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Apr 23 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Have you seen this in today's Guardian (left) that toxin secreted by E Coli may be responsible for the rise in bowel cancer in under-50s?

Did you notice they forgot to mention this (right) that E Coli is *five times as likely* after a Covid infection as after Flu? Childhood toxin exposure ‘may be factor in bowel cancer rise in under-50s’ Researchers say mutations more often found in younger patients’ tumours caused by toxin secreted by E coli strains Maybe someone should be having a look at that.
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Apr 23 • 25 tweets • 3 min read
Let me walk you through an absolute travesty for a minute. Let's start by going back to 2022.
Apr 22 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Can you recognise AI written threads yet? Image Yep.
The em dash is one clue. Image
Apr 21 • 32 tweets • 4 min read
I'd like to pull out a few points from this amazing piece of landmark work on Long Covid from worldwide experts.
ann-clinmicrob.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… "There is currently no single unified definition of Long COVID, which is a detriment to the research, diagnostics, treatment, and patient rights."

I bang this drum a lot.
There needs to be *one* definition of Long Covid, *now*.
Apr 20 • 71 tweets • 6 min read
Ok folks.

You've maybe heard the word methylation recently, and while people are talking about it as if it's a big deal, you don't have the faintest idea what it means.

Let's change that. A quick thread about the vital process by which your body decides which *genes* to silence, how that system works, and what happens when it goes wrong.
Apr 20 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
Everywhere around you there are people with immune systems and metabolisms and hearts and lungs and brains damaged by Covid infection.

Everywhere around you.

I've seen it since the first people I saw with Covid in 2020, and it hasn't stopped since. But it's not just visible to the naked eye.

It's there when you get their blood under a microscope and look closely.

The lasting damage.

polybio.org/polybio-suppor…
Apr 17 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I've just been sitting with a family wrestling with a serious new onset health condition that came out of nowhere, and, of course, it's one that's made more likely by Covid infection.
And then one of them says,
"everyone has more health problems now, don't they..." "... I'm not imagining it, am I? So many people seem to have problems like this. I know so many families with serious things going wrong. Is it just that we're hearing more about it now? Or are people having more health problems?"
Apr 14 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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This is just stunning.

*Authorised* illness absence:
still 37% up in Primary Schools
still 50% up in Secondary Schools
and 🚨 an astonishing 74% up in Schools for Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.

The most vulnerable children, the children most in need of protection from infectious disease, and our government is just throwing them under the bus.
🤬Graphs of illness absence over a 3 term period. The pre-covid average for secondary was 3,000,000, now at 4,500,000. Primary was at 3,200,000, now 4,300,000 Special was at 1,500,000, now at 2,650,000 All the data on those graphs is from officially released government statistics:
…e-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistic…
Apr 7 • 25 tweets • 2 min read
A penny has been trying to drop in my mind for a while, but it hasn't quite fallen yet. It's about how some of these simple-minded folk who have clawed their way in charge of public health organisations don't seem to be able to get their heads around complexity. The reality of the situation with infectious disease is that different diseases transmit in different ways.
Apr 6 • 33 tweets • 3 min read
Trump is a locked in Russian asset, run by Putin himself.

But just think for a moment how phenomenally hard that is to maintain - Trump is one of the most public people in the world.

Consider this for a moment... Putin has to be constantly hyper-careful about communications with Trump.
Digital comms are dangerous due to *anyone* who might listen in.
Apr 4 • 42 tweets • 6 min read
I see it year after year after year.
I first saw it in Spring 2020.
I see it over and over again now, in 2025:

People who catch Covid catch secondary infections far more often than they do after any other common virus.

And do you know what?
The governments see it too.
🧵 Let me show you.

Using some government data.
Apr 2 • 36 tweets • 3 min read
It's dancing at the edge of my ability to express it, but I have an intuitive sort of feeling that the current destruction of public health in America isn't a turnaround from the policies under Biden, but a natural next step of the progression. I've been banging on for five years about the foolishness of ignoring the science of what Covid and other infections do to you.
Mar 31 • 42 tweets • 4 min read
You may have heard about 'ocean acidification' and filed it under 'things that scientists warn about and that sound a bit scary but that I don't understand'.

So let's sort that out... We've pumped a huge massive load of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and forests and stuff in general, but mostly fossil fuels.
Mar 30 • 43 tweets • 4 min read
You may or may not have seen a couple of the recent news stories about a potential remedy for *some* back pain triggered by infection.

Most of the articles have been absolutely awful at explaining what is going on, so let me have a quick go. Image First off, the bacteria they reckon are responsible for some of the infections and some of the back pain are really common.
Cutibacterium acnes.
They're all over your skin. In your hair. Up your nose. In your mouth.
Mar 27 • 14 tweets • 1 min read
There's a big danger here.

You might look at Trump's cabinet and the surrounding entourage and think that they're laughable and incompetent grifters, alcoholics, misogynists, racists, rejects, losers, and failures, and that because of that, they can't cause much harm. Let me describe to you another group of incompetent grifters, alcoholics, misogynists, racists, rejects, losers, and failures.
Mar 25 • 49 tweets • 7 min read
So.
Do you think the pandemic is over yet? Image Let's also look at a couple of other little details on this data...
Mar 23 • 38 tweets • 7 min read
I'm indebted to @GrayD001 and @karamballes for pointing out something astonishingly profound in this image.
I think this is *phenomenally important*...
I think this may be one of the most important threads I've ever written. Image So I had kind of noticed it from the other way round... but then they both said something that flipped the whole thing on its head.
Mar 22 • 39 tweets • 5 min read
Can you spot the odd-one-out detail.
Look carefully.
It's quite important.

And really tragic. Graphs of absence by year for special, secondary, and primary schools. The graphs are generally flat and lower before 2020, then higher and not dropping much afterwards. Seen it?
Mar 18 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
There is something hilariously tragic about this headline.

The research says that 5% *ACTUALLY DO* suffer from Long Covid.

And that a further 10% THINK THEY DO.

🚨So in the headline they've only referenced the ones who *think they do*.

💥BUT... One in ten people in UK may suffer from long Covid A study highlights the continuing impact of the pandemic and raises concerns about undiagnosed cases That still doesn't include the people who have no idea that their newfound ill health is caused by their covid infections.
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Mar 15 • 79 tweets • 5 min read
Ten things that every person on planet earth should know about Long Covid 1
Long Covid is a catch-all phrase used to describe the long term health problems caused by a covid infection.
Mar 14 • 19 tweets • 1 min read
You can bet your bottom dollar that hegseth and co are currently figuring out how to make 'faithful' army units, and how to ensure cooperation from the rest. There's no doubt the process has already started.