😷 Mask to protect someone else? Nottingham is consulting on a new offence: Refusing to unmask when an officer tells you to. Anywhere in the city centre, at any time. The health exemption covers your health. Not theirs. 🔁 + RESPOND 👇 Closes 14/8/26: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/r6ZPkxPdhy

😷 Mask to protect someone else? Nottingham is consulting on a new offence: Refusing to unmask when an officer tells you to. Anywhere in the city centre, at any time. The health exemption covers your health. Not theirs. 🔁 + RESPOND 👇 Closes 14/8/26: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/r6ZPkxPdhy

Hi @lewisgoodall.com , please could you take a moment to watch @larawong.bsky.social's evidence to the Covid Inquiry? The needs of higher-risk children and their families were ignored, and reopening schools without sufficient protections put both lives and education at risk. bsky.app/profile/cvce...

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗@cvcev.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The need for choice. Hybrid (outdoor) learning Remote learning The need for a national remote school. 41/

Several studies have since shown definitely that children and schools contribute signficantly to transmission. In Sweden (with no formal lockdown), parents and teachers of pupils at school had higher infection rates. Children live with and are taught by adults. Many are vulnerable adults. 4/12

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

🙏 PLEASE CAN YOU SPARE 4 MINS 💉If you have a health condition that qualified for priority Covid vaccines due to health reasons or older age (or 'flu) OR 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧You live with someone who does OR 😷You wear a mask AND 🇬🇧Live in the UK 🔁 + 💕 Thx! forms.gle/vbb9YYhy1RNd...

Survey: Masks, Protest, and Public Life

This survey is open to all Clinically Vulnerable people, those in their families, and also people who wear masks in the UK. It asks about your experience of mask-wearing, the new protest law, and how...

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🙏 PLEASE CAN YOU SPARE 4 MINS 💉If you have a health condition that qualified for priority Covid vaccines due to health reasons or older age (or 'flu) OR 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧You live with someone who does OR 😷You wear a mask AND 🇬🇧Live in the UK 🔁 + 💕 Thx! forms.gle/vbb9YYhy1RNd...

Survey: Masks, Protest, and Public Life

This survey is open to all Clinically Vulnerable people, those in their families, and also people who wear masks in the UK. It asks about your experience of mask-wearing, the new protest law, and how...

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New treatment for MS patients on NHS: "Fampridine boosts nerve signals to make it easier for some people to move and live independently" "Clinical trials showed around 4 in 10 people [...] had improvements in their walking speed and in how long they could walk for." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Multiple sclerosis: First drug to help patients walk now on NHS in England

Fampridine boosts nerve signals to make it easier to walk, with up to 5,000 eligible.

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Do you have a few mins this morning for a quick survey? (4 mins)

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗@cvcev.bsky.social · 2w ago

😷 Do you wear a mask? Are you Clinically Vulnerable? Or do you have a Clinically Vulnerable family member? 💙💜💗 We would love to hear about your experiences. Complete our survey here: forms.gle/MAhef3UWNUW3...

Do you have a few mins this morning for a quick survey? (4 mins)

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗@cvcev.bsky.social · 2w ago

😷 Do you wear a mask? Are you Clinically Vulnerable? Or do you have a Clinically Vulnerable family member? 💙💜💗 We would love to hear about your experiences. Complete our survey here: forms.gle/MAhef3UWNUW3...

Can you spare 4 minutes to help us help you?

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗@cvcev.bsky.social · 2w ago

😷 Do you wear a mask? Are you Clinically Vulnerable? Or do you have a Clinically Vulnerable family member? 💙💜💗 We would love to hear about your experiences. Complete our survey here: forms.gle/MAhef3UWNUW3...

Can you spare 4 minutes to help us help you?

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗@cvcev.bsky.social · 2w ago

😷 Do you wear a mask? Are you Clinically Vulnerable? Or do you have a Clinically Vulnerable family member? 💙💜💗 We would love to hear about your experiences. Complete our survey here: forms.gle/MAhef3UWNUW3...

🚨1 in 3 people are Clinically Vulnerable. Five years after Freedom Day, the right to take part in public life safely has not been protected. Have concerns about wearing a mask Attending a protest? Accessing public spaces? Tell us in our new IMPORTANT survey ⬇️

🚨1 in 3 people are Clinically Vulnerable. Five years after Freedom Day, the right to take part in public life safely has not been protected. Have concerns about wearing a mask Attending a protest? Accessing public spaces? Tell us in our new IMPORTANT survey ⬇️

😷 We have read the UK Covid-19 Inquiry's Report on Procurement from the perspective of Clinically Vulnerable people and families. We were NOT Core Participants in this module, so many of our issues were outside the evidence heard and therefore not fully addressed. 1/🧵

