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Paul Reynolds

paulrey99

Classic Lockdown monomania from @DPJHodges He assumes & asserts (w/o evidence) that Lockdown must save more lives & livelihoods than it costs - otherwise he'd have to admit to himself

Philip Ball

philipcball

Like many if not most science writers, much of what I wrote this year was on the single, inevitable topic of what we first called "the coronavirus", then Covid-19, now

Chris Chetto, Oxbridge science grad, vs COVID🇬🇧

COVID__Out

UPDATE ON COVID-19 INFECTIONS FROM THE ONSOn Tuesday 23 June PM Johnson announced that COVID-19 infections in England had dropped to 1 in 1700, and that various easings could take

Ben Kentish

BenKentish

Ministers will soon have a huge decision to make. Throughout the pandemic the overriding aim of government policy has been to stop the NHS being overwhelmed. At some point in

Another Angry Woman

stavvers

This article will largely be ignored but please, please read and share. It's not "pandemic fatigue" driving spreadhttps://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/07/pandemic-fatigue-how-adherence-to-covid-19-regulations-has-been-misrepresen

Christian Odendahl

COdendahl

A little public service: the main arguments from Germany’s chief virologist @c_drosten, on the new UK #mutation – from this interview in @dlf this morning.https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/coronavirus-mutation-in-grossbritannien-virologe-d

Neil O'Brien MP

NeilDotObrien

How to handle the Covid pandemic is the most important issue facing MPs right now.So I wonder why Julia objects to me questioning the claims of her fellow covid-sceptics?Here's a

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

What does this mean?POLITICSPerilous moment for Johnson. Tory benches are bleak for him, angry over the u-turn, the communication the lot.The autumn lockdown is imbued with politics in a way

Blood Cancer UK

bloodcancer_uk

Given the alarming rise in the infection rate, we welcome the guidance that clinically extremely vulnerable people in England should stay at home as much as possible and to not

Sarah Rasmussen

SarahDRasmussen

ONS, breaches, + teachers: THREADToday I reported an ONS breach to the UK Statistics Authority.Two breaches in fact: one regarding an “ad hoc” analysis on education staff in part 9

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. I believe the government is about to make another huge mistake. Where is @UKLabour in all this? I have some questions @Keir_Starmer should be asking urgently. Please RT to

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

The updated SPI-M slides - a short thread on what's changed.On 31 September, in a hastily arranged press conference, the Chief Scientific Adviser presented these two slides, showing projections for

Statistics Guy 🤓

Stat_O_Guy

Masks, do they work? #COVID19 Since 24th July 2020, the wearing of #Masks in shops became mandatory in England. Prior to this frequent messaging from Whitty, Valance and Hancock was

James Melville

JamesMelville

Thread.1/ The government’s handling of Covid...Everyone I speak to thinks the same. The government (and Vallance & Whitty) have sorely misjudged the general mood. Why is this government unable to

Little Hoppy Saul 💙#SafeEdForAll

HoppySaul

On 21/09/2020 @uksciencechief said on TV“The way we reduce spread is by limiting our number of contacts, bu reducing contacts in environments where spread is more likely. Those are crowded

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Why didn't we lockdown earlier? (Thread)This is a subject about which theories are put forward endlesslyI wanted to explore it in more detail and teamed up with @BBCPM to do

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