Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 @xandvt Twitter profile

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

2 years

We’re engaged! The *official*: announcement was of course on @BBCMorningLive . Could not be happier! I’m here for everyone’s proposal stories. I HIGHLY recommend travelling everywhere by tandem (if you’ve met The One) 💕💕💕

BBC Morning Live

@BBCMorningLive

2 years

Dr Xand has some happy news to share with us - whilst simultaneously breaking the hearts of his millions of fans! Congratulations @xandvt ❤️🎉

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

People living in poverty are actually really good at choosing what they should spend money on.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

What?! What did I say?

BBC The One Show

@BBCTheOneShow

4 years

'Everyone as individuals does have an important role to play.' Are we too relaxed about the coronavirus? @xandvt shares his views with @MissAlexjones and @gethincjones . #TheOneShow

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

There are staff at nursing and care homes - paid a tiny fraction of Cummings’ salary - many have children - who literally moved in and slept there so as to avoid spreading the virus to their residents.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

This is some impressive national gaslighting

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

4 years

Recent spike in UK coronavirus cases is result of "fraying of people's discipline" over the summer, Boris Johnson says

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

2 years

Met this nice young man as I was running for my train. Always happy to have a selfie with a fan if I can - good luck to him!

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

I visited one of the hardest hit care homes in Peterborough. 7/18 residents died in two weeks. The only place I have visited that took every single precaution perfectly to no avail. They had no help & no guidance. They were distraught. It is appalling to blame them.

Dr Rachel Clarke

@doctor_oxford

4 years

"We discovered too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures in the way they could have." This attempt by @BorisJohnson to blame care homes for 20k residents' deaths is disgraceful. Staff wore *bin bags*. No PPE. No testing. Abject govt failure.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

2 years

If you want an example of the benefits of state funding start with @cbbc : there’s no other place for children’s entertainment that as safe, as educational & as careful to include & represent. Only The BBC could make @OperationOuch .

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

It would have been good to have kept the numbers of infections down through the year so the virus had fewer opportunities to mutate.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

In the UK today 51.89% of people have been vaccinated. To the 48.11% of people who haven’t been I say: “You lost. Get over it. That’s how democracy works.”

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

Poor Peter Hitchens has been bullied into having a non-compulsory vaccination he doesn’t want by a former prime minister he hates in order to get a “vaccine passport” that doesn’t exist. Brilliant stuff. I encourage all #covidskeptics to follow his example

Daily Mail Online

@MailOnline

3 years

PETER HITCHENS: I've had the Covid jab - and all it cost me was my freedom

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

2 years

Happy Fixed Penalty Notice Day to those who celebrate

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

If you find anyone trying to justify this on public health/ covid grounds please send them my way and I’ll explain a bit about the transmission of airborne viruses which (one more time) doesn’t really happen out doors. Especially when people are silent.

Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

Violence against women in a silent, peaceful vigil. I can’t see any benefit here - there is certainly none from a covid point of view - only harm. This seems to represent so much of what the vigil was supposed to address. Terrifying for anyone hoping to rely on the police.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

Lots of people replying saying “what about Harold Shipman? Should we have stopped trusting doctors?” Well, the Shipman cases led to an overhaul of the entire medical profession. It completely changed practice in many ways. This is what should happen to the Met.

Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

Hard to imagine that a woman would ever feel safe in an interaction with police again. Absolutely horrific details. Unbelievable that only one person has lost their job over this.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

Why this particular phase of the UK response so infuriating and frustrating? I think it’s because it increasingly feels like a pantomime of public health

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

Wearing a mask isn’t a political choice: it’s just a kind, decent, fairly easy thing to do. Anyone wearing a mask isn’t protecting themselves as much as protecting those around them. It’s the opposite of personal responsibility: it’s care for others. This is worth a read👇

Blood Cancer UK

@bloodcancer_uk

3 years

1/ Many of you will be concerned about what this evening’s announcement that restrictions in England will be lifted on July 19 means for you.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

