Nathalie Pearson

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#Hampshire #SafeAirSchools #Climate #Nature #LongCovid Devoted mother | Founder SafeAirSchools.org | Proud King’s College London alumna | Founding Member Long Covid Kids | Passionate about healthcare | Leave nobody behind | Neurodivergent

Open Letter to the Royal College of Psychiatrists LONG COVID ADVOCACY Dear Prof. Subodh Dave, President-elect, 12 May, 2026 We are writing on ME Awareness Day in relation to the Royal College of Psychiatrists' ongoing work on ME and Long Covid, and in the context of your stated commitment to integrating patient expertise into clinical practice and institutional decision-making This commitment carries significant responsibility in conditions where patients have experienced harm from mischaracterisation, delayed recognition, and the privileging of theoretical psychosocial explanations in clinical and academic settings. We are particularly concerned by the inclusion of speakers Paul Garner, Alan Carson, and Trudie Chalder in Congress programming, given their longstanding association with psychiatric-led psychosocial frameworks applied to ME, which continue to shape the clinical interpretation of Long Covid. While the programme includes biomedical terminology and references to patient experience, its overall structure continues to position psychosocial and behavioural frameworks as the primary lens through which post-acute viral illness is interpreted and managed. For example, cognitive symptoms and potential neurological markers are framed within a psychiatric-led session; personal experience of post-infectious fatigue is presented alongside psychological recovery narratives; and cognitive behavioural therapy is positioned in relation to routine specialist clinic outcomes. This sequencing shapes how evidence is interpreted and which explanatory models are implicitly centred. The inclusion of biomedical language does not in itself reflect a shift in underlying paradigm when interpretive authority remains organised around behavioural and psychosocial models. In this context, patient experience is situated within frameworks that determine its meaning in advance, rather than as an independent form of evidence. Since the emergence of Long Covid, there has been a substantial…
Breathing Portsmouth air is like smoking 126 cigarettes per year With 75% of pollution inside schools coming from outside, what's the air quality like inside your local school?
Faded black and white photo of a grandfather and child with words look for them in the moments you’ll find them there
Junior doctors wearing scrubs made by Hampshire FTLOS at the height of the pandemic
Screen grab of a slide from a UKHSA presentation in January. The full presentation is linked in the main post
Flowers and a sunset
Air quality score
Chart. Pm1 pm2.5 and pm10 levels inside a school
Picture of a school bag with a Long Covid badge and air quality monitor
Children and covid19 infection harm stats
Dr Deepti Gurdasani Clinical Epidemiologist and Statistical Geneticist COVID-19 now annually kills more children than other vaccines preventable diseases - including measles, mumps, rubella and varicella. Apart from this it also causes long-term multi-system disease and Long Covid in children, increasing the risk of diabetes, clotting conditions and kidney and lung disease. The consequences on children have been huge - with >15,000 children estimated to have been orphaned. I can't think of any infectious disease in children with a similar impact. October 2022
To the women who lift us up, inspire, celebrate, encourage, support and raise us. Happy International Womens Day 2025
Long Covid symptoms adult and child two elephants long covid continues safe air schools dot org uk
UK faces potential second norovirus wave with even recently infected people at risk New NHS figures show the number of beds taken up by patients with the virus is nearly 150% higher than last year. • Thursday 27 February 2025 12:42, UK
Air filters - one dirty one new and clean
100% Attendance Award Badge
Happy valentines day
Headline Labour mp Andrew Gwynne admits he is a member of Facebook group where anti semitic posts are shared 2018
Cat sat on a laptop
Parent and baby elephant with long Covid symptoms displayed for long Covid awareness 2025
Drawing of a person climbing stairs with the words just because it’s taking time doesn’t mean it will never happen
A poem
“Sweep on his bone car will never not be hilarious”. Sweep is driving his bone car.
Positive post from Supporting Healthcare Heros UK “every day is a new beginning. Take a deep breath smile and start again”
Child painting a poster with the words every time you thought you can’t you did. Keep going
Child covid infection harm data Picture of child with teddy
Picture of a bear aeroplane and child with The words sometimes rest is the hardest but most important thing we can do
Child holding heart. A big hug for everyone that needs it today
A blue penguin (also known as little penguin or fairy penguin)
Cartoon holding flower
Mother and child wearing respirator masks
Newspaper page from BBC showing 3 school children
Picture of a fallen tree with words if a tree falls when no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? “Meow” is in a speech bubble coming from beneath the tree
Picture of poorly child with headline “Early-life infection burden continues throughout childhood, new data reveal”
Screen shot “Due to a sharp increase in acute respiratory infections we have been asked by Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS to request that, where possible patients wear a face mask when attending the surgery. We thank you for your understanding and continued support during this winter period. Horndean Surgery”
School child wearing a badge saying ventilation champion
Chart by @jneill for SafeAirSchools.org using official government data to show long Covid harm on teaching and education staff
Green tile with research paper title and a graphic taken from the paper
Gingerbread houses