Covid Action Scotland

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Covid Action Logo. Text: The campaign to beat the pandemic. Campaign call: the catastrophic impact on the healthcare sector of the failures of pandemic emergency planners - discussion led by David Osborn - Davit, a health and safety practitioner and former Emergency Planning Manager will discuss the fundamental flaws in the thinking of the pandemic planners as evidence by NERTAG member Robert Dingwall's post on X: "There was insufficient evidence before 2020 to justify spending large sums of taxpayers money on masks, the evidence remains uncertain. HSE did not consider FFP2 masks suitable for protection against viruses." Monday, 13th April 6 pm UK time. Register at : https://tinyurl.com/3t976nft
Photos of Edinburgh and Glasgow city centre, with a graphic of a respirator mask in the middle and the Covid Action Scotland logo. Caption: Mask Blocs in Scotland, Public Meeting, 22nd March 2026
Photo of gloved hands holdings Covid-19 vaccine vials. Logo of Covid Action Scotland in the corner. Text: Petition:Scottish Government must broaden access to Covid vaccine to protect people
Line graph showing one year readings: Covid Wastewater Seafield 12 September 2025 to 3 September 2025. Most recent week ending 18th September with 49.5 RNA microgram per deciliter. Highest reading of 52.4 was week ending 3th August 2025.
Yellow traffic sign saying "Elections Ahead" with a Scottish flag above the text. Speech bubbles: 1) Access to Covid vaccines? 2) Clean Indoor Air? 3) Keeping patients and staff in healthcare safe. Covid Action Scotland logo.
Graph title: Covid Wastewater Seafield 1st August 2024 to 24th July 2025. Unit: RNA mcg per deciliter. Was 185.22 August 2024, down to a low of 5.27 June 2025, most recent reading 17th July at 36.2.
Graph showing Covid Wastewater Seafield 17 Oct 2024 - 10 July 2025. Starting at 45 RNA microgram per deciliter on 17 October, lowest between 0-5 microgram January to March 2025. Slowly rising since then, nos 26 microgram.
Street sign saying "Elections ahead" with a Scottish flag above the text. Covid Action Scotland Logo. Three speech bubbles: "Access to Covid vaccines?", "Clean Indoor Air?", "Keeping patients and staff in healthcare safe?"
Seasonal Respiratory Pathogens or Systems with Unexpected or Unusual Seasonal Activity further intelligence and supporting data are publishe din this section for those respiratory pathogens showing changes in activity levels that could trigger public health action or for levels at or above moderate activity in laboratory data. Statistically significant changes in CARI surveillance over the fourt-week reporting period compared to the four-weeks prior will also be highlighted. During the reporting period 12 May to 8 June (ISO weeks 20-23) the following pathogens and/or surveillance systems showed activity of potential public health importance with further details provided below: Covid-19, Human metapneumovirus (hMPV), Parainfluenza
Covid Wastewater Surveillance - Scotland's Covid wastewater signal has been steadily rising since March and is now at the highest point so far this year. (I'd love to share the Covid wastewater data for England with you too but the budget for that programme was axed in 2022). Public health Scotland graph showing a steep drop in Covid rate in January 2024, steady low levels late January to late March and then a steady rise.
Text: We all deserve the right to protest safely
Photo of two primary school age boys in a class room. Text: Education: Learning from Covid. Logo of Covid Action Scotland.
Photo of a couple taking a selfie in a garden, both wearing FFP2 masks.
Percentage of children with any developmental concern recorded at 27-30 month review, 'No concern' actively recorded for every developmental domain, and a mixture of 'No concern' and missing informtion, Scotland, 2013/14 to 2022/23.
Copy of headline: Send crisis: A system a breaking point, "The worst it's ever been": teachers decry Send crisis in England's schools - Staff nd parents share their experience as number of pupils with special educational needs spirals. Send provision in 'vicious downward spiral', says former children's commissioner
Screenshot of a Guardian article showing portions of chips and chicken nuggets. Article title: "UK's unhealthy food habits cost £268bn a year, report finds" Exclusive Food Farming and Countryside Commission added up cost to NHS and economy of diet-linked disease.