Natalie Grover
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Energy correspondent @Reuters ; formerly focused on drugs & moonlights occasionally as footie reporter |natalie.grover @tr .com |ex @Guardian |Devoted to @Arsenal
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"Two years since it declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, the WHO — which remains at the heart of the global health response to the pandemic — still hasn’t cleared the air about transmission." via
@AJEnglish
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"I cannot understand why the government would opt to do herd immunity via infection when they could do herd immunity by vaccination – I think it’s criminal," says
@HelenRSalisbury
CC
@allthecitizens
Third of England still without any Covid immunity, scientist warns
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Some personal news: Can barely control my excitement to announce that I have officially joined
@Guardian
as a science correspondent today, filling in for
@hannahdev
who is on maternity leave. Send pitches, tips and all your love to: natalie.grover
@theguardian
.com!
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I’m a little tired of all the nationalistic chest-thumping around vaccine development. Science knows no borders (at least it shouldn’t). The people who developed these vaccines come from everywhere. The vaccines will help people everywhere.
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Today is my last day at
@guardian
as a science corr, covering
@hannahdev
's mat leave.
It's been an honour serving w/
@NicolaKSDavis
,
@iansample
&
@LindaGeddes
who have made me aeons better at this reporting/writing thing. Freelancing for now — reach me at natalie.gvr
@gmail
.com
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Some personal news: Today was my last day at Endpoints News. It's been a wild ride and I will dearly miss my brothers-in-arms
@AmberTongPW
and
@Jasonmmast
! Stay tuned for the next adventure — but until then, I'm available at natalie.gvr
@gmail
.com 🙏
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This is probably a *very* unpopular opinion - holidays cannot be a key consideration in our response to this pandemic. Plenty weren’t or couldn’t go on holidays pre-pandemic; so I don’t understand this obsession. Surely serious illness and death are more pressing issues!
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Some personal news: Delighted to continue my innings on the maternity cover circuit — this time as a European Pharma Correspondent at
@Reuters
, where I left my journalistic heart in 2017. I start on Monday. Get in touch at natalie.grover
@thomsonreuters
.com!
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Focusing on testing, without improving contact-tracing and financial support for self-isolation, is “like pouring water into a bucket which has got a hole in the bottom” says
@ReicherStephen
feat.
@SusanMichie
,
@Metadoc
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@DrJenGunter
Literally just wrote this — which might help explain what's going on to the average person who isn't well versed in virology:
(Here's hoping it helps!)
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Adenike Bamisaiye, 46, Olusola Oke, 58 and Julie Abiose, 55 (left to right) arrived earlier this morning to pay their respects to “a woman of honour”. “I think wherever she is, she will be proud that we have given her a befitting sendoff,” said Oke.
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I am eternally grateful to
@CathNoakes
for her patient, generous commentary that does much of the heavy lifting in this piece.
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Some
#personal
news: I'm back to covering the fascinating world of
#biopharma
after a one-year hiatus (got a
#masters
degree and married). I'm pleased to report I am now a part of the esteemed team at
@endpts
- so go ahead, send me pitches and tips! :)
FibroGen, AstraZeneca score China approval for anemia drug ahead of pivotal US data
by
@NatalieGrover
$FGEN $AZN
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This was hard to write. It's much harder to live with this reality.
Looking at India from afar, I’m furious at Modi’s wilful neglect of my homeland
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In this analysis, I try to explain how everything is not hunky-dory as we approach July 19, with the input of scientists that are far sharper than I can ever hope to be. CC
@martinmckee
,
@ReicherStephen
,
@SusanMichie
,
@SGriffin_Lab
et al
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I only squealed like a 5 year old when I found my name 😂
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Feat.
@kprather88
,
@linseymarr
, Lidia Morawska,
@dgurdasani1
,
@Zubhaque
,
@robertjwest
,
@ReicherStephen
et al
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Reporter typing furiously: "Editing is a collaborative process, not a dress rehearsal for autocracy."
@OHnewsroom
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Today was my first day as European Pharma Correspondent at
@Reuters
. If you forgot to email me at natalie.grover
@thomsonreuters
.com to say hi it’s ok because I just spent the last half an hour trying to pretend I remember shortcuts on windows laptops. We all make mistakes.
