.... also this very clear piece by Kate Proctor "UK government’s coronavirus advice – and why it gave it": amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar…
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"....US sanctions even resulted in Google removing Iran’s coronavirus diagnosis app from its online store": independent.co.uk/voices/coronav… [10/n]
Informative Atlantic article comparing Obama's Whitehouse to Trump's. By @brhodes, who was there with Obama: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… [11/n]
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6m @BBCNewsnight interview by @katierazz with Graham Medley (Academic Chair of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling). Key message at 4:27 is to imagine you do have Covid 19 and to "change your behaviour so you are not transmitting": bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08… [14/n]
Interesting and informative @LRB article by Rupert Beale of the Cell Biology of Infection Laboratory @TheCrick Institute: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/… [15/n]
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On the need for daily public briefings by the Chief Medical Officer. Very clear thread by @AndyBurnhamGM, with lessons from his time as Health Secretary during the (less serious) Swine Flu crisis: [17/n]
On self-isolation. Calm perspective by sociologist @rwjdingwall: socialsciencespace.com/2020/03/corona… [18/n] 
"This will not pass you by; this is not a tornado, it is a hurricane. Don’t panic, but do prepare. If your government won’t help you, do it yourself." Blunt, by @BillHanage, a prof of the evolution and epidemiology of infectious disease at Harvard: amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/… [19/n]
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Reith Lecturer / Checklist Manifesto @Atul_Gawande, writing in a US context: [22/n]
Informative thread by Daniel Falush, a Shanghai-based statistical geneticist (if that's the right term): [24/n]
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Significant and somehow shaming if not broadly matched in the UK: [26/n]
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16/3/2020 Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team - Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions to reduce COVID-19 mortality & healthcare demand: imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial… 20p PDF [28/n]
Plenty to agree with in this TES piece by @AoCDavidH tes.com/news/why-colle… (perhaps more focus needed on the great importance of *speed*, in the sense that negotiations about e.g. finances need to be going on *after* impending decisions about what to close and how/when) [29/n]
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Thread by @rbrharrison, who was George Osborne's Chief of Staff: [31/n]
It is not just businesses that need this. Public organisations whose solvency is dependent on "output" (which will inevitably be reduced by COVID-19) also need support. [32/n]
This is great from the WHO Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus:
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“There’s no question of heroism in all this,” Camus writes. “It’s a matter of common decency. That’s an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is – common decency.” @suzanne_moore: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… [35/n]
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An exceptionally grim thread about COVID-19 control in London, from UCL public health expert Professor Anthony Costello (@globalhlthtwit): [42/n]
theguardian.com/technology/202…, via @macurcher [43/n]
New @resfoundation report proposing policies in three areas: "relatively simple extensions of sick pay itself, much bolder moves to aid the retention of workers by struggling firms, and a stronger social security safety net": resolutionfoundation.org/publications/d… [44/n]
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Eleven tweet thread with charts, by the @FT's @jburnmurdoch, based on Monday's Imperial College report:
Informative 35m 12/3/2020 @StGeorgesUni scientific/medical talk and interview session by Professor Julian Ma with Dr Angela Houston, @ViralRNA and @ProfSKrishna:
Scathing assessment of government performance to date on Coronavirus from the @FT's @ChrisGiles_ ft.com/content/0536da… [£/login?]
A thread by @davidsteven from Italy on the difficulties of maintaining lockdown:
(Links to a 9p PDF, with plain English advice on set-up, and approach at the General Practitoner and patient ends. Available in English, French, Spanish. More-or-less applicable to running 1:1 tutorials using video. cc @A_L_T.)
This and the thread it links to are a counter to complacency:
Another great thread by epidemiologist @AdamJKucharski, in this case *about* epidemiology:
"Given the experience of the past dozen years we should now never tire of asking: which economic constraints are real and which imagined?" @guardian article by @adam_tooze: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
On key workers. Very timely discussion and analysis by @TheIFS: ifs.org.uk/publications/1… [via @PJTheEconomist]
If this is not happening in Britain, it surely should be: irishtimes.com/news/health/co…
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"Losing" may be the wrong term, but as a window onto what may be to come (and what we have to try to avoid), this report by Sky's Adam Ramsay is eye-opening: [71, HT @HCFEprincipal]
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34 minute Nolan Show radio call between @StephenNolan and an A&E consultant just back from shift: [73 via @EmmaHardyMP]
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"Without being alarmist, be honest about how bad things are, and how bad they might get." Point 8 in @campbellclaret's thoughtful Twenty Check Points for the Prime Minister's Briefing Team, all of which make a lot of sense: alastaircampbell.org/2020/03/time-f… [76]
[#77] - Dave Ritter runs Greenpeace in Australia and the Pacific
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Today's Sunday Times article by @ShippersUnbound and @cazjwheeler on Coronavirus policy, and how it changed.
thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/c… [79 - login/££]
thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/c… [79 - login/££]
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Riveting: sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/i… [86]
Two articles by @BrankoMilan, who is an out-of-the-ordinary ex World Bank economist.
