Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSAVerified account @KrutikaKuppalli
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#HLRI Move Day has arrived! Today is the day we move into our new research home@Cambridge_Uni. Feels strange to be leaving the lab space where we have spent >15 years, but am excited about what the future holds!pic.twitter.com/15fxIBPFoF
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Ben Cowling Retweeted
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@bencowling88: Vaccine Pass is effectively a vaccine mandate for younger adults, and no strong justification to have it HKU's Ho Pak-leung: too early to revise Vaccine Pass CUHK's@kkokwok: Vaccine Pass key factor to reopen mainland borderhttps://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1648718-20220516.htm?spTabChangeable=0 …Show this thread -
Dr. Peter A Singer, OC Retweeted
This case study presents WHO’s journey to transform itself into an Organization that is closely focused on having a meaningful impact on the lives of billions around the world
https://www.who.int/about/accountability/results/who-results-report-2020-2021/delivery-case-study … 7/nShow this thread -
I live and hope for the day when UK has earned readmission to the EU by taking a realistic, humble and honest look at its place and responsibilities in a collaborative international endeavour.
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Prof. Devi Sridhar Retweeted
This thread will be dedicated to the victims of the mass shooting in Buffalo. This is Ruth Whitfield, 86. Her son, the former Buffalo Fire Commissioner, said she was on her way from visiting her husband in a nursing home and stopped at the store to get something to eat.pic.twitter.com/LDTD81QNpd
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Thanks Rebecca
- have a lovely Monday! And no need to apologise for cake comments- who knew cake was controversial 
https://twitter.com/oohgpwales/status/1525915820743921666 …@devisridhar just finished your book which is absolutely brilliant - answers so many questions that had been lost in the recesses of my mind… and I’m very sorry for my facetious twitter comments about cake
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Maria Van Kerkhove Retweeted
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@mvankerkhove explains the importance of maintaining, and even enhancing, surveillance and sequencing to track#COVID19 evolution.pic.twitter.com/UOhyZP5ezMCOVID-19 Variants -
Ben Cowling Retweeted
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@bencowling88 Vaccinations protect individuals from death + serious disease I am ultra pro vaccine but there is no ethical justification to coerce or mandate vaccination in HK at this stage of the epidemic Educate, trust and respect individual autonomyhttps://twitter.com/bencowling88/status/1526025033289637889 …Show this thread -
Leana Wen, M.D. Retweeted
Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb tells
@margbrennan that there are only 9 people who oversee the nation’s baby formula industry: “I believe there were only 3 when I started at FDA.”pic.twitter.com/HAcWownK3z -
China reports 1,216 new coronavirus cases and 4 new deaths, bringing the death toll from the outbreak to 575. Shanghai had 938 new cases (77% of the total), including 69 symptomatic cases.
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Has any candidate talked about increasing support for science in Australia - not for a project here or there, but overall?https://twitter.com/bethmelv/status/1525403374128361472 …
This is a friendly reminder of how appallingly badly PhD candidates are paid in Australia. The current stipend is $28,854. The poverty line for a single adult is $22,167. The minimum wage is $40,175. How is that ok?
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While we recommend all eligible ppl in HK - especially older adults - to receive booster jabs as recommended by CHP, we do not think there is any strong justification to *mandate* vaccine doses in young adults to push coverage beyond what can be achieved without coercion. (24/24)
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In summary, given the current population immune status in HK, further increasing vaccination uptake amongst young adults beyond the level that can be reached voluntarily will not help achieve zero-covid and is not needed to protect the health care system. (23/24)
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In contrast, among young adults In HK there is already very high coverage of two vaccine doses, moderate uptake of a third dose, plus more than 2/3 of HK’s young adults infected in our fifth wave now benefit from post-infection immunity. (22/24)
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Although the fifth wave is now over, HK will have further waves sooner or later, and older adults will likely face the highest risk of severe COVID in subsequent waves. Increasing vaccination coverage in older adults including booster doses will continue to be a priority. (21/24)
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...while among those aged ≥80y, just over 50% have received two doses but only 17% have received a third dose. A variety of reasons have led to high hesitancy to receive COVID vaccination in older adults in HK. (20/24)https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1569282/v1 …
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Priority in Hong Kong should be on *protecting high-risk older adults*, where unfortunately vaccine uptake remains relatively lower. Among those aged 70-79y, more than 78% have now received two vaccine doses and 42% have received a third dose... (19/24)
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… young adults in a future epidemic. Even if some remaining unvaccinated young adults now refuse to receive vaccination, or those who received only one or two doses now decline to receive a third dose, locally their overall risk of getting severe disease is still low. (18/24)
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Conversely, because of the high vaccination coverage and natural immunity (acquired after fifth wave infections) that has now been achieved, and the lower rate of severe disease in young adults anyway, it would be expected there would be very few severe cases in … (17/24)
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Our own research shows that two doses of COVID vaccination provide a high level of protection against severe COVID in ppl 18-59y (92% for CoronaVac and 95% for BNT) and a third dose can boost protection to an even higher level (>98% for both). (16/24)https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.22.22272769v2 …
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