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- Science is being suppressed for political and financial gain. Covid-19 has unleashed state corruption on a grand scale, and it is harmful to public health, argues @KamranAbbasi
- Covid-19 vaccines and drugs were developed at “warp speed” and now experts are concerned that the US Food and Drug Administration inspected too few clinical trial sites. Maryanne Demasi reports
- "No child deserves to be starting life 20 yards behind any other child from the day they are born." @MarcusRashford calls on healthcare professionals to help spread the word about a scheme to give young children in low income households a healthy start
- Patients with the omicron variant of covid-19 shed virus for longer after symptoms emerge, show data from Japan, potentially jeopardising hopes that the period of isolation for people testing positive could be shortened
- The government of Mexico City handed out nearly 200 000 “ivermectin based kits” last year to people who had tested positive for covid-19, without telling them they were subjects in an experiment on the drug’s effectiveness
- "The term “junior doctor” will be replaced in September. The new name, “resident doctor,” gives these doctors the respect they deserve." We should all get behind the new term “resident doctor”, @scarlettmcnally
- Congratulations to Professor Christina Pagel for constantly discussing science, breaking it down and making it digestible and keeping the public engaged during the pandemic @chrischirp #TheBMJAwards
- Congratulations to Professor Devi Sridhar for staying true to science and communicating with clarity in the covid pandemic @devisridhar #TheBMJAwards
- Once this is done, there must be complete transparency about how the NHS came to be left in this exposed position, how social care had been stripped away, and how those in power will be held accountable ow.ly/eFfR50z7MdP @lu_hiam @dannydorling @martinmckee
- Given the rarity of severe covid-19 outcomes for children and limited clarity of risks, the criteria for emergency use authorization do not appear to be met for children, argue @WesPegden, @VPrasadMDMPH, and @sdbaral
- "Today we remember those doctors who have sadly died of covid-19 in the UK this year" @TheBMA ow.ly/4FEd50CSbMw
- Spending the equivalent of 77% of the NHS annual revenue budget on an unevaluated, underdesigned national programme leading to an insufficiently supported intervention—in many cases for the wrong people—cannot be defended, say @DrMikeWGill and Muir Gray ow.ly/YFTO50Cly5A
- “The best thing you can do is speak up. Ask, ‘Are you ok?’ or ‘You don’t seem yourself. Do you want to talk?’ The smallest gesture can make the greatest difference. Let them know they’re not alone—we all have days when the world gets to us."
