👇looking forward to our webinar 🤩

We are really please to have our paper on Long Covid subtypes out today in Nature Immunology. This project worked with PHOSP-COVID study cohort to delve into what is different in those with persistent symptoms. nature.com/articles/s4159…
Here's a short thread on what we found:

Cabinet Office question from Ellie Reeves on no. people in UK currently out of work due to #LongCovid . Answer given

🔴Most recent estimate July ‘22 - 375,000

🔴Nov 23 - Jan 24 - 2.7m not working/seeking work due to long-term sickness/disability. Can’t say how many due to LC

This is such a hard read if you work in the NHS. Don’t know details of the modelling but not a leap of faith to expect outcomes to deteriorate with delayed care. Too many people come to hospital for the resources available - a complex equation to reverse bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

Happy Easter 🐣

Team presenting at institute meeting 👇Nick Peters: significant nos of healthcare workers & immunodeficiency patients have no measles antibodies. Jen Heaney: our diagnostic development world aimed at facilitating vaccine uptake in LMICs Immunology and Immunotherapy Adrian Shields Sian Faustini

#measles remains a significant infection. If exposed and not vaccinated 90% of people will be infected so highly infectious. 1 in 5 children who catch measles and are unvaccinated are hospitalised in UK. Life long complications in at least 1 in 1000 😢. Vaccination prevents this

👇 excited to be presenting this June about vaccination for the immune vulnerable. How well vaccines work, what the needs are and how we might improve vaccines for our patients going forward

Thank you 🙏 STRAVINSKY 🙏 For patients with liver disease at below sites that would like to understand what Covid antibody test means email: [email protected] B’ham Oxford Imperial S’hampton Cardiff Glasgow Nottingham Sheffield Leicester Portsmouth Newcastle twitter.com/drlucycjones/s…

It’s so important for researchers to engage with the public to listen to and answer their questions on vaccination

The new British Society for Immunology toolkit provides practical advice for how to approach these #VaccineConversations 👇

immunology.org/public-informa…

Think the integration of AI into health care is not just inevitable but essential. BUT we need to learn how to use it, we need the evidence and we need quality assurance mechanisms to ensure that AI works how we expect it too, every time. So what is the accuracy and precision

“Based on current estimates, #LongCovid costs the NHS £4.2bn a year” - the on going impact from COVID being felt at a personal level but also at a national level

👇Really well written summary of the risk and breadth of viral infection in CVID. There is so much focus in guidelines on preventing bacterial infection that viral infection management or recognition is often neglected. Great job 👏

👇 we also find quite profound hypogammaglobulinaemia as part of the immune phenotype so please also measure immunoglobulins 🙏 to prevent infections early and subsequent bronchiectasis

Congratulations 🙌!

Today, NIHR Research announced the research leaders receiving the prestigious NIHR Senior Investigator Award🏅

We couldn't be more pleased to congratulate our very own Professors Mel Calvert & Richard Riley (R²) on this important recognition!

Read more: birminghambrc.nihr.ac.uk/brc-researcher…

👇ABBA and dinosaurs 🦖! What’s not to like

Great story of some top kids that had a great question. 🙋‍♀️ let’s just keep asking questions 😊 and love science 🧪 ❤️