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Post this lockdown we are going to again be faced with a lobbyist demand for careless rushed opening based this time on the idea that IFR will have fallen because

This mornings NISRA weekly deaths bulletin for northern Ireland brings the likely total dying with Covid19 during the pandemic to 2957 or 1569 deaths per million. The equivalent for the

The news about Jigsaw closing is dominating my timeline tonight - in the next couple of days I’ll try & put together a thread from the early Seomra days onwards

Latest NISRA deaths bulletin for Northern Ireland shows thanks to vaccination there have been no excess deaths in 7 weeks, the peak at 2518 being hit Feb 28th when there

456 positive #Covid19Ireland swabs is 109% of last Thursday although thats actually a smaller increase than the same comparison over the 3 previous days. So a 'could be worse' which

Significant increase in positive #Covid19Ireland swabs today, enough to cause some concern. 542 is 120% of last Wednesday & thats increase is more than the modest increase in testing with

Covid-19 vaccine candidate is 90% effective, says manufacturer - mass roll out will take a while but if 90% holds this certainly makes a huge differencehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/09/covid-19-vaccine-candidate-effective-pfize

The right wing suggest we can let people die of #Covid19 in order to 'save the economy'. But countries like Sweden that took that route did as bad if not

A clue as to the significant role of travel in 2nd wave as this variant emerged in Spain in June but now accounts for 60% of cases here. Every one

Yesterday the @IrishTimes again published a #Covid19 piece that had not been fact checked. Piece by Martin Feely suggests the WHO had put forward a mortality of 0.1386%. This is

To encourage someone to do better I did a rough approximation of #Covid19Ireland percentage outcomes of the 9292 new cases arising from 17 July to 23 Sept with outcomes taken

This also explains why climate denialist lobbyists were willing to organise & fund Covid denialism. Controlling the pandemic has hit oil revenue hard. For almost all of this it’s a