@EvonneTCurran Well hand hygiene compliance is usually reported as 100%, so……..
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David Charlesworth (also @davidcharl on Bluesky)
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Retired(ish) IPC nurse, hubby, dad, runner(!). BO Davies Trustee. S. Tees NHSFT governor, M’bro Theatre. Cricket. Personal X’s. Pro integrity, NHS/EU. Ranty.
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A single touch wont do it.
You have to do something with the contaminated hand (eg., put it in someone's mouth)
So,
how much is hand contact with contamination followed by hand contact with a mouth,
and
how much is inhaling aerosols (poo or vomit) followed by swallowing them?
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Lets have some fun... How is norovirus spread?
Ok No 1 its airborne in Scotland... exhaled and inhaled!
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David Charlesworth (also @davidcharl on Bluesky) retweetledi
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@Nick_Dampier1 No such reporting at all. Just local inbreds. Stand down Reform….
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David Charlesworth (also @davidcharl on Bluesky) retweetledi
No Masks
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Ten things every person in the world should know about airborne disease transmission *before* bird flu goes human to human:
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“HCWs should have had lower rates of infection than the general pop as they should have been protected during work time”
Dr Evonne T Curran NursD 💙🇺🇦@EvonneTCurran
To rewrite Klompas was correct. It was closeness of HCWs to infected, particularly symptomatic people, for periods of time which exposed under protected HCWs. HCWs should have had lower rates of infection than the general pop as they should have been protected during work time
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@NHSEngland IPC team, @HIS_infection and @IPS_Infection; can you influence this apparent national IPC mandatory training resource?
Locum Casualty Doctor@CasualtySurgeon
Why did I waste 3 years getting a BSc in Microbiology with first class honours? After all of that, I didn't even know that vectors have nothing to do with the spread of infection. It turns out that infections are actually spread by dust. Loving NHS mandatory training!
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David Charlesworth (also @davidcharl on Bluesky) retweetledi
@DavidJCharl They don’t track it for the other UK nations anymore. They don’t want us to know.
Cat in the Hat 🐈⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧@_CatintheHat
It’s a shame they’re not reporting nosocomial (hospital-acquired) Covid infections anymore in England. I guess they don’t want people constantly pointing out how their current infection controls (handwashing) don’t do a lot to prevent the spread of AIRBORNE viruses.
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What’s the data for the other UK nations? IPC specialists, what is it in your trust?
Cat in the Hat 🐈⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧@_CatintheHat
Of all the patients currently in hospital with Covid in Wales, 74% of them were admitted to hospital for a different reason & ended up being infected with Covid DURING THEIR HOSPITAL STAY. This is the inevitable consequence having NO airborne infection controls in hospitals.
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@CwmTafMorgannwg What? 🤣🤣 Have your IPC team seen this? ‘Airborne viruses’ are predominantly airborne!
Handwashing is great general advice when you get off public transport but not for preventing airborne transmission while on it!!!
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Did you know…
Airborne viruses can settle onto surfaces on public transport.
To help prevent the spread of germs, think dirty. Wash your hands for 30.
For more info 👇
phw.nhs.wales/topics/beat-wi…
#BeatWinterViruses
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@Atipico1996 Excellent news. Linda is an excellent advocate for progressive and evidence-based IPC.
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We just need to get the hospital electrician sticker, but it looks like the QT3 air purifier will be allowed to use. I may be a loser, but this time I am excited that we proved the dialysis unit management wrong.
Thanks to everyone who helped and advised me here.
YEAH!
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@SGriffin_Lab @covidinquiryuk @CliveBeggs With the levels of nosocomial transmission IF (and I don’t believe it so) airborne isn’t the predominant route, then our hand hygiene and surface cleaning practices must be woeful. Why aren’t national IPC shouting about that? #improveIPC
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Disappointing. I don't understand why testimony at the @covidinquiryuk by folks like @CliveBeggs is ignored in preference to current "guidance".
How bad does nosocomial transmission and "winter" pressures have to be before someone finally recognises the values of #CleanAir?
Stephen Griffin@SGriffin_Lab
@Oldboatie @PJeffcock @annesmithmcc @GwynneMP @ProfEmer @CliveBeggs @SafeDavid3 @EvonneTCurran @mdc_martinus @DRTomlinsonEP @JOHNJOHNSTONED @mvankerkhove As with everything, this is not black and white. The proportion of droplets vs aerosols we exhale varies due to physical activity, temp, humidity etc. There's virus in both. Droplets will both fall and evaporate into smaller aerosol particles as long as humidity isn't too hi.
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David Charlesworth (also @davidcharl on Bluesky) retweetledi
I've been looking at the evidence statement submitted to @covidinquiryuk by Prof. Cath Noakes.
I'd highly recommend @GwynneMP does the same.
However, it would make it very clear how disingenuous you have been in the letter written to @timfarron.
Let's look at some examples;
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….and every IPC team. Is England any better?
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@Moratel_Entles @AasmaDay @EvonneTCurran Thank you.
We are too wedded to hand hygiene as the IPC panacea. It’s far more nuanced and we’ve over-simplified it, plus insufficient professional curiosity from newer IPC ‘specialists’ who aren’t taught to critique our Gospel-like publications such as Epic and NIPCM!
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‘You can’t hand wash your way out of the quad-demic - the viruses are in the air’
Retired infection control nurse @EvonneTCurran tells @theipaper she has never known a situation in hospitals where four viruses are rife at such high levels
inews.co.uk/news/health/in…
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Dr Rae Duncan@Sunny_Rae1
@AmandaPritchard Amanda given that most of the viruses you mentioned are airborne, why hasn’t NHSE declared FFP2/3 respiratory mandates as per WHO advice for all hospitals to try &contain spread from patient to patient, patient to staff & staff to patients & reduce nosocomial acquired infection?
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@PrognosticChats ‘Management’ should be advised by the IPC team. Has this team been recommending masks (or even better, FFP2/3) for longer and been ignored?
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David Charlesworth (also @davidcharl on Bluesky) retweetledi
🚨 Clinically Vulnerable Families call for robust IPC measures in healthcare to reduce preventable infections and further lost lives.
inews.co.uk/news/son-hospi…
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David Charlesworth (also @davidcharl on Bluesky) retweetledi
@UKHSA I know you only just decided on New Year’s Eve that perhaps you should to update your guidance to include common-sense airborne infection prevention measures like masks & ventilation…
…but do you think you could include these important words on the visual graphic too? Thanks.
Cat in the Hat 🐈⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧@_CatintheHat
@UKHSA 🔎 SPOT THE DIFFERENCE After weeks of having every single social media post being bombarded with people telling them how inadequate their advice was for not including any steps to prevent transmission of AIRBORNE viruses… …guess what @UKHSA have FINALLY added to their advice?
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