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Neil Stone

4 years

Names matter. The novel #Coronavirus has how been named #Covid . Important to distinguish it from the many other coronaviruses which circulate, whilst avoiding stigmatising a whole city forever by naming it after Wuhan.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Can we all just definitively agree that not a single dose of Covid vaccine should be wasted, and that if any are left over at the end of the day they should be given to absolutely anyone who wants it rather than be thrown away?

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

Thousands of infectious diseases doctors who have spent 2 years battling Covid. First major conference in person since Covid. Every single person wearing a mask. Every Single One Think about that. @escmid #ECCMID2022

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

A new wave of #covid19 is crashing into hospitals in London and the UK There is no clapping this time. No rainbows in the window. No free food and drink. Everyone is shattered by this whole year. But...the #NHS is stepping up to meet the challenge again. Absolutely incredible.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

Who could have predicted that Twitter accounts ending in several random numbers which have been pumping out anti vaccine disinformation for 2 years would suddenly pivot to pro Russian messaging.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Guess which country is about to abandon pretty much all public health measures to control Covid.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

10 months

Pro tip Don't drink raw milk Yours sincerely A microbiologist

'Public health has lost the war': States legalize raw milk, despite public health warnings

Distrust of public health officials who say raw milk is dangerous is fueling demand for unpasteurized milk products, leaders say.

www.usatoday.com

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

I'm not sure everyone being off sick all the time was quite how I imagined the "living with Covid" strategy would look like

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

It may surprise some of you that for a lot of people, being unable to buy food or pay for electricity is a more pressing concern than Covid right now.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

We are at the stage in the pandemic where you can hear the frantic sound of history being rewritten

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

#Omicron is so transmissible it's absolutely wild. Forget airborne, this thing seems to spread by telepathy - feels like you can catch it just by THINKING about it.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

1 year

13 billion Covid vaccines have been given. Yes 13 BILLION. Not a typo. 13,000,000,000 It's extremely safe. Yet anti vaxxers still call it "experimental" I'm guessing they also think electricity, and the wheel as a means of transport, are also experimental.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

All the people screaming about vaccine passports being a deprivation of liberties and an infringement of human rights, clearly have never had to travel to one of the many countries which have required a Yellow Fever vaccine certificate for entry for the last 70 YEARS

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

If you are a doctor who doesn't believe in the effectiveness of Covid vaccines then you are in the wrong job.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

Of all the things in this pandemic, I don't think I expected such a fuss over wearing masks. I mean, they are a bit annoying, but that's all really. There are a lot harder things in life to have to do.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

Getting a positive Covid test without any symptoms means the vaccine is working, not failing #GetBoosted #VaccinesWork

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

10 months

Doctors don't go into medicine for the money but they don't go into it to be chronically underpaid either.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

So #Monkeypox , recently thought limited to Central and West Africa, has now been detected in over 50 previously non endemic countries across 6 continents. That's a...pandemic...right?

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

This pandemic has amazingly resulted in numerous fully grown adults suddenly realising that in life there might be some things that you have to do that you don't really want to do, and it's indeed upsetting. Most of us reached this stage at around age 4.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Not a single death from Covid in anyone who got any of these vaccines in a clinical trial. Not. One. #VaccinesWork Graphic credit : @MonicaGandhi9

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

They just keep coming in. People who didn't have the vaccine (for all sorts of reasons) coming to hospital with severe Covid. Get vaccinated. Urgently. It can't wait. #VaccinesWork

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Pretty much

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

People are willing to learn live with Covid but not masks. Go figure.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

10 months

"Back in the day, there were no vaccines,people drank raw milk and everyone was much healthier " Life expectancy, 1770 to 2021

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

17 days

Dear doctors Pharmacists know more about drugs than we do. Please remember. Thanks.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

1 year

Watch Covid come in at the end and absolutely destroy medical literature for a generation

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

Reminder that people who refuse the vaccine based on Omicron, also refused it back when this variant didn't even exist.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

I cancelled my son's birthday party a full two weeks before UK lockdown, because it was too dangerous to mix. We already had a dedicated Covid ward in our hospital.The virus was clearly ripping through London I don't want to hear excuses about hindsight.

