As an academic clinician in O&G I try to stay in my lane & comment on #covid only when highlighting my expert colleagues’ work. But for folk like @allisonpearson platforming the #barringtondeclaration and raging against lockdown, I would offer the following advice (1) Come to Liverpool & see what we are dealing with. Or wait for a couple of weeks - because as sure as night follows day it’s coming soon to a hospital and a community near you (2)

I’m followed by a lot of mums and dads and soon to be mums and dads so on the vaccine issue I will say this and leave it here: as a young medical student I witnessed a young child die of measles meningitis. A horrific death that has stayed with me. (1) The consultant tried to comfort the shattered team by sharing his certain belief that- and I quote- ‘measles will soon be like smallpox- there is an effective & safe vaccine & soon no child will ever die like this’ This was the early 1990’s.
And then Andrew Wakefield happened (2)