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Dear Prof @chrischirp.bsky.social, thanks for bridging your new Bluesky posts so that we on the Fediverse can still read you (& @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social). Would you please encourage your followers & all members of #medsky & especially #IndependentSage to activate #Bridgy & reconnect our fragmented communities while maintaining diversity for resilience?

@chrischirp Great to see @trishgreenhalgh noting that LC patients need to pace themselves and that efforts to push for performance increases can cause long-term harm.

It would be amazing if she could help bring pressure on the Cochrane Library to remove its seriously flawed 2019 review of exercise for ME/CFS, which is leading some unwitting clinicians to advise LC patients to over-exert, causing serious harm.

#Cochrane #CochraneReview #ScientificEvidence #IndependentSAGE

Seconding @chrissn

Thank you @Sheencr & all members of #IndependentSage for the voices of reason, & your courage & perseverance - hugely appreciated!

‘Lessons have been forgotten’: is the UK ready for a new Covid variant? | Coronavirus | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/16/nhs-uk-prepared-covid-winter-pirola-variant

#Covid
#Pirola
#XBB
#IndependentSAGE
#Testing
#NHS
#Vaccination
#Masking
#SocialDistance
#RSV

Another #mythbuster today this time from Dr Lennard Lee of #IndependentSAGE talking about the myth that immunocompromised people don’t need covid boosters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTGt7WqLsHo

@Sheencr @trishgreenhalgh
@SusanMichie
@chrischirp

Thanks v much for flagging up the #IndependentSAGE session on youtube today.

Just want to say a personal thanks to those taking part - was a great session, really useful and interesting information, analysis and ideas/examples (& answers to public questions on current #vaccine etc.).

And all in easy watch, easy understand mode! 😀 Thanks!

#covid #cleanair #ventilation #vaccine #publichealth

Another #Covid #mythbuster from the team at #IndependentSAGE tackles the claim some people have made about covid vaccines and a syndrome they coin spikopathy but does the science back the claim (hint-no)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8mhM7oLVj0

and here's ALL the #IndependentSAGE #Mythbusters (so far) in one link: https://www.youtube.com/@indie_sage/videos

#SARSCoV2 #COVID19

Myth-buster 15: Do vaccines cause spikopathy?

by Sheena Cruickshank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8mhM7oLVj0

#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #IndependentSAGE

Myth-buster 14: A behavioural scientist's take on the need for clean air

by Susan Michie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Mp_Kapv78

#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #IndependentSAGE

Myth-buster 13: Vulnerable people have many options if they fall ill whilst we live with the virus?

by Steve Griffin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ0QPt8QriM

#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #IndependentSAGE

Myth-buster 12: Did UK scientists advocate fear to drive up people's Covid-protective behaviours?

by Susan Michie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwtm2pMCLYs

#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #IndependentSAGE

Mythbuster 11: Is it true that masks don't work?

By Trish Greenhalgh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_EV4QB3Io

#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #IndependentSAGE

Myth-buster 10: Can mRNA vaccines cause miscarriage?

by Sheena Cruickshank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpspzUd3l1g

#SARSCov2 #Covid19 #IndependentSAGE

Myth-buster 9: Covid vaccines cause cancer?

by Lennard Lee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrmYFMhBt0U

#SarsCoV2 #COVID19 #IndependentSAGE

Myth-buster 8: Do the Covid vaccines cause infertility?

by Sheena Cruickshank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_cR3s_Vwbk

#SARSCov2 #Covid19 #IndependentSAGE

Myth-buster 7: Vaccines were rushed through without appropriate care?

by Sheena Cruickshank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZl47u8psXw

#SARSCov2 #Covid19 #IndependentSAGE

Myth-buster 6: Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine are effective treatments for Covid?

by Steve Griffin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhoqoUG5Kxo

#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #IndependentSAGE

Myth-buster 5: Covid-related models were always wrong?

by Kit Yates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQkjMb0-d3g

#SARSCov2 #Covid19 #IndependentSAGE

Myth-buster 4: Responding to Covid is about lockdowns or doing nothing?

by Christina Pagel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02zgVKXptDI

#SARSCov2 #Covid19 #IndependentSAGE

Myth-buster 3: Do viruses always evolve to become milder?

by Steve Griffin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_efnqnZ-yI

#SARSCov2 #Covid19 #IndependentSAGE

Posting a series of new #Mythbusters from #IndependentSAGE, a group of scientists trying to put out clear and accessible messages about #covid19 and #SarsCoV2. Here's the first one:

Myth-buster 1: Is there a point to vaccines if we can still get infected?

by Sheena Cruickshank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhn1D1OC_qk

In today’s #MythBuster about Covid from #IndependentSAGE, @SusanMichie talks about clean air https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Mp_Kapv78

Another #Myth-buster about #Covid from Prof Steve Griffin of #independentSAGE explores myths that Vulnerable people have many options if they fall ill and the cost of living with the virus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ0QPt8QriM

#IndependentSAGE #Mythbuster for today and number two in the series of very brief videos tackling common myths about #Covid is me again (sorry, I promise I am not on all of them) talking about the myth that some think natural immunity is better that vaccine immunity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcrozwy07T0

Call for return of face masks as Covid variant Arcturus spreads | The Independent
#Arcturus
#Covid
#CovidIsNotOver
#COVIDIsAirborne
#FaceMasks
#IndependentSAGE
#UKGov
#CovidTesting
#WHO

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-arcturus-face-masks-vaccine-b2328983.html

Excellent episode of #independentSAGE on misinformation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhobxeX4noA

Chipped in to keep Independent Sage going in UK. Please consider doing same as Covid-19 has not gone away, nor has the vital need to protect schools, hospitals, care homes and society in general from similar viral diseases and long-covid impact.

Hoping they can follow some of their contributors to publish on Mastodon.

@chrischirp
@kityates #IndependentSage #Covid19 #UK #NHS #LongCovid
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-us-keep-independent-sage-running

Waiting for today's #IndependentSAGE briefing and am saddened to see they will be happening every two weeks from now on rather than weekly.

Having now watched the briefing, a message in the live chat said there will be a briefing next Friday then switching to fortnightly, I believe.

https://www.youtube.com/live/oFdRprtX3lc?feature=share

@kityates Kit, please just ignore if no interest / no time, I really appreciate the invaluable commentary from you & #IndependentSage - but I have been intrigued to discover the resonances from 1796 when the 21-yr old #JaneAusten started writing #PrideAndPrejudice, & how her characters encapsulate perspectives dividing #UKpolitics then & now.
🧵 ending at https://h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/109556329817289341

#LivingIncome #LivingWage #UKgov #NHS #nurses #doctors #PoorLaws #NHSpay #UKstrikes #solidarity #SupportNHS 💙

is anyone else from #indieSage on here (yet)? I’ve tried to look but it’s not easy. Excellent briefing today, kudos #independentSage #sage #covid

Latest #independentSage data re #longCovid

In short : don’t get covid (again) and also it’s a big problem (still)

Sad to be part of the 700k group still not recovered

Thanks for the update @chrischirp @ariskatzourakis and rest of the team - your work is much appreciated