"COVID-19 is the worst crisis for children in UNICEF’s 75-year history. In less than 2 years, 100 million more children fell into poverty. Richer countries are recovering; poorer countries are saddled with debt & falling behind."
It was preventable.
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British regulators limit covid vaccines youtu.be/sidjKoHS6NE via UK vaccine regulators (JCVI) are not admitting a problem, but are stopping mRNA vaccination for healthy under 50s. Better late than never.
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This is a disgrace how come this hasn’t been reopened?? £40 million in equipment going to waste when we all know the shortage of Chemotherapy and Radiography equipment and the delays to get treatment
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Seeing these world-class cancer centres empty was emotional.
A scandalous waste of the highest quality equipment.
Delays are killing, yet these facilities gather dust.
Please watch/share and hopefully Equitix (the decision maker) will act for the sake of thousands of patients.
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Pretty soon, most British folks will join Danish people in not being able to enter the US at all over their vaccination status. Including for work.
It's good other countries are putting us in our place, with nothing but Filipino and Canadian tourists soon left.
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Denmark does not permit healthy people under 50 to receive Covid vaccines, even if they never vaccinated.
The UK will soon follow.
It feels like an explanation better than "we have enough immunity" is in order.
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I am not sure about that if you think about pre-industrial human/animal interactions. Improving biosecurity on mink farms is probably worth doing in its own right and doesn't need a scare story to drive it. This is also worth a look, esp Chapter 4
dukeupress.edu/virulent-zones
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Have you heard that Covid-19 is causing immunodeficiency in children?
It’s nonsense ❌
Join and I as we debunk this bizarre myth which has been spreading online 💥
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With over 100 other charities, we've written an urgent letter asking the government to end the unlawful practice of placing separated children in Home Office hotels. The government must spare no resource to find all children who are missing.
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There are around TWO HUNDRED CHILDREN MISSING and they have not rated even a mention on the 6pm . We do not know where these kids are. We don't know if they're being sexually abused, used as forced labour, we don't even know if they are still alive. Where is the outcry?
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Seeing these world-class cancer centres empty was emotional.
A scandalous waste of the highest quality equipment.
Delays are killing, yet these facilities gather dust.
Please watch/share and hopefully Equitix (the decision maker) will act for the sake of thousands of patients.
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Delighted that @kingartshums colleagues could come to the launch of The Covid Consensus on Monday, and cover it in faculty news today: kcl.ac.uk/news/new-book-
Thanks everyone for your support.
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New book critiquing COVID response
‘during 1st yrs of pandemic, political mainstream agreed ‘following the science’ with hard lockdowns and vaccine mandates best way to preserve life.’ However, ‘social science reveals true human cost of this policy’.
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Incredible to see this on the CDC’s website.
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🚨 | Paramedics say people are getting ill because their homes are so cold
💥 This is what happens when successive Governments fail to put adequate energy security plans in place.
This is an urgent matter yet Government pace is slow.
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'Excess deaths highest since pandemic second wave – and less than 5 per cent are from Covid'
Dreadful and I have no doubt that this is a topic we should have been discussing months and months ago.
Meanwhile thousands have died...
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It's remarkable that many health care facilities still mandate masks for patients, visitors, staff with no credible data & worse: there have been literally zero debates held on this topic
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COVID-19-related school closures & other disruptions have sharply increased learning poverty - the % of children unable to read & understand a simple text by age 10.
Let's prioritize policies to #RecoverEducation and #EndLearningPoverty!
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Another private firm caught profiteering from abusing children while regulators did nothing. This time one charged £250k pa while special needs kids punched and locked out naked in care homes rated good. Sickening. Prepare for more empty promises of action
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Trust the Evidence -- Conduct of Clinical Trials of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions during the Covid pandemic: We must overcome the challenges
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That we did this in the name of public health is unconscionable to me.
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Tens of millions of people have been brought to the point of starvation.
We robbed a generation of children of their education.
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growing up in the United States I could see how Calcutta’s poverty meant lockdowns were going to exacerbate the problems for the world’s poor
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"...data from charity Internet Matters shows that more than a third of 6- to 10-year-olds have watched livestreams while UK media regulator Ofcom found that over half of 8- to 12-year-olds in the UK currently have a TikTok profile"
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“During the pandemic, the [US Homeland Security] department saw a rise in livestreaming crimes as lockdowns caused more children to be online than usual, giving suspects more access to children”
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Two other young women died in the same psychiatric hospital as a mental health blogger in the two months before her death, a BBC investigation has found
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NEW: Growing numbers of A&E patients are being discharged before they are admitted because they're waiting so long for a bed.
Senior clinician likens "terrible" experience to "battlefield medicine"
hsj.co.uk/emergency-care
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Having a loved one visit a patient in hospital is an important part of the healing process - helping them to recover faster and also leave the hospital sooner.
Ongoing COVID severe visiting restrictions are wrong.
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No one talking about the psychological effects of these policies. No one is asking therapists why our YP are so distressed. We see it as 'mental health' & suggest anxiety management. But when school policies start showing up in the therapy room, it's time for change. 10/
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MENTAL HEALTH: Pandemic’s negative mental health effects felt among all age groups. Globally, according to the WHO, the prevalence of anxiety and depression has increased by 25% due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most acute in children/young people in the US
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Revealed: scores of child asylum seekers kidnapped from Home Office hotel | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
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You won’t fix public health by banning office cake. You won’t fix primary care by charging to see a GP. You won’t fix the NHS without social care.
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The most important info in this article. “CDC was no longer censoring the truth but information that would harm vaccine uptake”
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'Innovation' often adds complexity and cost in healthcare- its additional not substitutional work leading to 'increasing intensity and complexity of clinical work' (David Eddy). We need to do much more de-implementation....but it's hard
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Overuse of tests, treatments, and diagnoses has become a significant healthcare concern. In our series on #ImprovementApproaches, @CarolineCupit @carolyntarrant @drnatarmstrong highlight promising approaches and the challenges in addressing overuse. ths.im/3kqu9vp
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What happens when The Science(tm) and "the single source of truth" both resign from their respective perches within a couple of months of each other? How ever shall we distinguish true from false without their unerring guidance?
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There's no science without debate. No freedom when voices are censored.
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‘The notion that the original lockdowns had helped to protect the NHS could not have been further off the mark’.
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HIV AND CHILDREN: Pandemic deepened poverty. Only 52% of children globally have access to life-saving antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV worldwide, compared to 75% of adults; 100,000 children die of HIV per year (650K deaths from HIV in 2021). Tragic
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One thing we seem to have seen over and over during COVID was that if your study’s findings don’t fit the preferred PH COVID narrative, good luck getting it published. Have spoken to other docs/scientists abt this and experienced it myself.
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There are many ways we can do more to tackle the obesity crisis.
Improving infrastructure, better education at younger ages and greater support for adults will help.
Banning office cake will not.
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I'm getting fed up with this inane and patronising health advice oozing from various public sector bodies.
With catchy slogans and flashy graphics.
Telling us to put a coat on when it's cold or drink water when it's hot.
How much does it cost? Totally unnecessary.
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