Covid response ‘one of UK’s worst ever public health failures’

Early handling and belief in ‘herd immunity’ led to more deaths, Commons inquiry finds

www.theguardian.com

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

A lot of people ask me which vaccine they should take, whether it's Pfizer, Astra Zeneca or others. My answer is simple and always the same. Take the first one you are offered #VaccinesWork

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

The best vaccine is the first one you are offered. You won't have any protection at all whilst holding out waiting for a particular one. All the approved vaccines are safe and effective. #VaccinesWork

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

This is so 2021 #BoycottTesco is trending because @Tesco apparently have a Christmas advertisement with Santa Claus showing a Covid vaccine passport. And it's triggered a group of people who believe Santa is real but Covid isn't.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

1 year

A good time to remind people what "junior doctor" means in the UK. It's anyone who is not yet a Consultant. I was 38, with 20 years of medical training and experience, a PhD, a father, and with a mortgage to pay. And I was still called a "junior doctor" #NHS

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

My house is still standing therefore there was no storm. Covid denier logic. #StormEunice

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

1 year

Amazing how many people who hold extreme anti-vaccine views also deny climate change and support Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

UK, US, Israel - "We're vaccinating really fast!!" Bhutan 🇧🇹 - "Stand aside..." #VaccinesWork #Bhutan

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

USA death rates from Covid by vaccination status via @CDCgov Unvaccinated: 9.7 deaths per 100k 3 vaccines: 0.1 deaths per 100k Reallllllly tough to work out if vaccines work or not....

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

Absolutely spectacular video showing how mRNA Covid vaccines actually work. The human immune system - and the science which went into harnessing it through vaccines - is mind blowingly beautiful Watch. Enjoy. Learn. Vaccinate. #GetVaccinated

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

11 months

PDFs of journal articles that I will "read later"

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

I went on a train. And did not post on Twitter how many people were wearing a mask. It's possible to do this.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

I'm absolutely confident in my prediction that no one knows what is going to happen next in this pandemic.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

A mild Covid infection in a vaccinated person is a vaccine success, not a failure #GetVaccinated

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Yes some double vaccinated people are getting Covid (as expected). Usually mildly. You could say "Ha! vaccine failed!" But they may have died if they hadn't been vaccinated. Changing an ICU stay and death to a few days at home in bed is a huge difference. #VaccinesWork

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

Remember when car parks were turned into intensive care units in early 2020 because of Covid? Just thought I would remind you. Seems to have been a collective memory loss over how bad things actually were at the start of the pandemic.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Put your hand up if you have got some things wrong about Covid. ✋ Not that hard to do, is it?

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

I don't believe that there really was a ship blocking the Suez canal. It was just the flu.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Just so you know, we are still seeing plenty of young, unvaccinated people coming to hospital appallingly unwell from Covid. So, yeah, get vaccinated. As soon as you possibly can. #VaccinesWork

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

#Omicron

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

4 years

Started as a Consultant in Infectious Diseases just 3 months ago. Nothing quite like a global pandemic and once in a generation crisis to gently ease you into the post... #IDtwitter #COVID2019

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

1 year

If you told me two years ago that I'd be on inpatient Infectious Diseases service in November 2022 and I wouldn't have a single patient in hospital with severe Covid I might not have believed you.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

Unprofessional

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

"We've literally given 6 BILLION doses safely and you keep calling it experimental!"

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

1 year

Imagine if Twitter existed when Fleming discovered penicillin. We would have had people screaming "don't touch that experimental mould therapy!!"

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

I find it fairly terrifying that there are people in democracies who look at the way China controls Covid and thinks yup, that's what we should be doing too.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Lots of anti vax geniuses on here saying they would rather "rely on their immune system" than have the vaccine. Over the last year, everyone has had to rely on their immune system, before we had any vaccines. 2.5 million are dead. #VaccinesWork

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

More subtle hints here that vaccines might just work

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Life was better when neither of the words Covid nor Brexit existed

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

That awkward moment when you chat to someone you've just met and they seem very pleasant and you seem to get along and have a good chat and then of course Covid comes up and turns out they've "done their own research" and won't get vaccinated and it's all a plot etc etc.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

I started as a Consultant in Infectious Diseases almost exactly a year ago. I was told by many that the first year is the hardest. I don't know about that to be honest. I can't recall much happening.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

"We don't know if the vaccine reduces transmission" is a standard statement which is routinely brought out in any discussion of anything. It's true that we don't know with 100%certainty. But c'mon.. It will.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

1 year

Why do people who won't have vaccines because they "trust their immune system" take antibiotics when they have a bacterial infection? Don't they trust their immune systems then??

