Trisha Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh Twitter profile

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

2 months

Pinning two major papers here: Our Lancet review of #LongCovid And our state-of-the-science review on masks

Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 months

It’s out! Our new state-of-the-science review of MASKS/RESPIRATORS in reducing transmission of respiratory infections. 13 authors (for our disciplines, see posts 3-4). 38000 words. 413 references. One conclusion: these devices work. For detail, read on. 1/

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Goodbye Mum. You died of Covid-19, days before you were due to be vaccinated. You told them to give the ventilator to someone else. I said a FaceTime farewell from a hospital car park. You will have a Zoom funeral. You are 2020. Thanks to the devoted, exhausted #NHS staff.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

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4 years

Well done my doctor son. You came back from your gap year to look after COVID patients. You got coughed on. You got COVID. You lay alone in a bedsit for 10 days. You got better. You're off back to the wards to look after COVID patients. You and your young, brave, hopeful friends

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Trisha Greenhalgh

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3 years

Every year I retweet this piece on how to spot drowning. Last year someone replied saying they’d read my RT the previous year and later rescued a kid. TL;DR: drowning kids usually don’t scream or splash about.

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

slate.com

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Trisha Greenhalgh

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6 years

Doctor: Don’t confuse your Google search with my 6y at medical school. Patient: Don’t confuse the 1-hour lecture you had on my condition with my 20y of living with it.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

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6 years

Spouse: Apparently Scotland passed a law banning upskirting 9 years ago. Me: Yeah, men wear skirts in Scotland.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 months

Goodbye Tories. I’ve waited a long time for this day.

Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Goodbye Mum. You died of Covid-19, days before you were due to be vaccinated. You told them to give the ventilator to someone else. I said a FaceTime farewell from a hospital car park. You will have a Zoom funeral. You are 2020. Thanks to the devoted, exhausted #NHS staff.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

LONG THREAD on masks. Mute if not interested. Do masks work? Why do some people claim they don’t work? Do they cause harm? What kinds of masks should we wear? How does masking need to change now we know that Covid is airborne? When can we stop wearing them? Get your popcorn. 1/

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Trisha Greenhalgh

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Interviewed on radio this morning. Did well I think. Interviewer: "wow, you're really scary". I commented (on air) that female academics who are clear and confident are often described as "scary"; male ones with same characteristics are "authoritative" and "well prepared".

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

1 year

My mum never got any formal honour. She never did a bad thing to anyone. She never lied, never boozed. She was a lay preacher for 62y. She died of hospital-acquired covid the night Johnson + pals had one of their illegal parties. Now they're getting gongs

Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Goodbye Mum. You died of Covid-19, days before you were due to be vaccinated. You told them to give the ventilator to someone else. I said a FaceTime farewell from a hospital car park. You will have a Zoom funeral. You are 2020. Thanks to the devoted, exhausted #NHS staff.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

Stop testing, play it down, normalise the deaths, deny the long-term consequences, learn to live with it, mock the scientists. Trying to imagine what would've happened if we'd taken the same approach to a previous fast-spreading infectious disease (eg smallpox, polio, TB, HIV).

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

5 years

A few years ago, I was offered a lot of money to be the resident backstage doctor on a reality TV show (one in which the participants had been selected for having a particular mental health condition). I said if you need a resident doctor, your TV show shouldn't be happening.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

My brother works in a supermarket. Last week he was abused by a large group for asking them to wear masks. He got a lot of support from his line manager and a free cup of tea. He got up at 5 am next day to go back in to work. There's a lot of unsung heroes in this pandemic.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

Two years ago, could you have imagined a pandemic causing 379 deaths in a single day (UK), with politicians insisting the disease was “mild” and nobody in the media reporting it?

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

I've been in academia for 35 years, a professor for 20. Had never been awarded an honorary doctorate before. In 2020-21, three universities all said same: we want to be associated with you because you stand up for the truth. Humbled and proud.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Every leader on the planet is facing the same threat. Every one is responding differently. Every one will be judged by the results. Jacinda is 39. She’s leading by empathy, solidarity and openness. See Jacinda’s results. Be like Jacinda.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet

Jacinda Ardern’s leadership style, focused on empathy, isn’t just resonating with her people; it’s putting the country on track for success against the coronavirus.

www.theatlantic.com

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

2 years

Tweeps, the expert WhatsApp groups are kicking off. Kraken (XBB.1.5) is a variant of SARS-CoV-2 that you wouldn't want to catch. Cases are rising. It's time to ratchet up precautions. High-quality, close-fitting masks work. Avoiding crowds helps. Being outdoors helps. Stay safe.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

Just because most kids who get Covid live doesn’t mean it’s ok for a tiny fraction of kids to get Covid and die.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

A good day to thank the Portuguese nurse who found a vein for my chemotherapy when nobody else could, and the Spanish surgeon who did the emergency operation that saved my life.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

2 years

Two years ago today, I said goodbye from a car park. As did thousands of others in the pre-vaccine era. Let's never forget the damage this pandemic did, or how dramatically vaccines changed its course.

Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Goodbye Mum. You died of Covid-19, days before you were due to be vaccinated. You told them to give the ventilator to someone else. I said a FaceTime farewell from a hospital car park. You will have a Zoom funeral. You are 2020. Thanks to the devoted, exhausted #NHS staff.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

Can you imagine past health ministers “we’re just going to have to learn to live with smallpox”?

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Ha! Found a selfie in a bikini. To the 28 year old “researcher” who says this is unprofessional for women doctors, I’m old enough to be your grandmother. #MedBikini

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

It's a year since I first tweeted about an unusual pneumonia spreading in Wuhan, China. I lost my mother to Covid-19 on 27th December. My research on the disease, summarised in this thread, is dedicated to her. 1/

Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Goodbye Mum. You died of Covid-19, days before you were due to be vaccinated. You told them to give the ventilator to someone else. I said a FaceTime farewell from a hospital car park. You will have a Zoom funeral. You are 2020. Thanks to the devoted, exhausted #NHS staff.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

In the current pandemic context, masks don’t take away your freedom - they *increase* your freedom. If everyone indoors is effectively masked, I can go to the office, shop, get on trains, go to cinema etc. If nobody’s masked, we’re all less safe hence lifestyles more restricted.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

“Abbey School in Faversham punishes pupils for wearing face masks in class” Please someone find these amazing pupils. I’d like to invite them to lunch and tour at University of Oxford for showing scientific insight and moral courage. Heading for medicine?

Pupils given detention for wearing face masks in class

Parents have hit-out at a school for punishing pupils who wear face masks in classrooms.

www.kentonline.co.uk

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

2 years

Dear Daily Mail You drove them out. You beat them down. You misrepresented them. You put off the next generation. Own the result.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Dear troll sending me hate mail You gave me enough information to track down who you work for. I'll be passing your emails to your boss.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

I’ve muted the word Cummings long ago, so I’m only seeing 5% of the tweets, but run this one by me again: he has COVID symptoms so he drives the length of the country to deliver a potentially contagious child to a household of two elderly people, and he wants to keep his job? 😡

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 months

It’s out! Our new state-of-the-science review of MASKS/RESPIRATORS in reducing transmission of respiratory infections. 13 authors (for our disciplines, see posts 3-4). 38000 words. 413 references. One conclusion: these devices work. For detail, read on. 1/

Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review |...

SUMMARY This narrative review and meta-analysis summarizes a broad evidence base on the benefits—and also the practicalities, disbenefits, harms and personal, sociocultural and environmental impact...

journals.asm.org

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

They partied as my mother lay dying, alone over Christmas, of Covid. We obeyed the rules and didn’t visit in order to ensure we didn’t spread the virus to others.

Peter Stefanovic

@PeterStefanovi2

3 years

UK journalists should hang their heads in shame for today allowing Government Ministers to blag & spin their way out of the No 10 Christmas party scandal You could not have a party in December 2020 & comply with rules which said you cannot have a party! How hard can this be!!!

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

Doctor here. I'm promoting mask-wearing beyond 19th July. I've never made a penny selling masks, but I know what it feels like to have a relative die, alone and frightened, from Covid-19 respiratory failure.

Alastair Lloyd

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3 years

@GemmaLDillon There are some doctors promoting mask wearing after 19th July because they are selling them from their own online shop. This list would seem far more sensible and effective however.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Abuse me, I'll block you and move on. Abuse my PhD students and expect me to find out who your employer is and inform them you're bringing their business into disrepute. Young academics should be able to tweet out their papers proudly. Legitimate scientific debate, totally fine.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

You know what keeps me awake at night? The worry that there’s plenty of evidence on what we need to do to end this pandemic but people in power (whether in science or politics) don’t value it.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Messages in the last 24h: Because of your tweets - ... my dad is still alive - ... my vaccine-hesitant parent agreed to have the jab - ... our school authorities increased the ventilation - ... we students feel inspired and supported I'm not being driven off Twitter by trolls.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

2 years

Herd immunity people gone quiet recently ain’t they?

