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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
@PeteUK7
Mar 24 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Latest UKHSA blog:
"With tuberculosis (TB) on the rise again, how can we prevent further spread?"
Well guys it's airborne so airborne precautions, right?
"The infection is spread when a person with TB in their lungs or throat coughs or sneezes."
Oh FFS
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"How frontline healthcare professionals can help reduce TB"
Airborne precautions - respirators, improved ventilation and air filtration, right?
"It is essential that at risk groups and healthcare workers know the signs and symptoms of TB and seek out a timely diagnosis"
Oh FFS
2/
"UKHSA is working with partners across the healthcare system to understand how we can best refocus efforts to eliminate this preventable and treatable infection."
What specifically are you doing to prevent it @UKHSA?
It seems nothing at all as far as I can see.
3/
"It’s not uncommon for early symptoms of TB, such as a persistent cough and high temperature, to be confused with flu or COVID-19."
So it's really important to test for COVID-19 and you're advising people to test & making tests accessible & free, right?
Oh FFS:
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You see UKHSA, unless you get the mode of transmission right (TB is airborne & not just spread by people coughing & sneezing); everything else thereafter will be wrong too. As you've demonstrated in this blog post.
Your approach; make sure you spot it & treat it more quickly.
5/
That isn't prevention.
Your document "how can we prevent further spread?" is more of a parody than reality. I have no idea how you're getting away with such awful documents, advice & processes. It's negligence.
You MUST do better!
Link to blog post.
6/end
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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Mar 18
Most folk understand that HIV is very harmful long after the acute infection.
Most people think that Covid does nothing at all after acute infection.
The difference in understanding, I fear, could just be time.
It took many years for this to be widely acknowledged for HIV.
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I'm not aiming to draw a parallel between the two viruses - just that of our decades-old understanding of HIV and the comparative novelty of Covid and the way it is ignored.
But knowing what you know, if HIV was airborne and there were no treatments, would you ignore it?
2/
Let's also consider that currently, we simply don't know all of the latent long term effects of Covid infection & reinfection.
What we do know is cause for concern.
If we discover in 5, 10 or 20 years time that it has a massively detrimental effect on the brain for example...
3/
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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Mar 16
Listening to a neuroscientist explaining that it's worrying seeing how covid affects vessels, cells & neurons in the brain; long term effects unknown.
A cardiologist talking about heart, blood vessel & endothelium damage.
Are you personally sure that Covid can be ignored?
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If so, why?
It's absolutely clear that there is still more that we don't understand than what we already know. But what we know is reason for significant concern. Read up on it.
It bothered me greatly when pediatricians came out so quickly to say there's no risk to children.
2/
With a completely new virus, it takes a long time and an awful lot of research to be able to reach such a conclusion and it's clear that couldn't possibly have known when Govs also declared it 'mild' and akin to a bad cold.
There are hundreds of thousands of research papers.
3/
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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Mar 9
2.8M people with long term sickness.
"the do nothing trajectory is that it's set to rise to 4M; we have to act on this"
Well @patmcfaddenmp your party have expertise in doing nothing. You're creating more long term ill health by doing nothing to reduce Covid transmissions.
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Perhaps instead of punishing people who have become ill through poor infection control everywhere but especially in schools as well as all health and social care settings, you could actually do something.
You know how to reduce infections.
Your party was very vocal about it.
2/
Your former Health Minister Andrew Gwynne knew all too well about the ongoing risk of Long Covid as well as the importance of masks in healthcare and clean air. In fact your health sec and Edu sec both made pleas to the Cons Gov to implement these changes in ventilation.
3/
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Mar 6
There was a webinar on school air quality yesterday.
It was attended by the teachers unions and had some excellent presentations.
There was one presentation I must mention though.
Herts council were suggesting using the machines they bought should be a blueprint for others.
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Whilst it's great that they invested in air filters, the choice of machine baffles me quite frankly.
It's costly, noisy, has default auto mode, power hungry and unnecessary tech like UV (which has no utility at all in this set up) and an ioniser that cannot be disabled.
2/
I'm struggling to find a plus point.
They are saying nobody needs to go through a procurement process because they have done all of the leg work and this can just be used by others.
This terrifies me 😬.
It's the wrong product entirely for suitability for classroom use.
3/
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Mar 6
In Jan there was a conference:
Breathing achievement into every classroom
This conference was designed to probe the link between Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in educational buildings and the health, wellbeing, and educational outcomes of students.
UKHSA presented & IAQ experts.
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This was something of a surprise to me.
I'm faced with a presentation from @UKHSA and some of their Key Recommendations are:
• Use of air cleaners in naturally ventilated buildings.
• Ensuring provision of adequate classroom ventilation
This seems like quite a breakthrough.
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~90% of UK schools are naturally ventilated.
This recommendation is that air filters are put into all naturally ventilated classrooms.
I've been calling for this for a number of years now and I never thought I'd hear @UKHSA recommend this given the years of pushback from Gov.
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Feb 16
I don't normally spend time arguing on here but I have lately. I'm so fed up with misinfo. Thought I'd challenge some of it.
It's amazing how strong opinions are formed from such little knowledge or insight.
Often people are fooled by credentials; cos they must know, right?
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However, when you consider how we ended up here, we have had no end of highly credentialed people who are just flat out wrong, 'helping' to direct policies.
Qualifications are all well and good but it doesn't = right.
But folk who don't know are guided by folk they think do.
2/
And this gives rise to pretenders who gain themselves a following and inflated self importance on the back of it.
Their followers become almost besotted with their icon; often because they're calm mongerers; providing a comforting version of events.
They back them to the hilt.
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