If you are a doctor, do yourself a favour and read this. This is what it like for patients at the moment. Also, it’s a great reminder that whatever your specialty, your first job is to listen

'The second is the continuing bias, conscious & unconscious, against women and girls. The consequences are serious & all-pervasive, affecting health & wellbeing directly & indirectly... Girls remain less likely than boys to get a good education, and grow up to be self-confident.'

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien: Film-maker & NHS cleaner Hassan Akkad lbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts…

This is essential listening. So moved by your story. Power to you Hassan Akkad حسان عقاد James O'Brien lbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts…

If a neurologist breezed in and confidently advised a change in the treatment of my asthma, I'd be polite but ask a respiratory physician. Public health, epidemilogy, virology and immunology are very different disciplines. Listen to the right expertise at the right time.

Never thought I'd be reading the The New York Times and see an opinion piece by Prof. Akiko Iwasaki and Ruslan Medzhitov on the central concepts of innate, adaptive and memory immune responses. We need more of this! Educate everyone on what makes what we study fascinating nytimes.com/2020/07/31/opi…

Simple humanity. Scotland showing the way.

Immunocompromised patients "may shed viable [replication competent, grown in culture] #SARSCoV2 for at least 2 months." Results from 20 patients w/ #cancer who received stem cell transplants or CAR T-cells NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

A 2020 View of Thymus Stromal Cells in T Cell Development jimmunol.org/content/206/2/…

Good explanation regarding the nuances and need to be pragmatic

I'm an NHS consultant anaesthetist. I see the terror in my Covid patients' eyes Brilliant piece of writing. theguardian.com/world/2021/jan…

We find that just like B cells, T follicular helper (TFH) cells undergo antigen-dependent clonal selection in germinal centres (GC) too - check out our work in @nature with work from Julia Merkenschlager Shlomi Finkin and many more nature.com/articles/s4158…

📢All #Haringey residents are invited to attend Haringey Council 's webinar about the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday 23 February at 7pm. You can join the event on the night via this link: bit.ly/2NvkaEy

Did you know that now 20,000 #pregnant people have had the #COVID19 #vaccine in the US? 🤰🏽 So of course, I have updated my explainer! But how does the US safety data look so far? And how's it looking in the UK? 🧵 drive.google.com/file/d/1_wHIYX…

Twitter, I commend this thread to you.

#COVID19 #IndianVariant⬆️⬆️ in UK. Many #immunosuppressed #patients not immune after 2 doses #CovidVaccine. Professor Chris Whitty Urgently need: a) allow 3rd dose; b) shielding advice; c)vaccinate all >18 & prob all >16 d)access to Mabs for non responders Nadhim Zahawi Kidney Care UK @kidneycareuk.bsky.social

Excited to share that our new study describing 5 new variants of unknown significance in the STAT1 gene is out. #PID #PrimaryImmunodefiency #STAT1 #RareDiseases Practical challenges for functional validation of STAT1 gain of function genetic variants pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36722341/

If you are working to chip away at a toxic culture to create a more positive future, that existing culture is likely going to chip away at you. Finding a group of people where you can put each other back together again is invaluable.