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

I've been playing with that nicely-designed but totally inaccurate anti-mask poster. Here's my version. Please circulate widely.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

LEADERSHIP from ⁦ @SadiqKhan ⁩ Masks to remain compulsory on London tube, buses and trains

Masks to remain compulsory on London tube, buses and trains

Face coverings still required on London transport from 19 July despite national rail operators making them optional

www.theguardian.com

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

One more time for those at the back.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Congratulations, Evening Standard, for getting in the first article about Jill Biden’s clothes. Why not find out what her doctorate is in?

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

4 million dead from #Covid19 . My mother, aunt and many dear friends among them. Taking a quiet minute.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

ADVICE TO ALL IN UK: If offered a vaccine - any vaccine - against Covid-19, accept it. Worry about the nuances of different variants later. Right now, Covid is still killing 1000 people a day. Being vaccinated is LOTS safer than being unvaccinated.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

New strategy. If you send me abuse from your work email, I will send it to your employer with a covering letter informing them that one of their staff is bringing their organisation into disrepute. This one's coming your way, @BrandmanU .

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

5 months

When I was a GP, I always wore something rainbow (badge, earrings, lanyard). Message to LGBTQ+ patient (whether out or not): you're safe with me. Banning rainbow-wearing means officially silencing minorities. Is opposite of common sense.

Politics UK

@PolitlcsUK

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🚨 NEW: The 'common sense' minister has banned rainbow lanyards for civil servants [ @thetimes ]

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

How to avoid sexual assault.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

I’ve just run 3 miles in a mask. Oxygen levels 99% throughout. Mask was unnecessary as I was outside and distant, but I wanted to see if I dropped dead as per some predictions. I didn’t.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

Jenny Harries was catastrophically wrong about masks in March-April 2020 when she confidently said they were harmful. She’s still giving misleading messages which underplay their benefits and overplay their disadvantages. What’s her game? Who is lobbying her?

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

I'm not visiting my mum over Christmas (and she's not visiting me) because I don't want to be responsible - directly or indirectly - for passing on an infection that would have a high chance of killing her. The pandemic is more serious now than when we took it more seriously.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

COVID-19 cases remain at 26-30,000 per day. Schools are returning in 2 weeks. The virus is airborne & highly contagious. Options: a) vaccinate teens urgently and reinstate mask mandates in secondary schools or b) put your fingers in your ears, close your eyes and go LA LA LA.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

Chris Whitty asks the public to raise their glasses this Christmas to the scientists who developed drugs and vaccines. I look forward to when we are asked to toast the scientists who demonstrated that #COVIDisAirborne and showed the benefits of masks, ventilation, filtration etc.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

The most fundamental error made in the West was to frame the debate around the wrong question (“do we have definitive evidence that masks work?”). We should have been debating “what should we do in a rapidly-escalating pandemic, given the empirical uncertainty?”. 11/

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Yes I did and yes it was.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

5 years

I’ve heard her described as the woman who would unplug your life support machine to charge her phone.

Priti Patel blocks rescue of British Isis children

Home secretary objected to extraction of unaccompanied minors and orphans from north-east Syria

www.theguardian.com

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

Why is recommending these overpriced filtration units for schools? Why not list other suppliers who provide equally good units at a fraction the cost. Who’s lobbying whom? Asking for a friend. ⁦

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Please put this woman on the front of Time magazine.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

Contrary to what an article in today’s Telegraph claims, you get MUCH BETER IMMUNITY from a full course of vaccinations than you would from catching Covid “naturally”, and you’re also MUCH less likely to die and much less likely to infect your loved ones.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

I've been corresponding with relatives of teenagers who were punished for wearing masks in class. The kids had good reasons for pushing back on school rules (in addition to science supporting what they did). They had vulnerable relatives at home whom they were anxious to protect.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

This week, I and approximately 3500 other people in the UK will be writing a eulogy. Many of these deaths occurred because the Prime Minister ignored the advice of SAGE in September to implement an urgent 2-week circuit-breaker lockdown. Populism kills.

