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Nov 8, 2025 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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🧵 This autumn the UKHSA is rightly worried, as 'flu is a real risk...

TLDR:
Clinically Vulnerable people ALL need 'flu vaccines + antivirals this year (if symptomatic or exposed) + confused infection control guidance.

If you are Clinically Vulnerable, please read on...

1/ Graph showing the early rise of flu in the UK.
This year's strains aren't looking good:

The infections have started earlier.
A(H3N2) strains are dominant - and linked to worse outcomes.
A shifted strain (slightly different to vaccines) is also doing the rounds.

2/ Summary: Influenza is now circulating in the community with earlier than usual onset of activity in the 2025 to 2026 season, and with an A(H3N2) drifted strain (K, also known as J.2.4.1) predominating A(H3N2) predominance is associated with higher morbidity and mortality, particularly in the elderly, than when A(H1N1) predominates All eligible groups should be encouraged to get vaccinated with the 2025 to 2026 seasonal influenza vaccine as soon as possible Prompt antiviral post exposure prophylaxis and treatment for seasonal influenza should be offered to eligible groups Antivirals gui...
If you have been invited for a vaccine, or live with a Clinically Vulnerable person (but don't qualify) please consider getting a vaccine - they can be as cheap as £9.95.

Everyone benefits from 'flu vaccines and children (up to 16) are offered them for free in school.

3/ Image of a banner outside a shop. A pharmacist is on the picture. She is has black straight hair, brown eyes, a big smile and is wearing a cream suit jacket with a staff badge. Superdrug *REMINDER!!! IT'S FLU VACCINATION SEASON Flu Jab Service provided by our healthcare professionals Noyne Pharmacist MEMBER PRICE £9.95 NORMAL PRICE £19.95 MEMBERS SAVE MORE Service available here Help protect yourself against several strains of the flu this season with one simple visit in-store. وو
If you are eligible for the NHS flu vaccine because you in a higher-risk group (due to age or health conditions), this year it also means you are eligible for antivirals either:

🤒 If you have 'flu symptoms

or

🌬 If you have been exposed to someone with 'flu

4/ The image shows a box of Tamiflu 75 mg hard capsules. Active ingredient: The active ingredient is oseltamivir.
If you get flu-like symptoms:
Antiviral treatment shouldn’t wait for a lab result.

High-risk patients should be treated promptly because antivirals work best early (ideally within 48hrs).

Call your GP or NHS 111.

5/ As per NICE TA158, following relevant exposure, antiviral prophylaxis should be offered to eligible people in at-risk groups irrespective of vaccination status in light of the evidence outlined above of a drifted strain. At risk groups include those age 65 years and over, under 6 months of age, pregnant women and anyone in a clinical risk group (see Green Book influenza chapter). Infection prevention and control advice Guidance on measures to prevent and control respiratory virus infections should be followed including appropriate ventilation, hand hygiene and the use of personal protecti...
Antivirals (after exposure):

Have you been in close contact with a confirmed/suspected flu case?

High-risk people should be offered preventive antivirals. These are also time-critical. Seek advice within 48hrs of exposure.

6/
UKHSA is suggesting infection control:

Ventilation, grouping of patients, and hand hygiene have been recommended.

Healthcare workers with symptoms should mask.

... but universal masking?!?!

7/ Appropriate IPC measures remain a cornerstone of mitigating the spread of influenza and other respiratory viruses. Based on local risk assessment, health and care settings should consider implementing appropriate interventions such as ensuring ventilation is optimised, and applying appropriate isolation and cohorting of suspected or confirmed influenza cases. Health care workers with mild upper respiratory tract infections should consider using a face mask in clinical settings, and mask use may also be appropriate for patients and staff in 1 areas where undifferentiated respiratory infect...
NHS labs have already moved into full in-season surveillance to track strains and resistance.

That means better, faster information for guiding treatment - which is reassuring for patients.

8/
Our recommendations:

💉 Get vaccinated (flu and Covid, if you can)

😷Wear a close fitting high-grade (FFP2/FFP3) mask in high-risk indoor public spaces.

🪟 Open windows in healthcare and consider buying air filters.

🧼 Wash your hands.

🏠 And PLEASE stay at home sick.