I guess if the plan was to let a lot of people die then... 🍾

Matt Hancock

@MattHancock

4 years

Our plan is working. Having protected the NHS & reduced the number of #coronavirus cases we can now carefully lift restrictions. We must continue to protect our NHS & stay vigilant & stay alert.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

NEW INFECTIONS ARE INCREASING EVERYDAY

Matt Hancock

@MattHancock

4 years

Now we’ve flattened the curve & reduced new infections, from tomorrow, the 2.2 million people who have been shielding can safely go outside I know how much those shielding have sacrificed. Thank you to everyone who has protected our NHS & saved lives

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

University admissions committees: you have the power to undo some of the injustice created by the government’s algorithm. You want the best students not the ones from the most privileged backgrounds

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

2 years

“Surfers enjoy the big waves from the giant meteorite”

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

2 years

Scotland enjoys mildest New Year's Day on record

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

The Tories are selling our NHS bit by bit to profit making companies. I lived in the US for eight years and I promise you it is an unbelievably awful system. We don't want any part of it here.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

I keep thinking about this. An editorial in @thetimes calling for an end to gypsies’ way of life. There is apparently no place for them in modern Britain. It seems to have attracted widespread support. It’s most sinister & the most horrifying thing I’ve read in the UK press.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

This is one of the most important stories in the UK. The reason we’re living under increasingly severe restrictions is because of the failure of the £12 billion @SercoGroup test & trace system to break the chain of transmission. Your lack of freedom is literally their profit

George Monbiot

@GeorgeMonbiot

4 years

I hope you’re sitting down, because this week’s column should make you very, very angry. It shows how professional clinicians employed by the NHS in crucial test and trace jobs have been secretly replaced by teenaged call centre workers employed by Serco

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

2 years

This is my “cancelling stuff” face too

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

But what COLOUR will the vaccine passports be?

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

This would be impossible to do in England because we can’t be bothered

Henry Winter

@henrywinter

4 years

Landed Reykjavik 10am, tested for Covid at airport, results back 2pm via text and app (negative). Now quarantining in hotel until Friday 9.15am when undergo second Covid test before allowed to cover #eng Nations League game against Iceland on Saturday. All very efficient.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

My amazing neighbour brought me Sri Lankan food tonight he’d cooked tonight. Just randomly. If you’re going to bring curry to a stranger make it delicious and bring a huge amount. He did both. What an awesome guy. I feel quite emotional.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

Imagine the horror of - after weeks with clean sheets, a front door and safety - being turned back onto the streets. It was done not for their benefit but for ours, and only for as long as we needed. This is amazingly stupid (and unkind) for many reasons:

Jennifer Williams

@JenWilliams_FT

4 years

Excl: Government quietly winds up hotel scheme for the homeless

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

Word of advice to all the doctors out there: only treat healthy people. It’s easy & saves a ton of time and money.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

@JuliaHB1

3 years

Just 377 healthy people under 60 have died of Covid. That's not a typo. There are no zeros missing. 377. Yes, that's sad but we have locked down an entire country for a virus that mostly kills the very old & the very sick. The rest of us should be free to decide our own risks.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

People w cancer & chronic illness, children with developmental problems, people waiting for life changing surgeries: they’ve all been denied proper care. Not to mention exhausted traumatized COVID staff. The NHS has been overwhelmed - just less visibly than we expected

Russ Jones

@RussInCheshire

4 years

We didn't protect out NHS. We turned it off. Cancelled all planned surgeries Postponed many cancer treatments Non-Covid A+E admissions down 35% The NHS got through this cos we paused it. Not cos the govt provided resources, or funded it properly, or did good planning.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

2 years

This is about my experience of being a long-distance dad through the pandemic. Loads of people worse affected by this than us: his mum and other dad are absolutely amazing and we have our fingers crossed for a better 2022 🤞

I’m a long-distance dad so Covid was terrible – but it helped me let go of my guilt

