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Overcentralisation v Self-organising. The UK always had testing capacity. Like Korea we developed a WHO approved test on January 10th. But Korea immediately approached their pharmaceutical companies to help expand
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SAGE: 13 out of 23 are paid government advisers so not independent when in a room with D Cummings.7 clinical academics 3 microbiologists7 mathematicians/modellers2 behavioural psychologists in disasters/terrorism1 geneticist1 civil
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Please look at this Table I made from Johns Hopkins and Worldometer and case study data, and consider what it means (1) THREAD South Korea saw their first ten deaths on
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Around 1% of children have cow’s milk allergy, but up to 14% of families believe their child have it. The authors point to official guidelines for detecting cow’s milk allergy
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UK policy is reckless: they’ve stopped population testing, contact tracing and rigorous quarantine measures - the bedrock of epidemic control and WHO advice. This will not delay but accelerate the
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Professor Karl Friston is one of the top neuroscience modellers in the world. In this TWO hour video and paper he explains his new COVID-19 model, now sent to SAGE.
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Let me summarise a really important new #COVID19 modelling paper from Rosalyn Moran, Karl Friston and colleagues from Kings and UCL, London. Published in ArXiV. (1) https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/covid-19/Moran_arXiv_2020.pdf "We sought to
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Two critical questions right now. 1. Does COVID-19 reinfect people whose antibody response is weak or absent? Evidence from China. https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriaforster/2020/04/08/can-you-get-sick-with-coronavirus-again-after-youve-already-had
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I was privileged to speak with several public health people in the frontline today. Like ITU staff, other hospital and primary health care workers, they are working all hours to
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I learned that testing is steadily being ramped up, digital solutions to contact tracing are being developed, some of the 750,000 volunteers are being matched to community support, they are
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The brutal truth of 'the best of British science' advising our government.1. Hardliners: don't suppress, protect vulnerable, go for herd immunity. No point testing.https://twitter.com/jemimajoanna/status/1247423351074807810 2. Moderates:
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The respected Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in University of Washington, advisers to WHO, predict 66,314 deaths in the UK by early August. http://www.healthdata.org/ Their COVID19 projections of total
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