9/
If you are unsure whether you qualify for a vaccines please read the Green Book for Influenza:



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🚨'Can You Keep a Secret?'. The BBC response is below in full.

In short, it essentially says:
“It’s farcical, sorry we offended you, we’ve noted your complaint.”

BUT if you (like us) aren't unhappy with this response, here is our next move... 🧵

1/ Thank you for contacting us regarding episode one of 'Can You Keep a Secret?' 'Can You Keep a Secret?' is an adult, farcical and offbeat comedy that follows a couple, William and Debbie, who commit insurance fraud after William takes too much of his medication, is left unconscious, and is mistakenly declared dead. There was never any intention to make light of infection control or to trivialise the real challenges faced by those affected by Covid-19, including those who are clinically vulnerable. In the scene in question, their son Harry has just learned that his father is still alive, an...
Their response dodges the point.
Because the problem really wasn’t that “I didn’t get the joke”.

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So it is not about “offence” but creating stigma.

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Jan 8
Hi @bbccomedy.

We need to talk about the new @Dawn_French “comedy” series that implies that infection control is a joke.

This is a serious issue, particularly for Clinically Vulnerable people who remain at increased risk, and we are not laughing.
1/
In the first episode, a GP appears in a dramatic “protective outfit” and face shield, and we’re told it’s because “since Covid” they’ve developed “very, very, very bad health anxiety.”

2/ Image of doctor in white coveralls, gloves and a face shield pulling a face and grabbing the sides of the face shield whilst failing to examine a patient effectively.
Then the doctor refuses to get close to the patient, barely touches a wrist, and incorrectly declares them dead.

It invites audiences to mock precautions (during the current flu wave) and suggests that doctors who take measures are less competent.

3/ The doctor briefly grabs the patient's wrist...
Before rapidly pulling their hand away and dropping their arm. Failing to take a pulse, but then declaring the patient dead.
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Dec 8, 2025
🥳 This is a HUGE win for CVF!

- Safe access to public buildings is a right!

As a consequence of our advocacy, national voting guidance has been updated to:
✅ Improve ventilation
✅ Add air filters
✅ “See a mask, wear a mask”

* VERY IMPORTANT THREAD *
PLEASE SHARE!
1/ Support for clinically vulnerable electors - alongside increasing ventilation of the room either through opening windows or doors or using HEPA filters where windows or doors cannot be kept open, you can ensure face masks are provided for polling station staff to use (using see a mask, wear a mask as a basis) and promote the use of social distancing when interacting with clinically vulnerable voters. Your staff training should cover how you can offer to conduct photographic ID checks for mask wearers, including whether checks could be conducted outside for these voters if photographic ID is...
6 years since Covid emerged, we are finally making important changes... thanks to your help!

The new guidance not only recognises our needs - due to heightened health risks - but also the risks posed by mask removal.

2/ polling station staff not having awareness of health risks when asking a clinically vulnerable voter to remove a face mask in order to check photographic ID The Electoral Commission
Why is this so important?

- It is the first national guidance to address our issues directly.... and it sets an important precedent that we plan to build on!

3/ Read more:
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Dec 3, 2025
A letter just landed on Baroness Hallett’s desk from CATA (Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance).

If you are a patient, an NHS worker, or Clinically Vulnerable... or you want to see safety measures updated - you need to see this!

1/
The Covid Inquiry is there to help us to learn lessons and change how we plan for pandemics.

But, NHS England quietly published a strategy (July '24) that says:

it will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste... to attempt to do so
2/ See Appendix 5 https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/framework-for-managing-the-response-to-pandemic-diseases/#appendix-5-planning-assumptions
That clashes with Hallett’s recommendation:

"risk assessment that moves away... reasonable worst-case scenarios towards... a wider range of scenarios"

But their plan assumes mass infection is inevitable and acceptable.

For some, it isn’t survivable!
3/
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Oct 23, 2025
CVF💙💜💗's Closing Statement

⚠️SAFE
- Schools must be made safe.

👩‍🏫SUPPORT
- Children must be given appropriate support to continue their education at home.

🛡️STATUS
- Clinical Vulnerability must be recognised as a distinct 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!

2/
Ventilation works!

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3/
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