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

The whole "Omicron is mild" thing would be great if it were a) True and b) there weren't millions upon millions of unvaccinated people out there for whom I don't think it will be so mild at all...

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

Man who says vaccines are unproven is taking ivermectin for Covid. Draw your own conclusions.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

October 2021 and people still can't grasp the possibility of anything in between letting it rip and lockdown.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

Being an infectious disease specialist since 2020 means the entire world thinking they know your field better than you do.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

5 years

Dear all non ID doctors. There's no such thing as a "strong" or "weak" antibiotic, only the right or wrong one for the infection. Yours sincerely, all ID doctors #annoyingbuttruethingswesay

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

How are you marking #freedomdayUK ? I'm on my way to work, wearing a mask, to go and deal with a ward full of young, unvaccinated people who are extremely sick with Covid. Have fun! #VaccinesWork

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Some people are calling wearing masks "virtue signalling" Is washing your hands after going to the toilet virtue signalling as well?

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

Waiting for the Great Barrington Declaration people to tell us it's better if we all just get monkey pox and reach herd immunity

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

1 year

Hearing people talk about holidays such as Thanksgiving as "superspreader events" for RSV and flu. Yep. They are. Like they have been every other year ever. For hundreds of years. But you never cared before....

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Just want to say that I find my GP more accessible than ever before due to slick online services. And when my young son has needed to see a doctor in person he's been seen same day. Stop GP bashing. Seriously. Stop it. #NHS

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

18 million Covid vaccines given. 66 anaphylaxis. No deaths. Brushing your teeth is probably more dangerous than getting a vaccine. Jog on, anti vaxxers #VaccinesWork

Eric Topol

@EricTopol

3 years

Update of anaphylaxis from mRNA vaccines: 66 cases out of ~18 million vaccinations (=0.00000003%). All but 1 within 11 minutes. No deaths. @JAMA_current

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

5 years

Many PhD students think their project has to be their magnum opus, a masterpiece which will be the best research they ever do. In fact, a PhD is training, to give you the tools for a future research career. Supervisors would do well to remember this too! #phdchat #phdlife

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@jenheemstra

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A PhD is about learning how to learn. The research you want to be doing 20 years from now probably doesn’t even exist yet, so what you really need to gain in grad school is the ability to dive into a new area, learn, and develop mastery. #PhDchat

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@DrNeilStone

2 years

Only on Twitter could I be told that despite feeling 100% recovered from having had Covid, I still might have brain damage without even knowing it. If that isn't fear mongering, I don't know what is. It's a bad enough virus without inventing stuff about it too.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

1 year

Ivermectin mechanism of action against Covid

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

I started out this pandemic as being in favour of strict lockdowns because nothing else could stop the spread The arrival of effective vaccines has changed things so fundamentally that I'm much more on the side of opening up and letting people live their lives Things change.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

Getting vaccinated then getting a mild covid infection, and interpretating that as the vaccine failing, is like having a bad car crash, being uninjured because you were wearing a seat belt - and then saying the seatbelt failed because it didn't stop the crash.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

4 years

I think dietitians (or is it dieticians?) are amongst the most under appreciated health care workers in hospitals. Nutrition is so important to health. Doctors should engage with them more. Big shout out to you guys. #dietitian #NHS

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

#Omicron is posing all sorts of new problems, not seen before in this pandemic. The hyper transmissibility is causing a nightmare with staff absence, and it's extremely difficult to contain within hospital wards. It may cause less severe disease,but it's causing absolute chaos

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

1 year

My grandfather had a massive heart attack at the age of just 40 which nearly killed him. In 1952. Yes, young people had heart attacks before the Covid vaccine.

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@DrNeilStone

2 years

So now people who do their "own research" on Facebook can claim they have done a Meta analysis..