I worried so much about not seeing my son, who lives in Canada, during Covid, but then I realised that he was fine – and being very well looked after

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

Thanks so much to everyone watching #survivingthevirus - my poor brother @DoctorChrisVT had a far worse time of it than I did as did so many people. Healthcare staff, carehome staff & many other keyworkers - so many people working in difficult tragic conditions

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

Shame so many people had to die to save the economy

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

I would also like to thank everyone who is still wearing a mask. A generous way of protecting those around you 🤗

Right Said Fred

@TheFreds

3 years

I would like to thank everyone who is still wearing a mask. It saves me a great deal of time. Your mask tells me I don’t need to talk to you, know you, work with you, or try to understand your mumblings. You are superfluous to requirements. Many thanks XX

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

Violence against women in a silent, peaceful vigil. I can’t see any benefit here - there is certainly none from a covid point of view - only harm. This seems to represent so much of what the vigil was supposed to address. Terrifying for anyone hoping to rely on the police.

Subject Access

@subjectaccesss

3 years

🔴LIVE: Women protesters are violently snatched by Police PROTEST FOR WOMEN SAFETY - Clapham Common | London Watch now: #LIVE #Livestream #London #SarahEverard #Freedom #ReclaimTheStreets #Women #WomenSafety #arrest #violentarrest #violentpolice #Violence

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

2 years

I was up early. Did I take a picture of the sunrise to rub in everyone’s face? I did not. You’re all welcome. The smart people were in bed. I will now name and shame the worst rise-n-shine offenders

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

I think - please correct me if I’m wrong - that as this is a (well-known, popular) licensed drug a doctor can prescribe it for any indication they think reasonable with no “approval” from Matt. Amirite?

Matt Hancock

@MattHancock

4 years

Today, we've approved Dexamethasone for immediate use across our NHS. This life-saving discovery was made in Britain and is a testament to the brilliant work of scientists & the national effort to save lives & protect our NHS.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

1 year

The morning live team are like an actual family. So excited to be back in Manchester next week with my wedding ring on!

BBC Morning Live

@BBCMorningLive

1 year

Huge congratulations to @xandvt & @DollyvanT who got married yesterday in London! ❤️ The whole Morning Live team send our love!

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

If being poor is so easy and great why don’t a few of these rich people try it?

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

2 years

This is an extraordinary description of what has happened to your supermarket receipts 🙀👏. Absolutely love @BootstrapCook

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

If you work at @GBNEWS and you want to talk about what’s going on there my DMs are open. I’m incredibly indiscreet and I’m just here for the drama

Scott Bryan

@scottygb

3 years

If you work at @GBNEWS and you want to talk about what is going on there, my DMs are open. I protect my sources.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

People are impressed by this but I could see the chameleon the entire time. Rubbish camouflage.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

This is why I love working on @cbbc 🥰

Scott Bryan

@scottygb

4 years

CBBC received complaints about a same-sex kiss in one of their storylines (The Next Step). Here's their response. It's simply A+.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

6:22 on Sunday morning. I’m alert. Are you? #stayalert

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

It’s probably getting close to the time when we should start thinking about taking this disease outbreak seriously. I trust that the government will consider taking action to prevent a dangerous rise in cases.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

Many people have very kindly messaged me about my health today - I really appreciate it. My brother @DoctorChrisVT & countless other NHS staff have looked after me really well. Hoping my AF might resolve but if not there are good treatments & I’ll be ok! 🤗

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

2 years

Be the change you wish to see in the world!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🙀💪amazing work from @BootstrapCook

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

It is nice to imagine how annoying the constant din of the press helicopter must have been

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

3 years

Swimmers enjoy warm weather in London at the Sky Pool which is believed to be the world’s first transparent pool built between two skyscrapers

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@xandvt

4 years

I’ve been in hospital four times since I had covid in late March. Running out of ventilators & beds may not be as big a danger as running out of rehab facilities & resources for chronic health problems.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

