So... teeth eh.

I went to visit a 45 year old man in hospital today.
He's recovering from complications of his recovery from surgery after an infection... and he said that while he was ill, three of his teeth fell out.

So I thought I'd look up statistics on teeth... Brace yourself.

Shall we work down the list?

https://twitter.com/EpiEllie/status/1877819129316389124

Look out for sharp increases in the last couple of years.

The five things you need to know if you're just realising that it's bad for you to keep catching Covid: 1
You can't properly reduce your risk of catching Covid and still look normal.

I have had another horrible realisation. It suddenly made sense of *loads* of things about the effects of covid infection itself, but it also made massive sense of why public health is missing what's going on.
🧵🙏 This is hard to articulate coherently, but I'm going to try.

I just want to do a quick thread about the doubling and more of sickness absence of young doctors.

Some graphs with real genuine NHS data on them. There is no equivalent dataset to this here in this country as far as I know.

The NHS is the largest employer in this country, about the sixth largest employer in the world.

So this database is *huge*.

I occasionally talk about how hideously incompetent the ukhsa is.

And, yes, it's hard to tell if it's hideous incompetence or plain malice sometimes.

Here's an example.

🧵 This discussion of the autumn booster contains this piece of staggering inaccuracy:

Young adults.
Let's see how they're doing. Or something that affects your skin in a dozen ways...

I'm going to start this thread with a boring tweet so no one reads it. But what if using the term AIDS is a problem because people don't understand that *immune deficiency* is the *boss level* of untreated HIV infection, not the introductory open world gameplay.

How's that lymph system doing. Blastic NK-cell lymphoma, England.

Can we all agree that it's weird and not good that there has been a 25% rise in hospital episodes of acute myocardial infarction (heart attacks) in young working age adults?

And can we all look at that graph and maybe just consider for a moment that it might be due to damage caused by covid infections? And, no, of course we're not catching up on the pandemic backlog of heart attacks you flipping dingdong.

There's no treatment delay.
Or reporting delay.
These are recorded on the day they happen.
🤬

🚨If Covid infections could interfere with the way your body handles fats, you'd expect a massive jump in the number of episodes of hospital treatment for that problem.
🧵📈 What do you think the graph is going to look live?

I sat for a very strange conversation today with a couple who have been constant critics of my mitigations and mask wearing. They were vocal opponents of the first lockdowns, and then of the 'rule of six'.

It is so genuinely weird watching public health authorities that have *denied* that Covid is airborne for nearly six years start to say that covid is airborne. And explain proper mitigations, like masks, hepa, ventilation.

You would not believe how many times I have started writing this thread and deleted it:

🚨Do Covid infections make you vulnerable to other infections, and if so - how, and for how long, and is it getting worse. The reason I keep getting started and then delete it is that the subject is *huge*.

Just absolutely enormous.

This is another not nice thread, and it's about reproductive health, so if that's a trigger, please stop reading here.

Seriously.
This one gets really depressing.

🧵⚕️❤️‍🩹 This is another thread about 'completed hospital episodes' for various health conditions.

Covid is just too complicated for people, isn't it. They can’t wrap their heads around it. The fact that it’s airborne, that it spreads invisibly through the air like smoke.

A couple of weeks ago, I had a tricky meeting with a family in preparation for a funeral.
I knew in advance that one of the family is fiercely against mitigations like masks, so I was braced for trouble. When I got to the meeting, he wasn't there, so he missed my prepared speech.

Covid infections make every single part of your body vulnerable to new problems.

Whatever age you are.

But let's pick *one* part of your body, the skin.
You'd be surprised how much harm Covid is doing. I'm just going to throw a few charts up here of 'hospital episodes' for individual skin conditions that show the last 12 years of data.
(Hospital episodes are not *cases*, they are the number of times someone interacts with a hospital for treatment)

The ten stages of Covid era grief: Denial - pretending to yourself that we're still living in 2019, that endless repeat covid infections don't make you more sick, and that washing your hands makes you well

For the billionth time:

Most of the 'symptoms' of an infection (fever cough tiredness etc) are your body fighting the infection.

The later symptoms are the work of the actual pathogen… and they're the ones that your body is trying to prevent. Your body hates infections.
Rightly.

Infections left unchecked will, simply put, kill you.

An actual professor said this.

Allow me a moment to tear it into shreds.
🧵 It's hard to know exactly where to start because there are just *so many things wrong with it*, even in just that one tiny sentence... but let's go for it...