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Dr Simon Ashworth

9 Jan, 16 tweets, 9 min read

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…

And of course immunity following infection requires you to play Russian roulette with getting infected - the point of vaccines is to avoid that risk…

#GetVaccinated
#GetBoosted
#MandateVaccines 👍🏻

People joke about long COVID, but it’s very real, and the #SARSCoV2 can persist in our bodies in all tissues.

#GetVaccinated
#GetBoosted
#MandateVaccines 👍🏻

Evidence is emerging that suggest while vaccines are benign, the #SARSCoV2 can affect fertility, cardiac function, lungs, and brain tissue. Long term consequences may follow even mild disease.

#GetVaccinated
#GetBoosted
#MandateVaccines 👍🏻

So don’t get #SARSCoV2 if you can help it… #GetVaccinated and wear a proper mask #FFP2 or #FFP3

And stay out of crowds especially indoors!

And why #vaccinemandates?

Vaccines don’t just protect the individual, they protect others. But the best protection we can possibly get is vaccination induced herd immunity, which will suppress the circulating virus and protects more vulnerable people.

But to achieve herd immunity may require 90% of the population to be vaccinated.

That’s why we need mandates…

#GetVaccinated
#GetBoosted
#MandateVaccines 👍🏻

The least COVID the better!

But we need to be grown up… we may need to change some aspects of our lives if #SARSCoV2 variants and other viruses are not to hold us to ransom forever…

#GetVaccinated
#GetBoosted
#MandateVaccines 👍🏻

Evidence of MHC-1 suppression by #SARSCoV2
nature.com/articles/s4146…

Here is some evidence…

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

https://twitter.com/ianricksecker/status/1478611650760437765

https://twitter.com/ianricksecker/status/1478611650760437765

Evidence
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

https://twitter.com/ianricksecker/status/1478611650760437765

https://twitter.com/ianricksecker/status/1478611650760437765

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Masks work

Vaccines work

Omicron isn’t harmless…

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14 Dec 21

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
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Whereas restricting freedom to protest, promulgating fallacies, undermining universal Human rights, abrogating Treaty responsibilities to protect Refugees are antidemocratic, authoritarian, callous and reckless
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7 Sep 21

@LoyalStingray

@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…
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@LoyalStingray

@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

@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
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28 Jan 21

@DesmondSwayne

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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@DrSimonAshworth

26 Jan 21

@ImperialNHS

We opened an 18 bed ICU at Hammersmith Hospital about 10 days ago - does anyone have any idea what a big deal that is?

It’s now full of patients with #COVID19
A testament to the professionalism of our staff

We have opened 5 ICUs in the past year…

@ImperialNHS

It’s a scary thing to do... but colleagues have identified problems and fixed them…

But it is hard to put into words how big the challenge is for staff, and how hard they are working… nobody should take them for granted.

It’s the people who make an ICU

We have learned relentlessly as we have gone

Nor should anyone underestimate what Critical Care Staff have achieved, because we are inventing solutions to difficult problems daily, but also what we have been through over the past year…

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21 Dec 20

Had a phone call today to go and receive the Biontech/Pfizer vaccine at a GP Hub which had run out of patients to inoculate

We turned up at 30min notice were screened, ID checked, and vaccinated in 10min

THANK YOU to all those who contributed to this!
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It made me reflect on what a vindication COVID has been for science

The scientific method of observation, generating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis and adapting has worked brilliantly, even if we are all pretty gloomy
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This would all have been impossible even a few years ago

The advances in molecular biology and DNA sequencing have been staggering…

And compare this to flu 1918, or the hundreds of years of Plague!
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