Everyone is important. We need to remember - and we need to remind everyone - because it seems so easily forgotten. My thoughts in @westaustralian this week.

I have been warning continually and stridently about the eugenic basis of favouring 'natural infection' over vaccine-derived immunity since the earliest days of the pandemic. By acquiescing to it, 'we' (not me, obviously) have allowed the medically flawed concept of 'burning off

IMPORTANT Please watch this short video by @profvrr and @DrPaulOffit (linked at bottom). They dissect the utter, illogical, immoral nonsense from RFK Jr about withdrawing routine COVID vaccination from children in the USA. Look at the stats in the graphs: ➡️ At least 7,000

RFK Jr has removed all seventeen members of the CDC's immunisation advisory panel. All of them. He's going to put anti-vaccine charlatans in their place. The agenda is clear: ➡️ reduce, even remove entirely, access to vaccines ➡️ 'immunity by natural infection' (aka return

"To protect public health everywhere, air quality standards must be modernized, advanced instrumentation mobilized, and collaborative networks established to move air quality assessment into the 21st century," write @kprather88 and @barsantikelley in a new #ScienceEditorial.

Once-a-year injection to protect against HIV is safe and shows promise as a long-acting prevention medication, phase 1 study finds. Explore the research 👉 https://t.co/Ay65LZ8rmm

Measles destroys the immune cells that hold our deepest, longest lasting immune protection It erases a persons immune memory - An Immune Amnesia @HarvardMagazine interviewed me on how we discovered these lasting impacts that increase risk of mortality for years after measles

Stockholm study of 331,042 people: 1 COVID-19 shot lowered persistent long COVID risk by 19%, 2 shots by 58%, 3 shots by 63%. https://t.co/qbBRIDj8QN

5 Years later, Covid still Harms T cells. By Anthony J Leonardi, MBBS, PhD Source: https://t.co/spmvUd9SnV

In the 8mths to August, rather than lower levels of mortality than in 2023, Covid-19 has led to about the same level of deaths as 2023 in aggregate, with the winter wave being significantly worse than projected, lasting longer and peaking at higher levels than predicted.

My important story from the weekend, in case you missed. New imaging shows virus invading the body and lingering for years, potentially explaining long COVID

https://t.co/sLq2Hja856 anyway, here’s a 30 day series on US Healthcare. I stand by every single word of it.

Human systems too often become inhumane. The context for disease, education and even war is always human. My thoughts in @westaustralian this week.

🇦🇺Australia: "Long COVID is hitting up to an estimated 20% of Australians 3 months after they contracted COVID — mostly women, but also men and children. In the current COVID wave, that means a lot of people coming down sick for a long time" Source: https://t.co/IKAmhl1ZKF

Out today, an explainer on our recent @theMJA piece on viral persistence and what this means for treatments, prevention and de-mystifying long COVID. Long COVID appears to be driven by ‘long infection’. Here’s what the science says https://t.co/Uaqbd4q0b0 via @ConversationEDU

Latest reponse from Novavax, on withdrawing its XBB vaccine last May. "Novavax, in consultation with the TGA, made the decision to withdraw its application ... as the winter season was already well underway. (2) ....

People don't realize that many patients with #LongCovid are now being treated in Brain Injury Clinics, together with patients recovering from traumatic brain injury after a concussion. It's been hard to keep up with the literature, here is one published yesterday #NeuroCovid

1/ The bitter irony for me is that this meeting was just nine days before my BMJ piece "Up the line to death: covid-19 has revealed a mortal betrayal of the world’s healthcare workers" was published. See next tweet. I was literally commenting on this in real time.

New from us. Long COVID is complicated but not so mysterious, it’s looking more and more like it’s driven by “long infection”. What’s the evidence for this and what does this mean should happen? Read about it here https://t.co/AlymwWQmQK

When can we get school ratings for mental health outcomes in students - just like we see for academic results? Things only improve when you measure them. My thoughts on what’s important in education this week in @westaustralian

"Since nearly the start of the pandemic, scientists have known that a Covid-19 infection increases the risk of heart problems. A growing body of research now suggests that this risk can last until well after the infection has cleared." Source: https://t.co/ldAPPqTsrP