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@Primewave96 Her annoyed ego had to do something after she got refused to put window down?She thought a gun in trunk was her safety excuse card? Hope she got sued?

🚨 Some people panic the moment they see flashing lights. They start explaining themselves, apologizing, and giving away info they never had to share in the first place. But as soon as questions come back at them, everything changes. Knowing your rights and staying calm in these situations is something most people were never taught—and that lack of knowledge is exactly what the system counts on. 💡 Learning how these encounters really work and how to protect yourself legally is key to staying safe. ⚖️👮‍♂️

@adandec Yeah they set up a specialist transport team bringing kids from across the southeast. Their mortality rates dropped by about 20% over the course of a few years.

@ShaunLintern Yes. Simon and his team did valuable work saving babies especially when vaccines weren't yet developed! Think it was called 'swoop and scoop'? to bring the babies urgently to hospital. The time to receiving antibiotics was key to survival!

I enjoyed talking with Simon Nadel from St Mary's, Paddington, where in 1992 a paeds ICU was created to deal with deadly meningitis cases from across south east of England. The teams work saw death rates fall and remains the standard of care today: thetimes.com/article/29b1f9…

@evertoniasite @AndyBurnhamGM @AHunterGuardian Are they appealing? :)

‘It was left to Everton to impose the only serious sporting sanction of the week on Chelsea.’ Terrific first line by @AHunterGuardian 👏 theguardian.com/football/2026/…

@ShaunLintern This is men ACWY vaccine? Most teens have never been offered the men B vaccine, available from 2015, which is relevant to current Kent outbreak? That is the story?

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: More than a million teenagers across England have missed out on meningitis vaccines at school during the past nine years thetimes.com/article/eaa3b5…

@PathogenScribe Are you aware of any meningitis B strain outbreaks in USA that have reached high case numbers as this 'unprecedented' one in UK. Is it true that some US colleges or universities only accept students if they are vaccinated for all strains ABCWY first?

A meningitis outbreak linked to serogroup B (MenB) is making headlines in the UK. It’s rare—but when it hits, it moves fast and can be devastating. I covered this in detail on #InfectiousDose, and there are a few things people really need to understand🧵 independent.co.uk/news/health/me…

@mryoung151 B strain meningitis is the most common strain by far in UK. Don't know position in USA?

U.K.’s deadly meningitis outbreak shows importance of vaccination | 2 meningococcal vaccines are available in U.K. & U.S.: MenACWY & MenB. The letters stand for various strains of N. meningitidis. Strains A, C, W & Y are more common than B scientificamerican.com/article/u-k-s-…

@AlexMacLeod9 @JKSteinberger But not teens/students!

@JKSteinberger The UK have been vaccinating babies since 2015.

Meningitis B vaccine for teenagers is the norm the Swiss vaccine plan. My 13yo son just had it. The UK choosing not to give it is a political/economic choice, not medical choice - one with deadly consequences.

@JKSteinberger Good information. It can be done.

@misrab @JKSteinberger So why would a medical body have to be interested in the cost of doing something? Surely they should conc on clinical need and perf? Money is gov problem? And if gov are int in money they count up all the costs to society not just to the NHS as was done in JCVI formula?

@JKSteinberger The JCVI is a medical body that advised on routinely vaccinating against meningitis. Not politics

@rja_carnegie @GyllKing @MichaelRosenYes Men B vaccine does not combat every B substrain. I think it is believed to have reduced B cases by 83% in babies. So a fewer number of cases will still arise. There are universities in US where students cannot be enrolled unless they are vaccinated against all ABCWY strains.

@GyllKing @MichaelRosenYes I haven't seen that case positively linked to the Club Chemistry strain, and I won't be astonished if it's fraud. On the initial point, vaccine maker GSK has a US teen approved (if it still is) "Penmenvy" which I think is their ACWY and B vaccines in one needle. Nothing on X?

March 2014, JCVI didn’t recommend Men B vaccine rollout for adolescents. Reasons: doubts about ‘duration’ and level of ‘protection’ + fear the effort would ‘displace’ other interventions’. Presumably at least some of these doubts have been dispelled?

@AndyMitten The Robbery?

Good morning from Bournemouth. I’m on BBC five live radio talking about MUFC at 0820

@FullFact How many cases/ deaths, involving meningocall B strain disease, of students have occurred since 2015?

We’ll be adding to this article in the coming days, so if there’s something you’d like us to fact check or explain, please reply below.

Thank you to our readers for the many questions we’ve received about the meningitis outbreak in Kent. We’re publishing our answers here, including why not everyone gets the vaccine, and how long protection from the vaccine lasts 👇 fullfact.org/health/menb-qu…

@BBCHughPym Thank you for this information. So men B vaccination of all students could have helped to prevent this outbreak. The focus must now be on vaccination COST EFFECTIVENESS and for whose benefit?

Latest from UKHSA: “ laboratories have completed an initial genetic analysis of a meningococcal strain isolated during this outbreak. "Results have confirmed that the Bexsero vaccine currently being offered in Kent should provide protection against the strain identified."

@g_gosden That's why we must vaccinate students BEFORE the outbreak comes? The disruption to schools, universities, parents being worried was not taken into account when costeffectiveness calculations to NHS ONLY were used to decide free student vaccination?

“It’s important to keep it in proportion when we see it on the news, what I don’t want is people to be unnecessarily worried” Health Secretary Wes Streeting

@LBC Exactly. All students should be vaccinated with menB now.

Grieving father of meningitis victim, 18, says illness 'took her from us less than 12 hours' as he insists 'this can be avoided' lbc.co.uk/article/grievi…

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@BBCHughPym Are BBC looking at (and explaining to parents) how the expert JCVI came up with the formula for cost effectiveness that stopped free vaccination for ALL students?

UKHSA latest on Kent meningitis outbreak: As a further precautionary measure, we are extending the offer of antibiotic prophylaxis and vaccine to any individuals who attended Club Chemistry from the 5 March until it closed voluntarily on 15 March.

@cv_cev Just saw on bbc website that the B substrain involved in current outbreak has been identified and has been circulating for five years. But it didn't say if it was one of the substrains that men B vaccine would be effective against? Does anyone know?