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Can we please stop referring to the NHS as one entity as if it is a homogenous blob like Amazon?
The NHS is a huge patchwork of thousands of clinical and non-clinical organisations ranging from awful to outstanding. Tarnishing the whole service with one sorry brush…
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I am so disheartened 😞
The CURE for the overwhelmed hospitals & ambulance queues is sitting in a fridge somewhere while GPs, nurses & pharmacists are sitting, waiting to help like an impotent civilian army.
I should be vaccinating 100s of patients today.
#CovidVaccine
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Letter sent today to Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
@MattHancock
from 66 GPs urging him to consider non-Covid harms in the response to the pandemic
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Lots of people outside enjoying the sun as they should be.
Seeing lots of critical tweets-
firstly, outside transmission is minimal.
And secondly many people don’t have gardens or outside space.
Before taking pics of people in a playground, take a look at yourself.
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Back to work today after suddenly losing my dad 10 days ago
Hoping the world is kind and patient today like he was 💕
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We banned children doing sport and exercise at weekends.
Without evidence of benefit.
Let’s just let that sink in.
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COVID-19: Most Omicron cases are 'mild' and there's no evidence to suggest vaccines may be less effective against the variant, says WHO official | World News | Sky News
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UK “we had a terrible pandemic and poor public health response and lessons were learned”
Also UK : three days of Group A strep and penicillin already out of stock
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I’m an
#NHS
GP facing this every day.
I’m also a carer and a patient.
I went to a very good university and medical school and can analyse and interpret data.
Spend a day in my shoes and maybe you will get real.
Stay in your lane in celebville.
Do you think the mental health problem will be helped by letting the virus explode over Christmas & kill 1000s more people? Get real.
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Heading to work to 1st day of new system in
#GP
surgery.
Let’s
#keeptheschoolsopen
until the right EXPERT-LED time, so essential health services staffed by working parents can open.
If you are tweeting
#closetheschoolsuknow
- U obviously don’t care about
#NHS
working parents
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Colleague has no
#petrol
to get to work tomorrow
(Senior partner in GP surgery where we see patients face to face & she’s doing flu clinic & has a whole nursing home to look after).
What say you
@grantshapps
?
Is petrol for critical workers protected?
#PetrolShortages
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I think if you are a doctor and you are speculating on the cause of death of anyone, never mind a celebrity who has died unexpectedly, you really need to sit back, stop and ask yourself what you have become.
And think about a bereaved family you are traumatising.
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Isn’t it weird how all the anti vax replies come from anonymous accounts, with stock pictures and lots of numbers in the name…. It’s almost as if they weren’t real people 🤭
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BREAKING NEWS - (AND IT'S POSITIVE)
Patients across the UK who are admitted to intensive care units due to COVID-19 are set to receive new life-saving treatments which can reduce the time spent in hospital by up to 10 days, the Government has announced today
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If you look at South African data which I have tweeted last few days, peak of cases was in consistent decline by day 10.
So why would a firebreak in 8 days time in UK make any sense
(I don't think a firebreak at any time makes sense, I'm just pointing out the madness)
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Have woken up with massive
#vaccine
side effects:
OPTIMISM 🎉
HOPE 😊
GRATITUDE 🙏🏼
#COVID19
#CovidVaccine
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I wonder if people, both doctors and others, who push out
#COVID19
stories from hospitals, both true and false, ever think about the worried, terrified frail lonely individuals who hear these missives and go to bed night after night terrified.
Then wake up even more scared.
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She does not speak for me
“I know that I speak for the decent, law abiding patriotic majority of British people” Home Secretary Suella Braverman tells Parliament
Watch in disbelief
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Quote from someone in isolation with kids, after one day
“We’re all going a bit mad inside”
But people want the schools closed for two months...
Prolonged isolation won’t work now because we won’t be able to sustain it.
Which is why we SAVE IT FOR THE PEAK.
