Kamran Abbasi
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Editor in chief, The BMJ @bmj_latest | @EditorJRSM | i: @kamran_abbasi_bmj | Cricket writer: Dawn | https://t.co/Z5D0jqLAde | Book: ‘Englistan’ via Amazon
Joined February 2009
In 1999, I worked with Abdul Qadir, Pakistan's great leg break and googly bowler, on his autobiography. It was never published . Qadir died in 2019 . I'm serialising King of Spin: The Untold Story of Abdul Qadir on Substack.
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Critics of the methodology of the systematic reviews that form the basis of the Cass Review are displaying their limited understanding of research methods and evidence based medicine — but that’s what got us into this mess in the first place.
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Pakistan have travelled the world, of course to meet their financial needs, but travelled the world nonetheless to help other countries keep international cricket going during a global pandemic – yet other countries as ever are quick to dump Pakistan without hesitation. #PAKvNZ.
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"We, Russian doctors, nurses, and paramedics, strongly oppose the military actions carried out by Russian armed forces on the territory of Ukraine.". A brave open letter by Russian health professionals @bmj_latest .
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Apparently we mustn't publish articles by "hardline scientists", "hardline experts", or critics of government policy. If the purpose of the UK's covid inquiry isn't to answer hard(line) questions about the government's pandemic policy then what is it?
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If this tour happens, with these players, it will be a major statement #PAKvAUS.
A full strength Australian squad will tour Pakistan to play 3 Tests, 3 ODI’s and one T20. It will be Australia’s first tour since 1998, team will depart to Pak at the end of this month
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Pakistan rekindle the Sharjah magic to prove to themselves and the world that they've got the class to win this #ICCT20WorldCup2021 . #PAKvNZ.
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Good that Pakistan's National T20 competition has gone head to head with the IPL. Bad that you can't see it anywhere but Pakistan. Missing out on both eyeballs and revenue. @TheRealPCB.
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Critique Cass if you want but the state of the science is what it is: evidence on puberty blockers and hormones in young people with gender dysphoria is "wholly inadequate." Best now to focus on holistic care and new research that must follow @bmj_latest
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The evidence is clear: Ivermectin is of no benefit in covid-19. But here are two shocking examples (from USA and Mexico) of unethical and unlawful experimentation on vulnerable people during the pandemic. @bmj_latest.
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A new analysis accepted for publication in JRSM shows clear benefits of vaccinating children aged 12-17yrs with a two dose strategy — a direct challenge to UK's vaccine committee. @EditorJRSM @dgurdasani1 @chrischirp @GabrielScally @globalhlthtwit. Read ⬇️
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4 BILLION EXCESS DOSES. In a recent editorial we said the rich world will accumulate 1bn excess covid vaccine doses by the end of 2021. We called it a crime against humanity. New data suggest that this will grow to approx 4bn by the end of 2022. @bmj_latest @_HassanF @GYamey
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Today’s press briefing started badly with @uksciencechief telling us that number of cases and deaths is decreasing when the numbers essentially show steady state. We all want the numbers to ‘come down’ but transparency and honesty build trust.
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There is only one conclusion to draw from the Cummings testimony: We need an independent public inquiry and we need one now. Avoiding and delaying an inquiry has cost tens of thousands of lives.
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This clear argument for face coverings by @trishgreenhalgh was published by @bmj_latest on 9th April. More than three months later, face coverings will now be mandatory in confined public spaces. There has been no meaningful change to the evidence base in those wasted 3 months.
From the 24 July, face coverings will be compulsory in England's shops. In this analysis (April 2020) Trisha Greenhalgh and colleagues argue that because covid-19 is such a serious threat, wearing masks in public should be advised
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In happier news, loving the return of a major cricket nation to Pakistan to play a Test match in front of a good sized crowd with great coverage. Credit where it’s due to @TheRealPCB @CricketAus @iramizraja #PAKvsAUS.
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"There was never a more important time to be evidence based, patient centred, open, and courageous. These are The BMJ's values, and we will live by them to improve the health of people and the planet". Thank you for each and every warm welcome. @bmj_latest.
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The UK, specifically England, once more sees vaccinations and boosters as the only way out of the current crisis. Re-introducing preventative measures, non-pharmaceutical ones, is common sense and not to be dismissed on political principle. Deaths are not ‘mercifully low’.
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Short, sharp verdict by @trishgreenhalgh on @BorisJohnson: . "On behalf of all those who are bereaved, chronically sick, clinically vulnerable, the frontline workers, and citizens who made sacrifices for the greater good. You cannot lead us". @bmj_latest.
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Within 24 hours and entirely independently of each other, @bmj_latest and @TheLancet published articles arguing that SARS-CoV-2 is airborne and that airborne transmission must be taken seriously:.1 .2
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Covid-19: A new @bmj_latest investigation, informed by a whistleblower, reveals how @FDA failed to investigate a series of alarming data integrity irregularities during the Pfizer vaccine trial. @thackerpd with the story.
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Even in defeat that's arguably the best Pakistan batting performance in Australia in over 20 years. #AusvPak.
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Bravo, Nepal!.
1/9) 🎙️It's been so inspiring to see this moment go that viral around the world. There's a few things I might not have got across in the moment on commentary that I wanted to explain as to what made it so special & why Nepali cricket should be so proud. A #SpiritofCricket thread
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“In an overwhelmed NHS, staff are conscripted, whether they like it or not, in the soul-destroying business of delivering substandard care”. Enough of the political view and the policy expert view. Hear the anguished cry of frontline staff @doctor_oxford .
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Poland, the first country to see mass resignations of medical advisors for being ignored by politicians. Seems unlikely to happen anywhere else but perhaps it should?. @bmj_latest .
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What has cricket become? T10, T20, 40 overs, 50 overs, and T100. Small crowds, no structure, no meaning. This isn’t embracing modernity. This is a game destroying itself in pursuit of a fast buck.
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I don't know how @TheRealPCB ended up with @babarazam258 and @iMRizwanPak at their prime in the same team but we're lucky to see it #PAKvsAUS.
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It’s increasingly clear that when the reckoning comes, the @10DowningStreet mafia will land blame for their own deadly errors at the feet of their scientific advisers. The smart ones understand this and are speaking their minds. Above all, duty to the public must come first.
"We should have gone into lockdown earlier… I think that has cost a lot of lives unfortunately," says SAGE member Professor John Edmunds. #Marr #Covid_19
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Here’s my annual @IPL tweet. I can’t watch it. It deliberately and selectively excludes players from one country, the country of my birth, for political reasons - and has always done so. Yet, players, writers, commentators, other boards, and ICC remain mute on this scandal 💰💰.
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Have @lahoreqalandars ever thought of replacing their wrestler/masseur coach and captain? Or are these jobs for life? #PSL6.
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Nobody has called the #COVID19 disaster more consistently, more accurately, and more ahead of the game than @devisridhar. Nobody.
People accusing me of hindsight when I’ve been saying the same things (like a broken record) for months. Started following this virus closely in early Jan & trying to put forward constructive & data-driven analysis & recommendations in media, in research work & directly to govt.
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Does #COVID19 cause long term respiratory complications? The answer is yes, and they are substantial. We're also still learning how best to manage them #LongCovid @bmj_latest
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Fair to say, Pakistan's batsmen didn't like the short fast stuff and didn't play the situation. This isn't a '92 scenario. There's a lack of quality in this team. #PvWI.
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It took us 20 years to forget how to bat; we’re 10 years into forgetting how to bowl. Fielding we never knew. Thank God for the random geniuses that keep us afloat. #NZvPAK.
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While England is ending lockdown in a rush, with little logic or proper systems in place to test/trace/isolate, @devisridhar and @Adriel_KH_Chen explain how Scotland's slow and steady approach to #COVID19 offers hope of a 'zero covid' future @bmj_latest
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In two months, the UK has gone from the lowest rate of new cases per million in Europe to the highest. Welcome to an uncontrolled pandemic in children and people who aren't fully vaccinated.
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Remarkable that a young Pakistan team beat England by 9 wickets in just over 3 days. This Lord’s win ranks with 1982, 1996, and 2016 - for very different reasons. Can Pakistan come to England every summer please. #ENGvPAK.
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Biden says the pandemic is over. 3000 deaths a week in the summer say otherwise — and winter is coming. US experts in health and economics argue it’s time to redouble and refocus efforts to fight covid, not retreat. @bmj_latest @gregggonsalves @AbraarKaran.
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Bad team selection, worse decision to bowl first, moments of excellence with the ball, missed opportunities in the field, praying for rain, praying the batting fires, @ImranKhanPTI railing against bits and pieces players. Groundhog day for Pakistan cricket. #INDvsPAK #CWC19.
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Well played England. Your reserves performed better than Pakistan's first team. Would you believe that?. Pakistan now face a battle to qualify for the next 50-overs World Cup in India in 2023. #ENGvPAK.
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A moment in time; 50 yrs of the BMJ in one photograph. I’m with the other three living editors in chief of @bmj_latest @fgodlee @Richard56 and Stephen Lock.
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They kill your hope and then they raise it from the depths. The story of Pakistan cricket moves on but the emotions endure. #EngvPak.
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Covid-19 hospital admissions rise amid record infection rates. Deaths going up too. If all you care about is the economy, then how is it good that the workforce in every sector is being affected? Public health measures protect health and wealth.@bmj_latest.
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Pakistan did well to avoid the follow on but there’s no escaping the fact that this was a woeful batting display. The techniques of this top order won’t travel well outside Asia and the middle order is unproven at Test level. Hard times ahead #NZvPak.
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1 Covid presents with a wide variety of symptoms (see new paper).2 NHS still only allows PCR testing for a narrow set of symptoms (see below).3 The push is to use more lateral flow tests. Too little PCR+Too much LFTs = uncontrolled pandemic. @bmj_latest .
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Children are at risk guinea pigs in schools testing via @educationgovuk @GavinWilliamson. The 'trials' are unscientific, unethical, and must be stopped. Open letter @bmj_latest by @dgurdasani1 @trishgreenhalgh @martinmckee @deeksj @theAliceRoberts et al .
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Two million deaths but where is the political accountability for mishandling a pandemic response? Is it social murder, manslaughter, misconduct in public office? In a new editorial, I explore these issues and how accountability is possible @bmj_latest
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This is nonsense. The investigation was fully fact checked and legally checked. It’s no surprise that Pfizer and FDA are saying there is nothing to see here. There is and trial participants and the public deserve better @thackerpd.
@FreePressDean Some of your fact check is great - i.e. statements from all the players - but where does the sentence "On Twitter, Jackson does not express unreserved support for COVID vaccines" fit into a *fact check*?. @thackerpd @KamranAbbasi.
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“Health is deteriorating from the cradle to the grave.” . The latest paper in our BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS, by @MichaelMarmot et al @bmj_latest. NHS and the whole of society must act on social determinants of health for a healthier future
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Against all the odds Pakistan made #No1TestTeam. I was lucky to write about it: Misbah's band of pragmatic dreamers
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Verdict on tonight’s #RCPEGM will be a damning one. It was a misjudgement of mood, safety concerns, and data. The college position of supporting motions 1-4 but opposing motion 5 is an illogical one. “The pause” may require definition but it demands exploration. A rethink needed.
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T20 captaincy is a good place to begin. That's where @babarazam258 should have started and left the other formats to other players. He seemed more actively in control today. #ENGvsPAK.
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A major new announcement: Mandatory data and code sharing for research published by The BMJ @bmj_latest
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One of the more surreal days in the ever more surreal world of British medicine.
May I add my personal apology for the confusion and/or distress and note the message below is the GMC position. @parthaskar @doctor_oxford @ollieburtonmed @TheBMA @BMA_JuniorDocs @mmamas1973 @DrLKVaughan @UKGastroDr @DrAsifQasim.
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If Sri Lanka, victims of the 2009 terrorist attack in Lahore, do this then it’s one of the greatest gestures in the history of sport #MakeCricketNotWar #WeAreOne.
“Sri lanka will play one Test match in Pakistan”. Wow a wonderful news. @TheRealPCB should confirm it officially so we could celebrate & say thank you to @OfficialSLC 👏👏👏.
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Sir Chris Whitty presents encouraging data about 'covid' deaths and wonders about deaths from all causes?. Here are the data that show all cause mortality has been running high since July, in other words from around the time the UK 'opened up'. NZ shown as a comparator.
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A statement of concern from @trishgreenhalgh et al, re @RCPhysicians extraordinary general meeting on physician associates @bmj_latest
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"As a doctor with long covid, I feel abandoned by the NHS. In medicine, being ill, being human, and looking after ourselves is still too often seen as a kind of failure or weakness.". A view that resonates @bmj_latest.
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This deserves to become one of the most influential articles we’ve ever published: why and how clinical guidelines should consider “clinicians’ time needed to treat”. @vmontori @GordonGuyatt @bmj_latest
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We will not be covering the new NHS workforce plan at @bmj_latest until it’s available. All we’ve seen is a press release with a record list of endorsements by college presidents and other worthies.
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We will ask for the COI declaration on this article to be updated following what was disclosed at #RCPEGM @bmj_latest @trishgreenhalgh.
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Following the @RCPhysicians extraordinary general meeting, we asked PRCP to explicitly update the competing interests statement on this article. This is as explicit as RCP say they are able to be at this time @bmj_latest @trishgreenhalgh
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Lots of good from the new @TheRealPCB but some surprising reasons for concern:. 1 Appointment of Misbah as both head coach and chief selector. 2 Sacking of Sarfraz Ahmed as T20 captain. 3 Social media output that is trivial, embarrassing, and promotes crooks. 4 Odd T20 selection.
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In six World Cups since 1999, Pakistan have only reached the semi-finals once. A dismal record that probably most accurately reflects where Pakistan are at in international cricket. @TheRealPCB should be embarrassed.
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Hmm…We must be doing something right @bmj_latest 😂.
@SwipeWright Someone needs to fire that editor.
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@IlonaKickbusch I may be old fashioned but the accepted way to disagree with an article is to submit a response, not to demand that we sack the editor. This is the (BMJ) way.
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The question of the moment: What are the risks of #COVID19 transmission in different scenarios? Here are the answers based on the best available evidence and common sense - all in a clear table from @trishgreenhalgh and colleagues. Use it, share it, stay safe @bmj_latest.
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Today's result doesn't mean Pakistan are a bad team. They put in a bad undercooked performance. We don't know whether they are a good team yet either, but we do know that Pakistan hasn't focused sufficiently on this format. On to Lord's. #ENGvPAK.
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Sport has the power to bring people together. As do health and science. This is the unity, mutual respect, and friendship that extremists on both sides will condemn and not want you to see. Kudos to the women cricketers of India and Pakistan.
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11 voices of medical/public health science who spoke bravely in a pandemic year. You may not always agree but you should listen: @AllysonPollock @ashishkjha @devisridhar @GabrielScally @GYamey @IlonaKickbusch @Johnrashton47 @deeksj @kamleshkhunti @martinmckee @trishgreenhalgh.
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Today, I'm announcing our new Commission on the Future of Academic Medicine. This will be a global commission overseen by our regional editorial boards aimed at reviving academic medicine and its role in improving the health and wellbeing outcomes of people and planet @bmj_latest.
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Honoured to be included among the 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic people in health. Thank you judges and @HSJEditor . It's great that @HSJnews recognises the positive impact that ethnic minorities have on people's health.
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Why is to so hard to give Africa the vaccine technology that Africa really wants? "Pfizer and BioNTech see this ability to save lives without help as a threat. Africa’s technological independence doesn’t fit their business plans.". My latest in @bmj_latest
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This is the most pathetic showing on a tour of Australia in living memory - and there have been some bad ones. Too much inexperience for such a tough tour. Misbah can’t continue as coach and chief selector #AusvPak.
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If you want the pandemic to end, support our urgent call for global vaccine equity. Companies aided by politicians are profiteering from vaccine inequity. It is a crime against humanity - and must be stopped. @_HassanF @GYamey and I @bmj_latest.
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New research shows that doctors who don't take gifts from Pharma prescribe better and more cheaply @bmj_latest
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If Pakistan do win this, considering the experience of these players, this might be the most surprising and best win by a Pakistan team in England. Yes, England are playing poorly but Pakistan's level of performance and discipline is exceptional in all departments. #EngvPak.
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The big question: How does the #covid19 pandemic end? . The answer is 'sustainable endemicity', as @gmleunghku @bencowling88 et al explain. Plus the challenges and options for East Asian countries that pursued 'elimination' strategies. @bmj_latest.
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Stat of the day: India's only .World T20 title (in 2007) came before the IPL started.
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If you wanted to stick your knife deeper into UK’s public health response to #COVID19, Boris Johnson @10DowningStreet just did it. Perhaps this is the outcome he wants? People disregarding lockdown, the virus ‘running hot’, and folk going back to the old normal at any human cost?.
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Michael Marmot, world expert on social determinants of health, says @10DowningStreet was wrong to pin racial disparities solely on socioeconomic factors. The Sewell report 'misused evidence' to wrongly conclude structural racism doesn't exist @bmj_latest
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Congratulations to @richardhorton1 @TheLancet on the journal’s 200th anniversary, from your younger 183 years old fellow rowdies @bmj_latest
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NEW: Public health measures (masks, distancing, hand washing) reduce incidence of #COVID19 based on best available evidence ⬇️. Research: . Editorial by @SusanMichie et al examines the study's strengths and weaknesses: @bmj_latest
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Boys chased 350 vs Aussies with an over to spare? No, no way? Dream on. When does the match really start?. #PAKvsAUS.
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Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 beyond 2m is real, and ventilation and mask wearing (surgical and face coverings) are both important. A 'rapid' expert review by Public Health England convened Feb 2021, reported last week. It deserves greater attention
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What is the reason for the high transmission rate of SARS-Cov-2? When are people most infectious? What is the role of asymptomatic spread? Find out what we do and do not know in this free education article from @bmj_latest
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Low O2 sats and raised inflammatory markers on hospital admission are stronger predictors of poor outcomes in #COVID19 than the better known ones (age and comorbidities) finds new research from New York, one of 3 large datasets just published @bmj_latest
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This is nonsense. Viral tracking studies suggest most cases that triggered the UK’s outbreak originated from France, Italy and Spain.
🔴 Exclusive: Half of Britain’s imported coronavirus cases originate from Pakistan, amid calls for tougher quarantine checks on arrivals from "high risk" countries.
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If seeking answers for 200,000 pandemic deaths leads to false accusations against @bmj_latest of “fuelling a culture war”, then so be it. The only people “fuelling a culture war” in this case are @Telegraph
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Something wrong with Pakistan’s bowling plans. Either that or the bowlers can’t execute them #EvP.
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We publish high quality research, state of the art education, top class journalism, including ground breaking investigations, and well argued and courageous comment which is exactly what the @bmj_latest opinion piece by @GYamey and @gorskon is — unlike this nonsense in @spectator.
The British Medical Journal (@bmj_latest) is supposed to publish high quality medical research, but it is now printing tabloid gossip and false slander against physicians and scientists voicing views on the pandemic.
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