How can schools reduce the spread of Covid-19 even in the colder months? The below 6 clips are from this morning's BBC Breakfast where I, my kids (et al) and the most excellent 17 Years A Head - NPQEL🦩📚 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸(she/her) show some of the things our Primary school will be doing. Part 1

Part 2

Part 3 - Lots of excited kiddies in Fresh Air at the end of this one Eilir Hughes

Part 4 - You don't have to believe me nor Prof Cath Noakes #Ventilate 😷 💙. Here is Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, MA, PhD, CEng, FEI, FCIBSE, FREng, Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal in 2011. He's an expert in in the field of low energy natural ventilation. from Cambridge University - It's a small🌍.

Part 5

Finally Part 6

Finally a few explainers/clarifications - I wasn't wearing a mask indoors 😷 - I had however taken a lateral flow test that morning + I'm double vaccinated. Also whilst I am a big proponent of children wearing masks in schools like they do in US I know I have lost that battle.

Also we did not discuss/do distancing w kids- A key mitigation in the fight against this virus. Again I pick my battles - There is no way I am going to be able to magic up thousands of teachers to have class sizes at 15. We need to work with what we have got hence Fresh Air #1.

17 Years A Head - NPQEL🦩📚 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸(she/her) Simon Kidwell @ceotlflp Jim Dees @MaryBoustedNEU Jocelyn Chappell Rachel Mills Dr Rachel Clarke Dr. Deepti Gurdasani David R Tomlinson 🇺🇦💙 𝚃𝚘𝚖 𝙻𝚊𝚠𝚝𝚘𝚗 💙 Huw Waters @Linzofm87 Linsey Marr https://www.threads.net/@linseycmarr Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. David Fisman C Pita 🇺🇦🌻 Kristen K. Coleman NAHT Universal Masking Tim Thornton Barry McAree 💙

The full interview (10 minutes) is here: youtu.be/sMwrxwFPJSg Please Share and RT widely.

Hisham Ziauddeen 17 Years A Head - NPQEL🦩📚 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸(she/her) Excellent. These are useful to do prior to thinking of HEPA.

My comments in ⁦Healio⁩ on the importance of Covid vaccines beyond reducing risk of hospitalization, but also to reduce both risks of long COVID and heart illness, link attached to this tweet

Cautiously optimistic, but this seems like a big discovery. It was always the blood. It felt that way, and research is slowly but steadily confirming it. news-medical.net/news/20240829/…

Vaccines save lives. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

Up to 25% of #COVID-19 cases in hospitals are acquired after admission. A new study finds simple measures like testing on admission and staff wearing N95 masks could save lives and reduce overall costs. Read more: burnet.edu.au/knowledge-and-…

Tell me again why using a mobile phone while driving is not dangerous.🤔

One of these wastewater viral activity maps belongs to Newsweek, the other belongs to the CDC. One covers the news, the other wants you back in the office. newsweek.com/covid-map-upda…

Tim Cook Matt Butler Surgeons often ask anaesthetists to “give some antibiotics”, which we do as a professional courtesy. Should an anaesthetist administer an incorrect dose and the patient come to harm, I’m pretty sure no one would ask the RCoS to get involved in developing measures to stop this.

🚨Hospital Inquiry hears health boss tried to stop whistleblower ⁦What happened to the staff at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde⁩ after they raised safety concerns was unimaginably awful & I just can’t shift the thought that this is par for the course… bbc.com/news/articles/…

IMPORTANT: Its crucially important higher earners at risk of #taper understand risks, especially in year where pay/pension has *started* to be *restored*👇[still way down] With upcoming budget its crucially important policy makers understand risks Wes Streeting MP James Murray