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Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 Profile picture
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Mar 19 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
COVID INQUIRY: MODULE 3 REPORT

“Fundamental flaws in the UK’s approach to IPC [infection prevention & control] guidance, for example in relation to the use of PPE, put patients and healthcare workers at risk.”

— Baroness Hallett, Chair of the Covid Inquiry

Read more here… ⬇️
These are the words we were all hoping to hear:

“Initial guidance on preventing the spread of infection was flawed. It assumed the virus was spread by contact transmission, failing properly to consider the extent to which it was also spread by AIRBORNE transmission.” Image
But it wasn’t just the “initial guidance” that was flawed!

To this very day, the IPC guidance STILL does not reflect the latest science on AIRBORNE transmission.
The full module 3 report is over 400 pages long - I will add to this thread as I wade through it.

It’s promising to see the first two chapters relate entirely to ‘Infection Prevention & Control’…

…followed by a chapter on ‘Protecting the Vulnerable’.

covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/upl…Image

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Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 Profile picture
Mar 18
Last week, CATA released two explosive reports which revealed a scandal of monumental proportions.

Flawed decisions were made at the start of the Covid pandemic - and then covered up for years to come.

In this series of videos, @SafeDavid3 talks us through the key findings…
The CATA Executive team have worked tirelessly in their pursuit of the truth, forensically analysing over 17,000 Covid Inquiry documents & submitting countless FOI requests.

Concerningly, they discovered around 100 key emails which have not been disclosed to the Covid Inquiry…
Their report explores 7 separate occasions when the IPC Cell was challenged re: the adequacy of its guidance on respiratory protection for healthcare workers.

This included challenges from PHE/UKHSA, Chief Nursing Officers & even the CMO.

Each time, concerns were brushed aside.
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Mar 16
In honour of #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay, I’d like to present some important data from the latest GP-Patient survey.

This is a HUGE survey with a sample size of ~700K people in England (5x bigger than ONS’s Covid survey).

In this thread, I’ll walk you through some key findings…

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According to the GP-Patient survey:

🚨4.2% of people say they DO have Long Covid. That equates to around 2.3M people in England.

🚨A further 9.5% (~5.3M) say they ‘don’t know’.

So potentially as many as 7.6M people in England either have Long Covid or suspect they might.

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The fact that 9.5% of people said they “don’t know” if they have long Covid is actually not surprising.

It’s a HUGE number of people who suspect something isn’t right but don’t have clarity…

…and once you think about how Covid is diagnosed, it makes perfect sense.

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Mar 14
CATA's reports are a truly remarkable piece of forensic investigation & took literally YEARS to put together.

The fact it’s taken so long is a fundamental part of the story.

For example: it took a whopping 27 MONTHS to extricate one document from the DHSC via an Fol request... Image
And it took 17 MONTHS to elicit a set of draft minutes from IPC Cell meetings which took place in Dec 2020 - and only following a direct order by the ICO.

This doc is one of the most damning pieces of evidence in the report as it reveals how minutes were fundamentally altered. Image
PHE & UKHSA have been similarly obstructive in providing information in a timely fashion.

The statutory requirement of FoIs is to provide the info requested within 20 working days…

…but it took over 300 WORKING DAYS (roughly 14 MONTHS) to finally extricate one key document. Image
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Mar 10
In 2023, the British Council for Offices (BCO) updated the ventilation guidance for offices:

💨 The *minimum* recommended ventilation rate was increased from 12 to 14 litres of outdoor air per sec per person.

Now guess what the ventilation rate is in a typical UK classroom…❓ Image
Since 2022, the Schools Air quality Monitoring for Health & Education (SAMHE) project has monitored indoor air quality in hundreds of schools across the UK.

Shockingly, their data revealed that the ventilation rate in a typical UK classroom is just 5.3 litres per sec per person. Image
Worse still, the data shows the average ventilation rate plummets to just 3.8 litres per sec per person in colder weather.

Now compare this to the MINIMUM recommended ventilation rate for offices of 14 litres per sec per person.

Schools are achieving just a fraction of this! Image
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Feb 22
FROM THE OLYMPICS TO NASA, WEARING MASKS IS BACK - EXCEPT IN HEALTHCARE

Brilliant article on how masking is increasingly popular with Olympic athletes, actors & astronauts wanting to avoid illness…

…but sadly, in hospitals, masking is rare & those who do are often gaslit.

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Here’s a link to the online version of this article by the brilliant Tess Finch Lees:
independent.ie/opinion/commen…
The link above is paywalled so here’s an archived link where you can read it for free:


(Please do also click the first link as well though to increase traffic & help persuade editors to publish more Covid stories like this).archive.ph/sfP52
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Feb 20
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Something unusual & concerning in Scotland’s Covid data in the last few weeks.

There’s been a sharp rise in the proportion of hospitalised Covid cases which are children.

Currently over half of all Covid hospitalisations in Scotland are kids aged 0-14 years.

(h/t @gwladwr) Image
The data also shows that, since January, Covid incidence rates for these younger age groups have been going into the ‘high’ (dark blue) and ‘very high’ (purple) classifications, particularly the 1-4 years age group. Image
I’ve also taken a look at the England data and Covid positivity rates have been rising sharply in recent weeks in the 0-14 age groups.

Definitely one to watch in the coming weeks… Image
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