2/ You will not be protected if you fall unwell. Long COVID is growing in prevalence and is currently absent of treatment or cure. NHS workers who develop Long COVID will NOT be financially supported. independent.co.uk/news/health/go…
3/ Failures in PPE policy and provision have, throughout this pandemic, placed the lives of health and care workers at risk.
4/ Even today, health and care workers are going to work wearing masks which are not fit to ride public transportation in other European countries. Hospital trusts are failing to discharge their legal duties under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
5/ For risking my life to save that of others, I now face chronic ill health, organ damage, dismissal, loss of career, loss of independence and financial destitution. #NHS#LongCovid#HerotoZero#WhosClappingNow
6/ To all of my colleagues still working to provide vital health care to the nation as we enter our third wave of infection the year, please look after yourself, no one else will.
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. 🧵
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.
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/ 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.”
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.
“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”
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 ⚠️
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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’