Lots of people tweeting about their achievements this year and it is lovely to see. But if you can’t think of any, I think living through a pandemic with all of the uncertainty and moments of awfulness is an achievement in itself.

Have you got questions about #COVID19 vaccines for children and young people? Please get in touch. Here are some of the questions we have had so far...

Guide to writing a medical research manuscript bit.ly/ZaorskyManuscr… Here is advice after writing, reading, and reviewing 1000+ manuscripts. #MedTwitter

Free, reliable advice for parents and carers on children’s medicine. We have over 220 online leaflets with information on medicines commonly prescribed to children bit.ly/Meds-for-Child… MedicinesForChildren

For today’s #WellbeingWednesday Imperial NHS 💙 check out the new partnership between Be Military Fit & NHS England - live & online classes, including HIIT, yoga, COVID recovery programme, wellness, and education on nutrition and reaching your fitness goals. bmfnhspartnership.org

#JobOppurtunity Imperial Department of Infectious Disease Together with Graham Cooke we are looking for a Research Fellow in #Bioinformatics & #PrecisionMedicine to join us in the analysis of multi-omics from clinical studies of hepatitis C, COVID-19 and other infections #RT pls jobs.ac.uk/job/CNC964/res…

#myESPID #ESPID2022

Take home messages from #ESPID2022 and WMW day 1: 1. Don't drink from puddles 2. Cats are cute but their poop is evil 3. Ask about pet rats 4. Don't ignore a low lymphocyte count 5. You can IRIS without HIV 6. Prolonged IV antibiotics is not always the answer ... Lots to learn!☺️

Truly inspirational couple of days at Walter Marget Workshop 2022 Superb participant case presentations 📖 Engaging discussions with colleagues from across the globe 🌎 Informative keynote lectures 🥼🔬🧫 Fun social programme 🍻 What more could one ask for? #WMW2022 #ESPID2022

Takeaway from Harsita Patel: Meet the expert: What are your defferentials? "Underlying renal tract problems; primary immune deficiency; periodic fever syndrome" 📍Nikos Skalkotas Hall #ESPID2022

Early start at ESPIDSociety for #meettheexpert but worth it - learning about management of prolonged & unexpected fever (very nice slide of history prompts attached) #myESPID #ESPID2022

Well done Heather Jackson presenting her work showing feasibility of a six-gene transcriptomic signature to distinguish MIS-C from Kawasaki, bacterial and viral diseases. #espid2022 DIAMONDS PERFORM Imperial Department of Infectious Disease

Professor Mike Levin presenting the latest data on MIS-C and highlighting the need of international collaboration 🌍🌎🌏at the Joint PIDS-ESPID symposium #ESPID2022 PERFORM Best Available Treatment Study

Decoding the febrile child, multiclass classification follows the diagnostic approach of the clinician Myrsini Kaforou #ESPID2022 PERFORM

It's filling up at #ExRdFest ! Katerina and Harsita Patel are on hand to lead you through our diagnostics game. Is it Malaria? Come and see us at the Medical Marvels zone Lacewing Digital Diagnostics for Africa Network DIAMONDS Centre for Paediatrics & Child Health Imperial Department of Infectious Disease

Viral persistence in MIS-C is now well established, but why mostly in children and preceded by mild COVID-19? Fits w disease tolerance model as described here: doi.org/10.1016/j.immu…

There was no evidence of autoantibodies binding donor cardiac tissues in serum from patients with MIS-C or #COVID19-vaccine myocarditis, suggesting that direct antibody-mediated mechanisms are unlikely to be driving cardiac pathology. ja.ma/3ImWD24

Autoantibody Binding to Cardiac Tissue in MIS-C and COVID-19 Vaccination–induced Myocarditis jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… vía JAMA Network Open part of JAMA Network PERFORM DIAMONDS #Covid_19