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If people understood these 4 simple truths; that #LongCovid: 🔴 Can completely destroy your health 🔴 Can limit your ability to work AND There are: 🔴 No known diagnostic tests 🔴 No known treatments Then maybe folk would be more inclined to protect themselves. 🎲~1 in 10. 1/

"[The main symptoms of the new Omicron strain EG.5.1] are a sore throat, a runny nose, a blocked nose, sneezing, a cough without phlegm, a headache, a cough with phlegm, a hoarse voice, muscle aches and pains and an altered sense of smell.. However, shortness of breath, a loss of smell and a fever are no longer the main symptoms." Fever is no longer the main symptom.. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/t…

This sounds great...except when you realise that these people don't even understand how Covid is transmitted. They've failed to deal with the current pandemic. How about we start there @UKHSA? You can't hand wash your way out of Covid. #CovidIsAirborne news.sky.com/story/uk-scien…

@luvenice_h Yes we agree. Massive wave surging now, everyone should already be boosted again. We had hoped the autumn boosters would be the newer generation more variant specific too.

Update on the autumn Covid booster and flu jab update. gov.uk/government/new…

Very pleased to see the national calls for treatments like #Evusheld finally gaining traction. Our Clinically Vulnerable members deserve reliable protection and a return to normality too. Obtaining clinical consensus on these treatments is an important first step.

On keeping yourself safe, great thread.

We are all fed up with Covid, but it’s here, and to protect ourselves and our families we need to face it. And it actually requires minimal effort to reduce the risks. Let’s start with what to do if you get Covid… 🧵 1/20

The latest data from our #COVID19 Infection Survey show rates have continued to increase across all four UK countries, likely driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 variants 📈 Infections increased by over half a million across the UK ➡️ ow.ly/7G9Z50JMs6w

We need all medical settings to return to masking for all. The risk to vulnerable patients and staff and their access to healthcare is simply too great.

4/ In a #LivingWithCovid world, WHAT IF HCWs who’re CV in any way feel pressured NOT to #WearAMask at work & have direct contact w/ a patient w/ #COVID or #monkeypox? Or HCWs unwittingly take #COVID or #monkeypox home to CV/CEV loved ones? @cv_cev @dgurdasani1 @SGriffin_Lab

These are the questions we keep finding ourselves asking and yey government is burying its head in the sand about it all. Have a read of Ali’s thread.

@LongCovidFight We need more clarity around this now.

@OneVoice_Group Just checked and the green book seems to still have the original list for group 6.

Confirmation of vaccination groups 1-6 minimum for autumn booster and up to groups 1-9. Good news for CEV, CV, unpaid carers and over 65’s. And perhaps up to groups 1-9 (over 50’s). england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp…

@LongCovidFight That’s our understanding no change to the group 6 list. Time will tell though.

@Kit_Yates_Maths Looking like groups 1-6 and perhaps up to groups 1-9, but no reasoning and to why.

We should be told whether we are expecting to be offered covid booster jabs this autumn as soon as possible. The reasoning and modelling behind the decision should also be made available to everyone can scrutinise it. That would be good scientific practice.

UKHSA this week (very quietly!) advising to wear a mask in indoor and crowded spaces in light of the uptick in cases & hospitalisations. “COVID-19 has not gone away, so it is also vitally important that people continue to follow the guidance.” gov.uk/government/new…

People who tested COVID positive had a 3.5 times increased risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, 2.6 times with Parkinson's disease, 2.7 times with ischaemic stroke and a 4.8 times increased with intracerebral haemorrhage. medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-c…

Latest ONS survey estimates that 1.7m people in the UK had coronavirus in week ending 18th June. That’s up 23% on the previous week. About 1 in 35 infected overall but that’s still less than half the level at the peak in January and not impacting much on intensive care

Hearing lots of "Well deaths are still low" takes about this latest wave. Firstly, deaths are a lagged indicator so we wouldn't expect them to rise at exactly the same time as cases. Secondly, death is by no means the only poor outcome associated with covid.

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