Trish Groves

Traveller, optimist, sceptic, retired medical journal editor ORCID 0000-0001-7915-6419

[Trish Groves @trished]

It’s been brilliant connecting with you all and I’ve learned so much here. Thank you. But I’m retired now 😎 and will soon close this account. If you’re at all interested in my non-medical musings, do DM me for my other twitter account

[Trish Groves @trished]

#HappyEaster although I’m in Greece and here it’s a week early to say #καλόΠάσχα

[Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK @CovidJusticeUK]

We have today written to @10DowningStreet regarding @BorisJohnson response to the news of the events of 20 May 2020.

A full copy of our letter is below.

[Trish Groves @trished]

Who else here has written to their MP to express anger about #no10party ? Mine is @JHowellUK @conservatives and only other time I contacted him was abt #barnardcastle
I expect short shrift again. But still worth writing, no?

[Trish Groves @trished]

Ah, thanks, Birte

[Trish Groves @trished]

Oh gosh; I didn’t know that Nigel Hawkes had gone too. Brilliant journalist

[Nicholas Booth @Thievesbook]

@trished @marcuschown @EndOfThePier @bbcworldservice I suspect you may also have known my other former fabulous colleague who alas passed away in October 😒 https://t.co/dI25uYRPvn

[Trish Groves @trished]

Really sorry to hear about the death of #JaniceLong Truly professional, groundbreaking broadcaster and funny, warm person. Worked with Janice and @marcuschown @EndOfThePier many years ago on #PopScience @bbcworldservice and learned so much from them all

[CEPI @CEPIvaccines]

COVAX vaccine doses have been ramping up in recent weeks.

On December 5, #COVAX delivered 19 million doses on a single day.

Today, over 8⃣0⃣0⃣ million doses have been shipped worldwide🌍

"The ice jam seems finally to have broken." - @DrRHatchett

@gavi | @WHO | @UNICEF

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

South Africa’s huge #omicron wave appears to be subsiding just as quickly as it grew. In less than a month, the country's outbreak has gone from a near-vertical rise to a near-vertical fall, by @maxbearak https://t.co/MwMe0XXZ9Q via @washingtonpost #COVID19 #GlobalHealth

[Trish Groves @trished]

#omicron severity data just out from Ferguson et al @imperialcollege encouraging too https://t.co/7tsoJXCK9J

[Trish Groves @trished]

Natl cohort study in Scotland with >23,000 S gene -ve cases, 15 admissions 23 Nov-19 Dec - suggesting #Omicron assoctd w 2/3 reduction in risk of hospitalisation vs #Delta Preprint just out @DrAzizSheikh et al https://t.co/Fb60KfToba

[Trish Groves @trished]

Natl cohort study in Scotland with >23,000 S gene -ve cases, 15 admissions 23 Nov-19 Dec - suggesting #Omicron assoctd w 2/3 reduction in risk of hospitalisation vs #Delta Preprint just out @DrAzizSheikh et al https://t.co/Fb60KfToba

[Nichola Kane @NicholaKane_]

BREAKING New #Omicron study in Scotland and it looks like good news. ‘Early national data suggests that Omicron is associated with a two-thirds reduction in the risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation when compared to Delta.’ Experts from Edinburgh & Strathclyde Uni.

[Trish Groves @trished]

Yay!

The #christmasbmj @bmj_latest finally made it onto the #HIGNFY Missing Words round

[Trish Groves @trished]

Some very good news from #TheBMJ @bmj_latest

Huge congratulations to @KamranAbbasi
Love and thanks to @fgodlee

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

Kamran Abbasi has been appointed as the new editor in chief of The BMJ. He will take up the post on 1 January 2022, succeeding Fiona Godlee, who has been in the role for more than 16 years. Congratulations @KamranAbbasi https://t.co/Ou8ATyeVsY

[Trish Groves @trished]

What is it with Boris Johnson and buses? They’ve been bendy, they’ve spread Brexit lies, and now he’s throwing his #ChristmasParty team under one

[Trish Groves @trished]

@Screen4org I paid you £50 for #Day2covidtest and Royal Mail tracking shows you received my sample 28 Sept. No result, no apology, no refund. I’ve reported you to …https://t.co/NhD44tjq6N

[Alasdair Munro @apsmunro]

The best data by far on #LongCovid is out from the ONS

For kids, the news is incredibly reassuring - parents minds should be put to rest

Rates of common symptoms after #COVID19 at 12 w for kids are extremely low (0% to 1.7%) compared to controls

https://t.co/XDRXLQQqjb

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[Trish Groves @trished]

@hildabast Oh no. I’m so sorry

[Trish Groves @trished]

Thank goodness that, for every #Nicki , there’s an #Elvis and a @DollyParton

[WWRD @5lawslib]

Elvis Presley Gets the Polio Vaccine on The Ed Sullivan Show, Persuading Millions to Get Vaccinated (1956) @openculture https://t.co/m3uGOELWQw

[Trish Groves @trished]

@ClareGerada Welcome to the shallows, Clare: the water’s much warmer here

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

THREAD: latest covid situation in UK (mainly England) and what I think is going on...

TLDR: I *do* think there has been a recent drop in transmission, due to combo of different things. Might not be quite as big as seems and might not last.

(22 tweets)