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After speaking to patients today who have suffered the real cost of lockdown: financial hardship, ill health & loneliness in the harshest of times, you’ll forgive me for not having any interest in a couple who had the privilege to up &emigrate when their life got uncomfortable
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Full vaccine clinic today.
All
#AstraZeneca
vaccines.
All patients attended and super happy.
👏🏼👏🏼
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Surely I can’t be the only woman thinking this:
It is a brave woman who wears a white dress and high heels (even for five minutes) 2 days after giving birth.
#GIANTMATERNITYPADS
😁
#BabyArchie
#RoyalBaby
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I have received threatening hate mail to my place of work and elsewhere seemingly because I recommend vaccinations for children.
Rest assured this is being dealt with appropriately.
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It is a disgrace this person to tell “working class people” how they should have voted as if they don’t understand what the privileged idealogues understand.
BUT a future doctor to wish someone a horrible death?
I sincerely hope she is not enrolled in any UK medical school
How wonderful. I do hope this horrific example of vile, hate filled, far left bigotry is in the minority.
"I wish him a horrible death"
This is what Corbyn's Labour have done.
Kinder, gentler politics. FFS.🤦♂️
#Losers
#BorisJohnsonPM
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Vaccine delivery FAILED
We were expecting 300 vaccines this morning
300 patients all over 78 booked this afternoon - vulnerable people all booked in last day or two. Staff redeployed to work.
VACCINES HAVE NOT ARRIVED - we start 1pm
@nadhimzahawi
@NikkiKF
@MattHancock
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Now that we have vaccinated over 40% of the adult population, which protects against severe illness & death...
And we are testing more than ever....
Daily case figures are LESS relevant.
Now what we should follow is hospital admissions and deaths.
Case numbers not helpful.
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I wrote to Matt Hancock to warn him of what 66 GPs see on the ground: heart disease, delayed care, terrifying levels of mental health needs & reduction in children’s services.
I sent him timely data. Experience. Concern.
His reply was cut and paste from old speeches.
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Risk of blood clot from
#AstraZeneca
vaccines currently stands at 1 in 250,000
How this compares to side effects we usually talk about
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Been in the
#NHS
my whole life as a child of a doctor, then a doctor myself as well as being a patient and a carer of a patient.
Struggling to think of a moment when I noticed the
#NHS
was run for the benefit of the doctors…
@wesstreeting
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Make no mistake, schools are not closed because this virus is so deadly.
Schools are closed because NO creativity was put into opening them safely: where are the Nightingale schools? Where are the school testing centres?
This is not virus. This is failure.
#REOPENSCHOOLS
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Despite being an
#NHS
GP I haven’t said anything yet about the current GP storm. What I will say:
✅My surgery still see patients face to face.
✅The U.K. doesn’t have enough GPs
✅We were TOLD to do telephone triage to meet demand.
✅Most GPs prefer seeing patients. I do
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And once again we are all plunged into uncertainty, fear and anxiety.
A state we have lived in now for 15 months.
Any hope we all had seems to have been shattered.
A fitting end to
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
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It’s actually grotesque that some people seem to relish the potential bad news and potential for an even longer lockdown or vaccines not working.
There’s realism. And then there’s downright damaging doomsaying.
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In a vaccinated population - any additional measures have to be REALLY effective to make an impact on case numbers AND be worth the risks.
Is this proven for masks in classes? Given downsides for kids and staff.
Or are the schools as usual the “do something” fall guy
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A word of advice to the *millions* suffering anxiety, ptsd and the collective trauma from
#COVID19
(there are many of us)
Stay away from social media/ news for the next few days, while the ghoul hunters embrace & relish the new threat.
Let’s wait together for some facts.
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Thinking this morning of everyone with health problems, mental illness, fear, anxiety and just normal life goals and aims, who once again this morning are plunged into fear, uncertainty & darkness created by this ongoing pandemic.
It is terrifying and traumatising for many of us
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His victim was called Moshe Tamam - he was 19.
He held him hostage for two days (a familiar torture now) , then gouged out his eyes, castrated him, mutilated his body, and finally shot him in the chest and dumped his body.
