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I'm seeing some wild over-reactions to this. What he's saying is demonstrably true. 1/ thread.https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1381919420101066752 The UK entered lockdown a few days after Ireland. Portugal followed a week or s

Dan is basically right here. It’s not that SAGE are going against the evidence, it’s that there isn’t any evidence to follow most of the time. 1/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8850815/DAN-HODGES-follow-science-scientists-h

Scotland's sockpuppet state. A short thread. 1/ In an article in Holyrood magazine, a campaign group calls on the Scottish government to increase the minimum price of alcohol.https://www.holyrood.com/comment/view,associate-feature-putti

Second quarter GDP figures for the UK come out tomorrow. Will they be catastrophic or merely disastrous? I reckon the former. A year-on-year decline of 15% sounds about right. Wow,

A thread about food that is advertised by the government which won't be allowed to be advertised on TV after 9pm under government plans. 1/ Fish and chips 2/ Popcorn,

Newsnight is now starting with a monologue telling you what you are supposed to think. We’re being forced to pay for a left-wing version of Fox News. This is naked,

This 'investigation' rewrites history so much that it amounts to a lie. The central conceit is that the government was set on a herd immunity strategy while scientists and modellers

Latest graph using the least worse measure for comparing countries, IMO. Not sure what’s happening in Ireland. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-per-million-7-day-average?country=ITA+ESP+USA+GBR+FRA+IRL+SWE+BEL+DEU Here’s the answ

1/ New study looking at risk factors for hospitalisation and critical illness from COVID-19. Thread.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20057794v1 2/ Age is by far the biggest risk factor for hospitalisation. Morbid obesity increases t

Is anyone making a list of people using the coronavirus as an excuse to do the things they’ve always wanted to do? If not, I’ll start it off with this.

1/ Characteristics and outcomes of UK patients admitted into critical care with COVID-19, as of April 3rd (thread). https://www.icnarc.org/About/Latest-News/2020/04/04/Report-On-2249-Patients-Critically-Ill-With-Covid-19 2/ London has been very badly

Some people in public health - Whitty, Vallance, Van Tam, etc. - have bolstered their reputations in recent weeks. Other people, such as the editor of The Lancet, not so