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💜 Pam Leversha retweeted
An excellent initiative: using upper-air UV light disinfection to reduce hospital-acquired infections and their downstream harms.👇 👏@NSWHealth @VicGovDH
- PRESS RELEASE -
Upper Air UV Pilot Project
in Canadian Hospitals
“Allowing 10% of our patients to get infected is unsustainable,” said Hunt. “The cost is simply too high. Billions of dollars are spent on treatment, and many billions more are lost to the inefficiency of blocked beds.”
accessnewswire.com/newsroom/…
💜 Pam Leversha retweeted
Daily N95 wear has been a life-changer for me. Not being sick for 6 years was like getting 14-21 days back per year from a single acute illness. Let’s say 84-126 extra healthy days. It’s incredible when you think about it. Masks on planes =no brainer. Daily public masking? Same.
University of Hong Kong researchers analyzed 40 airplane outbreaks of COVID-19 and flu.
Infection risk was highest near infected passengers.
Models found N95 masks nearly eliminated transmission, while doubling ventilation alone was insufficient.
pubs.acs.org/esthag/article/…
💜 Pam Leversha retweeted
Australians calling for a National Healthy Air Strategy: please sign. 🙏
Thank you for joining the call for a National Healthy Air Strategy. Please share this campaign with your networks: safeair.org.au/national-heal…
💜 Pam Leversha retweeted
Can I say it again? I am not opposing renewable energy. I do not want coal-fired power stations. I want wind farms put in appropriate places…not in our most biodiverse areas where they will put at risk a large number of endangered species.
💜 Pam Leversha retweeted
University of Hong Kong researchers analyzed 40 airplane outbreaks of COVID-19 and flu.
Infection risk was highest near infected passengers.
Models found N95 masks nearly eliminated transmission, while doubling ventilation alone was insufficient.
pubs.acs.org/esthag/article/…
💜 Pam Leversha retweeted
When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: themarginalian.org/2019/06/1…
💜 Pam Leversha retweeted
This is now live!! The TERF Diaries by Addie Klein is now available on Audible, iTunes and Amazon. Find it now. Link to the first 5 mins, more info and link to UK full audiobook is in comments.
All the Terfery of the last 10 years, laugh and cry alongside Addie.
Please share
💜 Pam Leversha retweeted
YOUR ATTENTION:
🚨Every new COVID-19 (re)infection elevates your cardiovascular risk profile. Even mild cases can raise the odds of a heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and other CV events for months to years afterward. Risk is higher with more severe illness, yes, but it’s certainly not limited to severe disease. Updated vaccination will show some mitigation(infection severity↓) but doesn’t give you a risk-free pass!
#AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections #UpdateVaccination
➡️Supportive links:
1. Xie et al., Nature Medicine (2022): Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of COVID-19 (elevated risk even in non-hospitalized patients, graded by severity).
nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
2. American Heart Association news release (2024) on the UK Biobank analysis (≈2× risk of heart attack/stroke/death for up to 3 years after any COVID-19 infection).
newsroom.heart.org/news/covi…
3. Lindgren et al., Journal of Internal Medicine (2026): Nationwide Swedish matched cohort (nearly doubled long-term MACE and death risk in hospitalized cases, persisting beyond year 1).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
4. Hadidchi et al., Journal of Human Hypertension (2026): Elevated CV outcomes (including in non-hospitalized patients) among those with pre-existing hypertension.
nature.com/articles/s41371-0…
5. CARTESIAN study, European Heart Journal (2025): Accelerated vascular aging / arterial stiffness after COVID-19, including mild cases:
academic.oup.com/eurheartj/a…
➡️These five links give a clear progression from the early 2022 data through 2024–2026 confirmation!!
💜 Pam Leversha retweeted
COVID-19 can wake up dormant viruses in the body, large study confirms | Science | AAAS share.google/yLPLIwV5PMTooqS…
💜 Pam Leversha retweeted
I wrote a new piece about women’s rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I don’t)👇
jkrowling.com/opinions/an-up…
💜 Pam Leversha retweeted
JK Rowling has just written a beautiful essay that I will link to below. This paragraph holds no punches:
“Large numbers of women who’ve never been poor, who’ve never worked the kind of job where they’d be vulnerable to predatory men and who’ve never needed a r*pe crisis centre have spent the last few years vilifying members of their own sex for fighting to retain their hard-won rights and single-sex spaces, in ways that have shocked and disgusted me. I freely confess that I feel an extra layer of abhorrence for any woman who claims to be a feminist while doing it.”
💜 Pam Leversha retweeted
Little Trigger had a hard start in life but he’s back on his feet and looking fantastic ❤️
💜 Pam Leversha retweeted
On this day in 1965, the first edition of The Magic Roundabout was broadcast on BBC1. Using the animation from the French show Le Manège Enchanté, completely new scripts (which bore no resemblance to the originals) were written and narrated by Eric Thompson.
💜 Pam Leversha retweeted
Good morning!
On the train to London amongst a chorus of squelchy coughs and nose-blowing.
It's so strange that no-one knows about the bad air they're sat in.
We really need to improve ventilation on public transport.
💜 Pam Leversha retweeted
Upgrading PPE for staff working on COVID-19 wards cut hospital-acquired infections dramatically
When Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge upgraded its face masks for staff working on COVID-19 wards to filtering face piece 3 (FFP3) respirators, it saw a dramatic fall – up to 100% – in hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections among these staff.
💜 Pam Leversha retweeted
Paper by Mohamad Mahmoud @UNSW : The link between aerosol dispersion, infection risk and air filtration #HEPA sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
