Sarah Cowley

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📢 Want to help us fight for #SafeAir4All? SHH-UK has 6 CO2 monitors available for people to borrow🏥💨 To borrow one visit: shh-uk.org/borrowing-a-co… #safeair4all #longcovid #workplacesafety #infectioncontrol #PublicHealth #Healthcareleadership

Rosie you have covid. We are in a pandemic.

Earlier this year, I lost my beloved job at my beloved Observer when the Guardian, in its great wisdom, gave the newspaper away to a podcast company...who promptly sacked me. So, forgive my delight today, in being nominated for FIVE awards in the British Podcast Awards!! 1/

Covid levels have been low for a while, yet a 'low' week still means 71 deaths across the UK: equivalent to double-decker bus full of potentially preventable deaths. We need to do better!

I've called on the UK government to step up to its legal and moral obligation to stop ALL arms sales to Israel. This is crucial to help ensure a permanent ceasefire. #StopArmingIsrael oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/c…

Science literacy is collapsing. And with it, the foundations of civilization. People fear vaccines more than viruses. So diseases we once defeated are coming back. They fear GMOs more than hunger. So we reject tools that could feed millions. They fear nuclear more than climate…

“Just outside Gaza, tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items & fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them," write 109 aid agencies today, including Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam and Amnesty. Israel is…

Israel is continuing to use starvation as a method of warfare, a war crime, and as a tool to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. The harrowing suffering of starving Palestinians in Gaza, including our own colleagues, on an hourly basis, is…

In the past 50 years, childhood vaccines have saved an estimated 154 million lives. However, progress has stalled. A #GBD study provides a systematic analysis of routine childhood vaccination coverage from 1980 to 2023 with forecasts to 2030. Read this & more:…

MPs are looking into the trouble disabled people, carers, & families have in getting vital equipment. They are asking for evidence. These surveys can go into the House of Commons library, so worth 5 minutes if, like us you've struggled. #SEND #disability surveymonkey.com/r/9Q3KFVR

Check out this little comedian. Children learn to appreciate humor from their earliest days, smiling and laughing in response to playful interaction with loved ones. But between 7-12 months, many begin to initiate the jokes themselves - repeating unexpected sounds and actions…

The Court acknowledged that: 👺Russia weaponised disinformation. 👺It posed a real threat to democracy. 👺States must not remain passive. But somehow concluded that the UK had done just enough to avoid responsibility.

🧵 The ECHR just ruled that the UK government’s failure to investigate Russian interference in our elections did not breach our human rights. And here’s why that should alarm every democrat. 👇 @carolecadwalla

NEW: The court did not find a breach of the law. BUT it upheld 2/3 points inc that foreign interference (inc disinfo) *is* a threat to fair elections (which UK had denied!) Lawyers say hugely significant judgement with far-reaching consequences. AND that an appeal should be…

LR, by incorporating these orgs and individuals in as agents of restitution and rectification just allows a rewrite of history rather than hold persistently failed leaders accountable This wasn’t @wesstreeting’s doing, but he HAS to make actual change in leadership, inc at GMC 9/

I want to talk about the themes of leadership explored in the Leng Report. Prof Leng herself is well used to leadership roles, and has extensive training in and knowledge of good leadership in health systems, so these are valuable insights 1/

The persistent false binary regarding schools suited the Johnson "govt" as it distracted from their reactionary, incompetent policies. It was never kids in vs kids out, it SHOULD have been MAKE THE SMEGGING SCHOOLS SAFE, as @IndependentSage aleays said, but we still aren't 💔

Breaking news - Breast Cancer Breakthrough Scientists at the @icr_london have discovered how to predict which ER+ HER2+ cancers have a higher risk of recurrence in just 2 weeks! Women with ER+ HER2+ breast cancers were given 2 weeks of hormone treatment before surgery as part…

7/ so I do completely agree with you about investing in more research to inform better PH policy rather continuing to deny we have a huge issue - but we can still do that whilst simultaneously using the mountains of research we already have to implement PH measures to ⬇️harms x

5/why are we still stuck with no IPC in schools (see DoE advert) & poor ventilation which enables airborne viruses like Covid to spread in classrooms? -this CO2 reading was taken from my children’s school - over 5x the upper safe limit recommended by ASHRAE #CleanTheAir!