Doctor ex40y NHS, Prof Emeritus Occupational & Environmental Medicine @OfficialUoM, Member Council @TheBMA #CovidisAirborne #ProEU #ProPR woke polyglot
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Sep 15 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
My latest editorial: “A better approach to mitigate the risk of airborne infections in workplaces“
TL;DR A ‘let them rip’ attitude towards the mitigation of the risk of common airborne infections in the workplace is unacceptabledoi.org/10.1093/occmed…
The article discusses reasons to eschew attitudes of ‘living with the virus’ or of reversion to ‘business as usual’ when facing common airborne infections at work such as coronaviruses, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
Dec 7, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
My latest article: "COVID-19 in Workplace Settings: Lessons Learned for Occupational Medicine in the UK."
I've just posted this on
TL;DR: here are a few of paraphrased salient points, including some references
1/10 profraymondagius.bsky.social doi.org/10.23749/mdl.v…
Self-reported data show that 123,000 workers in Britain were suffering from COVID-19, which they believed may have been caused at work. A further 585,000 reported suffering from work-related illness caused/ made worse by the effects of the pandemic.
2/10
"Prevention of COVID-19 in workers: preparation, precaution, and protection"
This article is based on a couple of the lectures that I gave during the pandemic.
TL;DR or if you can't access yet, here is a thread of some of the salient points... doi.org/10.1093/annweh…
Note: I've already posted this in another place where I decided to dip my toe in the water yesterday. Here's my new handle:
@profraymondagius.bsky.social
