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looks to me like that giving the Conservative and Unionist Party of Great Britain carte blanche to come up with arbitrarily and wildly disproportionate criminalised public health measures and endlessly

I think this is a completely correct take & the thing that really depresses me most about it all is that for all the talk of a "new normal", there's

Gonna do a thread I'll occasionally update about things that may/should/may not be live issues in health economics post-COVID-19 because I think that, in every discipline, there's a lot to

What's happened with the new variant btw? Cos I think "70% more transmissible" or anything like is now pretty unsustainable as a claim given that London hit R

A reminder that back in March we were told the plan was to have - as far as possible - a single set of sustainable rules that could be followed

The govt's plans for pre-Christmas mass asymptomatic testing of HE students appear to be continuing despite the fact that there is nothing to point students to in order to interpret

I'm on a mailing list for request for comment on COVID-19 stuff and there's near-constant requests from right-wing media asking for them about interrogating the recent errors in government communications.

In addition to yesterday's CFR piece, here is another estimating the infection fatality ratio in England with @carlheneghan & @oke_jason for @CEBMOxford. Using two national models we produce IFR estimates

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