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.@NIHRtakepart When will the "technical fix" in #JonathanVanTam Deputy @CMO_England open letter of 11th June at bepartofresearch.nihr.ac.uk/… be fixed please? #vaccine #clinicaltrials
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.@stuart_lines Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 Just wondering: 1) Who does the swabbing at #Enfield #COVID19 mass test centres? 2) Who analyses samples? 3) Which kits are you using? 4) How many people have been tested and how many test positive? Thanks!
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(1/2) Just watching @_OliviaBlake on news. I agree that communication on booster intervals could be clearer. Given her degree in biomedical science, she can check @TheLancet herself: Search for "more than 12 weeks after the first dose" thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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(2/2) Perhaps researchers could monitor antibody titres at varying intervals after 1st dose, as a check?
(Disclosure: I am a participant in #oxfordastrazeneca vaccine trial, with many months between dose 1 and 2. Just unblinded, I now know I received covid vaccine)
Are we doing pooled testing, which is more efficient than testing each sample individually? If not, why not?
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@BorisJohnson @MattHancock @DHSCgovuk @Meg_HillierMP @Jeremy_Hunt @BBCHughPym @BBCFergusWalsh @GabrielScally @AllysonPollock @chrischirp
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Dear government
If you physically can't swab people or send kits, it doesn't matter how many tests your labs can process. The daily capacity stats should be at the system level. Otherwise they're misleading.
#TestandTrace
Dear government #TestandTrace @DHSCmedia
I have re-labelled the graph with system capacity
Best wishes
@stianwestlake @carlheneghan
ALT Coronavirus testing capacity
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Hello @didoharding @BWCHBoss @tomriordan. Friend had Covid symptoms at work. 🥵 Went home, self isolated, requested test. Test delivered, sample bottle broken, buffer leaking out. Asks for replacement but told to go to test centre despite feeling rough. Thoughts? #testandtrace
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Update: Friend called helpline. He has really bad muscle pains. Nearest test centre 8 miles away (despite him being in London zone 2) and no home test kits available. Stats on lab capacity are meaningless if people can't access testing @AllysonPollock @chrischirp @GabrielScally
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Dear #DataScience twitter, where can I find an adjacency or connectivity matrix for small area geographies of the UK (eg MSOA level), using time or distance? Trying to do some 🚑🏥 analysis @oobr @owenboswarva @puntofisso @jburnmurdoch @MurrayData @DanRavenEllison
Could @RCOphth, @DVLAgovuk, @trishgreenhalgh and #EBM people please advise whether the Snellen chart and slit lamp have been replaced by a test drive if experiencing weird vision? Perhaps we need a non-inferiority trial? #Cummings
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If you haven't yet seen @MedSoc_Soton's quick 5mins video on talking to relatives on the phone then here it is: youtu.be/YP2uHU82PuU ! This video was closer to my heart due to my grandma currently being in hospital with #Covid_19 with no way for us to visit 1/
If candidates for the #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #vaccine trial by @ajpollard1 @VaccineTrials @OxfordVacGroup are ineligible to continue due to likely prior infection, could you signpost them to @NHSBT #plasma trial (which currently has an error in signup form)? nhsbt.nhs.uk/how-you-can-hel…
Why did @DHSCgovuk (1) expand the list of key workers eligible for #Covid19UK testing and (2) allow people to self-refer at the same time? Doing both has overwhelmed capacity 1/2
xitter.cf/BBCHughPym/status/1253… @BBCHughPym
The Department of Health has said that there are no coronavirus test slots available currently at drive in centres today. Home test kits are also no longer bookable today. A spokesman said this was down to a successful launch in England today with 16,000 people booking tests
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Asymptomatic healthcare workers, esp those ending self-isolation due to household members, are the most likely to transmit to vulnerable patients, so shouldn't these individuals have been prioritised in #TestingForCovid19?🤷🏼♂️2/2
@BBCFergusWalsh @Peston @bbclaurak @uksciencechief
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Hopefully @CommonsHealth @Jeremy_Hunt @YvetteCooperMP @Keir_Starmer @JonAshworth and the media can ask these questions on our behalf. It's OK for @DHSCgovuk to change eligibility criteria. This is not about saving face, it's about saving lives.
.@NHSuk says that there is no evidence that vitamin D deficiency can reduce risk of #Covid_19
There is a pending evidence review by @carlheneghan @trishgreenhalgh et al @CebmOxford
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@uksciencechief @CMO_England @CMOWales
There have been some news reports about vitamin D reducing the risk of coronavirus. However, there is no evidence that this is the case.
Read more about vitamin D on our page. nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-a…
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But this recent paper from @tcddublin says that vit D can reduce risk of respiratory infection and there is a high level of deficiency in the population.
With #lockdown, people are not getting as much sun exposure
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#BAME people have a higher mortality rate for #Covid_19 and have higher vit D deficiency. Yes, there are confounders but, if it is relatively safe, why not encourage people to take 4/500 IU vit D per day for bone health, if not for immunity?
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@KeithMGodfrey @MRC_LEU