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The biggest pox party in history #covid19UK
Johnson’s U.K. Virus Strategy Needs People to Catch the Disease
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/johnson-s-u-k-virus-strategy-needs-people-to-catch-the-disease
Johnson’s U.K. Virus Strategy Needs People to Catch the Disease
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/johnson-s-u-k-virus-strategy-needs-people-to-catch-the-disease
UK strategy in a nutshell https://twitter.com/jeffwren01/status/1238190023918452737
Pressure mounting for #UK #COVIDー19 plan https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1238916927541608450?s=19
And after loosing valuable time with their risky experiment, UK government finally starts to wakes up:
https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1239597712796004354?s=19
#COVID2019uk
https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1239597712796004354?s=19
#COVID2019uk
"We were expecting herd immunity to build. We now realise it’s not possible to cope with that." Professor Azra Ghani, chair of infectious diseases epidemiology at Imperial, told journalists at a briefing on Monday night. https://twitter.com/RupertMyers/status/1239661087932497920
"Nobody has ever tried to do that [Herd immunity] by allowing infection with a disease before – and now, it appears to have been recognised that it’s not safe to try." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/new-data-new-policy-why-uks-coronavirus-strategy-has-changed?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1584399326
so much precious time wasted https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1239691457126162433
This is alarming. UK friends stay safe. https://twitter.com/MarinaNigrelli/status/1240909667909406720?s=19
When compared to Germany, UK is massively unprepared. #COVID2019uk https://twitter.com/michaeljswalker/status/1241005555772272642?s=19
War like scenes from one of the most advanced hospitals in Europe. Interviewed health professionals stress:
"This not like the flu" https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1241087259950055424?s=19
"This not like the flu" https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1241087259950055424?s=19
Boris copying Cyprus https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1242189170552037384?s=19
Apparently a new @UniofOxford #COVIDー19 epidemiological model claims "Coronavirus may have infected half of UK population" and most controversially of all "indicates that Covid-19 reached the UK by mid-January at the latest." https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1242489840068894720
And apparently scientists are sceptical and they should be: https://twitter.com/MariosZachariad/status/1242804053136084992?s=19
Interesting development:
"The test detects the presence of IGM, an antibody that arises very early on in the infection, and IGG"
UK coronavirus mass home testing to be made available 'within days' | #CoronavirusOutbreak https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/uk-coronavirus-mass-home-testing-to-be-made-available-within-days
"The test detects the presence of IGM, an antibody that arises very early on in the infection, and IGG"
UK coronavirus mass home testing to be made available 'within days' | #CoronavirusOutbreak https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/uk-coronavirus-mass-home-testing-to-be-made-available-within-days
Boris in hot water for snubbing opportunity to join EU-wide tenders for vital medical equipment https://www.ft.com/content/f9051f66-cfbe-4b36-848e-3980225ae542
"UK government will begin coronavirus tests for health workers on the frontlines" #COVID19 https://twitter.com/i/events/1242097836331659264
An interesting thread on the minutes of the scientific committee that advises the UK government and now is taking the heat for the initial response on #Covid_19 https://twitter.com/LawDavF/status/1243607117552115712?s=19
Apparently Boris was infected via a web of #Covid_19 hosts with Barnier in the centre. Obviously any other alternative would be too banal. https://twitter.com/JohnOBrennan2/status/1244028889799811073?s=19
Firefighters and retired emergency staff to help tackle #coronavirus in UK https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/firefighters-retired-emergency-workers-help-tackle-coronavirus-uk?CMP=share_btn_tw
Domestic abuse victims are allowed to leave home to seek help at refuges despite rules to stop coronavirus spreading, the home secretary has said.
BBC News - Coronavirus: Domestic abuse victims 'still allowed to leave home' https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52081280
BBC News - Coronavirus: Domestic abuse victims 'still allowed to leave home' https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52081280
This is very powerfull intro by BBC's Emily @maitlis puting the social inequality aspect of the #COVID19Crisis in the spotlight https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1248254339795300353
Renault and Red Bull Formula One efforts to build ventilators stalled.
" the issues that affected BlueSky showed why regulators could not rush through new devices."
UK scraps plans to buy thousands of BlueSky ventilators. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/13/uk-scraps-plans-to-buy-thousands-of-bluesky-ventilators-coronavirus
" the issues that affected BlueSky showed why regulators could not rush through new devices."
UK scraps plans to buy thousands of BlueSky ventilators. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/13/uk-scraps-plans-to-buy-thousands-of-bluesky-ventilators-coronavirus
It seems that the whole Industrial race to produce ventilators were more about optics than essence. See interesting thread below
https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1250316319481671681
https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1250316319481671681
