David Charlesworth (also @davidcharl on Bluesky)

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Another brilliant thread by our behatted feline friend! As a health & safety practitioner, when investigating accidents & incidents, we're taught to always identify the 'root cause'. This thread identifies the root cause of why so many people get Covid-19 in hospitals (esp HCWs)

To rewrite Klompas was correct. It was closeness of HCWs to infected, particularly symptomatic people, for periods of time which exposed under protected HCWs. HCWs should have had lower rates of infection than the general pop as they should have been protected during work time

Why did I waste 3 years getting a BSc in Microbiology with first class honours? After all of that, I didn't even know that vectors have nothing to do with the spread of infection. It turns out that infections are actually spread by dust. Loving NHS mandatory training!

Of all the patients currently in hospital with Covid in Wales, 74% of them were admitted to hospital for a different reason & ended up being infected with Covid DURING THEIR HOSPITAL STAY. This is the inevitable consequence having NO airborne infection controls in hospitals.

Amanda given that most of the viruses you mentioned are airborne, why hasn’t NHSE declared FFP2/3 respiratory mandates as per WHO advice for all hospitals to try &contain spread from patient to patient, patient to staff & staff to patients & reduce nosocomial acquired infection?

Those in charge of those in charge of the IPC also have a case to answer. And they have not acted for the safety of people.

Dear @UKHSA where have you been hiding Suzanna McDonald? We didn’t realise you had someone in your employment who actually understands that covid is airborne & that ventilation & 😷 helps stop transmission. Well done Suzanna ❤️

I honestly believe IPC as a profession will NOT survive intact if it fails to accept airborne transmission as a significant ubiquitous risk and erroneously considers hand hygiene the single most important measure to prevent infection - it is not. See below

69% of patients in hospital with Covid in Wales right now caught it since being admitted. In England, they don’t report this data anymore, but it’s almost certainly similar. How is this level of hospital-acquired infection acceptable? Why is NOTHING being done to prevent it?

Just popped into my local doctor’s surgery. It was packed with people waiting to get their Covid & flu jabs. Not one person was masked, despite these people being the most vulnerable! This all stems from the head of infection control at the NHS denying Covid is mostly airborne

The Tories achieved one unbelievable thing during their 14 year reign of horror and I’m not even sure if it was by skill or chance (or the extremely rich and powerful people playing them like marionettes) but… They managed to flood the zone to the extent that millions of people, despite knowing and remembering their crimes and scandals, simply don’t care. People don’t. You mention it and they shrug. You point out the facts and they recall but it just doesn’t register. They will just bark that Labour is exactly the same. It’s like nobody gives a fuck about reality anymore. They managed to debase politics to such an extent that it all became normal. Virtually every method of communication we have in this country is riddled with Tories, bias and corruption. Thats not an understatement. They leave office and become editors at papers, for fucks sake. They know people will uncritically parrot what they hear on the radio, or read as a headline, despite it being bias heavy and opinion based, not factual. They can make millions of people believe utter bullshit to the point that they will go out and vote against their best interests. Despite being elected to represent all people without prejudice, they fanned the flames of racism and xenophobia to the extent that everyone is more focused on hating the minority group they scapegoated. Meanwhile, they casually walk away from the remains of the country that they have broken and robbed. To add insult to significant injury, some of them have the fucking gall to critically point the finger at a significant clean up operation (which is only underway because of them shitting over everything) on their way out. It’s like the last 14 years didn’t happen and it’s fucking enraging to watch.

Evidence showed that doctors wearing FFP3 masks had far LOWER risk of infection and Covid-related mortality, despite working in the HIGHEST risk areas… …so surely it’s obvious that the higher quality masks are contributing towards keeping them safe? Dr Lisa Ritchie: “No.” 🤨