@1useyourbrain @Azeem_Majeed RCT is not the only form of evidence.
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Jamie Murphy
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Jamie Murphy
@Microbedoc2
Infectious diseases/microbiology doctor. Welsh diaspora. 🏴
United Kingdom Beigetreten Temmuz 2015
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@Azeem_Majeed Please give us the DBRCT where was established that the "prompt antibiotic use" PREVENT MENINGITIS
FYI dear professor
You can't call it "prophylaxis" if that haven't been established in required clinical trials. If you call it "prophylaxis" without evidence that's misinformation
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Anyone receiving MenB vaccination as part of outbreak control measures needs to be aware that it takes 1-2 weeks for the immune response to develop and that a second dose is needed later. This is why prompt antibiotic prophylaxis is essential for close contacts of MenB cases.
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@ValentinaForUSA @ShamsCharania Or being a tall male which is a risk factor for spontaneous pneumothorax?
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@ShamsCharania A healthy 24 year old with a collapsed lung…
I think he got the covid vaccine
This isn’t normal
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Just in: Detroit Pistons star Cade Cunningham has been diagnosed with a collapsed lung and is expected to miss an extended period of time, sources tell ESPN.
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@DeniseC48200342 @Rohith739 @kitty_cruiser @vivax74 @parthaskar @gmcuk For around 15 years they were prioritised - UK and EEA - it was only under 2019 that this was stopped due to a shortage. We have now returned to a similar protection that was under EU.
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@Rohith739 @kitty_cruiser @vivax74 @Microbedoc2 @parthaskar @gmcuk Costs the UK taxpayer roughly £230,000 to £250,000 to put one student through medical school. Each student gives a huge commitment to the NHS, plus £100,000 in debt. Ridiculous they haven’t been prioritised before now. Disgraceful how Government has treated both UKMGs and IMGs.
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Lots of IMGs talking about US matching and UK policy.
Let’s compare who can apply for training:
US
- insane STEP 1/2
- USCE
- expensive entry
- plenty of jobs
UK
- PLAB
- no clinical experience needed
- CREST signed off by anyone
- cheaper entry
- no jobs
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@Neuro_Matt @JacquiDeevoy1 I love it when you tweet like a Welsh nan.
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@Microbedoc2 @JacquiDeevoy1 Meningitis isn’t contagious??? Jesus wept these people.
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Meningitis is NOT contagious, so what’s with all the nonsense?
As my friend Kat Watkins says on FB today: “Meningitis is an infection in the brain caused by toxins passing the blood brain barrier.
You cannot 'catch' it, it's not contagious 🙄🙄
So all this closing of schools is just theatre.
It's to scare you into making sure you jab yourselves and your kids up.
How many of those who have presented with meningitis, had the covid vax? Since its a side effect? As well as a side effect of many other jabs 🤷🤷”
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@JacquiDeevoy1 Infection diseases and medical microbiology specialist here!
You and your friend Kat Watkins don't have a clue what you are talking about.
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@stefan_tait @robinmonotti Yes, I rarely engage with these clown accounts - but thought should correct the silly assertions being made.
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@Microbedoc2 @robinmonotti The original poster says a bit further down that he “imagines most lumbar puncture tests are done post mortem”
It’s amazing the conclusions you can come to when you live in a world of pure imagination 🤣
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This is the procedure required to test for Meningitis B. Unless this has been done, a Meningitis B case is just guesswork and the numbers of "cases" are just made up on the spot.
Jeffrey Peel@JeffreyPeel
If anyone tells you that someone has died (or become ill) as a result of bacterial meningitis the definitive test, apparently, is via a lumbar puncture. Not nice. So the 'authorities' bypass this troublesome procedure by performing a PCR test - like the one used to 'test' for the fake disease, COVID 19. Don't take my word for it. Here's the current sage on these matters, Google Gemini. "The gold standard for diagnosing bacterial meningitis is cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) culture combined with Gram staining, obtained via lumbar puncture. While culture is the definitive diagnostic standard, CSF PCR (polymerase chain reaction) is often used." So, if some journalist tells you in a news report that someone has become sick or died as a result of Meningitis "infection" you can safely assume that this is total bullshit.
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@LongCovidHell @BBCBreakfast I think what will end up happening is a targeted vaccination of those at high risk e.g. university students in halls of residence.
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@Microbedoc2 @BBCBreakfast Honesty about the process doesn’t make the conclusion right. If the framework is flawed or misapplied, real harm can follow. Authorities should be able to admit mistakes, especially when lives are affected. Accountability matters more than defending stupid decisions.
