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HEPA Filters in Healthcare?
Despite the fact that we are in the second half of February, the entire healthcare system remains under significant pressure. This is being driven by a range of factors, but part of it is due to the numbers of people needing urgent medical help for flu, RSV and Covid-19; and there is growing evidence that Continue reading
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WHO – Covid-19 is airborne!
Yes, we have known for years that Covid-19 is airborne (SARsCoV2) and indeed, individual officials from the World Health Organisation (WHO) have been admitting it for years. Yet a powerful body within the WHO has clung onto their original line that it is transmitted by droplets. This all changed on 28 March when the WHO Continue reading
GILLIAN SMITH About Me
I am a semi retired social researcher and have previously held a number of senior social research positions in Whitehall Departments. See an interview with me here. I live in a London suburb with my husband who has suffered multiple serious illnesses over the last few years. I myself am living with MND.
This series of blogs represent a personal, evidence based perspective based on living in the UK at a time when we are all meant to be ‘living with COVID’. Although I am a social scientist by training, I have worked closely with people from different disciplines throughout my career in order to present a complete picture of the evidence on specific policy issues. I am therefore scientifically literate but where I quote evidence based on research beyond my particular expertise it is always validated with relevant experts. I am a member of the Clinically Vulnerable Families group, though please note that the information presented here and any views expressed are my own. We are a friendly, supportive group and can be found via Facebook in private mode or in public mode via X (formerly twitter) Or BlueSky.Social
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Living on Plague Island 