Alan Barnard
@alanbarnard1
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Campaigner & storyteller. Airborne Aware. Director of Campaigns & Elections for Labour way back when. Buy my book Campaign It! here: https://t.co/CmZxp9ML9i
London, UK
Joined March 2010
I am so excited about this announcement by @wesstreeting and @uklabour because it means two things have to happen to make it a reality. I’ll explain in a thread…
NHS staff are crying out for change. Labour has a plan to deliver it. Together, we will get the NHS back on its feet, so patients are treated on time again. https://t.co/7uDcjbmZXl
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New analysis by the politically neutral House of Commons library says that Brexit cost the average Briton between £2,700 and £3,700, and lost the Treasury up to £90bn a year tax revenue. Rachel Reeves’ budget options could have been very different! https://t.co/qlaRPiUgDW
independent.co.uk
Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU
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Hey Alastair, this ‘howling’ tree that I’ve just met has got to be up there as your choice for tree of the day, surely. @campbellclaret
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A warning signal If we saw low naive T cells, chronically elevated IL-17, persistent pathogenic Th17 activation in any other context, we would call it a chronic inflammatory condition. The fact that it appears after COVID - yet is often dismissed - is the real red flag. @szupraha
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Immunosenescence isn’t a metaphor here - it’s measurable @TakeWeightOffMD This isn’t just weaker immunity. It’s a loss of naive T cells, a hallmark of immune aging. If this appears in people in their 40s-60s, the immune system becomes effectively older than the body.
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Three years out, the immune system of many post-COVID individuals still isn’t back to baseline. Reduced naive T cells + persistent pathogenic Th17 activity form a pattern that would be alarming in any other disease. COVID-19 leaves a biological footprint we can’t ignore.
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Insides: This wasn’t a long COVID cohort, yet the study still found clear signs of chronic immune activation. That means the number of people with quiet post-COVID immune dysregulation may be larger than the number of people formally labeled with long COVID. LC may be a
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This is thought-provoking, below…
If you still believe COVID left the population “unchanged”, open a dating app. It sounds absurd, but stay with me here. The cognitive bluntness is so widespread that the dating platforms themselves have had to acknowledge behavioural deterioration since 2020. It’s not subtle🧵
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Several of ISAPP's current and past board members are on this year's list of Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers! 🎉 Congratulations to these outstanding scientists, who ask the difficult questions and help advance biotic science across the globe.
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@fillthewhole indeed - here I sit with my HEPA filter and ffp3 but we can't persuade people this is a good idea.
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If everyone could stop catching COVID please, that'd really help us actually deliver healthcare.
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If you’re an expert on health but you’re baffled, puzzled or confused by the rising illness and disability over the past 5 years, then you’re not an expert on health. You’re an expert in denial. #LongCovid
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What’s that you say below? Infection with Covid causes brain damage in almost everyone? My my! Oh well. Keep sucking it in, I guess. Good luck…
When we look at the brain after COVID, we need to accept something that still hasn’t fully landed in public understanding - changes in cerebral perfusion aren’t limited to people with Long COVID. They show up in almost everyone. And this new study makes that point clear🧵
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When we look at the brain after COVID, we need to accept something that still hasn’t fully landed in public understanding - changes in cerebral perfusion aren’t limited to people with Long COVID. They show up in almost everyone. And this new study makes that point clear🧵
Fatigue in Post-COVID-Condition is accompanied by hypoperfusion of right-occipital areas 🔥A German eye-opener: COVID-19 itself leaves lasting brain blood-flow reduction, even after full recovery! ➡️“In PCC patients, fatigue was associated with reduced perfusion in right-sided
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🚨“The continuing absence of any real change to creating resilience in the UK against airborne pandemic pathogens leaves us more, rather than less vulnerable.” This press release from CATA in response to the Covid Inquiry Module 2 report is well worth reading in its entirety ⬇️
🚨🚨🚨 CATA Press Release 🚨🚨🚨 https://t.co/rXCxFoZ1KY
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@SafeDavid3 So JVT and Hancock both knew C-19 was airborne in 2020. Why wasn’t this applied to HCWs at close range exposure to aerosols since density greatest nearest source? Ventilation does not protect against exposure within 1-2m of infected person. Simple isn’t it?
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Summer 2020: JVT advises Hancock: Aerosol/airborne transmission becoming more important than 'droplet'. Module 2 report: JVT statement "If we knew then what we know now..." They damned well DID know it then! So why no 'airborne precautions' (FFP3) for HCWs caring for patients?!
A short thread 🧵 M Hancock at the Inquiry on 1 December 2023: “…But it became clear through the early summer of 2020 that in fact aerosol, airborne transmission was more important…” [Link to question by Mr Stanton from approx. 2 hours 5 minutes: https://t.co/Wz710a6fyQ] 1/
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Educating the British public about PPE and airborne transmission would mean admitting mistakes and corruption in 2020. I wonder if this is a reason you just don't see these sorts of masks in Britain.
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"David Osborn’s relentless pursuit of concealed documents through Freedom of Information requests continues to reveal the extent to which scientific advice has been buried, ignored and appear to have been concealed from the Inquiry."
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