It’s all close to being nonsense: there’s no good evidence for any of this stuff - even around pubs. It’s an incoherent mess because we didn’t bother to do a good job on the the stuff that’s important: contact tracing, testing, data collection, isolation

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

No virus-deniers in my mentions but many people furious about my way of making tea. Sad reflection of our polarized society & cancel culture that a person can’t add a lot of milk nowadays even w two teabags. I blame my Canadian parents for raising me wrong #survivingthevirus

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

After 41 years of strict no-gift policy @DoctorChrisVT has appalled me with a gift that is both thoughtful & extravagant. I was prepared to ceremonially exchange five pound notes (to appease our mum) - instead I got these! Which I love

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

Long after someone with dementia isn’t able to remember things well or interact the way they used to they can still enjoy games, songs, chocolates & company. Even after you’ve left & they many have forgotten your visit the happiness & feeling of being loved & cared for remains 🤗

BBC Morning Live

@BBCMorningLive

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"Just because you're not having that normal interaction, there is a human there who can still experience love and warmth" Here's the message @xandvt found helpful when spending time with friends living with Alzheimer's. #MorningLive

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

Lovely stuff. Everything is going to be ok.

NHS COVID-19 app

@NHSCOVID19app

4 years

@DamoB1970 Hi Damian, If your test took place in a Public Health England lab or NHS hospital, or as part of national surveillance testing conducted by the Office for National Statistics, test results cannot currently be linked with the app whether they’re positive or negative. Thanks.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

Because the river is a torrent of pure diarrhoea

Mashable

@mashable

3 years

Why camp by a river when you can camp on one?

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

Coughing is the new pooing-your-pants in public

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

Absolutely stoked about the ongoing death

Kevin Hollinrake MP

@kevinhollinrake

4 years

Very good news

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@xandvt

4 years

You may or may not be inclined to give the government a free pass on a slow start. It was a complicated situation. But the fact that now we STILL have no app, no proper contact tracing system, the testing program is still aimless - that seems to me to be staggering

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@xandvt

2 years

Did I dress up for NYE? No. But my companion did. (And yes I have been crying watching Paddington 2 before you ask)

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@xandvt

3 years

@matthaig1 I suspect a PhD musicologist would know to call an ambulance which is all that I (a medical doctor) would do.

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@xandvt

3 years

Naturally I reported him for picnicking. On the spot £200 fine and a fixed-penalty-notice. Just doing my bit.

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@xandvt

3 years

Sick to death of these immigrants not coming over here and taking our jobs

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@xandvt

4 years

Both these speeches are worth watching for their warmth and inclusivity. Glad I stayed up.

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

4 years

“While I may be the first women in this office, I will not be the last” Kamala Harris makes history as the first woman elected as US vice-president, telling “every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities”

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@xandvt

2 years

Happy Easter! #illegalchurchselfie I was dragged here the Sundays of my childhood - but enjoyed it so much this morning with my mum and dad. Though the old bargain still held: come to church and you get lunch in Chinatown 🐣

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@xandvt

3 years

I love the energy and camaraderie of filming @OperationOuch 😳

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@xandvt

6 years

My builder: What do you want on the glass above the door? Me: 74 (Baskerville or something similar) Outcome:

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@xandvt

2 years

This is unusually charming

Science girl

@gunsnrosesgirl3

2 years

coyotes and badgers are known to hunt cooperatively Look how at ease these two are with each other

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@xandvt

3 years

Incredible work from the vaccination volunteers at @TheCrick (Maria, Alwyn et al). Everyone I met was a post-doc scientist working for free managing the queue, consenting people & jabbing them. I had Oxford-AstraZeneca. Feeling very lucky (apologies for getting sentimental)

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@xandvt

6 years

Tonight on @BBCTwo at 9pm is my #Horizon on #StoppingMaleSuicide . Please do watch it: for men between 16 and 55 it’s more likely to kill them than anything else. Some tough bits in the film but stick with it: there are ways of stopping it & changes we all have to make.

