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NEW: none of the homegrown ventilators - including one by Dyson - have got green light for use in NHS as design spec shifts as docs find more about #COVID19
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Yesterday’s news: German agency connects AZ to risk of blood-clotting. Unscientific! They put everyone at risk! Today’s news: How brilliant UK doctor linked blood-clotting to AZ, rightly wanting to raise
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Boris Johnson has just talked about a massive expansion of rapid result home testing kits which seem to be the saliva tests made by Innova.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/28/10-of-englands-population-could-be-tested-for-covid-19-
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NEW: remember the rush to build basic ventilators? Two experts involved and a Team leader go on record to try and share ‘lessons learned’ from what one called a “village
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As of 5 April, 37 million doses of experimental gene-based vaccines have been injected into the UK public. This has resulted in 176,439 reports of 626,087 adverse reactions, including 847
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NEW: Where top ITU doc @AlisonPittard tells me that the MINIMUM standard ventilator specced in govt's 'ventilator challenge' would be no use in treating COVID patient in ICU - so
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Astra Zeneca vaccine & blood clots. Summary.Rare form of blood clots plus low platelets. ~60% involve veins of brain. Almost all after 1st dose. Risk (UK MHRA): 1 in 250,000
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A timeline thread on Australia’s vaccines 19/8/20 PM media release: ‘Australians will be among the first in the world to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, if it proves successful, through
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NEW: The inside story of the Ventilator Challenge - the muddled thinking, the wasted time the political egoism. It's a mad tale. Stay with me. Me with my superb @ft
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1./ Do Scotland's self-appointed LGBTQ+ warriors actually give a damn about homophobia? They bang on about @ALLIANCELGB but spend next to no time speaking out about a real issue closer
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