World news | The GuardianWeight-loss drugs alone will not solve UK’s obesity crisis, says Chris Whitty https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/06/weight-loss-drugs-alone-not-solve-uk-obesity-crisis-chris-whitty #WeightlossDrugs #ChrisWhitty #Obesity #UkNews #Society #Science #HealthPolicy #Health #PharmaceuticalsIndustry
Science | The GuardianPreventing infections in older people is hit and miss, says England’s chief medic https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/04/preventing-managing-infections-older-people-chris-whitty #Vaccinesandimmunisation #Olderpeople #ChrisWhitty #Hospitals #Society #England #Health #UKnews
What has the UK Covid inquiry learned so far about vaccines and treatments? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/31/what-has-the-uk-covid-inquiry-learned-so-far-about-vaccines-and-treatments #Vaccinesandimmunisation #Covidinquiry #Healthpolicy #ChrisWhitty #Science #Society #Health #UKnews
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Britain will elect a Trump next election and it will be thanks to men like this.
Covid denier who posted violent threats against Chris Whitty jailed for five years https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/11/covid-denier-patrick-ruane-jailed-violent-threats-against-chris-whitty #Vaccinesandimmunisation #Infectiousdiseases #Coronavirus #ChrisWhitty #Society #Science #London #UKnews #Health #Law
skua#PublicHealth experts like #ChrisWhitty seem to think that, in the absence of random-assignment double-blind studies, ignoring basic physics and engineering is an ok way to save money.
They also ignored many decades of research showing that many respiratory infections are #Airborne.
So we arrived at the start of Covid and wiped down surfaces and washed hands instead of wearing masks to filter the virus out from the air we breathed.
Knighthoods?
Future pandemic as big as Covid is inevitable, says Whitty https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/26/future-pandemic-as-big-as-covid-is-inevitable-says-whitty #Infectiousdiseases #Covidinquiry #ChrisWhitty #Coronavirus #Science #Society #UKnews #Health #NHS
SubtleBlade ⚔️'Lack of [#NHSEngland] #ICUcapacity was ‘political choice’, #ChrisWhitty tells #CovidInquiry – #UK politics live
#ChiefMedicalOfficer #England] tells #Covid19 inquiry that UK had ‘very low’ capacity compared with other wealthy countries'
'The main thing we could do at the beginning, before we understood it slightly better, was to reduce the amount of Covid. If you don’t get Covid, you don’t get #LongCovid.'
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/sep/26/uk-politics-labour-keir-starmer-un-general-assembly-speech
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryLegacy
Lady Wicket💗“Mr Lipwig, there’s a lady in the hall to see you and we’ve thanked her for not smoking three times and she’s still doing it!”
Terry Pratchett; Making Money
#Discworld #ChrisWhitty #SmokingBanBill 🚬💨☠️
Terry Pratchett; Making Money
#Discworld #ChrisWhitty #SmokingBanBill 🚬💨☠️
Amid the drama of the #CovidInquiry, #ChrisWhitty quietly pointed to an important truth. Will anyone listen?
#England’s #ChiefMedicalOfficer owned up to experts’ ignorance of psychology. If only others had been so candid in admitting their errors
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/24/covid-inquiry-chris-whitty-ignorance-psychology
#Covid19
Amid the drama of the Covid inquiry, Chris Whitty quietly pointed to an important truth. Will anyone listen?
England’s chief medical officer owned up to experts’ ignorance of psychology. If only others had been so candid in admitting their errors, says Stephen Reicher, a professor of psychology