Category: masks
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Online Action for Safe Healthcare in Scotland
Please join our online Action for Safe Healthcare in Scotland on Thursday, 30th November, between 12 noon and 2pm! Why? Covid-19 and other airborne viruses are circulating in Scottish health and social care without any meaningful measures to prevent infections. No patients or staff, not even those most vulnerable, such as transplant patients and patients…
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Public meeting: Safe healthcare for all!
Across Scotland, the last mitigations against Covid-19 and other airborne infections have been removed this year from health and social care. This is exposes all staff and patients – even those most vulnerable, such as transplant patients and patients undergoing chemotherapy – to constant risk of an infection. No infections disease kills and disables as…
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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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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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