UK Bluesky users will recognise the significance of the title "ARHAI Uncloaked" more than you in Canada.
The evidence shows that these so-called 'experts' thought nothing of falsifying documents and cherry-picking evidence which supported their anti-airborne, pro-FRSM dogma.
And they guide IPC!
So true. So frustrating.
Last winter Scotland NHS advised the nation to keep safe from flu, covid etc by handwashing.
Responding to my formal complaint they said this was the advice of their 'experts' (presume ARHAI).
CATA report:
tinyurl.com/CATA-rpt-2
(Sections 10 & 2.3)
A good read...
#1 of 2
Hi Esther
Thank you so much for the support you have given us here on bluesky.
Very much appreciated🙏
The denialism that COVID hasn’t overloaded our NHS is an absolute farce. The guidance has been incorrect for 6 years! That includes people having no protection when they mingled in bubbles, were essential workers, wandered around the supermarket and caught covid when they went to get vaccinated. 🧵
We hope that our detailed submissions to the Inquiry and our independent investigation reports will be of help to the thousands of people impacted by the pandemic and have suffered ill health or bereavement resulting from flawed and incompetent planning and IPC measures.
CATA was only granted Core Participant status for Module 3.
As that report has now been published we have now fulfilled our task.
It has been an honour and privilege to serve in the Executive Team with Dr Barry Jones (Chair), Ms Kamini Gadhok MBE (Vice Chair) and Prof Kevin Bampton
The Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance (CATA) has stood down.
The Executive Team has completed its mandate from its 12 member organisations i.e. to represent them at the UK COVID-19 Inquiry.
A copy of our final letter to members is attached.
tinyurl.com/CATA-stands-...
There's a lot to digest in the Module 3 report - section 2.98 particularly indigestible!
If tou have not already seen them, you should read the reports of our (CATA's) two independent investigations, links to which can be found at the end of our March Press Release:
tinyurl.com/CATA-press-r...
The Inquiry recognised that reporting of HCW deaths under the RIDDOR Regulations for reporting occupational disease should be better.
Sadly it didn't address the failure to report occupational infections which don’t cause deaths but leave HCWs crippled with Long-COVID.
/End
Importantly though, the Inquiry recognised that ventilation is only effective against ‘far-field’ transmission, but has no impact on other transmission routes such as, for example, close quarter care of infectious patients.
/22 of 23
Having accepted that ventilation is an important risk reduction measure for airborne diseases, the Inquiry took evidence from Professor Beggs concerning the benefits of installing HEPA air filters:
/21 of 23
Baroness Hallett’s unequivocal recommendation is that the DHSC and relevant health authorities:
/20 of 23
The Inquiry concluded:
/19 of 23
AGPs: ‘DEAD IN THE WATER !’
The Inquiry considered the vexed question of Government only allowing RPE for Aerosol Generating Procedures. It has now been laid to rest – or at least it should be, unless DHSC and NHS persist in ignoring Lady Hallett’s recommendations.
/18 of 23
This same issue is discussed in more detail at section 8.4 of the above-mentioned CATA report into the UK IPC Cell where Professor Mark Wilcox (NHS England IPC Director) admits the terminology can lead to ‘misperceptions’.
/17 of 23
The Inquiry discussed the bizarre framing of IPC guidance issued around winter 2021/22 as to when Respiratory Protective equipment should be worn using terms like ‘wholly’ or ‘predominantly’ airborne without making a clear statement as to how each disease is spread.
/16 of 23
The UK IPC Cell’s understanding of the hierarchy is covered in CATA’s own investigative report tinyurl.com/CATA-rpt-2 (section 3.4.2).
At a meeting in August 2022 between 2 healthcare professionals, Mr Duncan Burton and Dr Lisa Ritchie, the following was noted:
/15 of 23
The Inquiry concluded that the IPC Cell failed to understand the ‘hierarchy of risk controls’.
It failed to appreciate that the elements of the hierarchy were not mutually exclusive.
The Inquiry accepted the evidence of three IPC experts which alluded to the lack of skills and bias of the UK IPC Cell.
The Inquiry concluded that the UK IPC Cell did not function effectively.
/13 of 23
Prof Susan Hopkins also referenced this paper in her witness statement.
/12 of 23
At para 172 of her statement Dr Ritchie claimed that this paper was discussed at the IPC Cell meeting on 23 Dec 2020.
It is difficult to see how this can be true when Freedom of Information data shows that the paper had not yet been written!
(p.34 of above-mentioned CATA report)
/11 of 23
The PHE report was not published on 23 Dec 2020 as stated (the Inquiry was misled on this matter).
It was ‘buried’ by PHE senior management and only saw the light of day when adduced into evidence for the Inquiry by Dr Ritchie & Prof Susan Hopkins.
tinyurl.com/PHE-Paper-23...
/10 of 23
The Inquiry investigated meetings of the IPC Cell on 22/23 Dec 2020 at which Public Health England recommended wider use of FFP3s beyond AGPs.
Paragraph 1.133 is untrue, as shown by CATA’s independent investigations
tinyurl.com/CATA-rpt-2
(section 2.8)
/9 of 23
As Dr Barry Jones, Chair of CATA, explained to the Inquiry this was to have devastating consequences throughout healthcare:
/8 of 23
The UK Government and Devolved Administrations wasted no time in promulgating this misinformation throughout the four nations of the UK
/7 of 23
Of course we all know of Maria van Kerkhove’s repeated assertions:
“It is not airborne”
“It is not airborne”
“It is not airborne”
“It is not airborne”
tinyurl.com/Maria-not-ai...
/6 of 23
The Inquiry was unequivocal in ‘calling out’ the World Health Organisation for failing to recognise the potential for airborne transmission.
The Inquiry does not seem to have attempted to determine whether WHO was 'prompted' by countries which did not have enough RPE...
/5 of 23
It is no coincidence that Baroness Hallett refers to IPC guidance as being ‘flawed’ – a descriptor of the guidance used no less than 9 times in CATA’s Module 3 Witness Statement.
/4 of 23