George Eaton

@georgeeaton

4 years

The UK’s Covid-19 curve is now almost vertical.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

6 years

Academics, I corresponded yesterday with an early career researcher who was so thrown by a rude, belittling review that they still couldn’t look at the paper six months later. Let’s not eat our young.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Oxford vaccine trial is back on. Details of the suspected adverse event will not be disclosed for confidentiality reasons but independent scrutiny has concluded it’s safe for them to continue recruiting. I’ve signed up and will be showing up for my jab when my turn comes.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

The pandemic equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and shouting la la la is cancelling all testing. On the horizon from a government near you.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

Herd immunity as a way out of the pandemic was scientifically absurd two years ago. It remains scientifically absurd. It won't work just because people are now talking about it again as a solution.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

Scientists on Twitter, I believe there is currently a coordinated attempt to put out misinformation about Covid. Please keep tweeting basic information. Vaccines work (but aren’t perfect). Masks work (ditto). Deaths matter, and many are avoidable. Children can get very sick. etc

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

11 months

My mother’s dying words were “please give the ventilator to someone younger, I don’t want to cause any trouble”.

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Boris Johnson told a meeting that Tory MPs thought "Covid is just nature's way of dealing with old people" According to Sir Patrick Vallance's diaries, the PM said: "I am not entirely sure I disagree with them"

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

We didn’t over-react in 2020. We locked down too little, too late. Huge numbers of avoidable deaths resulted.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

From schoolteacher friend.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

Dear @elonmusk Please supply the world with N95/FFP2 masks, which a lot of people find quite expensive but you could easily afford. If you did that, you’d be very popular and it could end the pandemic. My colleagues and I can help with the science. Merry Christmas. Trish

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1 year

In 1986, as a three-years qualified junior doctor on a salary of £15,000 pa and with £5000 saved, I bought a 2-bed flat in north London costing £50,000. Same flat is now selling at £600,000. Same junior doc post is paying £35,000.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

2 years

To all Tweeps who after two years are still heroically taking on the anti-airborne, anti-mask, it's-just-a-cold, kids-only-get-it-mild, vulnerable-should-stay-at-home and old-people-don't-matter trolls: I see you. I thank you.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

I have had the Oxford / Astra-Zeneca vaccine. It protects me against a) catching, b) being hospitalised with, and c) dying from Covid-19. There is NO evidence that it causes blood clots, and a lot of evidence that it does not cause blood clots. If offered the vaccine, take it.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

And once again the Queen leads where politicians fear to tread. Thank you Ma'am.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

10 months

I did. I tweeted non stop that this was the dumbest policy I’d ever heard of. Hundreds of other scientists were also shouting from the rooftops. You vile, cowardly man. (Not you Femi, that charlatan you’re quoting)

Femi

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Eat out to Help out - Boris Johnson: Nobody told me that paying people to go into restaurants would increase the risk of spreading covid. #CovidInquiry

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Received several emails from doctors and academics: “Here’s some data / a story / etc; I don’t want to come forward but I want you to make a noise about it.” Come on folks. This is a moral crisis as much as a medical and economic one. We all need to stand up and be counted.

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And we’ve done it. We’re the world leader.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

Herd immunity rests on the notion that once you’ve been infected or vaccinated, you’re immune for life. This is not the case with Covid, which morphs and mutates and reinfects. Go figure.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

From 101 years ago.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

2 years

My taxi driver says it's unusual to be picking someone up from an airport. Most of his work now is taking people to hospital because there are no ambulances.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

I find the tone of this tweet abhorrent. Is it me or is the @Telegraph dividing children into those perfect specimens who matter and those who are flawed and don't matter? My kids were healthy but had mild asthma - would they have made it into Telegraph's "worth saving" category?

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

3 years

🔴 Only six healthy children with no underlying health conditions died as a direct result of catching the coronavirus during a 12-month window, NHS analysis has revealed

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Trisha Greenhalgh

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2 years

This is devastating for UK science. I am literally about to tear up a €10M grant application that I would have submitted in October, in collaboration with EU partners.

Will Hutton

@williamnhutton

2 years

On Thursday the European Research Council terminated 115 grants offered to UK based researchers as UK breaks international law over NI. Science super-power? Forget it. UK science minister in dispute with Treasury over post-Brexit funding via @FT

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

2 years

Here, @BootstrapCook demonstrates how expletives can be used appropriately and judiciously on Twitter. Class.

