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Scottish Healthcare Workers Coalition calls for mask mandates in health & social care
On 16th July, the Scottish Healthcare Workers Coalition sent a detailed letter to the Scottish government urging a return to mask mandates across health and social care. The letter further calls on the government to provide effective FFP2 or FFP3 masks to all health and social care workers and to improve ventilation and air filtration…
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Banner protest against withdrawal of masks in health and social care
When and where? Saturday, 20th May, 3.30 pm, outside the Scottish Parliament (meet between the artificial ponds and the Visitors’ entrance) What will we be doing and what should you bring? This is an authorised protest with banners and placards, and an opportunity for anyone wishing to speak to do so. Bring yourself, any friends…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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How FFP2 (N95) masks work
This short video provides an excellent and very accessible explanation of how FFP2 masks work. Highly recommended.
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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
Covid Action Scotland
the website of the Covid Action Scotland campaign
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