ⚠️

🧵
This message is important to everyone, but is especially pertinent to those who erroneously believe #LongCovid is ‘just tiredness after infection’ and it won’t happen to them because they’ve had it and ‘it was just a cold’
First let’s discuss #LongCovid.

Long Covid is a chronic, multi organ, physical condition, currently absent of treatment or cure.

Latest figures show 2M ppl in the UK are affected. 376K have now been unwell for >2 yrs. While some slowly improve, recovery is not guaranteed.
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Jun 21
1/ Please be wary of those minimising Covid harms. The study Prasad refers to in this tweet was poorly conducted.

Please know significant pathology is evident when the correct investigations are performed.
I’m sure most people would consider an MRI extensive. In this study, two long covid patients underwent neuro cognitive testing (questionnaire results revealed deficits in verbal memory and attention). They then underwent MRI imaging and a PET.
MRI of both patients was unremarkable.

PET imaging however showed ‘widespread’ and ‘profound’ neurological inflammation the brain. (The luminescent yellow & red is inflammation).
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