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4 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
GROWN UPS: If the humans in your care aren't at school for some reason then every day STARTING TOMORROW at 2:30pm @xandvt and I will be live on Youtube, IG and Facebook. First topic will be BONES🦴💀. THERE IS HOMEWORK!!!🙄... Image
As pre-homework please FORCE your children to watch Episode 1 of “Do Try This At Home” on @BBCiPlayer.
Ideally start the experiment but we do get that you *may* be a little stretched at the moment.
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
Send questions to twitter, facebook or our instagram accounts!! We won’t be able to answer them all!

If you’re abroad and can’t watch iPlayer then read up anything you can find about bones and the human skeleton and think of your questions.
It will be on facebook.com/vantulleken
Insta - @drchris_drxand
YouTube - youtube.com/channel/UCQJDF…
You can watch our test of the tech last night on Facebook which will give you some sense of the shambles you can expect tomorrow. fb.watch/2OYi7Urrrv/

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
4 Jan
If you’re worried about the delayed second dose of the COVID vaccines here’s a thread.

I live with my wonderful mother-in-law (below): she is high risk and has had a single dose. She's hoping for another but is worried about a delay. You may feel the same...
#VaccineStrategy
I’ve also received a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine and since COVID gave my identical twin brother a serious heart problem I have a dog in the fight (two dogs including the MiL). I don’t want this virus and I have to go to work in a hospital where there is a lot of it about.
Overall the decision to extend the schedule so there is a 12 week gap between doses should save more lives. Now I’m a nice guy but of course I care more about MY life (and my mother in law's!) than just any old life like yours.
Read 25 tweets
Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
2 Jan
A piece in the @nytimes today asserted that the UK “quietly updated its vaccination playbook to allow for a mix and match regimen".

This is both strictly true and entirely misleading.
#mixandmatch #vaccine
Thread... nytimes.com/live/2021/01/0…
It is NOT now UK policy to give whatever vaccine is at hand for the second shot. But it is an option for a tiny number of individuals where it is not known which vaccine was given first.
Lets say someone shows up for their second dose and they have lost their card (I have lost mine - luckily I photographed it!) or changed GPs.
Read 14 tweets
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12 Oct 20
Infant formula is a £50 billion industry. It’s growing because manufacturers are using the kind of marketing techniques you might expect from the tobacco industry to exploit COVID fears.
Here’s our publication in @TheLancet
and a thread
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
There are many examples of companies using COVID to reduce breastfeeding rates but one of the best (worst) is a YouTube channel “facilitated “ (their word) by Danone called #VoiceofExperts.
You might wonder what “facilitated” means. So do I but the response from Danone didn’t explain. Perhaps a sort of legal insulation. Here’s their full reply to my questions.
Read 17 tweets
Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
11 Oct 20
If you haven’t GREAT barrington declaration I can’t recommend it. It’s tough read. So great, so grand, the words don’t fit easily into a human eyeball. The tone is subtly repellant but it’s also unkind, fraudulent, political, arrogant and entirely pointless.
Here’s the declaration - a page of assertions written by three Profs who have the trappings of credibility.
First if you’re going to declare anything about the pandemic (and really let’s not) you need to declare with kindness. Instead this has a sort of “we the undersigned hereto and forthwith in perpetuity” vibe that sounds like primary school children trying on some Shakespeare.
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12 Apr 20
Fake news kills during a pandemic but wild 5G conspiracies may be less dangerous than the lowering of standards in mainstream science. Friday saw the most egregious example of this so far -
"Gilead drug shows positive signs in early testing" from @FT
ft.com/content/c59a38…
The Washington post used the word "hopeful" in their headline.
washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
The headlines are about this paper on Remdesivir, an antiviral developed by pharma company Gilead for Ebola and similar infections published in the prestigious @NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
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16 Sep 19
In one of the most disgusting episodes of corporate moral failure, #PurduePharma have declared bankruptcy because of lawsuits over #OxyContin, which they pushed despite knowing its addictive potential. The $35 billion in sales it generated?
wsj.com/articles/oxyco…
Much of it has gone to the #SacklerFamily whose name you may recognise from the Sackler Gallery at @SerpentineUK or from the new Sackler courtyard at the @V_and_A or the Sackler Wing at the @metmuseum
@AllenFrancesMD has written about this here. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
In @VanityFair David Sackler lamented “the way our philanthropy has been turned against us.”
About the many lawsuits, he said “I really don’t think there’s much in the complaints, frankly" vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/d…
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