“I worry that we won't politically accept extreme confinement measures until we've hit a terrifying number of serious cases & deaths
Perhaps once 100,000 people have died…”
@ProfSteveKeen #COVID19 #Exponential #Contagion #Pandemic
patreon.com/posts/34547040
Conclusion: friends are going to die; people will be angry; ministers may fall
#EndOfDays
@10DowningStreet @NHSuk @MattHancock
express.co.uk/news/world/125…
…then these briefing videos are very good
HT @CarolineYorston // @ACJYorston
rcplondon.ac.uk/news/covid-19-…
This was why.
Go home. Close the doors. Work remotely.
#COVID19
thesun.co.uk/news/11043648/…
Published 3 March 2020, @DHSCgovuk
gov.uk/government/pub…
says @BorisJohnson
Who knew?
#NHS #Coronavirus #COVID19 #Health @DHSCgovuk
theguardian.com/world/2020/mar…
Distance learning will be introduced during the remaining two weeks
Government schools will run a home-teaching programme called Learn from Afar”
thenational.ae/uae/education/…
// HT @actioncookbook
The crunch would come during the peak weeks; half of the total number of cases could all come within a fortnight
It could take two or three months to reach that point”
bbc.co.uk/news/health-51…
This graph… // @CarolineYorston @ACJYorston
Huge thanks to @behrooz_hm for all the heavy-lifting on this data
His thread offers further detail.
HT @foldingathome
@RadleyBiology @_grice_ @BitbyBot @RadleyPhysics #CrowdSourcing #COVID19 @ISC_Digital @ty_goddard
“For a very short period of time the NHS may look quite different from the NHS we're used to…”
This thread is a hard read reflecting on what #COVID19 looks like when things get bad…
https://t.co/UwSSkx2xm5
With a government announcement timed for this Friday
Happy to be wrong.
#FlattenTheCurve
One really interesting aspect to all this is that the USA may have to move faster than the UK - which will bring its own political pressures to bear on the UK
#COVID19
Dashboard of reported cases of #Coronavirus in the UK, including new cases, by local authority, together with number of deaths
Currently very much in “alpha”
Not yet great on mobile, but useable if you turn your phone sideways…
HT @DHSCgovuk
arcgis.com/apps/opsdashbo…
“This will be updated daily with new figures and geographic splits by local authority. We're currently working on a mobile-optimised version.”
via @hadleybeeman and @elainewalton
See also:
wired.com/story/a-diseas…
That was a priority for launch”
- @hadleybeeman
gov.uk/government/pub…
Data from 43 US cities during the 1918 Influenza pandemic
“The earlier that schools were closed the lower the number of excess deaths…
The longer that schools were closed, the lower the number of excess deaths…”
@RadleyHistory #COVID19 #Coronavirus
#Coronavirus #COVID19
bbc.co.uk/news/health-51…