BBC Breaking News

@BBCBreaking

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Facebook changes its name to Meta in major rebrand

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

I'M AN INFECTIOUS DISEASES DOCTOR WHO SWAM IN LAKE MALAWI AND GOT SCHISTOSOMIASIS

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

Anyone notice just how many anti vaccine doctors are infectious diseases experts? Yep. None of them. Funny, that.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

I was asked today to go on a large news network to talk about the new strain of #covid19 I declined, because I don't know enough about it. I am aware that this isn't something which stops a lot of people commenting about all things Covid!

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

England not only ending Covid restrictions but even isolation for people who have Covid and are highly infectious. This is like saying now that the weather is better, the road is reopened, oh yeah and you don't need to wear a seat belt and you can drink and drive too.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

1 year

It dawns on me that there are many people who can't deal with the concept that if a vaccine doesn't stop you getting infected but does stop you dying from the infection - it's still a good vaccine that works. This is just absolutely beyond some people. Oh well. #VaccinesWork

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

July 19th in the UK looks like it's going to be "Let It Rip and Hope For the Best Day". Yes, the #VaccinesWork , but 25 million people in the UK are still unvaccinated. This appalling virus can do a lot of damage to them and to the #NHS Nervous times ahead.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Zero covid is an illusion, anywhere in the world. It's worked in places like Australia and NZ for now,but it's not sustainable. Those countries cannot stay isolated forever. Covid will never go away. We just have to manage it as best as possible by vaccination. #VaccinesWork

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Irony Via @dranupjdevasia

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

2 years

If you have done your own research and concluded that you will not get the Covid vaccine, I would suggest that you are really bad at research and probably shouldn't try doing any more of it.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Anyone disturbed by the idea of needing a vaccine passport to get a job has clearly never worked in the #NHS . We regularly need to have blood tests and vaccines before starting in a new hospital - and you don't hear us screaming about infringement of personal freedoms

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

1 year

I'm sorry to say that the people who claimed that monkeypox (now "mpox") would rip through schools and lead to tens of millions of cases have probably lost credibility for their dire predictions about the latest Covid variant.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

A few pointless exchanges with some antivaxxers today reminded me of a timeless truism; You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into in the first place.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

1 year

Imagine if there was a vaccine against cancer? Well there is. It's the HPV vaccine (such as Gardasil). It's amazing. Imagine if there were people AGAINST giving a vaccine to prevent cancer. Well, remarkably, there are. Ignore them.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Nope, I can't absolutely guarantee you that getting vaccinated will stop you getting Covid. I also can't absolutely guarantee that if you jump out of a plane, the parachute will open. But you would still take the parachute..right? #GetVaccinated #VaccinesWork

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

1 year

There is a genuine discussion to be had about the risk/benefit of vaccines in the lowest risk groups. Unfortunately, this discussion cannot be had on Twitter as it's almost instantly drowned out by wild conspiracy theory and the most extreme anti-vaccine nonsense.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

4 years

People want to believe #covid is either the end of the world or of no importance. It is neither. It is something to be taken seriously (and we are) but not to panic about. I predict a rocky few months ahead but hopefully will settle down by summer #Coronavirus

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Covid outbreak at a nursing home in Germany. 14 cases. Disaster? But guess what - all mild. No hospitalisations or deaths. Why? Because they had been vaccinated Vaccines save lives.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Regardless of whether you are a Royalist or not, this is a poignant photo. I'm not sure why the Queen, who is fully vaccinated, really had to sit entirely alone at the funeral of her husband of over 70 years. Very sad and I don't think entirely necessary. #VaccinesWork

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

The UK is pretty much fully open and we are just about hanging on in the #NHS thanks to high vaccination coverage - but it's still touch and go. To think that the Great Barrington Declaration people wanted to do this *before we had vaccines* just beggars belief, even today.

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

3 years

Apparently Denmark captain @simonkjaer1989 started CPR on Christian Eriksen on the pitch. He may have saved his life. #LearnCPR

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Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

1 year

It's one thing to disagree with Fauci on aspects of Covid policy. Fine. No one got it 100% right. Absolutely no one. Whoever claims they did ..is a liar. It's another thing ENTIRELY to demonise him. In the revolting way Elon Musk and others have done. That is unacceptable.

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