Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Sioux @siouxv.bsky.social · 3d

I was one of the 600,000 ✊🏻
#FreePalestine

2 5

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 9d

Please write to your MP and sign our petition:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people – keep covid boosters

'Protect the NHS' and 'Save Lives' by continuing to fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people, including most previously shielded as CEV, rather than limiting them to over-75s, care hom...

petition.parliament.uk

1 17 23

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 9d

In-person education is not always possible.

Making schools safer, while supporting and recognising the dilmas that Clinically Vulnerable people face, is the only way to ensure that children like Lana and "David" are not let down again.

14/ #educationANDlives

1 3 7

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 9d

Clinically Vulnerable people must become a distinct group recognised in:

Decision-making
Data collection
Public reporting
Funded research

Clinical vulnerability must also become a protected characteristic in the Equality Act.

13/

1 7 7

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 9d

👪 When the UK Covid Inquiry began to focus on Children and Young people last ween CVF's barrister @adamwagner1.bsky.social KC stood to address the chair, Baroness Hallett, and shared our powerful opening submissions.

He started by sharing "David's" story (13).
1/

1 12 16

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 8d

By the second lockdown we understood the harms.

We should never close schools - they need to be protected. BUT if we need to shut school ever we do need to find creative ways to include the full school experience including a national entitlement for remote teaching.

9/

1 4

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 8d

He wanted universities and departments to research the link between CO₂ and learning outcomes, because if he could connect health, learning, and concentration, it would show that students in poorly ventilated schools are disadvantaged before they even step into an exam hall.

8/

1 2 5

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 8d

🚨Sir Hamid Patel CBE, CEO of Star Academies

Many children lived in multi-generational households.
20% of the children were bereaved.
Persistent absenteeism - increase in young carers looking after Clinically Vulnerable adults.

1/

1 10 18

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 9d

The MILLIONS of people who were denied vaccines are suddenly realising.

@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social this was a terrible idea.

Not only will the NHS struggle this autumn / winter, but people will suffer and die unnecessarily.

It isn't too late for a U-turn!

Community Pharmacy England

Q

Pharmacy teams have reported major issues to us over the last two days related to large numbers of patients booking COVID-19 vaccinations via the National Booking System (NBS) who are not eligible for the vaccine this winter.

We are working with NHS England to try to address this unacceptable situation and to get more NHS communications issued to help people understand whether they are eligible for the vaccine.

In the meantime, we have created three posters that pharmacy teams can use to help explain about vaccine eligibility this winter:

10 73 120

Reposted by Sioux

Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 9d

This. People eligible for the flu vaccine are not eligible for the updated COVID booster. That makes zero sense

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 9d

The MILLIONS of people who were denied vaccines are suddenly realising.

@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social this was a terrible idea.

Not only will the NHS struggle this autumn / winter, but people will suffer and die unnecessarily.

It isn't too late for a U-turn!

5 17 27

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 8d

Infection control: DfE / PHE CO2 monitoring project

New schools - mechanical ventilation had a 'clean air' setting (took care of itself)

Old schools - natural ventilation was a challenge, the only way to address that is to open windows

5/

1 4 5

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 7d

⚠️The NHS once protected us.

Now, millions of Clinically Vulnerable people are being told we don’t qualify for a Covid vaccine - even as new variants spread.

This is a dangerous, preventable mistake.

#KeepCovidBoosters

NEW CVF BLOG - Screenshot of top of page

A Preventable Winter Crisis: Why Clinically Vulnerable People Need Your Help

1 24 39

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 7d

"Clinical Vulnerability" needs to mentioned in terms of flexibility.

It would be helpful to name that much more clearly.

It should be explicitly mentioned in connection with a proactively supportive approach on the part of schools for the child or the family.

👏👏👏
4/

4 6

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 7d

Only England took a strict punitive approach.

The other 3 UK countries, had an attitude that they had to take each case as it happens.

They talked about the need for:

Understanding
Support
Flexibility

3/

1 1 5

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 7d

🚨Prof Gillean McCluskey (Expert in Education)

Shared her thoughts on barriers faced by children in Clinically Vulnerable families.

1/

1 11 8

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 7d

CVF has taken this fight everywhere that counts - to MPs, Lords, experts, the media, and even the UK Covid Inquiry.

Your letters, posts, and our petition are being heard!

Thank you to every supporter - and particularly one persistent constituent in West Worthing! 👏

2/ #KeepCovidBoosters

1 10 32

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 7d

We still NEED YOUR SUPPORT on this important issue of vaccines for all Clinically Vulnerable people.

🙏Please write to your MP using our easy template!

#KeepCovidBoosters

👇
www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/labour-...

6 11

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 6d

Again I can look into the definitions of this, but you use diabetes an example there, that I wouldn't consider as a life-limiting condition - it is a manageable condition.

8/

2 5

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 6d

Q "80% had a life-limiting condition. "

"Can I ask does the category life-limiting condition include children with serious but managable conditions which may affect their life expectancy [.] or is it limited to conditions where death is expected regardless of management?

7/

1 2 3

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 6d

Duncan Barton, Chief Nursing Officer

RSV is used to explain that because children weren't mixing that we saw a resurgence and was a concern.

This borders on two issues, so-called "herd immunity" and the debunked "immunity debt". This topic needs to be carefully monitored.

1/

1 7 16

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 6d

"For the child who had that additional risk.

Do you accept that for some parents ... it would have still been reasonable for them, making that individual risk analysis, to decide that ... was not the correct option for their children....?"

8/

1 3 5

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 6d

"Do you also accept that schools were[.] still risky environments?

- crowded classrooms
- poor ventilation
- prolonged indoor contact
- lack of masking"

9/

1 3 7

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 6d

CVF Qs @adamwagner1.bsky.social

"The guidance said that the majority of children with asthma, diabetes, epilepsy & kidney disease do not need to continue to shield and could [.]return to schools as they reopened.

Did you appreciate that [those] children [.] had not been told to shield?"

6/

2 4 5

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 7d

We still NEED YOUR SUPPORT on this important issue of vaccines for all CV people.

🙏Please write to your MP using our easy template!

3/

www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/labour-...

Labour MPs Call for Covid Vaccine Access for Clinically Vulnerable People

After months of tireless campaigning, writing to MPs, briefing the media, and speaking up at the UK Covid Inquiry - our community may finally be seeing progress.We have received confirmation that some...

www.clinicallyvulnerable.org

1 14 15

Reposted by Sioux

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 6d

Professor Steve Turner, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (@RCPCHtweets) @SteveTurnerABDN.

"children, mercifully, were spared from the harm of that came from Covid. Even my most sick patients .... it was their parents who were unwell...."

1/

4 6 5