[27 Jun 2025] @DrTedros at WHO media briefing:

“We cannot talk about COVID-19 in the past tense. Although the crisis has passed, the virus remains.

It continues to evolve, it continues to kill, and millions of people continue to live with post COVID-19 condition or long COVID.”

Hi @mrjamesob.bsky.social

I’d like to know how Bridget Phillipson thinks that teaching children the value of grit is going to help them overcome the neurological damage caused by multiple COVID infections.

The science is clear that this is a major contributor to the mental health crisis in kids.

Now would also be a good time to implement AIRBORNE infection control measures in hospitals, as recommended by experts at the Covid Inquiry.

Hospitals are inundated with the ‘tidal wave’ of airborne viruses.

Please mandate FFP3 masks & improved ventilation/air filtration NOW!

There’s a simple logical process to infection control guidance in hospitals:

1️⃣ Determine mode of transmission

2️⃣ Apply corresponding IPC measures for the determined mode

3️⃣ If airborne => FFP3 masks & ventilation / air filtration

We now know Covid is AIRBORNE, so why has the guidance not changed?

An extract from the IPC Cell Minutes (Sep 2020) sheds light on their reticence to change position re: airborne transmission of Covid:

“If you wanted to change the guidance itself, it would need a very careful narrative as it would be easy to give the impression that we got it WRONG the first time.”