@amnesty
- did that boy have a right to life? Or…
The death in custody of Walid Daqqa, a 62-year-old Palestinian writer who was the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails after 38 years of imprisonment, is a cruel reminder of Israel’s disregard for Palestinians’ right to life ⬇️
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Aging, smoking and the Pill all raise your risk of blood clots more than an
#AstraZeneca
#vaccination
Have they also been temporarily halted in certain countries?
Incidentally not being vaccinated against
#COVID19
also raises your risk of blood clots....
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Let
GPs
START
VACCINATING
TODAY
NOW
#oxfordvaccine
WE ARE READY
Lives are being lost while we wait for January 4th
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Steve
Not Jewish. Not Israeli. He’s from Bristol.
His sister was murdered on October 7th.
His nieces were murdered the same day. They were teenagers.
On kibbutz be’eri
His brother in law Eli Sharabi is a hostage. His wife and girls murdered. His brother Yossi has…
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#Marr
showing our letter now
I have so many frail patients who will not shield again where they can’t see loved ones, their spouses in care homes or their family, which ruins their quality of life in the precious years they have left.
#listentoGPs
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A (very personal) thread from me and
@adam_cannon
So we just spent Jewish new year as we always do - friends, family, eating, honey cake, synagogue...
And it’s all been the same as normal as it has been for the last 40 years that I can remember until last night...
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We are now in a situation where the experts tell us to wait for the vaccine and induced immunity for the end to the
#pandemic
restrictions.
Whilst the same experts tells us that
@10DowningStreet
is quarantined because we can’t trust induced immunity.
So that’s great messaging!
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HPV vaccine linked to 'dramatic' cervical disease drop
The vaccine has nearly wiped out cases of cervical pre-cancer in young women since an immunisation programme was introduced
⬆️VACCINES WORK⬆️
This disease wasn’t going away by itself!
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When I did paediatrics before being a GP, I was taught by a Professor that a red flag alongside the usual, is if the parents have concerns and think their child is 'not right'.
That advice has stood the test of time for me as a parent and a GP.
#MarthasRule
sets this in stone.…
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Before you shout to cancel things for kids: school plays, concerts, parties…Ask:
1) Is there evidence this will help (an easy “win” is not enough)?
2) Has the adults equivalent also been cancelled?
3) Have I considered the acute & ongoing negative impacts?
#covid
theatre
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He. Is. Not. An. Expert.
#coronavirus
This is pure political posturing.
This is not backed up by science or data & undermines a national response that is based on evidence not political piffle.
@RoryStewartUK
needs a lesson from
#klopp
"It's better...to take the economic hit"
Former Cabinet Minister Rory Stewart tells
#BBCBreakfast
he believes closing schools and events now, due the
#coronavirus
, is worth it.
More here:
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Almost a fifth of the U.K. adult population has had a covid vaccine.
AND they are the most vulnerable to serious illness and death.
The U.K. government needs to be planning our exit strategy now with schools safely opening as a March priority.
@Septforschools
@SteveBakerHW
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💥💥Dr Ellie's super detox for New Year 💥💥
1. Own a liver
2. Own a kidney, if possible two.
3. YAY You did it!
Deetox
Shmeetox
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3 weeks ago I wrote to Matt Hancock urging him to
#listentoGPs
about the myriad non-Covid harms that we see day in day out that worry many of us.
I received a reply so disheartening & demoralising - a sign of what he thinks of
#NHS
primary care.
To be published tomorrow
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Yet schools isolate WHOLE YEAR GROUPS for one case.
I am dying with this nonsense.
It’s entirely baffling that two England players are self isolating (even if as a precaution) but Scottish players are not. If we’ve been in same place as positive person we must self isolate? Hate to see football effected but it is a confusing example to fans. They must be clear.
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Why are we doing so well at vaccinating in the U.K.?
Attitude of my GP colleagues locally heard today “If we have vaccines in the fridge I’d rather work on Sundays and have them in arms than just sitting there”.