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'People shouldn't imagine this is an infection that is suddenly going to start shooting through the population'
On #BBCBreakfast Adam Finn, a former member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, was asked whether there should be a catch up programme for young people not vaccinated against Meningitis B, the strain of bacteria behind the outbreak of meningitis cases in Kent
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@robinmonotti because nearly all patients where meningitis was suspected would have a LP before the blood cultures would have had the time to grow the bacteria.
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@robinmonotti LPs are performed on pretty much all suspected cases of meningitis.
If Men B was found in the blood stream and they had consistent clinical syndrome e.g. headache/neck stiffness/photophobia there wouldn't be a huge amount of benefit performing an LP.
But that is beside the point
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@LongCovidHell @BBCBreakfast I think he's being honest about how interventions are assessed. All interventions vaccines included are assessed on CE. Look at the alzhiemers drugs - some evidence of slowing disease but not available on nhs because not seen to be cost effective.
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@BBCBreakfast Adam can fuck right off.
How dare he minimise the deaths of these young people and start bleating on about what’s “cost-effective”.
That’s the JCVI in a nutshell. Money over lives, but especially young lives, as we’ve seen with Covid too. Shameful attitude.
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This is how I'm trying to be built but my body said "no"
🖤✨@thetopshelfmen
i'd spend the whole day serving him
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@nottherealmarko Omg you should see the state of nhs staff toilets. Its like highly trained professionals become cavemen once they enter a cubical. Piss everywhere, shites that block the toilet as they cover with bog roll. Seriously "your life in their hands" - not those filthy hands!
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Variety@Variety
Sarah Michelle Gellar breaks her silence on the “Buffy” reboot cancellation, blaming it on one executive who’s “not a fan of the original.” "No one saw this coming, including the head of Searchlight. I got the call as we were stepping onto stage for the premiere of their own movie. And it’s also the weekend of Chloé [Zhao] going to the Oscars as a best director nominee for Hamnet. For them to call us on the Friday of what should have been Chloé’s victory lap for an incredible film, and my world premiere of something that I worked very hard for is… That says something." "We had an executive on our show who was not only not a fan of the original, but was proud to constantly remind us that he had never seen the entirety of the series and how it wasn’t for him,” she said. “That’s very hard when you’re taking a property that is as beloved as Buffy, not just to the world, but to me and Chloé. So that tells you the uphill battle that we had been fighting since day one, when your executive is literally proud to tell you that he didn’t watch it." variety.com/2026/more/news…
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@GSpier If the US needed it most they should have involved its allies in the decision making to attack, if the US needed it most they shouldnt have set tariffs upon its allies, if the US needed it most it should not have threatened to annexe sovereign terroritory of its allies. You are
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I have lifelong ties to the UK, Germany, and France. I also spent 18 years in the US—where my whole family are citizens.
I am profoundly embarrassed.
When America needed it most, the UK, once our unbreakable partner in the special relationship, chose caution over courage. Europe for the most part is not much better.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Donald Trump says Britain used to be "the Rolls Royce of allies" but he's "very disappointed" Keir Starmer didn't do more to help in the Middle East "The Prime Minister is a nice man, I think he is a very nice guy"
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@Alexarmstrong Oh yes - because Trump's style of leadership is something to aspire to isn't it?
Knob.
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Once again, Trump exposes the fact that Keir Starmer is not a leader.
Ed Miliband, Yvette Cooper, Lord Hermer and his left wing Cabinet are dragging him around, just as multiple journalists have reported.
Starmer is not a leader, never will be.
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@SBarrettBar If you look at the opinion polls. The UK does not want another Middle Eastern war.
If we put warmongers like you on the frontline there would be less indiscriminate calls for war.
Can't imagine it tbh you were nearly crying like a baby being removed from Marylebone station.
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Starmer completely messed up
Worse foreign policy blunder since Suez
He must go.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump says it was "terrible" of Keir Starmer to not get involved in the Iran war "We requested two aircraft carriers which they had and he didn't really want to do it... I was not happy... they should be involved enthusiastically"
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@parthaskar @Xeon4f145d96s1 uprooted lives and careers to be here with the prospect of medical training.
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@parthaskar @Xeon4f145d96s1 I think there is a significant level of callousness regarding how IMGs in the system are being treated, and I think they should not have the rug pulled from under them.
Priority could have been given while also adhering to principles of fairness and recognition that people have
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