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@xandvt

3 years

I have a soundcloud but it’s just me screaming “I told you so” for hours

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@xandvt

4 years

Industrial farming and environmental destruction led to this pandemic and it’ll lead to the next one too. I know this isn’t very cheerful but I want to be able to say I told you so. Also who are these people still wearing mink?

George Monbiot

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Astonishing cruelty + a new threat to human health. Why is mink farming still legal?

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@xandvt

3 years

I know lots of families are anxious about the return to school. Good luck everyone: a huge adjustment even if welcome in many ways - look after each other 🤗🤗🤗

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@xandvt

3 years

Hard to imagine that a woman would ever feel safe in an interaction with police again. Absolutely horrific details. Unbelievable that only one person has lost their job over this.

Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley

@lottelydia

3 years

Feels like “former” police officer is a bit misleading here and in the multiple other reports that use this language — Couzens was a serving police officer when he did this, he was sacked once he was arrested.

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@xandvt

4 years

There is room for interpretation in the advice and the government have made this reasonably clear. I’m less offended by his actions than by the gov’s inability to admit that it was poor judgement and merits an apology and an acknowledgement of that

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

We were literally buying them time. With our money and wellbeing.

Satbir Singh

@SatbirLSingh

4 years

Saying it again because it's infuriating. We all sacrificed a huge amount in the first half of this year to give ministers time to make life safe outside of lockdown through mass testing and tracing. We did our part. They didn't. They have failed us all.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

Beautiful work. I have always said moonwalking should be part of all med schools’ curriculums.

Dr Amir Khan GP

@DrAmirKhanGP

3 years

A kid I saw today was terrified of my mask and visor so I had to pretend I was an astronaut and moonwalk slowly over to him pretending we were all on the moon! It worked

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

You don’t always get the graph you draw - might end up looking more like this!

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

In response to the PM’s announcement I will, over the coming week, on Facebook Live, be giving some simple advice to children about how to do some common household chores. I am not, to put it mildly, the man for the job but it has, finally, come to this. Good luck everyone

Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@DoctorChrisVT

3 years

GROWN UPS: If the humans in your care aren't at school for some reason then every day STARTING TOMORROW at 2:30pm @Xandvt and I will be live on Youtube, IG and Facebook. First topic will be BONES🦴💀. THERE IS HOMEWORK!!!🙄...

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@xandvt

10 months

Our photographer is a genius - what we love about this picture is that is just us going about our normal lives (in fancier clothes). If you’re getting married in Italy he’s your guy (Not an ad - we just loved him)

Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

10 months

“A right sweaty mess” is an understatement 😂 My son and I actually practiced the tandem ride in the morning and were unable to do it so credit to @DollyvanT . The @BBCMorningLive gang were some of the best guests - it was a magical weekend! Thrilled to get a review on the telly!

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@xandvt

4 years

The mortality rate for being a human remains stubbornly at 100%

Samuel West 💙💛

@exitthelemming

4 years

Vote Conservative. Why Postpone Death?

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@xandvt

4 years

They had almost unlimited public support, they had the money printer and some of the best scientists in the world. But the government has been unambitious and complacent and their failures are likely to lead to a lot of deaths

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

2 years

#NewProfilePic

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

Lots of people say “but the rich will just up-sticks and move”. There’s no evidence for this. The amounts proposed and the people to pay them are fair. I’d be paying more and I’m not leaving, I’m in favour of it.

Ash Sarkar

@AyoCaesar

3 years

You can’t fund social care by making the poor pay for the rich. It’s time for a wealth tax.

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@xandvt

4 years

It has been a constant reminder that the NHS - healthcare free at the point of access - is unusual and under threat. In the US health problems bankrupt people. There are American insurance companies desperate to prey on all of us.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

the people at the University of Oxford (named after the vaccine) agree - this this a good summary.

