💊 This #ThankfulThursday, we are paying tribute to pharmacists and pharmacies everywhere, who are working tirelessly to keep people healthy and safe, whilst under huge pressure. To all the pharmacies that are relied on by their local communities - thank you! ⭐️ #PharmacyHeroes

Very proud of my colleagues and friends - the renal team in west London have been hit hard by SARS-CoV-2 but have shown unbelievable fortitude, team working and innovation. Neill Duncan renal.imperial (Dr Darren Parsons) Prof Liz B 🇬🇧🇮🇱🇺🇦🇵🇸 Stephen McAdoo Megan Griffith Anisha Tanna Kavita Gulati and the authors

The Erasmus MC experience with #COVID‐19 in solid organ #transplant recipients onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tr… Erasmus MC Transplantation Institute Erasmus MC Intl

Please thank your NHS workforce by not charging them to use the staff car park. - Sign the Petition! chng.it/MdXCdmPG via Change.org UK

Testing for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in 356 adult UK patients with ESKD receiving in-center #hemodialysis found a seroprevalence rate of 36% and revealed that 40% of patients with antibodies had either asymptomatic infection or undetected disease by PCR alone bit.ly/j2020060827

'On a knife-edge': NHS frontline prepares for a Covid second wave | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2020/oct…

COVID-19 vaccination for adult patients with kidney disease: a position statement from the UK renal community – out now. bit.ly/33JBsmv BritishRenalSociety Kidney Care UK @kidneycareuk.bsky.social BTS National Kidney Federation

A cheering thread: with permission from Vaccine Task Force, & as part of UK-CIC to assess immunity post #CovidVaccine, it was wonderful to offer AstraZeneca vaccine to all patients in 1 of our Imperial NHS 💙 #dialysis units. Huge volunteer effort at no notice on sat & sun 1/

Estimates of number needed to vaccinate (NNV) to prevent one COVID death: Nursing home residents: 20 >80 yr olds: 160 >75 yr olds: 350 ICHD patients: 120 (ALL AGES) (stats by Damien Ashby and Richard Corbett) Only 16 ICHD patients NNV to prevent one admission Take a look.

#Pharmacists! our own Rachna who has overseen whole thing, Dawn, & Ann Mounsey made key connections; several we'd never met who went above & beyond e.g found 3 extra vials at no notice (Po, Chiswick H/Practice!)& West Herts Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust made up vials when noone else could 8/

Hanging out with the hospital pharmacist

V poor anti-S #antibodies & #Tcell responses in #COVID19 naive #haemodialysis #patients after 1 dose #chadox1 #CovidVaccine. 6 infections >11d post vaccine; 1 death. Very concerning data from Candice Clarke Michelle Willicombe #OCTAVE study; preprint here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

It's #Pharmacy24 today and this thread is my paeon to my extraordinary #pharmacy colleagues Imperial NHS 💙 Imperial People 💙. 1/

#pharmacy24 To start: HUGE thanks to wonderful #renal #pharmacists over many years; can ask them anything, they are always authoritative, responsive at all hours of day or night & just a joy to work with - led by stellar Rachna, aided and abetted by Dawn et al 2/

Amazing. I think this letter needs to be read by all the new doctors before they start next month.

Keen to highlight that medication holidays are not recommended for solid organ transplant recipients. Fiona Loud 💙 Dawn Rachna Prof Liz B 🇬🇧🇮🇱🇺🇦🇵🇸 Kidney Care UK @kidneycareuk.bsky.social Kidney Research UK BTS The UK Kidney Association

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🚨Baseline MELODY Study results online today. >100,000 immunocompromised people with organ transplants, rare autoimmune disease or blood cancer were invited 2 take part. COVID-Ab results after 3-5 vaccines were reported in >23,000. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Baseline MELODY Study now published. >100,000 immunocompromised people with organ transplants, rare autoimmune disease or blood cancer were invited 2 take part. COVID-Ab results after 3-5 vaccines were reported in >23,000 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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