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Dr Emily Grossman

2 Jan, 6 tweets, 3 min read

Concerned re the new vaccine strategies? Worried that delaying the second dose is a bad idea or that it might make the virus resistant? Confused re mix and match vaccines? I’ve compiled this short explainer, pls read and share. TL/DR; on balance, nothing to be concerned about 1/2

Explanations are attached to my first tweet above. Attached to this tweet is a fuller explanation as to why the virus is very unlikely to get “resistant” to the vaccine if the second dose is delayed 2/2

https://twitter.com/dremilygrossman/status/1339890267554537474?s=21

I’ve been asked for more info re the Vitamin D advice. Here’s a tweet I sent a few weeks ago with lots of info about it. To date, the open letter has now been signed by more than 170 top experts, not just the 66 we had when I first tweeted this.

https://twitter.com/dremilygrossman/status/1339890267554537474?s=21

Pfizer said on BBC news this evening that there’s no reason to think effectiveness should go down if the second dose is left for longer - if anything it may well go up. And here’s an article re the updated data showing 90% effectiveness of first dose theconversation.com/amp/pfizer-vac…

https://twitter.com/theosanderson/status/1344347380917940226?s=21

And here’s a super helpful thread explaining where the 90% efficacy figure for the first dose comes from (and why it’s NOT 52% as people keep saying), with a quote from the JCVI at the end summarising it:

https://twitter.com/theosanderson/status/1344347380917940226?s=21

And here’s a useful meta analysis of the Vitamin D data: c19vitamind.com

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IMPORTANT: Do not be taken in by reports / videos of empty hospital beds claiming the NHS crisis is being exaggerated. Of course there are empty wards! Covid wards and ICUs are OVERFLOWING so all available staff and resources from OTHER wards have been diverted there. 1/4

Routine operations, treatments and appointments have been cancelled and many non-Covid wards have had to shut down entirely. That’s the whole point. And the only reason the Nightingale hospitals are empty is that there’s simply not enough staff to open them. 2/4

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“Act as if everyone you know has just tested positive and you need to avoid them like - quite literally - the plague.”
Attached are screen shots of the full quote from a trusted doctor source in North London, reporting on the current situation there. Please share widely.

The doctor who wrote this is my friend. I know him. He wrote these words late at night to his family. I’m sharing them so his words get seen by more people in order to save lives. If he gives his name he may lose his job. It’s happened before to NHS workers who speak out.

NHS workers have been told not to speak out. It’s a breech of internal policy to leak conditions without communication department approval. There are careful trajectories for whistle blowers.

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