Cat in the Hat 🐈⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧
@_CatintheHat · England, United Kingdom · joined 01 Jan 2021
Mum • Lover of nature and clean, fresh air • Passionate about science • “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.”
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🚨Yesterday, Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) called for urgent regulation to slow down AI development, warning that:
In 6-12 months, a swarm of misaligned agents could take over the entire internet.
Musk & Altman immediately agreed.
What just happened that they’re not telling us?
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This scandal should be headline news… but it won’t be 😡
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❓Between 2023-25, guess how many Covid vaccine doses were left unused in warehouses until they expired?
👉🏻 63 MILLION
❓Guess much that equates to in £’s lost?
👉🏻 £1.6 BILLION
The govt has hugely restricted access to Covid vaccines since 2023 & then just quietly binned them! h
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I appreciate you've restricted replies, but this is actually at the heart of the current unreality we are living in.
Covid causes many harms, much of which are long lasting, several of which are cognitive, and there is scientific consensus about this.
But in other policy...
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I’ll end with some wise words written by Florence Nightingale back in 1859:
“The very first canon of nursing […] the first essential to the patient, without which all the rest you can do for him is as nothing[…] is this: TO KEEP THE AIR HE BREATHES AS PURE AS THE EXTERNAL AIR” h
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Earlier this year, Sir Patrick Vallance warned that another pandemic is “absolutely inevitable” & urged the incoming government to focus on preparing for it.
Improvements to ventilation will not only reduce the spread of illness now; it will also be an investment for the future.
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This view is further endorsed by a report from the Royal Academy of Engineering where they urged the government to undertake a major upgrade of ventilation & air filtration systems, particularly in community buildings like HOSPITALS and SCHOOLS.
https://t.co/eS8QnvnjTL https://t
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Prof Chris Whitty (Chief Medical Officer) also emphasised the importance of ventilation during his Covid Inquiry testimony…
“We should be taking ventilation of public buildings a lot more seriously and probably more vigorously than we previously had.” https://t.co/wB4ARLQfY1
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Prof Beggs then talked about the “huge potential” of using HEPA air filters.
It would “costs a fortune” to change the whole mechanical ventilation system in hospitals…
“…but you can bring in portable air cleaners and, in theory, achieve the same effect, relatively cheaply.” ht
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Prof Beggs also discussed how the ventilation rates on hospital wards are often well below those specified in the guidelines…
…and bear in mind that those guidelines are deemed to be inadequate for infection control purposes, so most wards aren’t even meeting that low bar. https
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I also wanted to add a few additional points about the importance of VENTILATION in infection control…
During Prof Beggs’ hearing, he described how the current hospital ventilation guidelines (for general areas & wards) are hopelessly out of date & completely unfit for purpose.
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A couple of extra points I want to add…
Remember when I mentioned how NHS staff sickness absences are still far higher than pre-pandemic?
This is a really useful chart from @1goodtern which shows the clear correlation between NHS staff absences & Covid patients in hospital. htt
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A new petition calling on the govt to introduce of new air quality & PPE guidelines in health & social care settings has been set up.
If you agree that, after nearly 5 yrs of inaction, it’s high time this situation was addressed, please sign & share ✍🏻
https://t.co/Ie1c1HKtBh
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Enough is enough.
“The level of criminal incompetence exposed by recent witnesses to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry … has proven that many, if not most, of over 230,000 deaths were preventable.”
It’s time for change.
https://t.co/wvgnyQ33nn https://t.co/pmkNlDkrkq
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Thankfully the alliance (CATA) are on the case once more…
They’ve published an open letter highlighting that it is “completely unacceptable” & an “abrogation of responsibility” to await publication of the Inquiry’s findings before addressing the issues.
https://t.co/j2b9Od9AKb
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But there’s a problem…
The letter below, sent to @EvonneTCurran from the Chief Nursing Officers, suggests that any relevant learnings from the Inquiry will only be incorporated AFTER publication of the Inquiry's module 3 findings…
…but that could be a year or more away! 🤯 https
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As you can hopefully see from the reams of evidence above, the Covid Inquiry has highlighted serious flaws in the current infection control (IPC) guidance, particularly in terms of PPE & ventilation in hospitals.
