Deep in COVID 2nd wave, almost half of my #Malawi consultant colleagues were ill in the last 2 weeks. Vaccine is a distant prospect. If you are getting one, please Bump It Forward: donate to help us continue delivering quality care for patients lstmed.ac.uk/bump-it-forward LSTM

It's all about #VaccineEquity until I haven't got one. Who could have foreseen that bilateral agreements over #COVID19 vaccine supply would be problematic? #COVAX

Colchicine for preventing 🏥or🪦 in COVID-19? #COLCORONA non-significant ITT primary endpoint. Early stop: pre-planned analyses at 75% recruited "to provide...study results in a timely fashion". Where does this end? Let's have definitive results 1st time...unlikely to be repeated

Malawi to get Oxford/AZ vaccine ?March... Individual protection of high risk ppl=no-brainer. In the long-term how do we achieve herd immunity where median age is 17 and vaccine tested on adults. Work needed on effects of vaccine and age on transmission. Testing in children?

Is there a cognitive bias about what you see first here? I identify with the runner.

Important that, when we advocate for global #vaccine access, we also acknowledge when it happens. Much more to do but a good start here!

Adult and Child Lung Health Section of The Union needs a new Vice Chair and Scientific Liaison from Oct. Dynamic group, and lots to do in post-TBLung, #Asthma, #AirQuality, maternal&child health. Join the Union bit.ly/2ZjYnlT and apply! IMPALA Pan African Thoracic Society

Loved reading this. Another historically overlooked woman, and an outstanding contribution to data visualisation. Deserves to be better known. Take a look at the "Method of hand crosshatching" next time you think your plots in R are taking you too long.

Come and work with us in Blantyre, Malawi helping translate clinical research to policy. International applications from Africa extremely welcome.

Just catching up on the free online #WorldSepsisCongress from late yesterday. Excellent talks from Mamta Swa MD FACS FICS FAIM and Q Dube amongst others in the "Sepsis and Inequity" session. High quality and relevant CME. Catch up at worldsepsiscongress.org

Great opportunity to share the results of our #asthma research on #taskshifting to local communities, health care staff and policy makers in #Malawi 🇲🇼. Beatrice Chinoko @MLWLung will lead 3 workstreams, working with Ministry of Health, Malawi and our local asthma support group. 🫁👏👏

Great to see context sensitive US training by our partners in Worldwide Radiology. Acceleration of point of care availability could drive considerable improvements in patient outcomes.

Strategies to target antibiotic treatment for sepsis are difficult. Newly published Malawi data confirms high rates of TB in those treated for sepsis, and a broad aetiology including chik. and dengue. TB treatment saves lives African Sepsis Alliance (ASA) Joe Lewis bit.ly/3Dorasp

Inhalers are on the WHO essential medicines list. But they are essentially unavailable to many people with #asthma. Why?

Shameless promotion of a free #sepsis conference with a truly global focus: "Rethinking Sepsis in Resource - Constrained Settings" webcasts.com/Sepsis2021... some great speakers, and me African Sepsis Alliance (ASA)

Sounds like fun! Want to join in?... PhD opportunities for African scientists and clinicians based in Tanzania and Malawi to be advertised later this month.

Interested in emergency care and multi-morbidity? PhDs based within Malawi & Tanzania in clinical medicine, health economics, health systems and social science are now available @MultilinkNihr and in collaboration with HCRInstitute lstmed.ac.uk/study/courses/…

Autopsy report is in: COVID-19 response: a massive global failure thelancet.com/infographics-d… The Lancet

Thanks so much to the Malawi team for making this happen.

Open call for a Technical Advisory Group for the WHO Global Clinical Platform which supports patient-level clinical descriptions of emerging infectious disease. We need data specialists, clinicians and lay-members. Applications at: tinyurl.com/yx365tn7 World Health Organization (WHO)