🚨 Our final report on #COVID19 and public experiences published👇
What have we learned?
Trust the public
Lack of trust in government harmed compliance
Rules needed to be clear & consistent
Ppl needed more financial support
Misinformation=big problemswansea.ac.uk/press-office/n…2/ Brief thread on what we have found so far. As the @covidinquiryuk is ongoing
...& lessons for future
Report here:
Also, work forms basis of peer review publications, inc:
✈️Comprehensive border control policies reduce, but dont eliminate, infections entering countries.
🪟 ventilation did reduce transmission in particular settings (but hard to quantify)
📣communication helped ensure high adherence, but trust & clarity = key barriers
Jun 30, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Can aspartame cause cancer?
a brief 🧵 on the history of a recurring public health controversy
TDLR
this is a classic case of the social amplification of risk
Need to communicate the gist - 'the dose makes the poison' (no-one consumes enough aspartame)
2/ Had to go back to my grad school notes on this one, for a research project on aspartame and risk communication. ie. *this is not a new controversy*
Aspartame has been controversial ever since its accidental discovery by James Schlatter in 1965 in his - drug research
Jan 11, 2023 • 18 tweets • 10 min read
Brief 🧵 about why Andrew Bridgen is a classic, if high profile, example of how covid misinformation has pervaded part of the public
Firstly - nothing screams scientific credibility like a blog authored by ‘Tyler Durden’
Bridgen cited this in his tweet 2/ the disgraceful link between vaccines and the holocaust is not a new thing
Antivaxxers have been pushing this narrative since the start of the pandemic
Even *if* COVID was 'just another' virus (its not BTW), then this is still a problem. Here's why 🧵
In short, having ('just') ANOTHER virus that hospitalises many and infects many, many more ON TOP of existing respiratory viruses, is a big burden on healthcare
2/n the classic epidemiology bathtub metaphor may be useful here. Lets think of the bathtub as NHS (healthcare system) capacity ... adding covid to the mix, is like rapidly opening the tap up - or rather, like turning an extra tap on.