#Docsforvax

I’m not a vaccine expert so it’s reasonable to ask why I am confident that I want to be vaccinated for COVID-19. I will have the jab for myself, my
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Fantastic news that the first COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for routine use so quickly. Here is why I am happy to be vaccinated and why I want my family
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The Background 1860s: nucleic acids discovered 1940-50s: the concept that “DNA makes RNA makes protein” is developed (& is called the central dogma)1960s: messenger RNA discovered 1/n Path to the
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Themes of the week: vaccine roll-out, the COVID tide turning, and the lockdown ending. This is where I think we’re at, having talked again with friends across the UK and
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The vaccine is absolutely brilliant science. It’s a real opportunity to end this pandemic. I’ll definitely be having it, and soon i hope. The reason MHRA have moved so quickly
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Spoke too soon. Two weeks ago I was hopeful that the second COVID tide was starting to turn. Things weren’t easy but had stabilised and national numbers were down. Now
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Media reports of pressures on the NHS are all true. The situation in London is now MUCH worse than the first wave, and still deteriorating. Sad to see long queues
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Staff working in Anaesthesia/ ICU are at (unexpectedly) lower risk of COVID-19 infection than others on frontlineThe big question is whether this has more implications for anaesthesia/ICM or for the
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Lots of doom scrolling this evening, so I thought I would share some positive thoughts, after spending the afternoon prescribing in our covid vaccine clinic..... The Pfizer vaccine has been
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