Day after day and night after night, frontline workers show up for us all. They don’t have the luxury of working from home and staying protected. At the very least, they must have timely access to testing and results. The Government must do better.
We have been here so many times before. A reckless govt failing - again - to take necessary actions to protect us. That will build hospital beds in car parks but won’t buy air purifiers for kids’ schools. If you have plans for tonight, do one thing & read this thread first.
We have been here so many times before. A reckless govt failing - again - to take necessary actions to protect us. That will build hospital beds in car parks but won’t buy air purifiers for kids’ schools. If you have plans for tonight, do one thing & read this thread first.
3) I love how those who dismiss COVID as mild always eventually fall back to arguing what they really care about… the $$$… #DontLookUp is the most brilliant movie 🍿 of our times.
📍1 YEAR HIGH—Pediatric #COVID19 hospitalizations in New York are now at 1 year high. NY #Omicron ⬆️ was earliest— expecting many states will follow the same trajectory—behind by ~3 weeks. Parents need to send kids to school 🏫 with premium KN95/KF94 masks & vax!
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1/📌What if we had the ability to stop #SARSCoV2—and all its variants—from infecting us?
We do. It's called an N95 mask. When worn properly it catches over 95% of airborne particles—mechanicaly & electrostatically.
It's excellent against #Omicron. A thread on how it works🧵
We *could* have prevented the NHS strain over the next weeks. We *could* have prevented the economic damage of mass sickness in businesses. We *could* have invested in ventilation like Japan. We have not.
Instead of prevention we are planning hospital tents in car parks. 17/18
Many from govt to scientists to the media to the public have decided that 100,000s cases a day are fine. We are dangerously weakening our NHS & its staff.
Too many people will end up with chronic illness & too many will die.
All I can do is keep saying it's not fine. 18/18
The usual people are out there saying all will be fine soon - we just have to let people get infected and it will be done. Just as they did at previous waves.
Mass prior infection have *not* stopped the Omicron wave. Nor has mass vax. Omicron is not last variant. 15/18
We've also done nothing to protect schools - which will prolong Omicron wave & put kids at risk.
New York is warning of rising admissions in young kids - they can't be vaxxed & rely on LOW community transmission to protect them. 14/18
We've also done nothing to protect schools - which will prolong Omicron wave & put kids at risk.
New York is warning of rising admissions in young kids - they can't be vaxxed & rely on LOW community transmission to protect them. 14/18
https://t.co/OJ9S4LjaI1
Putting in a short circuit break before Christmas or even on Boxing day could have greatly reduced this peak. Returning slowly to normal from mid Jan would have minimised resurgence.
But govt has missed that boat and ignored the science. 11/18
THREAD on England & Omicron and what is going on.
My take on it.
TLDR: things are pretty bad and I'm sad & bewildered at lack of govt action and general levels of hopium. 1/18
Leeds Hospital to host one of the first 'Nightingale hubs' based in a car park at St James's Hospital. NHS wants space for up to 4k extra beds nationally...but who will staff these beds?
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