🚨TODAY, the UK removed people aged 75–79 from routine Covid vaccine eligibility. While countries like Canada continue offering vaccines to higher-risk groups, the UK keeps narrowing access. Policy choices have consequences! #ClinicallyVulnerableAwarenessDay <19th July>

🚨TODAY, the UK removed people aged 75–79 from routine Covid vaccine eligibility. While countries like Canada continue offering vaccines to higher-risk groups, the UK keeps narrowing access. Policy choices have consequences! #ClinicallyVulnerableAwarenessDay <19th July>

💉New advice from the JCVI: All children turning 15 should be offered a meningitis vaccine ...but not until 2030. That would leave 10 year groups of children and young people unprotected during some of the highest-risk years, including college and university.

Sky News@news.sky.com · 3w ago

All teenagers should receive meningitis vaccine at 15, health committee says

🔥 £10 BILLION wasted 🔥 Yet a mere £1.5bn would have put clean air filtration in every classroom, ward and clinic in the country. 💙 Save lives 💜 Cut sickness absences 💗 Reduce NHS pressure We MUST invest in safer air today to protect every child, patient & worker tomorrow.

@andyburnham.bsky.social as a former Health Secretary you know prevention pays. @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social has added air filters to London's schools. But everyone deserves clean air. We've discussed the benefits with you before, and hope you can see the need. Will you meet with us to hear more?

🔥 £10 BILLION wasted 🔥 Yet a mere £1.5bn would have put clean air filtration in every classroom, ward and clinic in the country. 💙 Save lives 💜 Cut sickness absences 💗 Reduce NHS pressure We MUST invest in safer air today to protect every child, patient & worker tomorrow.

Many infections result in lasting consequences, not just Covid. We believe public health shouldn't be guided by a "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" mindset, but by reducing preventable infections. It would mean less acute illness, less chronic disease, and a healthier society overall.

🚨 2 *HUGE* WINS for children's health have just been written into DfE statutory guidance - and the media didn't notice them! If your child is Clinically Vulnerable due to asthma or allergies, this changes what you can demand from their school. 1/🧵 www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/allergy...

Hidden in the new school allergy guidance is a major victory for clean air

Two years ago, members of the Clinically Vulnerable community began telling us something was wrong. People who had voted all their lives no longer felt able to vote in person. The introduction of vote...

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Finally!! "Clean air is a core asthma control measure. Good ventilation, air quality monitoring and supplemental HEPA air filtration are essential, especially when ventilation is limited and outdoor air is polluted."

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗@cvcev.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 2 *HUGE* WINS for children's health have just been written into DfE statutory guidance - and the media didn't notice them! If your child is Clinically Vulnerable due to asthma or allergies, this changes what you can demand from their school. 1/🧵 www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/allergy...

We've had HEPA filters in our schools for a few years now thanks to partnerships with the research community, and jumping on funding opportunities. I'm all for it, but another big unfunded mandate here from the DfE. Stuff costs money. You can't guidance stuff or money into existence.

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗@cvcev.bsky.social · last mo.

New DfE statutory guidance on allergy safety in schools states: "Clean air is a core asthma control measure. Good ventilation, air quality monitoring and supplemental HEPA air filtration are essential." Schools are now legally required to have regard to that. 2/

Incredible! Needing a mask for medical protection not an allowable exemption. Though could be used as a legal defence. Initially only at specific protests but I think we know where that will go. #RightToProtest #disabled #ClinicallyVulnerable

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗@cvcev.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 WARNING: As of Monday, wearing a mask at a protest is a criminal offence in England & Wales. This is now the law. 🧵 on what this means for Clinically Vulnerable people... 1/ #ProtectVulnerableProtesters

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗@cvcev.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 2 *HUGE* WINS for children's health have just been written into DfE statutory guidance - and the media didn't notice them! If your child is Clinically Vulnerable due to asthma or allergies, this changes what you can demand from their school. 1/🧵 www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/allergy...

CVF are right, this is HUGE news 🙌

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗@cvcev.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 2 *HUGE* WINS for children's health have just been written into DfE statutory guidance - and the media didn't notice them! If your child is Clinically Vulnerable due to asthma or allergies, this changes what you can demand from their school. 1/🧵 www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/allergy...

After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵

"The new guidance ... identifies excluding children from attendance rewards because of a medical condition or allergy as unacceptable practice and expects schools to ensure their policies do not disadvantage pupils because of their health." Excellent!

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗@cvcev.bsky.social · last mo.

There's another win too, on 100% attendance awards - and how they've quietly punished children with chronic health issues for years. The new guidance finally shuts that down for children with allergies and asthma!!! READ OUR NEW ARTICLE 7/ www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/allergy...