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May 7, 2023 β€’ 11 tweets β€’ 4 min read β€’ Read on X
🏡 THE COVID CYCLE ♻️

As we navigate our way through the post-Covid world, it's important to consider the link between infections and outcomes.

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TLDR :
🚫 Try to avoid catching / spreading infections
πŸ’¨ Clean air will help THE COVID CYCLE   Diagram: ...
While you may well start off healthy, anyone can become Clinically Vulnerable at some point in their life, making them more susceptible to severe infections.

Take it from us, it isn't particularly fun - and frequently, our lives feel less valued.

2/ Diagram :  Healthy person  ...
Covid infections or repeat infections of healthy people can lead to Long Covid*, where people experience prolonged symptoms and conditions including: fatigue, brain fog and respiratory issues.

* Some data suggests that up to 1 in 10 infections result in long-term symptoms.

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Also, people with Long Covid can become Clinically Vulnerable if they acquire conditions including:

🫁 Chronic respiratory conditions
πŸ«€ Cardiovascular diseases
πŸ’‰ Diabetes
🧠 Neurological complications

You might have noticed people who have developed a persistent cough.

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According to the final ONS Covid Survey data, Clinically Vulnerable people have a 5.4x increased risk of Long Covid following Covid infections.

πŸ’™ Catching Covid isn't healthy
πŸ’œ It doesn't promote 'natural immunity'
πŸ’— Living with Covid = constant reinfection

6/ Diagram:  Healthy with arro...
Vaccination has been a crucial tool in breaking the Covid cycle and protecting lives.

Highly vaccinated countries are experiencing lower mortality despite the virus not actually being milder.

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However, we mustn't forget that Covid continues to claim far too many lives.

Anyone can be at risk, and we are all 3 years older and 3 years more vulnerable.

8/ Diagram  Clinically Vulnera...
To further break the Covid cycle, we need clean air as Covid spreads in aerosols.

We mustn't simply accept ~6 peaks a year as new variants continue to rip through the global community. It places a continuous burden on struggling health services. It is not 'flu.

HT - @jneill
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No one wants to see more people suffering from Long Covid or losing their lives.

While the Covid cycle may be here to stay, we can't simply accept current rates of infection and reinfection.

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Going forward, we should consider the following:

πŸ’¨ #CleanAir
😷 #WearAMask in high-risk, poorly ventilated indoor settings inc. healthcare
πŸ₯„ Testing / isolation if symptomatic
🌍 πŸ’‰Supporting equitable access to vaccines around the world

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...and for anyone who thinks that young children can't or shouldn't be tested, there are saliva 'lollypop' tests that are accurate and trouble-free.

Parents in our Facebook group have been very happy with them.

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Oct 23
CVFπŸ’™πŸ’œπŸ’—'s Closing Statement

⚠️SAFE
- Schools must be made safe.

πŸ‘©β€πŸ«SUPPORT
- Children must be given appropriate support to continue their education at home.

πŸ›‘οΈSTATUS
- Clinical Vulnerability must be recognised as aΒ distinctΒ group in the Equality Act.

1/ @AdamWagner1 KC
⚠️SAFETY
"There is good evidence that many schools can be made safer for Clinically Vulnerable children and those in Clinically Vulnerable families."

Ventilation is uncontroversial!

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Ventilation works!

"There is sufficient evidence and consensus now for the Inquiry to recommend that clear air is prioritisedΒ inΒ schools"

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Oct 21
🚨Boris Johnson - Children & Young People

Message to Gavin : 6/7/20
GW "need to push on the push compulsary attendance, and the message of normality"

AW "[You] encouraged him to continue the job.

Would you agree this was months before the vaccine...?"
BJ "Yes"
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AW "Do you think in that race to return to normality [summer 2020] Clinically Vulnerable families may have been left behind?"

BJ "Getting back to school... would have been the best for all C&YP, CV or not."

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Johnson knew it would endanger our lives!!!

AW "It was sometimes not safe"

BJ "There was always going to be an argument... from that position... you were going to create a situation in which Vulnerable parents would be exposed to the virus picked up by kids in schools."

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Oct 20
🚨Whitty is on the stand today... follow this thread.

CTI "What about children who lived with parents who were still at risk...?"

Whitty "The risk to shielding adult... will be increased somewhat, but the risk to the child... scarring their life chances indefinitely."

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CW "Risk-benefit taking a child-centred approach, was to prioritise the needs of the children.

I don't think [there is] convincing evidence, that was with the benefits of hindsight, an incorrect judgement."

- Don't the needs of the children include not killing their parents?
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CTI "But looking at if from the perspective of a child who might be a very difficult position... to be in."

CW "The need to have a conversation with the doctor [or nurse] their family know."
___

How would these conversation reduce risks?
Wouldn't it waste the time of HCWs?
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Oct 16
🚨UKHSA - Dr Shona Aurara

The system of control in schools was not effective for an airborne virus.

CVF's questions from @AdamWagner1 KC

NB/ There was a HUGE amount of content - our amazing team are working on prioritising the best clips for you actively!

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Adam had to work hard today to try to hold UKSHA to account!

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AW "By reducing the isolation period [to 3 days], as well as restricting testing unless advised by a healthcare professional, that meant that infectious children were likely to be returning to classrooms?"

SA "Infectious period... viral shedding... balance of risk..."

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Oct 16
πŸ“’BORIS JOHNSON has been implicated by others as the major decision-maker when it came to schools.

CVF look forward to the opportunity for @AdamWagner1 KC to potentially cross-examine him next Tuesday!

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Secret plans were available to control risks in schools, but they weren't published... because they didn't want schools to have "an excuse not to open in September [2020]"

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The DfE seemed to agree with Johnson's "let the bodies pile high" approach.

Susan Acland-Hood "There are some things so great that they genuinely need to be weighed up against mass fatalities"

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Oct 8
Professor Steve Turner, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (@RCPCHtweets) @SteveTurnerABDN.

"children, mercifully, were spared from the harm of that came from Covid. Even my most sick patients .... it was their parents who were unwell...."

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Advice on shielded children.

"The College was pleased that the UK government adopted the College's advice on shielding for babies, children and young people. Recommending that most but not all C&YP did not need to shield."

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"We knew very early on..."

"Children who've had kidney transplants, whose immune systems were suppressed [...] but the virus bounced off them."

NB/ This is the *only* group of children still prioritised 2x a year for vaccines.

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