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We now have data from mass testing in schools for the first 4 weeks after they fully reopened on March 8th, up to the end of the spring term.The results

Carl Heneghan's latest article for the @spectator shows the professor of Evidence Based Medicine is either misreading or misrepresenting the evidence.At least 90% of the deaths he lists in an

The @DailyMailUK and @RossjournoClark have published another article downplaying the second wave, which got a government health warning from @DHSCgovuk, who said it was "misleading".That's putting it mildly.Here are a

Some people still seem convinced the recent surge in covid-19 cases is caused by "false positives" (people who don't have the virus but still test positive due to various issues),

This week's Test & Trace report shows another big jump in cases, only partly driven by a surge in demand for testing.Test turnaround times continued to get worse as the

The government failed to increase lab capacity AT ALL over the summer, despite their own policies leading to increased demand for tests that reduced the headroom available to deal with

After claiming last month that cases weren't rising (when they clearly were) due to errors in how he calculated the positivity rates, @carlheneghan is now saying that "while detected cases

Over 4 MILLION swab tests have now been "sent out" but never actually tested by a lab. These tests were counted in the government's headline figures but never used.And that's

Some papers are today suggesting @MayorofLondon Sadiq Khan is "implicated" in the Westferry planning row.Nice try, but Khan was just informing Desmond of official London development policy, which offers a

The government's new contact tracing service finally launches tomorrow. Two weeks later than planned. Two and a half months after we gave up on test and trace the first time

2,000 elderly residents died in care homes in a single week, largely unnoticed, because they weren't included in the daily press briefing numbers. As the grim statistics finally start to

Here we go again. The government has changed its story about the EU procurement scheme repeatedly over the last few weeks. Here are all the twists and turns... March 19: