Paul Hardiman
@themainthing
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Interested in informed healthy choices, communication, transparency, trust and resisting a cynical world: imagine that! All my own personal views and opinions.
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Joined April 2009
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
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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
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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
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#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 💪
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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...
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My 9 year old son asked me to post this quote from him publicly online. Here is what he says.
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It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.
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"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?
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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?
@wa7trel @Takethatdoctors @SomethingsNotR3 Vaccines are not required for individuals to be protected against disease. The immune system functions in the absence of vaccination. The risk-benefit analysis for vaccination also differs for each vaccine and every individual.
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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
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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
World Bank commits support to fight Samoa measles outbreak US$3.5 million to support measles emergency response, with further $9.3m program to address key health system challenges.
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Don’t demonize parents who are hesitant to vaccinate — discuss their worries instead
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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.
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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
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vaccinestoday.eu
The measles virus wipes the immune system’s memory for up to three years, increasing the risk of catching other infectious diseases. More than 80,000 people in Europe contracted measles last year,...
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The WHO didn’t place vaccine hesitancy as one of the top ten threats to public health at a whim. AntiVaxxers threaten the health and well-being of our countries, and continue to spread their nonsense with little opposition. #ItsOKtovaccinate #vaccineswork
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clinicians, and all medically and scientifically trained people to come together and become intolerant of these pseudoscience cultists that presume a few highlighted Inserts, some YouTube videos claiming conspiracy garbage as legitimate, and speaking out against this garbage.
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YouTube “research.” It frustrates me that even teaching and tutoring in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Anatomy and Pathology, that somehow conspiracy theory Google searches and YouTube videos are a gold-standard form of “research.” The time has come for doctors, scientists,
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See this timely article from the World Economic Forum website: time for change
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From CoMO: "#Meningitis is a devastating disease but not an inevitable one and we believe that it can be defeated by developing global partnerships." #MeningitisAwarenessWeek #MAW19
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