“COVID INQUIRY: X Megathread 🧵
As module 3 of the @covidinquiryuk draws to a close, I’ve been looking back at what we’ve learned about how it all went so wrong with infection control guidance for hospitals.
This is a long thread, so please grab a cuppa & make yourself comfy…”
“The report of a government commissioned inquiry into Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was released on Tuesday.
The inquiry spanned a year. The report runs to 892 pages. It is, however, completely worthless from an analytical or scientific standpoint, adding nothing to an understanding of pandemics and public health in general, or the experience of COVID-19 in particular.”
🚨Dr Barry Jones (CATA) at #CovidInquiry:
“It was defined as aerosol transmitted from the very moment it came in to the country, it was an airborne highly consequential infectious disease. As indeed SARS1 & MERS were & still are.”
“The most contagious period is shortly before they become symptomatic - 2 to 3 days beforehand, and shortly after"
Asymptomatic transmission - this is how #SARSCoV2 does spreads so successfully”
"The weight of evidence was that wearing masks was better than not wearing masks, and respirators [FFP3] were better than surgical masks"
Prof Beggs is questioned by @covidinquiryuk about the The Royal Society Expert Group review of studies into #SARSCoV2 transmission”
🚨At #CovidInquiry Lady Hallett to Prof. Clive Beggs:
Q. Is it reasonable if you don’t know the route of transmission surely you should be preparing for & guarding against…every possible route of transmission until you know?
A. You’re absolutely correct
“Members contacted, & continue to contact the College in large numbers about Long Covid… Many nurses who contracted Long #Covid via exposure at work have either lost or now at risk of losing their employment”
“In the words of a Resident Doctor: I caught #Covid in March 2020… These were supposed to be the best years of my life but I’m spending them alone, in bed, feeling like I’m dying almost all the time”
