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Dr. Deepti Gurdasani Profile picture
@dgurdasani1
Feb 9 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I find it interesting that even as the ONS publishes figures about the highest levels of labour shortages due to chronic illness ever, JCVI are taking away the only preventative measure (even if only partially effective) against long COVID in place from much of the population...
It's totally antithetical to public health. Once again, one has to consider that this can only be based on ideology, not evidence. The CDC by contrast presented very clear evidence as to why the whole population needed boosters. The JCVI is consistent in it's imcompetence.
We're talking about a disease that's been proven to cause very high levels of persisting symptoms as per the ONS long COVID survey in the UK population (2 million with LC, and 1.2 million with LC>1yr). These are UK official figures. JCVI's decision will harm millions.
A vaccine that reduces the risk by 40-50% massively reduces chronic illness at population level for an infection that's ubiquitous in the population. But from JCVI's point of view, somehow this isn't worth the cost.

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Feb 9
It's been nearly a yr of long COVID: POTS, PEM, debilitating fatigue. Here's what I've learned about my illness in the past year👇
1) My body hates heat (despite growing up in a hot desert climate). My POTS is *so much worse* in the hot sun. Just a short trip dropping daughter to school & back can floor me. Humid heat is worse than dry heat
2) Sleep matters a LOT. Poor sleep really worsens the POTS, the brain fog and the fatigue, and my functioning. Unfortunately, I also think my long COVID worsens my sleep. Melatonin, and Nytol help with this.
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Jan 17
Wearing my new Cleanspace halo on the flight. Fit tested. Very comfy. Filters all the air that I breathe in. As it’s transparent, I didn’t need to remove it for the identity check or even the automatic gate that scans my face to match with passport. Taking no risks this time. Image
The clean space halo is a powered air purifying respirator. It has a battery operated filter which filters and delivers air through a closed system. Every time I breathe in, it senses the negative pressure and gives me filtered air.
Only negatives- my glasses don’t fit on top! Have to wear contacts. Even with the smallest size of mask. And it does make me hard to hear. But feels so much safer on a flight.
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Dec 21, 2023
well, good thing countries like the UK, and public health organisations like the WHO really prioritised vaccinating children against COVID, then.... oh wait...
Oh, and is literally anyone surprised by Buonsenso's (Munro's friend and colleague) comments here - yes long COVID is 'self-reported' rather than a clinical diagnosis. What does he think clinicians rely on to diagnose long COVID? He should know, being a clinician himself.
And given how useless clinicians have been in diagnosing long COVID, I'd much rather rely on self-reporting of new symptoms following COVID, which is literally the definition of long COVID.
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Dec 17, 2023
When you say the risk of long COVID is 'low' & we don't need to worry, what you really mean is that it's 'lower' than before but still too high for something that's infecting everyone again & again & that you don't care about the clinically vulnerable who are at much higher risk.
From a population perspective, if in the current era even if the incidence of long COVID is 1%, for an infection that affects a whole population multiple times, that's high. Because that's millions of people, given the numbers that get infected each year.
And remember for those who are clinically vulnerable, disabled, have pre-existing conditions, the risk is *much* higher. So saying we don't need to care about it, isn't just inaccurate, it's also deeply abelist, and testament to not caring about the most vulnerable in society.
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Dec 4, 2023
I'm not even going to bother with the Ladhani + Hoeg paper except to say that they actually quoted the infamous DfE study of mask use *only in communal areas* against no mask use for just *2 wks* which found a diff that just wasn't statistically significant.
They didn't even wear masks in classrooms! I couldn't bother to read the rest, but assume it's of similar quality, given they actually included that study... yup, masks don't work if you don't wear. Already knew that... moving on...
I find the biggest predictor of the results of 'systematic reviews' on mask efficacy is who the authors are. It's physics- if you find actually physical laws don't hold- hint: the problem might be your methodology....
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Dec 3, 2023
Imagine the level of dehumanisation that has been reached when newspapers publish articles saying that young children killed by Israeli bombardment are dolls. >6000 children have been killed in the most brutal manner imaginable. Even more are injured & many disabled for life.
Yet, it's normalised to jeer at this saying these aren't pictures of dead children, but dolls. It's beyond disgusting. Everyday we see pictures of injured, bloodied, dead children. Intubated children. Floppy unconscious children. The cruelty to suggest this suffering is made up.
These are children ffs. Children in shrouds. Their lives ended so young. Leaving behind parents and siblings with unimaginable grief. Yet, the denial, gaslighting, sneering at reality and war-mongering continues.
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