Paul Hardiman

Interested in informed healthy choices, communication, transparency, trust and resisting a cynical world: imagine that! All my own personal views and opinions.

[Paul Hardiman @themainthing]

@neworder @TheO2 Turn - Ceremony - Dreams never end

[Paul Hardiman @themainthing]

@richardm56 Excellent work in your Good Morning report on ‘smart’ motorways - thank you.

[Paul Hardiman @themainthing]

@themarkrad @BBC6Music re. Dog olfactory skills: big shout out to our beloved Spencer, the lab-retriever cross, failed guide dog for the blind but now retraining to be a COVID-19 sniffer dog! Loves a tennis ball too!

[Paul Hardiman @themainthing]

@MayorCarter Thank you for your excellent interview and words in your BBC Radio4 interview. #ICantBreathe

[Dr Ellie @Dr_Ellie]

Prevalence of HPV6 and 11 – which cause 90% of genital warts – has halved

This is a result of high HPV vaccine uptake.

Eleven million doses have been given to young women in England, with 83.9% coverage in year 9 girls

#cervicalcancerawarenessweek

#vaccineswork

@PHE_uk

[VaccinesToday @VaccinesToday]

The #HPV vaccine is used in more than 80 countries.

More than 80 million girls and women worldwide have now received these vaccines.

In some countries, the uptake is greater than 90% and rates of pre-cancerous abnormalities have fallen.

https://t.co/Sr5jOcyuhI via @YouTube

[Dan Courtenay @cake_or_ninja]

Help me wish Lucia a big happy 10th birthday!! 10 years of the best hugs, the biggest heart, and the silliest smiles! #Downsyndrome #ShareTheJourney #wouldntchangeathing #NothingDownAboutIt

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

#OnThisDay 40 years ago the 🌍🌎🌏 was declared #smallpox-FREE, thanks to mass vaccination.

It was one of the world's deadliest diseases and is still the only human disease to have been eradicated.

#VaccinesWork 💪

#VaccinesWork 💪

#VaccinesWork 💪

#VaccinesWork 💪

[Dr Christian Jessen @DoctorChristian]

If you are not a doctor, please don’t tell us doctors how you think we should behave on Twitter.... it only makes us want to antagonise you more...

[(((Dorit Reiss))) @doritmi]

My 9 year old son asked me to post this quote from him publicly online. Here is what he says.

[Simon Sinek @simonsinek]

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

"We have got to listen more to young people..."
Have young people changed? Because when I was 16-17 I had absolutely no idea what was going on and couldn't have cared less. The few views I did have were impossible nonsense.
How about you? Brilliant as a youngster were you?

[Dr Ellie @Dr_Ellie]

You look clever 🤓 and use big words but in reality have no idea what you are talking about.

You are the epitome of what is wrong with the democratisation of platforms conferred by social media.

Do you promote child death in other ways or just anti vax?

[Angus Thomson @ThomsonAngus]

Vilifying people as ‘antivaxxers’ or even ‘hesitant’ may be oddly satisfying & simple response to outbreaks, but it distracts from real work needed: ensuring easy access, affordability, awareness, activation &, if acceptance is problem, good risk comms & community engagement

[Dr Ellie @Dr_Ellie]

I'm a doctor in the 6th richest country in the world.

I've been prescribing food to desperate patients in London since 2012.

But I'm also a Jewish doctor.

#Antisemitism is as unpalatable to me as food poverty.

Both markers of an uncivilised society.

#GeneralElection19

[Angus Thomson @ThomsonAngus]

Please recognise public trust as a health system challenge. To build resilient trust, start with your HCWs. Train them to talk with people. @IPAWorldorg @RobbButler2

[VaccinesToday @VaccinesToday]

Don’t demonize parents who are hesitant to vaccinate — discuss their worries instead https://t.co/2wV85FzToW

[LGA Wellbeing @LGAWellbeing]

The diagram below shows the widening circles of influence on people’s health. These circles are, of course, interpenetrable. For example, your lifestyle ‘choices’ are influenced and to a large extent constrained by the social, economic and environmental conditions where you live.

[VaccinesToday @VaccinesToday]

The measles virus wipes the immune system’s memory for up to three years.

>80,000 people in Europe contracted measles last year - an outbreak which could have a long-lasting impact

https://t.co/MuklBHVO9W

#vaccineswork
#measles

[Paul Hardiman @themainthing]

@IsCoolScience Great thread on anti-vax.