Yasp
@YaspShetland
Retired physiotherapist. Following Covid science, esp long term sequelae and means of stopping transmission.
Given COVID is an AIRBORNE virus, I wonder if @NHSGrampian are implementing any IPC measures to protect against AIRBORNE transmission? 😷FFP3 respirators? 💨 HEPA air filters? 🪟 Open windows? Or are they dogmatically hoping that a bit of hand washing will stop the spread?
Due to cases of COVID, wards 110 and 308 at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary are closed to all but ESSENTIAL visitors. Normal visiting applies in all other wards. If you are unwell, please do not visit relatives or friends in hospital.
Autoimmunity in Children Post-COVID: A Silent Risk johnsnowproject.org/primers/autoim…
🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴 One of the BEST #Scottish anti Trump protest signs. The animosity and protest is HUGE. The @bbc is showing nothing. Wonder why? 🇺🇸 #trump
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My goal isn't to 'not catch covid'. My goal is to live a life that benefits others. And I'm trying to stay healthy to do that. And I'm seeing too many people getting long term health problems from their covid infections. So I'm trying not to catch Covid.
It is inevitable, long term and on average. We cannot, indefinitely, with the current tools at our disposal, live our lives with the goal of not catching Covid
One has to wonder why those who authored the IPC guidance published 13 March 2020 (downgrading protection for most healthcare workers from FFP3 to FRSM) did not know this? They should have - the 1 million+ HCWs trusted them. And why did HSE knowingly permit them to do this.
Question for @BBCHughPym on the @bbc5live @MattChorley show: There are now 462,654 studies on Covid, none of which say it is a good thing to catch. In the thread below are just a few of them describing the brain damage it causes. Are you aware of them? x.com/_CatintheHat/s…
COVID + THE BRAIN 🧠 There’s been a flurry of new studies published in recent weeks about Covid’s detrimental impact on the brain. This is the aspect of Covid which concerns me most, but which many people seem to be blissfully unaware of. So let’s dig into what we know… 🧵
🚨 🚨🚨 “Nearly one in three people are going multiple days without eating, according to the United Nations” “In a video filmed Tuesday inside Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, families fretted over babies with distended bellies and tiny fists that they clenched as they cried.”…
Mass starvation in Gaza and over 1,000 Palestinians killed while seeking aid since May. The government says the situation is intolerable yet they continue to tolerate it. The UK needs to stop all arms exports to the Israeli Government - today.
A British surgeon working in Gaza says he is concerned over the pattern of injuries he's seen in those brought to hospital from aid distribution centres. Dr Nick Maynard tells @annaefoster about the injuries he is treating. #R4Today
“Long Covid *may* have surpassed asthma as the most common chronic health condition in children” in 2025….lets let that sink in for a moment……we’ve had FIVE YEARS to put in public health measures to protect our kids like clean air in schools and we’ve STILL NOT DONE it…..1/
A new NIH RECOVER study followed hundreds of children under 6 and found that up to 15% met criteria for probable Long COVID—many with symptoms lasting over a year. Distinct symptom patterns were seen by age group. Poor appetite, chronic cough, sleep issues, and fatigue were…
Peter. Illness is exacerbated by doing nothing, and undoing what little provision we had, to tackle infection burden. This is now year-round, not "just" winter, due to SARS2. One-size attendance policies, dreadful DfE messaging, dirty indoor air, poor hygiene, shoddy isolation💔
When did you learn that mild covid infections can damage the brain?
What did everyone think 'living with covid' was going to look like? Can we talk about air filters for schools now? or do we still need a few more years of ever increasing chronic illness and realisation? @CleanAir4KidsUK
Chronic teacher shortages and increased sickness absences have pushed schools to rely heavily on supply agencies, costing the education system nearly £1.4bn in the last year alone news.sky.com/story/supply-t…
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 💔
The final preliminary hearing for the Children & Young People’s module was today, CVF, again, made the case for safety. Children's deaths *would* have been higher if many Clinically Vulnerable families had not kept their children away from schools. ⚠️Long thread 1/
National Cancer Institute Publishes Bombshell COVID Article Today 🔥COVID greatly increases risk of hospitalization & death among people with cancer 🔥COVID causes >50% of cancer treatment disruptions 🔥Metastatic cancer, acute leukemia, lymphoma, & chemo increase risk
Infants don't, as a general rule, use phones. They are affected by COVID. It's hard to separate the impact of COVID and tech on older children, who are exposed to both. Personally, I think the impact of "pretending COVID has gone away" affects children. x.com/_CatintheHat/s…
COVID & CHILD DEVELOPMENT Yet another study has just been published showing the long-term impact of maternal COVID infection on child development. At 24 months: 🔎 36% of infants exhibited cognitive delays 🔎 64% communication delays 🔎 57% motor delays nature.com/articles/s4139…
I spent the week recently with someone who then said, "I had heard you were still masking because you were living in fear, but now I've spent time with you, I can see that it's not fear at all."