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Harry @rockharryhealth.bsky.social · 41m

Bei der Krankenhaus, oder? Im anglesaechsichen Raum ist es eine andauernde Klageursache.

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Dr. med. Hank Schiffers @leanhealth.bsky.social · 22h

Perioperatives COVID-19 erhöht die Sterblichkeit, insbesondere in der ersten Woche der Infektion."

Bereinigte Hazard Ratio 1,54 (1,15-2,05), p = 0,001.
Sterblichkeit ⬆️: Alter, N Erkrankungen, unvollständige Impfung sowie Omicron (2022)

#Haftung bei #nosokomialer Infektion?

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Harry @rockharryhealth.bsky.social · 45m

They’re not ready for flu or covid today, either. Hugely increased sickness absence rates among staff, constantly overwhelmed capacity, boomeranging patients with nosocomial infections compounding the issue.

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 21h

🛑 'Just four years after the peak of the pandemic, four in five NHS acute trusts are concerned their ventilation systems may be inadequate, according to an investigation by @hsj.co.uk @zoetidman.bsky.social
www.hsj.co.uk/patient-safe...

Poor ventilation leaves hospitals ‘not ready’ for another covid

Just four years after the peak of the pandemic, four in five NHS acute trusts are concerned their ventilation systems may be inadequate, according to an investigation by HSJ.

www.hsj.co.uk

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 9h

Reporters must stop accepting this. Options:

-Laughing at him. Long and hard (combine with others)
-"It's your job to be informed"
-"How can Americans take you seriously when you always claim ignorance?"
-"I've never heard a speaker claim ignorance so often"
-"Nancy Pelosi knew what was happening"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

If avoiding a painful and disfiguring rash - and potentially permanent nerve pain and nerve damage - isn’t enough for you, multiple studies have also shown that shingles vaccination can lower dementia risk, possibly up to 20%

J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 2d

In the US: If you're 50 or older (or 19/older & immunocompromised), please get vaxxed against shingles. It's no joke.

"With more than a million infections a year, herpes zoster affects nearly 1 in 3 adults and is now recognized as a systemic inflammatory event...

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Shingles Vaccination Linked to Vascular Benefits

Several observational analyses suggest higher cardiovascular and dementia risks in those with and without HIV who get shingles and lower risks with vaccination.

www.medscape.com

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 5d

I think the Reagan ad is most effective not by the topic but by reminding everyone that presidents don't have to sound like insane morons.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 6d

Some of the details may be disputed but this man’s cause of death was determined to be dehydration. It takes over a week without water for an adult to die of dehydration. One officer’s suggestion he needed medical attention was ignored. There’s no plausible situation where this wasn’t intentional.

pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social · 6d

Lamont Mealy, a mentally ill man, was locked in solitary confinement in a Maryland prison. Guards shut off water to his cell. A fellow prisoner says guards taunted him. He died of dehydration after 8 days. His family's lawsuit asserts officials covered it up.

How a Maryland prisoner died an ‘excruciating’ death from dehydration

Lamont Mealy died of dehydration in an isolation cell at Western Correctional Institution in 2023. A lawsuit claims state officials covered it up.

www.thebanner.com

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 6d

The myth that children aren’t harmed by COVID still persists. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-01...

COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford’s Department of Computer Science has found that, between 2021 and 2022, COVID-19 was a leading cause of death in children and young people

www.ox.ac.uk

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 6d

Every time I hear someone who was in government in the UK in 2020 mention lockdown, I immediately remember walking through the streets of Belfast during the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, seeing throngs of people packed in restaurants, and thinking this will kill so many.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities…

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.

She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.

So I confronted him.

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Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 7d

Prof Catherine Noakes
On the route of transmission

"So we know it is a respiratory transmission at the early days of the pandemic the specific mechanisms were unclear, but it was still early days"

" respiratory transmission means the virus is emitted from people's exhalation"

#CleanAir

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Harry @rockharryhealth.bsky.social · 6d

As soon as LLPs became a thing it always seemed like the whole partnership model didn’t deserve any special tax treatment any more

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 6d

Lawyers, accountants warn Reeves against tax raid on partnerships.

Turkeys opposing Christmas.

Partners derive almost all of their income from one source, but not considered to be employees.

Receive share of profit, instead of salary. Firms don't pay employer national insurance, Govt loses £bns.

Lawyers and accountants warn Reeves against tax raid on partnerships

Chancellor’s move would damage cornerstone of UK economy, partners argue

www.ft.com

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 8d

I’m disgusted by the photos of Ttump’s demolition at the East Wing, but I’m even more sickened by the renderings of his mar-a-lago ballroom dwarfing our White House. Once we’re rid of this despicable man, that ballroom must also be removed.

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Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 9d

Awful finding in a new study: airborne mercury from gold mining is contaminating food in Nigeria.

Reminds me of when I went to the Brazilian Amazon in 2019 and found that mercury miners were dumping in river tributaries was making Indigenous villagers sick.

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Invisible poison: Airborne mercury from gold mining is contaminating African food crops, new study warns

New research reveals airborne mercury from unregulated gold mining is contaminating African food crops directly through the leaves, not the soil, as previously thought. This urgent finding shows plant...

www.eurekalert.org

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d

That clampdown on the Pentagon press corps has done wonders. 🤡

@jamiedupree.bsky.social
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 8d

It’s a testament to the power of disinformation and toxic politics that Britain is recognising the national train wreck that is Brexit…yet, at the same time, Farage — the man who drove that train — is flying high in the polls.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 8d

Neoliberal shackles and the state mustn't directly invest in productive assets.

China govt is investing $47.5bn in semiconductors.
India $18.2bn.
UK £10m.

Who is more likely to get industrial advantage?

Private sector can't identify national priorities.

Rachel Reeves’ budget must reduce inequalities and increase spending capacity of the masses

This is how to secure sustained economic growth

leftfootforward.org

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 9d

University tuition fees in England to rise with inflation from 2026.

Student debt is £267bn, could double in a decade. Due to low wages unlikely to be repaid. Young people burdened.

Most European countries don't charge uni fees. England destroying social mobility. Must abolish tuition fees.

University tuition fees in England to rise with inflation every year from 2026

Bridget Phillipson confirmed the plans for the next two years, with fees to increase automatically after that.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Harry @rockharryhealth.bsky.social · 8d

It also improves health outcomes as well! Easy to forget, but vital if your only metric is the « burden » of disability.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9d

If you’re feeling sick, please stay home.

If you can’t stay home, please wear a mask. Ideally an N95.

Covid is a social justice issue. Mitigations cost money. Many can’t afford the protection they need.

If you’re able, donate to a mask bloc. Carry spare respirators. Help protect each other!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9d

Health Canada puts out guidelines recommending N95s and clean indoor air!

Let’s do this!

Yes it’s overdue, and no it doesn’t address every risk factor, but we can significantly curb COVID with respirator use and clean air.

www.canada.ca/content/dam/...

www.canada.ca

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Harry @rockharryhealth.bsky.social · 9d

My Grandad wore khaki as part of his 1940s antifa efforts, wonder when it’ll be banned.