#teamGP
#proud
@nadhimzahawi
@DHSCgovuk
@PHE_uk
@rcgp
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When I say "vaccinations save lives" and you tweet back at me with some guff, here, this is for you
http://t.co/A1sDnoLo5q
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Just to point out -
@DrSarahJarvis
is a doctor and caprice isn’t.
In case anyone wants to decide who to listen to 🤨🤨🤨🤨
“Let us make no mistake about this, we are not going to solve this.”
Dr Sarah Jarvis disputes Caprice's claim that the best thing to do to contain coronavirus would be a two-week lockdown, saying: "It has categorically not worked."
@DrSarahJarvis
|
@TheJeremyVine
|
#JeremyVine
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I can’t understand why on earth
#LucyLetby
best friend agreed to appear on
#panorama
Seems so misguided, disrespectful, naive and bizarre to smile talking about her love of cocktails, when she’s been convicted of multiple child murders.
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We should be thanking AND SUPPORTING young people, not shaming them
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Kids have no school, no sport, no peers and no physical activity.
House arrest.
Many have also lost therapy, healthcare, social support...
This should not surprise anyone. Read it and weep.
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⬇️Everything that is wrong with celeb health advice in one post ⬇️
Just hoping the million likes are ironic 🙄
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Interesting this good news story not making BIG headlines whereas the South African variant vaccine story (small trial, reported inaccurately) did.
Common asthma drug cuts COVID-19 hospitalization risk, recovery time - Oxford study
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But last night we planned where we’re going next.
Jews who escaped Europe in the 1930s talked about the suitcases always being ready.
It’s 2018. The suitcase, once again, is packed.
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My GP surgery looks after 12,000 patients so I say this from experience.
I cannot think of a medical exemption that stops
#Djokovic
(or anyone) getting a vaccination.
Other than privilege of course.
Given the strict restrictions
#Australia
has upheld this is simply grotesque
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“Dr”
I LOVE it. I’ve never seen that quip on social media before.
I have a Cambridge university medical degree with 2 decades experience of medicine and you have a blog with photos of yourself hiking, but yeah I’m a “dr”
Run along now, back to promoting child death 👋🏼
Look at this "Dr" unthinkingly disputing my elementary observation that the immune system functions in the absence of vaccination.
I know, I know. I committed heresy against the vaccine religion.
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I appreciate I normally broadcast on health and I’m somewhat distracted right now
It’s a very uncomfortable and painful time to be Jewish right now. None of us sleep.
Our friends and family in Israel have been murdered kidnapped and raped.
Some people we regard as friends…
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If only everyone talking about summer holidays spent some of that time contemplating the tsunami of children’s mental health problems this last year has provoked, and prioritising that this year.
I suppose that’s not as palatable as someone’s holiday to Cornwall.
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Reality bites:
Patient refuses to leave home due to covid risk, refuses to allow vacc’d docs/nurses in because of covid and refuses AstraZeneca vaccine due to clots.
Now at huge risk from other harms left untreated.
Do people in the media think before they scaremonger?
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Cases are dropping consistently.
Masks do not need to be reintroduced in school.
United Kingdom Daily Coronavirus (COVID-19) Report · Sunday 7th November.
30,305 new cases (people positive) reported, giving a total of 9,301,909.
62 new deaths reported, giving a total of 141,805.
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The collateral damage and non Covid harm was NEVER thought through by experts who were anything but sage.
I could cry knowing now that all our fears about damage to children were warranted.
Single focus experts led us into a very dark place.
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Wow. I couldn’t disagree more!
Since when has a public health campaign ever been based on blaming the public?
Intensive care doctor at UCL Prof Hugh Montgomery tells
@TimesRadio
: "We can't blame the Government, we can't blame the Tier system. This is people behaving badly. I'm just very angry about this. If we were wearing masks, washing hands, this virus would not be as it is".
