“Doctors and nurses are declining the vaccine” is exactly the message anti-vaxxers want you to hear.
Retweet if you’re a healthcare worker who’s already been vaccinated or is eagerly awaiting vaccination.
Covid intensive care is: hourly arterial blood samples to check oxygen levels, lines placed into arteries to sample them, lines in the jugular vein to replace electrolytes we have driven out of the body by trying to flush excess water from the lungs, lines into the neck and groin
300 years ago in 1720, The Scottish poet Allan Ramsay published a song he took “from an old man’s singing”. Later, Scotland's national poet Robert Burns wrote his own version which became the song that will be sung around the world tonight 'Auld Lang Syne' Happy New Year!
The evidence is in, and the UK variant does appear to be of great concern. The viral load of infected people is higher, and it seems to be about 50% more transmissible. It doesn’t appear to cause more severe illness, but more cases will unfortunately result in greater mortality.
My Irish Cream Tiramisù is #RecipeOfTheDay. And yes, I know this makes a lot, and we don’t have any justification for party-sized desserts, and yet I feel that I could make pretty good headway into this all by myself https://t.co/v48dDTgY8Z
This is one of the key vaccines to watch, with preliminary data from animal studies suggesting it may be more likely to confer sterilising immunity. That is, protection from infection, not just severe illness.
Becky Long's moving tribute to her late partner Fergal Keyes: "He lived. There was no limit to his magic. But life should not have been so hard for him. Do the best you can. Because he did. Be brave. Because he was." (via @Irish TimesLife) https://t.co/tf72Wq4cFH
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