#CORONAVIRUS

Fascinating insights from Greg Mellick's independent report into the coronavirus outbreak at the North-West Regional Hospital in April. Here's a thread of some of the takeaways #politas Mellick says public
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Here’s 10 reasons why this “push to reopen early” is utterly insane.1. MUTATION2.MUTATION - unmitigated spread + partially vaccinated pop. = inevitable resistant COVID variant. 3. GODDAMN MUTATION FFS4. Long
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What I don't understand is that she claims that the #covid virus has been patented. So we cannot patent a virus if it is #natural, that would be nonsense. So
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1/Ok so stay with me here because this is going to be detailed. Through the course of reading several deep looks into #QAnon and #Boogaloo I found myself looking at
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New paper out by @flusterbird and @Pool_Depth1_1: how to design a Coal Elimination Treaty and side-step global political deadlocks around climate change.Why do I digest it into a thread? Bc
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Concerns about outdoor transmission risk seem to be trending again. What is the risk of transmission outdoors and should we be more worried about outdoors with the new more-transmissible variant?
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Got a call from a GP lamenting the lack of information on 'what patients are like after being in ICU'.Spoke to the Public Health Nurse for the patient's area also.'we
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Spent today on @bbcnwt looking at the different variants and mutations of #COVID19 currently circulating around the north west. This may not interest you but here goes .... Viruses mutate
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For much of Japan’s modern history, the top three trading houses were Mitsubishi, Mitsui and SumitomoItochu, the 162-year-old firm which traces its origin to linen trading in Osaka, has shattered
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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
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4 years ago today, I was on a panel on refugees at the Evangelicals for Life conferenceIt began with this video, illustrating the sort of airport family reunification I'd personally
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How do you vaccinate a population of billions? The global rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine is what we all have been waiting for. Yet, there are many logistical obstacles still
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“A great journalist puts into words the things people feel. They seek truth & speak truth & are never seduced by the gilded strumpet of power”Emerson WarnerPoppy Harlow gives a
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Quick thread about a mapping trick the @nytimes has adopted in the last few weeks that have dramatically improved their coronavirus maps.The maps are about different topics, but note one
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I just crossed the 4 month mark of being sick w' #COVID19. I am young, & I was healthy. Dying is not the only thing to worry about. I still
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Australians will be among the first in the world to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, if it proves successful, through an agreement between the Australian Government and UK-based drug company AstraZeneca.
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