Building an evidence base on hospital-acquired COVID & patient safety failures, to secure proper investigation, accountability & learning - starting in Wales.
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Public health officials learned absolutely nothing from 2020.
In the wake of the deadly hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship, international agencies are deploying the exact same bureaucratic word games that crippled the response to COVID-19. 🧵👇
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🚨 WHY ARE WE NOW WAITING A YEAR FOR A MODULE 2 UPDATE?
The promise of a modular UK Covid inquiry?
Don't wait until the end.
Publish recommendations as each report is completed.
Then report progress every six months.
That timetable has quietly changed.
Why does that matter? 👇
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One of the most important decisions made before the UK Covid Inquiry @covidinquiryuk heard a single witness was how it would be structured.
This is the first thread in a series examining the decisions that shaped the Inquiry before evidence was heard. 🧵
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The former @WelshLabour Government launched a "Covid-19 Inquiry Implementation Dashboard" back on 7 April this year. But it was slipped onto the website quietly, with zero public announcement, zero press release, and zero ministerial statement.
gov.wales/covid-19-public-in…
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My father contracted COVID in hospital & died in Oct 2020
Since then I've spent years immersed in UK Covid Inquiry hearings, evidence, reports & government responses.
One question matters more to me than any other:
How do we know if the right changes are actually happening?
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If we don’t know the physical mechanism of transmission for a high-consequence pathogen the only scientifically honest posture is to admit it & implement maximum precaution.
Until we cure "closecontactitis”, vocabulary will dictate policy instead of science
Public health officials learned absolutely nothing from 2020.
In the wake of the deadly hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship, international agencies are deploying the exact same bureaucratic word games that crippled the response to COVID-19. 🧵👇
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Public health officials learned absolutely nothing from 2020.
In the wake of the deadly hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship, international agencies are deploying the exact same bureaucratic word games that crippled the response to COVID-19. 🧵👇
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We have lived through the catastrophic consequences of this exact linguistic shortcut before. When categories replace physical reality, policy fails.
If you simply label it "close contact," you provide zero actionable guidance on how to engineer a safe space.
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If we don’t know the physical mechanism of transmission for a high-consequence pathogen the only scientifically honest posture is to admit it & implement maximum precaution.
Until we cure "closecontactitis”-thanks @EvonneTCurran, vocabulary will dictate policy instead of science
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Today’s @covidinquiryuk report justifies our decision to opt for observer status only for Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru in Module 4
Only 1 x Welsh Gov witness
Evidence from Drakeford & Gething ignored
Care home vaccine delay unexamined
Wales betrayed twice yet again⬇️
With the @covidinquiryuk Vaccines & therapeutics (Module 4) report due tomorrow, a critical Wales issue was never examined - the decision to exclude care home residents from receiving the Pfizer vaccine at the start of rollout, and @MarkDrakeford later contradiction.
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Privileged to have worked alongside David & CATA. Their mission: COVID is airborne - & properly mitigated. Since 2020 they’ve educated, challenged & kept science where it belongs - at the centre. Learned much from them.
Their work will outlast the Inquiry & must lead to change.
Apr 15
The Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance (CATA) has stood down.
The Executive Team has completed its mandate from its 12 member organisations i.e. to represent them at the UK COVID-19 Inquiry.
A copy of our final letter to members is attached.
tinyurl.com/CATA-stands-down
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