A Covid-19-is-airborne community view of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry

Purpose of site

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry was set up to “examine the UK’s response to and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and learn lessons for the future”, chaired by Baroness Heather Hallett, a former Court of Appeals judge. With this site, we have a position that on the transmission mechanism the inquiry should be exploring: The inquiry should conclude that the UK make a grave mistake by not identifing primarily airborne transmission, then picking strategic and tactical mitigations for that.

Before the pandemic, it was easy for officials to discover which diseases were primarily transmitted via airborne routes (not droplets not fomites). See our its-airborne.org/non-covid19-timeline and its-airborne.org/non-covid19-list. There are 129 entries here.

During the pandemic, it was easy for officials to discover that Covid-19 was primarily transmitted via airborne routes (not droplets not fomites). See our its-airborne.org/covid19-timeline and its-airborne.org/covid19-list. There are 185 entries here.

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For our entire site, we are yellow-highlighting airborne, aerosol and many other terms that refer to the mechanism of transmission, including the ones that are incorrect.

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Dates throughout this site are in the UK format of day / month / year (also used in many other countries, but not the USA)

Witnesses who have important questions they have yet to be asked

Witness

Questions not asked yet

Testimony so far

Sir Patrick Vallance

Where did the choice of droplets (etc) instead of aerosols for primary transmission mechanism come from?

22/06/23, 16/10/23 & 20/11/23

Sir Chris Whitty

Where did the choice of droplets (etc) instead of aerosols for primary transmission mechanism come from?

22/06/23, 21/11/23 & 22/11/23

Prof Carl Heneghan

Why did you ignore updates to your F1000 study in your testimony to this inquiry?

19/10/23

Prof Evonne Doyle

As PHE Medical Director, why did you ever agree to signing the late Mar 2020 declaration circulated to all NHS care organisations & staff, which stated: ‘COVID-19 is not airborne’

02/11/23

Prof Jenny Harries

Why do you think “More like Sweden” is the right approach for the next pandemic, and has that guided you actions in the current one?

29/11/23, 26/06/23 & 28/11/23

Secondary positions this site holds

  • Vaccines worked, and thank goodness they were came within a year. Side effects were real, but far less numerous than the consequences of catching Covid-19

  • Long Covid is real, far more numerous than deaths from Covid-19 (within 30 days of infection), should get more recognition and treatment research (but not by psychiatry), and exercise for this group can be a really bad idea.

  • Covid is not mild. It is not the Flu or just a cold, it is far more dangerous to ling term health.

  • “Herd Immunity via infection”, and “Immunity Debt” are lies that don’t have studies to back them up

  • FFP2 (or N95) respirators do work to stop transmission if well fitting (which is not so hard for ordinary citizens to learn to do)

  • Cloth masks would have worked in early 2020 to slow transmission while local manufacture of FFP2 was spun up.

  • All shared indoor spaces should have their fresh air ventilation enhanced to keep CO2 below 800 parts per million, and utilize free standing air filters to to scrub out any virons that may be carried if aerosols

Note

The official UK government inquiry site can be found at covid19.public-inquiry.uk and the searchable site on which THIS site is based can be found at ukcovid19inquiry.dracos.co.uk. We should pause to give credit to Matthew Somerville for that work.

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