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With sudden confirmation of
#vaccinations
supply for Friday my colleagues were calling eligible patients to book appointments as late as 10pm tonight.
Imagine your GP calling you at 10pm! Unsurprisingly everyone was delighted by the call ☎️
#NHS
#vaccinate
@DHSCgovuk
#TeamGP
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The
#vaccine
is not going to give us
#Christmas
But I do think it’s going to give us our lives back in 2021 🙏🏼
#Pressconference
#COVID19
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People who don’t need letters from GPs but still ask you for them:
Your gym
Your boss if you’re off under 7days
Your school when you’re off
Your uni
Your airline when you’re pregnant (
@Ryanair
are the worst for this.)
This wastes GP time and is not NHS work.
#nhspressure
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The
@ICRC
have not been ONCE to the child, elderly, frail, raped, ?pregnant, ill, injured, dying hostages to deliver humanitarian aid or medicines
The Red Cross was founded on the principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, unity and universality but not if…
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Who’s voting for
#JonathanVanTam
to run the country? And do all the communications too.
🙋♀️
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In the last year unfortunately I’ve seen the
@NHSuk
from the patient/carer side & I can tell you this.
It’s so bloody marvellous - it’s even more marvellous than I’ve always thought as a doctor.
The people are just fantastic.
And yes I am looking at you
@Ldn_Ambulance
🙏🏼
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At my GP surgery currently discussing how we can protect our staff from abuse from patients. Nice.
Massive escalation recently. Language. Aggression. Blackmail.
Clapping seems long forgotten.
Staff not happy to be front of house.
#NHS
#nhscrisis
@rcgp
@Parody_RCGP
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Since when do
#PayPal
get to tell us who people can and can’t support. This is online tech control on steroids!
And bear in mind you can literally destroy your life gambling online with PayPal, I don’t think they’re in any position to censor the rest of us
@UsforThemUK
💪🏻💪🏻
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What a basic narrow-sighted comment typical of commentary on
#COVID19
Some people will not be at a Christmas table next year because they were alone isolated all of 2020 and died from physical or mental health conditions exacerbated by loneliness
.
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Every single time you think about closing schools.
Every time you hear someone flippantly negate the sacrifices of the young.
Every time you hear politicians gloss over the mental health effects.
Think of this boy.
And his family.
RIP.
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Morning!
Saturday morning
#vaccination
clinic
All supply has arrived to keep us going through the weekend 😊
#COVID19
#COVIDVaccination
#CovidVaccine
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GPs and
#NHS
staff on the ground are doing all we can to promote vaccine uptake often in our “spare” time, even if it helps one person to get protected.
I’d be grateful therefore if experts can be careful about wrongly saying these vaccines don’t work against variants
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Anti vaxxers must be crying this morning 😭
Over 25s so keen to book
#CovidVaccine
the minute it has opened…
This is a reflection of what I hear from patients and see on the ground.
People trust science and millions who had it already rather than conspiracy Kim on YouTube
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Do the maths.
If it was really only about antibodies, we’d have had 1000s of reinfections a day by now.
Antibodies have never been the only aspect of a fully functioning immune system.
Covid-19 immunity could only last a few months after infection, study finds
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Are the people who run the Zoe app aware of the worried-well-false-positives they are creating and the increased GP workload they are creating, with people phoning us now worried about diabetes because of the app and once feeling a bit thirsty......
Very frustrating and unfair…
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1. There is a compromise between big jolly& total isolation. It’s not all or nothing.
2. A death = a death. Whether from covid or loneliness. Grief is the same. Pain is pain
3. There is now a
#Tsunami
of mental health problems that cripple, ruin & stop lives. Unimportant?
What’s your plan then - tell everyone to have a big old family jolly over Christmas, and hope the virus doesn’t notice?
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Any patients who needed or wanted to be seen face to face today I saw.
And it made me realise something was missing from this whole discussion:
*Most GPs want to see patients face to face*
It’s nicer. It’s easier. It’s safer. It’s why we went into medicine.
That’s it.
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