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iPhone : “Frankly, to get a failed reaction it would mean the doctor missing your arm – which isn’t likely.” 🦶🤦♂️
Helen Fletcher says #VaccinesWork unless poor storage or poor aim...& both are very improbable!
In The Observer 👉 bit.ly/37VWIHN Robin McKie #GlobalHealth #COVID19
Twitter Web App : What's driving #COVID19 infection rates down? 🤔📉
"It is clear that lockdowns and other non-pharmaceutical interventions like face masks are making a huge difference."
Martin McKee in Telegraph Global Health Security 👇 bit.ly/3bAeFN2
Twitter Web App : #COVID19 led to 370 million schoolchildren suddenly losing their one reliable daily meal - new World Food Programme report.
Marcus Rashford MBE has helped us see the inequalities in rich countries, but in low resource settings it is much worse.
👉 bit.ly/2NL8qy5 #EndChildFoodPoverty
Twitter Web App : Thrilled to announce Dr. Ayoade Alakija will present our annual Women in Health lecture!
At the forefront of the global pandemic response, Ayoade will describe her journey to becoming Co-Chair of the Africa Vaccine Delivery Alliance for #COVID19 🌍
👉 bit.ly/2NJVZTl #IWD2021
Twitter Web App : Modifying houses into lethal lures nearly halves #malaria in children - new The Lancet study 🦟🪤
Great collaboration with Penn State, African partners & LSTM 💙 could lead to a new cost-effective vector control tool.
👉 bit.ly/3bEDesk #EndMalaria #GlobalHealth
Twitter Web App : Our new study found that #statins have no overall effect on muscle pain, providing further evidence that the benefits far outweigh the risks when it comes to taking these life-saving drugs.
👉 bit.ly/2MrYV6u #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth Clinical Trials Unit NIHR Research BHF
Twitter Web App : We have another tool at hand to fight #COVID19.
Annelise Wilder-Smith comments on Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine, following US regulators deeming it safe and effective, especially against severe cases.
Al Jazeera English
Twitter Web App : "It's one of the defining health equity issues of our age."
Peter Piot on the shortage of medical oxygen for #COVID19 patients in Africa and Latin America.
The Independent 👇 bit.ly/3aSCCQT John Nkengasong Africa CDC
Twitter Web App : Important news yesterday as #COVAX vaccines reach Africa 🌍
But building public trust will be crucial to optimising uptake.
In 2020, The Vaccine Confidence Project (VCP) & Africa CDC found 79% of respondents in Africa would take a #COVID19 vaccine if deemed safe 👇 The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
Twitter Web App : #Statins have no overall effect on muscle pain finds individual randomised, placebo controlled trial.
Important as many patients stop taking statins due to less severe symptoms exposing them to increased #CVD risk.
👉 bit.ly/2MrYV6u The BMJ NIHR Research
Twitter Web App : In 2020, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the BCG vaccine could be an "important tool in the response to #COVID19".
Our study with MRC Uganda raises this hope, after showing the #TB vaccine protects newborns against respiratory tract infections.
👇 The Lancet Infectious Diseases bit.ly/3jXqWiF
Twitter Web App : Congratulations to Taane Clark and colleagues, who have been awarded funding by NIHR Research and UK Research and Innovation.
The team will evaluate serological tests to help control the spread of #COVID19, and monitor the progress of vaccination, in Southeast Asia 🔎 twitter.com/UKRI_News/stat…
Twitter Web App : Can superspreading events offer clues to fight #COVID19? 🤔
akiraendo discusses its role in driving transmission, and how backwards contact tracing could be "the final hammer to finish the outbreak".
Nature CMMID 👇nature.com/articles/d4158…
Twitter Web App : Vaccines are one of the most effective health interventions, full stop.
🎙️ LSHTM Viral returns! In Season 3, well explore #vaccines, our route back to normality.
In Ep. 1, we speak to John Edmunds & Dr Roz Eggo about unlocking the UK & #VaccineEquity 👉 bit.ly/3ukarC1
Twitter Web App : "Despite the progress, we’re only a month away from being back in the same position as we were in December."
Graham Medley on why a careful, measured approach to easing #COVID19 restrictions is sensible, in Guardian Opinion 👇 CMMID bit.ly/3pNDlqs
Twitter Web App : Great work by Beate Kampmann and the Vaccine Centre team!
You can now keep up to date on all #COVID19 vaccine trials involving pregnant women 🤰
👉 bit.ly/2RbsrMQ #VaccinesWork twitter.com/BeateKampmann/…
Twitter Web App : "We need to get test and trace to work so that any new upturn in cases can be quickly averted without the need for lockdowns again next winter."
Martin Hibberd on the UK's #COVID19 roadmap and the need to build resilience to future outbreaks.
Sky News 👇 bit.ly/3pMSQPq
Twitter Web App : Models. Sequences. Predictions. 📈
How do scientists use these to anticipate new #COVID19 variants?
Carl Pearson (Carl A. B. Pearson) explains why catching mutations of this novel virus can be difficult, in Al Jazeera English 👇 bit.ly/3kdltnJ CMMID
Twitter Web App : #COVID19 has shown us the scale & pace of resource mobilisation that we are capable of.
Adrianna Murphy Martin McKee Kara Hanson & colleagues on why this must now be applied to ensuring equitable access to all essential medicines.
BMJ Global Health 👉 bit.ly/3umGktC
Twitter Web App : 🎙️ LSHTM Viral is back!
Vaccines are the world's route out of the pandemic. In season 3, experts will take you on the journey.
➡️ How do #VaccinesWork?
➡️ How are they made?
➡️ How do we ensure #VaccineEquity?
Episode 1 airs tomorrow 👀 bit.ly/2ZEt4CE