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Jan 6, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Masks work Image
Vaccines work Image
Omicron isn’t harmless… Image
Comparitive efficacy of different types of mask… Image
Myocarditis following vaccination is very rare

cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/… Image
This is following the science… better late than never…

birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…
Ventilation and filtration work…

cam.ac.uk/research/news/…
More evidence boosters work - Critical Care Admissions

Boosted patients are almost invisible and have an admission rate of 0.2/100,000 or about 1% of the rate of the unvaccinated…

Source: ICNARC 2022 Image

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Jan 8, 2023
The scale of #COVID19 in China is unimaginable

An estimated 37 million people/day are contracting COVID, and 9000/day are dying, expected to rise to 25,000/day

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Why is this?

1/🧵

economist.com/china/2023/01/…
China has relied upon inactivated virus vaccines CoronaVac and Sinopharm, which have lower efficacy than mRNA vaccines and are subject to waning

nature.com/articles/d4158…
2/
There are also question marks about the integrity of efficacy data, and in Brazil early claims of 79% efficacy against symptomatic disease were revised to just 50.4%

3/
ft.com/content/c57028…
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Jan 7, 2023
The thing we all have to appreciate is that disruption of emergency admissions doesn’t only have an impact on early deaths it has an impact all the way through…

Delayed care extends length of stay, increases complications and rehab requirements, and causes death
Everyone looks tired working in hospitals at the moment from the CEO down…

A fatigued workforce make more errors, and are likely to be more short tempered and less well motivated - these are facts of human nature

Add low morale due to govt neglect and what will happen?
Every aspect of the current situation is antithetical to good outcomes… and why do I blame government?

Because it’s been asleep at the wheel through a decade of neglect and slogans, and it compulsively believes it’s own bullshit irrespective of the evidence.
Read 5 tweets
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Jan 9, 2022
I am an Intensive Care Consultant and Clinical Director of one of the largest Critical Care Directorates in the UK

I, my family, and almost every consultant in my Trust are all fully vaccinated and if eligible, boosted…

#GetVaccinated
#GetBoosted
#MandateVaccines 👍🏻
The science clearly shows that vaccination is very safe and reduces infection, transmission, hospitalisation, severe illnesses, and saves lives.

#GetVaccinated
#GetBoosted
#MandateVaccines 👍🏻
You hear a lot of crap about “Natural infection”… this isn’t superior to vaccination, partly because the virus is good at suppressing elements of the immune response and partly because immunity wanes…
Read 16 tweets
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Dec 14, 2021
Hard to say how sick I am of people like Fysh drawing false equivalence between Nazi Germany: Gestapo, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Blitz, genocide

and
Vaccine passports, lockdowns, masks in a pandemic, or the EU, etc

It’s profoundly offensive and divisive

Just stop.
1/
Public health measures intended to prevent harm save lives and nudge people towards sensible and socially responsible actions are NOT Nazism

Indeed they are its antithesis

Motives matter
Outcomes matter
Lives matter
2/
Whereas restricting freedom to protest, promulgating fallacies, undermining universal Human rights, abrogating Treaty responsibilities to protect Refugees are antidemocratic, authoritarian, callous and reckless
3/
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Sep 7, 2021
@LoyalStingray @kprather88 @ChrisCarrollMD @First10EM Respiratory viruses are transmitted by particles along a spectrum of sizes. The starting assumption was that the main mode of transition was large particles deposited on surfaces (fomites) which we touched and put in our mouths…
1/
@LoyalStingray @kprather88 @ChrisCarrollMD @First10EM This partly arose because it was assumed that SARS1 was triggered by people pressing the button in a hotel lift and then going off around the world…

2/
@LoyalStingray @kprather88 @ChrisCarrollMD @First10EM And this probably does happen… so wash your hands… the next and obvious mode are large droplets emitted when someone coughs in your face… pretty obvious but contentious it’s an inescapable conclusion that masks would have a role and that was controversial in 2020
3/
Read 27 tweets
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Jan 28, 2021
Dear @DesmondSwayne I have seen your statement that “ICUs are operating at below normal capacity”

I am the Director of intensive care at a London Trust. I have worked in ICU since 1995.

We have opened 5 makeshift ICUs over the past year (one we closed and haven’t reused)
We now have close to 3x as many people on ventilators as we were established for this day 12 months ago…
We have consultants of all stripes working alongside nurses, as nurses, delivering bedside care…
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