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Last official day on EU drugs & health with my glorious crew
@jriggers
,
@MaggieFick
,
@LudwigBurger
&
@p1020
who have nourished my brain and heart in equal measure over the last year
@Reuters
. Off I steamroll into covering the world of energy, my tank greased with goodwill.
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it. There was nothing wrong with your layout
#Twitter
. Now I feel like I'm on a fifth graders new computer game — thanks.
#twitterupdate
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Last day, first page. Job done ☑️
Guardian front page, Saturday 4 September: Ministers expected to defy advice on jabs for children
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“Right now, we can't make a causal relationship (between the variant and higher transmission), it's only an association effect.”
Thank you to the scientists:
@mugecevik
,
@stuartjdneil
,
@CathNoakes
and Andrew Hayward who schooled me on the new variant on a Sunday morning! 😅
What do we know about the fast-spreading Covid variant in UK?
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The lovely thing about “aggressively impartial” journalism is also the assertive spotlight on the other cooks in the kitchen like the producer, editor etc. The final product belongs to them all.
The extraordinary and extraordinarily complicated story of how Max Verstappen became Formula 1 World Champion in the final race of the season. In 4 mins. Produced by Tom Brada.
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This letter from
#FDA
's
#Unger
to
#Sarepta
, detailing his unease with
#golodirsen
, is scathing. Apart from the scant evidence of
#efficacy
, he highlights tox profile of eteplirsen, saying it taints golodirsen's risk-benefit profile. Still confused, why was it approved? $SRPT
I wonder if Sarepta provided the letter requested by FDA, saying that if results of golodirsen's confirmatory study do not support a clinical benefit they'll voluntarily withdraw. Request was made in letter granting appeal of the CRL
#ApprovalDocRabbitHole
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Some personal news: Today is my last day at
@Reuters
- I am off to London to get a masters in medicine, health & public policy (1/3)
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“I just don’t believe that if the genders were reversed...if it was men, in the act of becoming fathers, who were ripped from testicles to anus and left incontinent – that we wouldn’t be doing something to address that.” (1/n)
‘You feel so sexless and dirty’: the women living with incontinence after childbirth
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Just lost my front page virginity:
UK is at 'tipping point' of Covid crisis, says senior health official
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"Look at that, Reuters is finally gaining traction on Twitter"
#ReutersReplyAllGate
@OHnewsroom
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This is nearly 5,000 words, so let's do a quick 🧵 about
#COVIDisAirborne
with some key lines & quotes:
"Two years since it declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, the WHO — which remains at the heart of the global health response to the pandemic — still hasn’t cleared the air about transmission." via
@AJEnglish
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One of my favourite biopharma chief's makes a provoking suggestion: $REGN
Regeneron founder and CEO Leonard Schleifer proposes that all public companies be made to issue 3% of their shares to fund US infrastructure efforts.
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Say hello to
#halicin
—
#MIT
's
#machinelearning
derived
#antibiotic
(so far tested IN MICE).
"This is really the tour de force of the application of AI, with validation for the purpose of novel drug discovery."
Feat. Insilico's
@biogerontology
and CytoReason's
@shenorr
A space odyssey for new antibiotics: MIT's machine learning approach
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Volunteering at a vaccine centre. We have mainly Moderna stock today. The # of people who are insisting on Pfizer or attempting to walk is insane. Why isn’t there more knowledge of the benefits of mix & match? Is this a failure of science comms or just the chokehold Pfizer has?
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Put a cow in a headline, this is the highlight of my career
AstraZeneca turns to cows to cut U.S. carbon footprint
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Happy to report I have a (very) basic understanding of
#blockchain
tech, but enjoyed talking to
@bradloncar
for this one $AGEN
#Agenus
touts blockchain tech to roll out new ‘digital security’ for its PD-1, but will it work? -
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"Nobody can address the condition until we’re better able to narrate what’s happening,” notes
@Daltmann10
Thanks also to
@Dr2NisreenAlwan
,
@Tim_R_Nicholson
and others for taking the time to make sense of the data!
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I’m on the front page of the paper tomorrow! 😍
Guardian front page, Tuesday 22 December 2020: Impose national lockdown or risk ‘human disaster’, scientists tell PM
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Just booked my first (and second) vaccine appointment. Bless our thriving scientific and medical community — and the joyful irony that I will be going to church to get jabbed.