The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor

COVID-19 and the related government-led lockdowns have resulted in widespread economic shock and job loss, in the UK and around the world. Governments, including in low and middle-income countries,...

www.research.ox.ac.uk

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

It’s not political it just reassures patients from the LGBT+ community that they won’t face prejudice. Nazis & racists don’t seem to face as much discrimination but they’re also treated equally. Would badges saying “I’d treat Laurence Fox as well as I’d treat a gay person” help?

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

6 years

The NHS employs my brother & employed me for a decade. It has cared for every member of my family. I lived in the US for 7 years & the horror of life without it is hard to describe. It needs more funding & protection from the aggressive predation of private interests #NHS70

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

Had a very sad afternoon saying goodbye to Frank Wilkof, one of my best friends. He wasn’t my dog but I was his butler & personal chef on many occasions and lucky enough to be able to say goodbye today. He was so good to @mollyEatsTofu who in turn made his life amazing

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@xandvt

4 years

It’s hard to exaggerate how much the government is lying. They had to invent every procedure themselves. Staff slept there to protect residents. I arrived and was given an egg timer set for 20 mins. They trained me (!) how to wash my hands & I did it every 20mins

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 years

How dare they erase history by putting this statue in a museum where everyone can see it for free

Bristol Live

@BristolLive

3 years

How Edward Colston's statue will be displayed in Bristol

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

The current guidelines aren’t real safety measures: they aren’t substantial or evidence based. But the job of managing the outbreak currently falls almost entirely on a confused public

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

This is really great. Bravo.

University of Leicester

@uniofleicester

4 years

"Universities must do what we can to give A-Level students something back". We're offering places based on mock A-level results as well as published results, whichever is higher, regardless of whether you decide to appeal or wait for appeal outcomes. 👉

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@xandvt

4 years

He’s not very bright, he’s dismissive, nationalistic and lazy but also: you have to kneel when you see the queen? What is he talking about? Does he kneel at all royal events? How often? For how long? What if she’s on the other side of a field or fence? Knee pads?

Femi

@Femi_Sorry

4 years

Bloody hell, @DominicRaab ! You are the foreign secretary! How can you be so ignorant of what #TakeTheKnee is about. Get on google and look up Colin Kaepernick, now!

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@xandvt

4 years

There’s not a public health textbook in the world that mentions pub closure as a key strategy - but there are very clear guidelines on how to manage epidemics. And they are all about identifying cases and treating and isolating them whatever kind of disease you’re talking about

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

I’m filming @OperationOuch today with one of our Ouch Patients Evie! She needs a bone marrow transplant & her donor just dropped out 😖. YOU can save a life by registering to donate today. It doesn’t hurt (it’s a check swab) & you can do it from home. Here’s how:

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

This is a lovely squirrel story - I am also feeding up a scraggly one called Russel Jackson. My main squirrel, President Dalton, has been my only friend for the last 10 days. Here’s a short video of him checking in on me in self-isolation.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

3 months

Imagine what it’s like when they ask for a doctor on the plane. And I’m a doctor. But then my brother barges past with his THREE DOCTORATES and saves the day then the cabin crew flirt with him and upgrade him and I sit at the back and contemplate my choices.

Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@DoctorChrisVT

3 months

After more than a decade of collaboration I’m proud beyond words to be made a Doctor of the University - honoris causa - by @SussexUni . Thanks especially to the remarkable @An040my for her support.

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@xandvt

4 years

It’s because the whole shape of the discussion is a distraction from the more important issues. I hope people having a drink today will remember the A&E staff are a bit tired (sanctimonious 😘) but also that they’ll be discussing why we’re in this mess in the first place

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@xandvt

4 years

Had a slight blip in my recovery yesterday & had to make a brief trip to A&E. The team at the @NHSHomerton were so kind, efficient & expert (sadly I didn’t see @Dr_Ronx who is also all those things). I felt quite overwhelmed at how great the NHS is & how much we need them all 🤗

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@xandvt

4 years

I was so confused about this last night. But they did say everyone over 70 right? I mean I’ve made two tv shows on this and I read and re-read the guidance. What is Hancock talking about? (Thanks @amateuradam for digging this up)

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