Rachel Newby RN SCPHN IPCN

@weschannell95 @timricketts_ 🤦‍♀️

@timricketts_ Not well held but someone (a doctor, more senior than me) once told me you can’t take blood cultures after giving paracetamol as they’ll be negative coz the fever is gone

What are your favourite medical myths in the workplace? The things that everyone holds as true but are actually bollocks

@MartinSLewis The root cause of low income may be young carers missing school, lack of employment opportunities in the area, poor support for additional needs in schools, or the high levels of disability brought on through local factors. Many possibilities. However, still needs money to fix.

MP Lee Anderson today said “You can’t just keep throwing money at a problem, eventually you’ve got to try and get to the root cause of a problem.” Sadly in a cost of living crisis where the poorest have income lower than their min outgoings the root cause is a lack of money.

@jonotter And finally sense is back in the room! 👏

Been out on the wards today at Guy's and delighted to be delivering a popular PPE message for what feels like the first time in 2 years: gloves and aprons not required for routine patient care unless you anticipate body fluid exposure! Hooray

Everyone keeps talking about covid becoming endemic, but as I listen to the conversation, it’s becoming more & more clear to me that very few of you know what “endemic” means. So here’s a thread on how pandemics end.

@EvonneTCurran @emrsa15 Absolutely! I'm not sure that it can be called leadership at all. By definition I'm sure it would better fit dictatorship 🤔.

@emrsa15 This do-as-I-say not, do-as-I-do leadership does NOT aid compliance.

Strangers gallery not being used? Anyway, this just about sums up this bunch and the messages that they give. Am sitting in an Infection Prevention Conference amongst friends, not strangers. Funnily enough we are wearing masks

@dan_warrender Wait.... What!!!!??? Wow! Every day is a school day! 👨‍🏫 I had no idea.

So yesterday I learned that ‘Netflix and chill’, doesn’t mean Netflix and chill. Casual sex apparently. And thus begins the haunting journey into my memory, as I count the times I’ve enthusiastically suggested it as a means of self-care.

100% this!! Why are people so fixated on death?? Covid changes lives, some people are never the same again. Whether someone dies or survives is not the only issue here!!

@carrielocker12 Yes, but that means it finds 2 thirds more people than we would find if we didn't test staff asymptomaticaly at all. It's good for identifying positives but people must still act on symptoms with PCR testing regardless.

Lateral flow tests not that great then according to the BMJ 🤔... and seem to miss a third of positive people ...

CDC guidance updated to state that inhaled aerosols are the main way that COVID-19 spreads @arcandandrew @JoanFC #Spread" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…

@HyndburnCouncil can you please confirm that this the advice being given to local bars and restaurants by your health protection practitioner is correct? It appears to contradict local lockdown rules. @dr_sakthi is this a Lancashire wide stance?

@drphilhammond Well suddenly all the sepsis cases suddenly disappeared, it would be my guess that they held out on accessing services for too long sadly.

Has anyone researched or adequately explained why there were so many non-Covid related excess deaths at home during and after the first lockdown? We need to understand this better to guide our response to future outbreaks.

All is quiet on the Government front with regards to our current location on their response tool! Going by this we should be back in lockdown already.

@CIBSE_NatVent Oh yes I fully agree, all evidence I have seen points to aerosol. Until they officially advertise this many will believe it to be droplets. They put so much emphasis on the 'droplet zone' that people will take chances they might not take if they knew about lingering aerosols.

@IPC_RNewby Dr Fauci acknowledges this route now too twitter.com/adamhamdy/stat…

I really like the way that aerosols are depicted in this infomercial. The wispy lines suggest the plumes of aerosols leaving infector by breathing/talking. Very high concentration close to source - hence the need for social distancing (1/2)

@A_cute_medic We had exactly the same! Tested last Monday 8am and test result in at 6pm Wednesday. Fingers crossed.

Yay we have a slot for this evening. Not bad for 4 hours trying. No way I am in work on Monday, but maybe Tuesday I suppose...

Predictably now my 4 year old has started school we have a fever and a cough. Can I access a test? No I'm not working this weekend but am on Monday. One of our consultant team is already "out" in the same circumstances Lack of testing access is going to make this winter grim

@CIBSE_NatVent Wow! I had totally missed that and I assume many others have too, given the number of webinars and such like I've seen where this is still being discussed as a 'possibility'. Thanks.

@IPC_RNewby Here from late June in the 2m social distance review, it's there but just hasn't been publicised as much gov.uk/government/pub…

@MackayIM Not much longer now until they can start blaming the flu vaccines. They will of course believe that extra elements have been added. The current mantra is about the number of test results also including those with the common cold 🤦‍♀️.

@DidierPittet @JudeRobinson5 @WHO So, I wonder if this 'smart water' company has anything to do with the author?

Totally WRONG ! We have repeatitively provide #evidence that this is not the case ! #handsanitizers are not associated with R bugs There is no #resistance to #alcohol at #concentration used in #handrub #COVIDー19 fight does not need #FakeNews #CleanHandsSaveLives @WHO

TEACHERS Q: How will you know if your classroom is getting enough fresh air? A: You can use a low-cost CO2 sensor in your classroom to see if you are hitting these ventilation targets during the day. 1/ schools.forhealth.org/ventilation-gu…