I will be wearing my Sunday best.
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@piersmorgan
for the love of god don't confuse journalist with columnist. One job deals with reporting fact, the other is opinion-centric.
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And of course, my editor
@evakillen
who nudged me to dig deeper and write cleaner! Thank you :)
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@R_Hughes1
@sarahboseley
Hi Rob — there was an inaccuracy in the article in relation to the ONS data, which obviously we wanted to fix. Some scientists have raised reservations about the design of the study, which I thought were also prudent to add. There is a footnote below with an explanation.
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Please enjoy the last rites of of my once vibrant lunch. Last time I pretend an interview is going to last “15 to 20” minutes.
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The
#antibiotic
#market
is broken. Does it make sense to make
#antibiotics
a public good? Or raise prices (yes, despite the current vitriolic pricing environment) to resuscitate R&D? Discuss. Can we make the antibiotic market great again? -
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The newest member of our tribe. He’s best little boy I’ve ever known. Mainly because he doesn’t ask any questions.
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I have a feeling:
#Trump
endorsed
#malaria
drug —
#hydroxychloroquine
—fails to pass muster in small Chinese
#coronavirus
study, finds Evercore ISI maestro Umer Raffat.
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@piersmorgan
Yes, he didn't achieve everything he set out to do, he's not superman. But Trump, is great at NOTHING except spewing vitriol.
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Not that I’m complaining about making the front page: but it’s not a 🐛 it’s a microscopic creature that resembles a worm 😭
#bdelloidrotifers
Guardian front page, Tuesday 8 June 2021: Johnson facing humiliation over foreign aid cuts before G7 summit
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@piersmorgan
The guy deserves some joy, he was involved in all 3 goals. Complain about the whole game..which was deplorable at best.
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Great piece on the knowns and the unknowns of this new variant. My reporting indicates similar concerns — no need to panic, but err on the side of caution.
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Oh good. Bye, bye Covid-19 — hello diabetes
Krispy Kreme will you give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you've been vaccinated
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Dear zxcvbnm76, thank you for your feedback. It matters very little what I thought about what President Trump meant when he said approved. It’s about what general citizens understood from his briefing. I’d rather be an embarrassment than be misleading.
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Chuffed to be included in this star studded lineup to try and make sense of this roadmap and what we should expect!
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But everybody agrees on one thing: the more we allow the virus to transmit, the bigger the opportunity the virus has to evolve and potentially develop vaccine-resistant variants.
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“Without being too cynical,” said Destiny Pharma chief Neil Clark. “We welcome focus on what us and others are doing because it has been a bit lonely out there in the antimicrobial resistance field.”
#coronavirus
#AMR
#antibiotics
#AntibioticResistance
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#Vascepa
reigns supreme in
#fishoil
battle, feat. (twitter) commentary by
@CMichaelGibson
#cardiovascularoutcomes
#omega
-3 $AMRN $AZN $ACST
#Amarin
's
#Vascepa
ready for prime time, as
#AstraZeneca
's rival fizzles -
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And naan bread. Please and thanks.
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Me and my beloved have always worked from home. Every few hours either one of us screams to other, "I'm on the phone"! The recipient is thereby mandated to stop playing their death metal/emo house music for at least 30 mins, and make a snack. We're a well-oiled machine.
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It’s a common symptom of love and loyalty. I did it with
@Reuters
for years after I left 🙃
Mesut Özil still referring to Arsenal as ‘we’ in his farewell interview. It really wasn’t supposed to end like this.
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quite a day to start at energy correspondent, all the oil news decided to happen this morning:
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I had the pleasure of working alongside Rans for a few wonderful years at Reuters. He was generous to a fault, and will be missed greatly. Big loss for journalism.
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#journorequest
For a piece in the
#Guardian
, looking to speak to women who have suffered
#incontinence
/
#vaginal
prolapse etc after giving birth due to a lack of
#postnatal
care during the
#Covid
crisis
(Can be anonymous; DMs open)
@masic_uk
@birthrightsorg
@BladderHealthUK
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Say hello to my first ever
@guardian
#podcast
: (feat.