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@trishgreenhalgh

5 years

Chapeau to the Chinese. Look what they've produced: HANDBOOK OF COVID-19 PREVENTION AND TREATMENT pdf download In English, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Japanese and Spanish.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

5 years

Lots of concern about UK's approach to #COVID19 . I'm not an epidemiologist or a virologist (=> can't judge the detail) but I knew Patrick Vallance before he was famous and I believe he is a man of integrity. Same for Chris Whitty. Science, not politics, is driving their thinking.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

Our new paper on quantifying the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in different environmental conditions. Picture shows risks for Omicron variant at 1% prevalence (lower than currently in US & UK). TL;DR: avoid the gym, choir practice & stuffy nightclub.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

2 years

New LANCET report lists 9 global failures which contributed to a failed pandemic response. Number 2 is "costly delays in acknowledging the crucial airborne exposure pathway of SARS-CoV-2". (I might dig out the emails from big names telling me to shut up.)

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

Sometimes, in banking, you can talk things up. By saying X is improving, you instil confidence in the market, which leads to investment, so X starts to improve. This is not the case with pandemics. Telling a virus you've beaten it, and acting as if that were true, is very unwise.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Worried about the new mutant strain? Don’t understand genetics? Me neither. Here’s some advice: - avoid crowds - don’t share air - wear a mask - ventilate eg open windows - get vaccinated

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Three drownings or near-drownings have hit my timeline today. Before I was a doctor, I was a lifeguard. Posting again this brilliant article on how to spot drowning.

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

2 years

When your kids update your Wikipedia page…

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@trishgreenhalgh

2 years

MASKS are back (=> they’re trending on social media and I’m getting hate mail). A short thread. See my pinned tweet for a longer thread with lots of peer-reviewed articles.🧵 1/

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

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Let’s start with observational data. Countries that introduced mandated masking within 30 days of the first case (mostly Asian) had *dramatically* fewer Covid-19 cases than those that delayed beyond 100 days (mostly Western). 2/

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I’m 61. I predict that we will never, in my lifetime, return to what we took to be normality. Don’t drink the Kool Aid.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

If UK government decide they need extra scientific help to deal with the Covid-19 crisis, I’m available. Unlike some Oxford professors, I’ve never been asked my opinion on pandemic policy. Unlike some, I’ve never been catastrophically wrong in my predictions either. Just saying.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

Lockdown was working. Staying away from elderly relatives was working. As politicians mobilise to defend one man’s selfish choices, family after family are saying “we’ve had enough” and renewing contact. This government will never wash its hands clean of these avoidable deaths.

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3 years

A bit of cloth over the face simply doesn’t have the same risks as a novel drug or vaccine, and *doing nothing* could conceivably cause huge harm. Arguing for “caution” without engaging with the precautionary principle was scientifically naïve and and morally reckless. 7/

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@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

We have *exponential growth*. We should act. I’m bookmarking this tweet to repost 4 weeks after schools reopen in England.

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3 years

Just a suggestion: wear a well-fitting mask whenever indoors with others. I've been saying this for 20 months as the waves of the pandemic rise and fall. I'm bookmarking this tweet.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

I told @BBCNewsnight that lining up 2 Oxford professors to give opposing messages on face coverings with a “scientists can’t agree” storyline was irresponsible journalism and will cost lives. At the very least they should have been honest with us about the set-up. I am sickened.

Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

@JillYGld Not only did they manufacture a spat - they didn’t tell me they’d lined him up until after I’d agreed to do it, so I had the choice of dropping out and making it look like I was scared to face him

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Trisha Greenhalgh

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One of the best moments of this pandemic for me so far. Unsolicited email: Dear Dr G, I saw you on TV talking about masks. Excuse me asking but were you a GP in [X-- surgery] in 1993? Me: Indeed I was. Reply: Then I think you saved my life.

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@trishgreenhalgh

4 years

I organised that meeting Andrew. I was the Director of the course. Thanks for explaining my subject to me.

Andrew Vickers

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@trishgreenhalgh I'm sorry, Trisha, but this is way off base. Evidence-based medicine was never defined in terms of randomized trials. Go back and listen to what Sackett said in 1996 ... oh, wait a minute, you were actually at that meeting

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Trisha Greenhalgh

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Dear members of the public The reason you can't get to see a GP is they're driving for Uber. The reason they're driving for Uber is they can't get jobs. The reason they can't get jobs is the UK govt is bankrolling the hiring of underqualified Physician Associates in their place.

Animesh Singh

@DrAnimeshSingh

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Took an Uber home on Tuesday evening from Central London. The person driving was a qualified GP unable to get work. Post CCT, 100+ applications / CV drops to salaried roles around Herts & Bucks.

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Had quite a bit of backlash to our paper, published last week, which set out 10 streams of evidence supporting predominance of AIRBORNE spread of SARS-CoV-2. I respond to some criticisms in this thread. 1/

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