Surely there’s enough evidence for the NHS to finally take action?
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During her testimony, Dr @Cathy_Finnis from Clinically Vulnerable Families perfectly articulated the terrible situation which clinically vulnerable patients face when needing to access healthcare.
The question she asks at 1:05 in this clip left the whole room speechless. https:/
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This meta-analysis amalgamated the results of 21 studies across 8 countries to reveal that:
🚨Hospital-acquired Covid infection increases the in-hospital death rate by 30%.
🚨For immunocompromised patients, the in-hospital death rate is DOUBLED.
https://t.co/6tA5NpDblL https://t
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Of course, it’s not just staff affected by high rates of Covid transmission in hospitals.
Patients are too.
Hospital-acquired infections are no longer reported in England, but they are in Wales where a staggering 70% of patients currently in hospital with Covid caught it there.
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The really concerning thing is that a recent study from King’s College London revealed that:
▪️Over a THIRD (33.6%) of healthcare workers in England are now suffering from Long Covid.
This is not sustainable.
https://t.co/hJKY9b9BaF https://t.co/QrKbZDcJJ8
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And it’s not just doctors.
This 1 in 5 number comes up again & again as the approximate proportion of people with Long Covid who are severely affected, with their ability to undertake day-to-day activities “limited a lot”.
https://t.co/bPs0SpgtFj https://t.co/a69QaTXnA8
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In this clip, Patricia Temple (Staff Nurse) discusses the impact of Long Covid on nurses:
“I have a lot of nurses that I know who are trying very very hard to stay in the workplace and are unable to do so.”
“You can’t be clapped for one minute and declared disposable the next.”
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But short-term illness is only the tip of the iceberg.
The other huge problem is long-term illness which results from repeated Covid infections.
This heart-breaking report from the BMA chronicles the debilitating effect Long Covid has on many doctors.
https://t.co/c7AygbkO5w h
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The chart below shows sickness absence rates for all NHS staff from Jan 2011 - May 2024.
It’s clear to see just how much more sickness absence there is since the start of the pandemic…
…because nothing is done to prevent it.
(Chart: @1goodtern)
https://t.co/9IhDdbTdzR https:/
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Back to the SIREN study…
Even at the peak of last winter’s flu season, far more healthcare workers were infected with Covid than either flu or RSV.
During the Covid peaks (Sep 2023 & Jan 2024), prevalence hit ~4.5%.
That’s 1 in every 22 healthcare workers infected. https://t.c
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If you’ve made it this far, well done and thank you. 😊
But there’s still a little more to this story.
Please click “Show replies” one more time to view the last part of the thread.
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The SIREN healthcare study is based on fortnightly testing of a cohort of 6,000 health workers across the UK (irrespective of whether they have symptoms or not).
This chart really demonstrates the immense impact of Covid infections across the NHS workforce throughout the year. h
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In April 2023, routine Covid testing for hospitalised patients was axed…
…so any asymptomatic cases which would previously have been flagged now go undetected.
Even symptomatic patients are generally not tested (unless it would inform treatment).
https://t.co/e6QlYoNNo8 https:
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Against accounts of the same size
5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views2 269this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %15.52%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %3.42%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 2 269 | 924 | 2.46× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 15.52% | 3.62% | 4.29× |
| Engagement rate | 3.42% | 1.52% | 2.25× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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5.5K26 Nov
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
3.63%25 Nov
3.15%26 Nov
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes65.4%5 358 in total
Reposts26.6%2 176 in total
Replies1.6%133 in total
Bookmarks6.4%522 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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