Dr Alison Twycross RN

Given the number of posts on X this week discussing hospital acquired infections among immunocompromised people, @EvonneTCurran and have written to the 4 UK CNOs expressing our concerns about three aspects of the NICPMs. @Duncan_CNO @CNOScotland @CNO_NI @CNOWales.

Jack Lee on signing his first professional contract with Oxford United. ⤵️

I hope to be there. Emergency demonstration supported by Jews for Justice for Palestine , Monday 28 July, from 5.30pm UK Foreign Office, King Charles Street, London SW1A 2AH "Jews in the UK demand forceful action to stop Israel’s starvation, displacement and bombing in Gaza."

Jonathan Baker, Bishop of Fulham, ex Deputy Grand Chaplain for English Freemasons, is opposed to the ordination of women priests and apparently dislikes people having fun too. That's him in the blue dressing gown. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

Check out this brilliant video explainer from Bristol University which illustrates how (as well as high CO2 levels often indicating poor ventilation and higher COVID risk environment) high CO2 levels also increase the lifetime of the virus in the air. airspothealth.myshopify.com/a/blog/how-car…

At what point do people realize “learning to live with COVID,” meant you have to actually check in on the data, read it, reflect, and realize let’r rip was a failed fucking policy?

Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD Study Shows" mpower.maryland.edu/n95-masks-near…

📢 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

Are we still in a pandemic? You may think the answer is no. No proper testing or surveillance combined with public nonchalance = it's over in the minds of most. The threat remains. The harms are known. 1000s of studies. Call it what you like. Covid doesn't care. It's prevalent.

Meta-synthesis on systemic and organisational factors influencing progression into healthcare leadership for ethnic minority women nurses bit.ly/46LDR1n

bit.ly/40idqMY Police experiences highlight the need for broader collaboration in emergency mental health crisis transfers

Please donate if you can. Really grateful to everyone who has done so already.

🎉 Alison Twycross is turning 60 Alison's asking you to support SHH-UK this year. 👉 Donate here: justgiving.com/page/alison-tw… #LongCovid #ChronicIllness #InvisibleIllness #HealthAdvocacy #MillionsMissing #SafeAir4All

What if I told you that there's a reason why everything is going off the rails.

These numbers astonish me every week. I don't know what to say.

Had an appointment today that I couldn’t do over the phone or zoom. Wore my mask as usual, and as soon as I sat down, the person I was meeting with asked me “and you have a phobia of what?” I said nothing, “my family and I haven’t been sick in years, we’d like to keep it

6/ Since then, research has clearly shown that airborne transmission is the DOMINANT mode of transmission of COVID-19: thelancet.com/article/S0140-…

3/ However, major public health organizations such as @WHO and @CDCgov were in complete denial, saying that airborne transmission was MISINFORMATION! (Disgracefully, @WHO has not deleted this tweet or clearly stated that it was an ENORMOUS error)

1/ What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic? Our peer-reviewed open-access paper is now published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/in…

Good News! Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has called for universal respirator use in healthcare settings & when performing patient care outside of healthcare settings (eg – in the home) in the latest edition of CSA Z94.4, Selection, use and care of filtering respirators.

#WrongAgainClare thinks the pandemic ended lol. When did @who announce it ended Clare? #WrongAgainClare