This transformation of Utrecht’s inner ring road is incredible. A once bleak car-centric stretch of road is turned into a beautiful city boulevard with space for pedestrians, cyclists and nature (and still some cars!).

May is #LymeDiseaseAwarenessMonth !

Bell’s palsy is a common symptom of Lyme disease, especially in children.

More information is available on our website:

lymeresourcecentre.com/about-lyme

The sign language lass has properly taken over, she is no longer in the corner 🤣😭 #Coronation #Coronation Concert #TakeThat Take That

The NHS staff in blue scrubs who were on stage with Take That just now? You know who you are. I am so jealous ... spectacular!

Well now, this is v worrying…

Part of the triage process for unwell kids presenting to secondary care includes a ‘ #COVID section’.

That’s good obvs, but wait till you hear what the questions are.

#CovidIsNotOver
Independent SAGE RCPCH UK Health Security Agency NHS England Department of Health and Social Care
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This photo is amazing. Here are the forms that nursing teams need to fill out for each patient on admission. Ask Joe Public what they want their nurses doing and it defo won’t be this! NUTS

Time lapse of concrete pour today, to form the base of a filtration hut for a new koi pond. Enjoy!

Given the mass disruption to education as a result of rampant spread of COVID-19 through schools, education unions have asked James Cleverly🇬🇧 the education minister to implement basic public health mitigations in schools ahead of Sept. Will the govt act?
unison.org.uk/news/2022/07/g…

Stark warning from dr jack lambert on the impact of repeated covid infections. 'This is not the flu. We need to get the message out there that we still need to be careful in terms of catching covid'. He describes how many now appear to be immunocompromised due to #LongCovid

EVERYONE STOP AND WATCH—This is what it looks like to live with #longCOVID .

“Everything tastes like dog shit”
“I can’t swallow”
“My hair is falling out”
“My food tastes like it comes from a dumpster housing a dead raccoon🦝”

HT WesElyMD & Brut America

Sigh. 🧵

* Viruses don't automatically or inevitably evolve to become milder. Transmissibility and immune escape can be under strong selection but virulence may not be, especially if there are lots of hosts, transmission is easy, and infectiousness precedes symptoms.

Better to not be able to get emergency care than wear a mask
Better to have children off sick from school than wear a mask
Better to risk chronic multi-system disease than wear a mask
Better to have your flights cancelled, than wear a mask

Worth it for 'freedoms' - am I right?

Frontline staff felt like lambs to slaughter due to lack of #PPE in the pandemic. Our colleagues died and the least they are owed is an enquiry. Why hasn’t it started?

DAUK co-chair Dr Ellen Welch on LBC Breakfast show. youtu.be/5yX43GKUv0k #NHS

I enjoyed creating this from Independent SAGE's BMJ article. Many replies claim no need for Covid measures, but all of the points at ~1min will, by definition, be invisible to us all. This is why we need scientists to advise. It won't be invisible if you or a loved one suffers.

It’s like #wordle but instead of guessing a word, we have to guess which of two candidates the membership of the Conservative Party will choose. It’s called #turdle

After he saw Emma he started having trouble walking. He received an MRI and neurologists found 2 areas in his brain which were under attack by his immune system. Why? It turned out Vittorio had COVID-19 recently and his immune system went into overdrive.

MAJOR NEW PAPER in which we ask the EBM community to 'adapt or die'.

Your hierarchy of evidence is a useful heuristic but you have made it into a totem and begun to dance uncritically around it.

With @deejcane David Fisman Raina MacIntyre 😷💉💉💉💉 Matthew Oliver

ebm.bmj.com/content/ebmed/…