Worth noting that your own marginal AI use has negligible impact but that AI is an industry & uses resources at an industrial scale. It is relatively resource hungry in electricity but it seems very resource efficient in water compared to other industries.
This would at least explain why it's been hard to find 'the' cause of KD (EBV, adeno etc) in the past, if multiple different primary viral infections can trigger it. A bit like HLH (lots of EBV but also other pathogens, triggers).
This fits nicely with a discussion we had at work last week
MIS-C wasn’t really a new or distinct thing - it was just Kawasaki disease presenting in older children encountering a pathogen for the first time, hence the differing phenotype
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-025-04499-8
Children's commissioners evidence today "We took away children's basic
freedoms for the best part of two years."
"there were some voices, including some quite loud voices in the scientific community, who were arguing that schools should not open. Indeed, the British Medical Association argued that, various other bodies did, as well, slightly to my surprise."
Chris Whitty 🇬🇧 #CovidInquiry today 🧵
"if we were running things again, this is one of the areas where I think I would have preferred a policy that was more liberal about children's play in reality. But that is a policy view, which is not really my job."
This is how you do Sci-comms on childhood vaccinations and research.
Thank you @apsmunro
Did you see @UHSFT's @apsmunro on BBC South with @edwardjsault? 📺
Flu is a common virus. While many people recover quickly, it can be dangerous for young children.
A new trial is exploring whether the flu vaccine can be extended to younger toddlers.
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3x5ynl43wo
A UK-wide trial is testing if the nasal flu vaccine can be safely offered to one-year-olds.
Led by UHS, the FluSNIFF study is inviting families to take part at 100 GP practices and three hospitals.
🔗 https://bit.ly/3LghgRN
#WeAreUHS #FluVaccine #ClinicalResearch
R to @apsmunro: This is completely as one would expect
Importantly, this shows it has nothing to do with completely fabricated and fictitious long-term impacts of Covid itself on children's immune systems, made up by people who don't seem to understand immunology
Pleased to share my latest article - looking at the successes and failures of therapeutics to protect babies against RSV
The last two years have been game changing - but there's still plenty of work to be done!
Link in next post