#Kafka
, food & sex jokes, and my slightly awkward tone)
#ScienceWeekly
#metamorphosis
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But the regulatory process across borders is certainly fair game. It’s incredibly frustrating not to have access to the data the MHRA had before making its decision. The FDA process may be slower in the case of the vaccines, but it’s far more transparent.
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My heart brakes for Saka. So much pressure for such a young boy. Dear god so stressful
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Just stopped myself from losing it a lady who threw a bitch fit lecture about how Pfizer has “no side effects” and how she “knows her blood.” Moderna is snake oil it seems. Unbelievable. So depressed about how information reaches/is accessed by the masses.
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The crowd stands still, solemn and stoic at Hyde park, as the ceremony draws to a close.
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I like my headline. You like my headline. We all like my headline!
#atopicdermatitis
#eczema
$ANAB $DERM
AnaptysBio gives investors a rash as its big bet on eczema fails, sinking stock
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If it's any consolation, I literally finished writing this and cracked open a bottle of gin.
Any amount of alcohol consumption harmful to the brain, finds study
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More important bottom line: the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine prevents severe disease and hospitalisations by 93%.
(This is your daily reminder to read beyond the headlines).
Pfizer vaccine less effective against spreading of Delta variant, Israeli study finds
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Note to my PR compatriots: Many a time you're compelled to send releases invoking the very exciting news that a clinical trial has begun, or enrollment is complete. RESIST THE TEMPTATION — and explain this to your clients. Rarely do these events constitute news.
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“I can tell you that I don’t like to work remotely...there is no separation between work and private life, there is no difference between weekend and work weeks, and everything becomes Groundhog Day...and honestly, the refrigerator is too close,” CEO Taglietti said.
More positive PhIII data set stage for Scynexis' vaginal yeast infection drug approval
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Dogs are better than cats, says canine consortium
Covid green list too cautious, say UK airlines and travel firms
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Teachers may use this event to illustrate the virtue of sharing is caring. $SNY $PFE $BNTX
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Just another day in India...
Coronavirus: Monkeys 'escape with COVID-19 samples' after attacking lab assistant
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If I are/hear one more biopharma person abuse, overuse, oversell the word innovation.. I mean I can’t do anything about it but you’ve ruined the word. Nothing is innovative if everything is innovative… use incremental now and again
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So, my Indian accent, dipped in Americanisms and under the influence of my British husband apparently now sounds Welsh, remarks a stranger at the US embassy. I could do with a Danish.
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Four whole years with you
@Reuters_Health
. Congratulations, you're officially my longest romantic relationship!
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Anita Evans, 50, booked a coach from Cardiff to London soon as she could. “I was going to wear black, but it’s a celebration of the Queen’s life too, isn’t it? She liked to stand out in the crowd,” she said, clad in a white hoodie and a green blouse.
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1) Black communities saw deaths rates improve to similar levels as White people by the 2nd wave 2) Rates in Bangladeshi communities remained high, but Pakistani community rates dramatically worsened
@Vnafilyan
@_Nazrul_Islam
@kamleshkhunti
@amibanerjee1
Covid mortality in England still higher for some ethnic minorities, study finds
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@dgurdasani1
suggested that perhaps the WHO's reticence was linked to supply chain issues around PPE. "I don’t think you should ever change your evidence to match what you want your policy to be. I think you need to be honest with people." (18/n)
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We have a name! Pfizer/BioNTech say their Covid-19 vaccine — christened "Comirnaty" has been granted conditional authorization by the European Commission. $PFE $BNTX
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@UKCovid19Stats
@BBCBreaking
I know this should not be surprising, but it still is: "Approximately 1 in 3 people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it."
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“This is the problem with hanging everything on vaccines until you’ve got something near a population immunity threshold … you need a much higher coverage to protect against a variant that’s more transmissible”
Delta Covid variant may be edging race against vaccines
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The virus does not recognise geographical borders - neither should our acknowledgement of the potpourri of people who are behind these vaccines.
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Easily the most important lesson I learned (the hard way) at
@Reuters
.
"High school taught me big words. College rewarded me for using big words. Then I graduated and realized that intelligent readers outside the classroom don’t want big words. They want complex ideas made simple." Everything in this
@DKThomp
@TheAtlantic
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