Covid Action Scotland

15th Nov 2022

SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT TO MAKE CUTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH PROTECTIONS IN TIME FOR WINTER

Spending cuts to the Health and Social Care budget will reduce expenditure on vaccines, test and protect and PPE for health workers – our last remaining, albeit futile defences against Covid-19

21st Mar 2023

March Newsletter

Thank you to everybody who joined our public meeting on 11th March. We had two great guest speakers: Professor Stephen Reicher (member of Independent Sage, based at St Andrews University) and Lara Wong, founder of Clinically Vulnerable Families. If you missed the event, then you can watch and listen to both speakers’ presentations and their…

13th Mar 2023

Report from public meeting

Covid: prevention is possible This report from the Zero Covid Scotland online public meeting includes four videos. The first two videos cover the introductions by the speakers. The subsequent discussion was not recorded. The final two videos cover the speakers responses to the questions and issues raised. The speakers were: Lara Wong, founder of Clinically…

4th Mar 2023

Public meeting: COVID – prevention is possible

2-3.30 pm, Saturday, 11th March, on Zoom Register here beforehand Since summer 2021, there has hardly been a week when the number of Covid-19 infections across the UK dropped below 1 million. With new variants spreading all the time, people are getting infected again and again, and the number of people suffering from Long Covid…

7th Jan 2023

covid and immunity

This Briefing about Covid and Immunity provides answers to eight related questions. Each of these questions is of immediate practical importance as we begin to deal with the consequences of both the Holyrood and Westminster Governments’ reassurance that we can now live safely with Covid without taking any precautions because we have the necessary vaccines…

13th Dec 2022

NEW INEQUALITY, NEW EXCLUSION: IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY

Disability equality and inclusion expert and activist, and Zero Covid Scotland member Sally Witcher explains the lack of sense in the Scottish approach to Covid and its’ related harms whilst also touching on what an inclusive safe alternative should look like.

9th Dec 2022

Six covid myths debunked

Almost three years into the pandemic, myths and misinformation remain widespread. Here, a virologist, Stephen Griffin, and a public health researcher, Simon Nicholas Williams, debunk some common misconceptions about COVID. This article was originally published in The Conversation on 29th November 2022 under a Creative Commons License. Myth 1: The virus is becoming milder There’s…

23rd Nov 2022

How FFP2 (N95) masks work

This short video provides an excellent and very accessible explanation of how FFP2 masks work. Highly recommended.

6th Nov 2022

How to make communal spaces safer from infection – and why it matters

Zero Covid Scotland held a public meeting on 5th November looking at how the risks of infection can be reduced in communal spaces. As initiatives to open warm hubs multiply in response to the impact of the cost of living crisis this is a crucial issue. There is a real challenge to get Covid Safety…

31st Oct 2022

What are we up against?

In a week when Independent Sage has shared a devastating analysis of the ongoing damage that Covid is inflicting on people and as the latest Covid wave gathers momentum, Mike Downham gives a personal view of how we have come to a situation where government and many individuals behave as if Covid is yesterday’s problem.…