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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 Profile picture
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Mar 29 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
The government just published its Pandemic Preparedness Strategy.

TLDR: Some welcome commitments inc. on ventilation. But Clinically Vulnerable people are still not clearly defined or automatically protected, and the prioritisation framework won't arrive until 2027.

1/🧵 Department of Health & Social Care Pandemic Preparedness Strategy: building our capabilities Published 25 March 2026 What's new?

Published 25 March 2026, this is the UK's first major pandemic strategy since Covid.

It covers all 4 nations, sets out 12 principles and detailed action plans to 2030, backed by around £1 billion of investment.

But what about the detail...?

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Mar 25 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
📉 Kent MenB outbreak

⚠️East Kent Trust failed to report their first case for 2 days⚠️

Here's what you need to know.
TLDR: Peaked 13th March. No new cases since - with reporting delays, but that's even better news than it sounds.
1/🧵 👇 @laurabundock @SkyNews THE OUTBREAK IS DECLINING but understates how well that's going. 📉

The earliest case became unwell on 9th March, with the latest on 16th March, and the peak was 13th March.

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Mar 18 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Meningitis
* Important thread for those who prefer balanced and factual information *

In order to understand risk we need to break down a few things....

🦠Risk from the bacteria
💙💜💗 Individual risk
🎓 Environmental risks
1/ The Kent outbreak is predominantly MenB (Group B). This is a serious infection - and potentially an adapted strain - investigations are ongoing...

Bacterial meningitis is rare but more severe than viral, and up to 1 in 10 cases of bacterial meningitis in the UK is fatal.

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Mar 5 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
UK COVID INQUIRY - CVF💙💜💗
@AdamWagner1 Closing Submissions

The Covid Inquiry has good ventilation protocols (as advised by CVF at the start of the Inquiry) including HEPA filters.

Under 1000ppm is therefore the safe threshold ( but without it would be under 800ppm).

1/ We need to understand airborne transmission in order to make all indoor environments safer for everyone, and especially for Clinically Vulnerable people.

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Mar 1 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
🚨COVID INQUIRY ROUND UP (Wk2)

This week saw CVF's evidence & organisations representing: disability, domestic abuse, faith, migrants, homeless, prisons, local government.

Expert evidence focused on: later life, LGBTQ+, race and gender inequalities (Dr Clare Wenham, below)

1/ EXPERT RACIAL INEQUALITIES

Prof Laia Bécares discussed the risks in multigenerational households where there were keyworkers and children in schools.

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Feb 26 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
🚨 NEW DfE GUIDANCE
- VENTILATION & AIR QUALITY -

Clean air matters - especially for #ClinicallyVulnerable children, staff and families. This is an important recognition that airborne transmission is preventable.

1/ Image But the proposed CO₂ thresholds are too high. 800ppm should be the upper limit - not 1500ppm. By 1500ppm, air is already significantly rebreathed. That’s not a precautionary standard for children, let alone those at higher risk.



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Feb 25 • 31 tweets • 9 min read
🚨FINAL CVF EVIDENCE

We would encourage you to watch @lara_wong 's inquiry evidence in full.

However, out amazing team have clipped these extracts for you!

1/ CVF's Survey

In the summer of 2025, CVF gathered in depth survey evidence about the impacts of the pandemic on CV households - which has now been shared multiple times to inquiry experts and others.

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Feb 18 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🚨 Profs Herrick & @Azeem_Majeed on clinical vulnerability

We are grateful that data collected by CVF (last year) was used by @covidinquiryuk to highlight some of the ongoing impacts faced by Clinically Vulnerable people.

1/ You can have a sneak (advanced) peak at @lara_wong's witness statement on behalf of Clinically Vulnerable Families...

Many and varied consequences (relating to mental health) were identified.
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Jan 23 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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Don't scroll past without 💕 + ♻️... 🙏
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- Can you help us to help you?

If you value our work at the C○vid Inquiry and beyond, your continued support is vital.

1/ Clean Air & Safer Access United Kingdom St Thomas' Hospital LEARN to LIVE with COVID #CLEANAIR HIGHLIGHTED: Another way to help CVF Arrow to start your own crowdfunder. Clinically Vulnerable Families CIC About the project owner Aim We urgently need your help to support families by improv providing vital support, and advocating for freedoms. access, £380 Target: £15,000 2% 4 supporters 42 days left Donate Share Help them get starte Your support makes a difference Become a fundraiser for Clean Air & Safer Access Start fundraising for this cause → It is hard to explain how much effort has gone in over the past few years to raise understanding and awareness of issues amplified the emerge of C○vid.

2/ #ProtectVulnerableProtesters CVF logo Image of a masked protester
Jan 21 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
🚨'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”.

The problem is who the joke is aimed at and what it encourages most people to laugh at.

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Jan 8 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
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.
Dec 8, 2025 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🥳 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
Dec 3, 2025 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
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
Nov 8, 2025 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 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...
Oct 23, 2025 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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!

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Oct 21, 2025 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
🚨Boris Johnson - Children & Young People

Message to Gavin : 6/7/20
GW "need to push on the push compulsary attendance, and the message of normality"

AW "[You] encouraged him to continue the job.

Would you agree this was months before the vaccine...?"
BJ "Yes"
1/ @AdamWagner1 AW "Do you think in that race to return to normality [summer 2020] Clinically Vulnerable families may have been left behind?"

BJ "Getting back to school... would have been the best for all C&YP, CV or not."

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Oct 20, 2025 • 23 tweets • 8 min read
🚨Whitty is on the stand today... follow this thread.

CTI "What about children who lived with parents who were still at risk...?"

Whitty "The risk to shielding adult... will be increased somewhat, but the risk to the child... scarring their life chances indefinitely."

1/ CW "Risk-benefit taking a child-centred approach, was to prioritise the needs of the children.

I don't think [there is] convincing evidence, that was with the benefits of hindsight, an incorrect judgement."

- Don't the needs of the children include not killing their parents?
2/
Oct 16, 2025 • 41 tweets • 12 min read
🚨UKHSA - Dr Shona Aurara

The system of control in schools was not effective for an airborne virus.

CVF's questions from @AdamWagner1 KC

NB/ There was a HUGE amount of content - our amazing team are working on prioritising the best clips for you actively!

1/ Adam had to work hard today to try to hold UKSHA to account!

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Oct 16, 2025 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
📢BORIS JOHNSON has been implicated by others as the major decision-maker when it came to schools.

CVF look forward to the opportunity for @AdamWagner1 KC to potentially cross-examine him next Tuesday!

1/ Secret plans were available to control risks in schools, but they weren't published... because they didn't want schools to have "an excuse not to open in September [2020]"

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Oct 8, 2025 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Professor Steve Turner, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (@RCPCHtweets) @SteveTurnerABDN.

"children, mercifully, were spared from the harm of that came from Covid. Even my most sick patients .... it was their parents who were unwell...."

1/ Advice on shielded children.

"The College was pleased that the UK government adopted the College's advice on shielding for babies, children and young people. Recommending that most but not all C&YP did not need to shield."

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Oct 5, 2025 • 48 tweets • 14 min read
🚨COVID INQUIRY ROUND UP (Wk1)

On Monday, the "Children and Young People’s Module" opened.

As CVF is designated as a 'Core Participant', we can make opening & closing statements and suggest questions.

See @AdamWagner1 KC's opening here.

1/
 The first hearing started with "Impact videos," including Seren (18) from CVF.

Please do take a moment to listen to her experiences.

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