1. "The Real Pandemic Danger Is Social Collapse": foreignaffairs.com/articles/2020-… (concluding para below);
2. "Corona: Four Types of Labour and the Epidemic" braveneweurope.com/branko-milanov… [87]
1. "The Real Pandemic Danger Is Social Collapse": foreignaffairs.com/articles/2020-… (concluding para below);
2. "Corona: Four Types of Labour and the Epidemic" braveneweurope.com/branko-milanov… [87]
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Comprehensive, by @BenVerinder: tes.com/news/coronavir… [91]
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The @FT has made @jburnmurdoch's excellently designed page of #COVID19 tracking charts free to read: ft.com/coronavirus-la… [95]
slate.com/technology/202… [96] - via John @jjn1 Naughton's Memex 1.1 opt-in mailing.
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hackaday.com/2020/03/23/mit… [103] - via @doctorow
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newstatesman.com/science-tech/c… [105] - via @LouHaigh
A very informative thread on the potential impact of Coronavirus on the Brexit process and outcome by @pmdfoster: [106]
The OxVent. Another example of a prototype mass-producable ventilator: theface.com/life/oxvent-pr… [107] - via @queenchristina_. See also #103 above.
Thread about the OxVent, by Christina Patterson: [108]
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Worth reading, by @robertshrimsley: tinyurl.com/wjttq4j [110] (cannot be sure if this is accessible)
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How America built the best pandemic response system in history – and threw it away. The Trump administration destroyed an infrastructure, built over two decades, that may have been humanity’s most powerful weapon against new diseases. By @willydunn: newstatesman.com/world/north-am… [112]
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Why a national government now is a dangerous idea. At this moment of crisis the UK needs a constructive opposition, not a compliant one. Outstanding article by Robert @redhistorian Saunders: newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20… [117] - concluding paragraphs below.
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Well worth reading, by @DAaronovitch: thetimes.co.uk/edition/commen… [120] - login/£?
"Think in ink." From a public service checklist by @campbellclaret: alastaircampbell.org/2020/03/twenty… [120]
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Should we cross the privacy Rubicon? Will we? Essay, by Maciej Ceglowski, via @jjn1:
idlewords.com/2020/03/we_nee… [#CV19 bookmark 123]
idlewords.com/2020/03/we_nee… [#CV19 bookmark 123]
Message to parents and carers from Greg Fell: Director of Public Health for #Sheffield: tinyurl.com/wsujvms [24] - 5p PDF from which the image below is taken
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Comprehensive, informative thread by @jburnmurdoch, whose charts have a Tufte-like quality:
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To the point, by @johnharris1969: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… [134]
A blunt but important thread by @DanielFalush, a statistical geneticist observing Europe from Shanghai: [135]
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Broadband / a public utility: theguardian.com/world/2020/mar… [138]
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In other news, with 1 April still a couple of days ahead: theguardian.com/australia-news… [140]
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A really gripping article by @xtophercook: members.tortoisemedia.com/2020/03/30/chr… [143]
A link to two very illuminating blog posts simulating #Covid19 transmission under different conditions, by economics Nobel prize winner Paul Romer, via @globalhlthtwit: paulromer.net/covid-sim-part… [144]
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"A lethal pandemic was considered the most serious security risk to the UK. But nothing was done....Now the United Kingdom is, as in 1940, rushing to counter a threat for which it should have been ready." Worth reading in full, by @harrytlambert: newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20… [147]
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Moving, dignified and brave interview with @JoMidge by @cathynewman about her mother Cllr Pat Midgley's death in Sheffield from #Covid19:
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) roundup from the Office for National Statistics, which @ONS will regularly update: ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati… [153]
New thread from @jburnmurdoch explaining developments in how the @FT is presenting (and interpreting) international CV data: [154]
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Rationale for much much more widespread CV testing very clearly explained in this 6m CNN interview with @globalhlthtwit: [156]
Very good, by @campbellclaret: thearticle.com/covid-19-ten-q… [157]
The Guardian's @helenpidd explains #Sheffield's reported incidence of CV: theguardian.com/world/2020/apr… [158]
Coronavirus: a Naples hospital, which had time to prepare, where no medics have been infected. Report by Stuart @ramsaysky: news.sky.com/story/coronavi… [159]
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newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20… [161] (the author Lawrence @LawDavF Freedman was a member of the Chilcot committee of enquiry into the Iraq War)
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As a government source told The Times this week: “Germany has the entire biotech diagnostic sector in its borders. So when people say why can’t we do what Germany is doing, the answer is 70 years of industrial policy.” By @MattChorley:
thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/m… [163 - sign up/£]
thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/m… [163 - sign up/£]
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Coronavirus: Understanding the Numbers. A 26m @RiskyTalkPod podcast with @d_spiegel: riskytalk.libsyn.com/coronavirus-un… [165]
Sobering article by Harvard U epidemioligist @mlipsitch & immunoligist @yhgrad: statnews.com/2020/04/01/nav… [166]
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"I've got to say that was emotional." Don't miss 'Life in lockdown: how our jobs turned upside down' a phenomenal and affecting 14m video by @JohnDomokos and @johnharris1969: youtube.com/watch?time_con… [169]
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A really clear thread about testing, via @BallouxFrancois: [171]
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Outstanding, humane though searing 19m interview with ICU consultant David Hepburn, by @adavies4, giving a clear description of what #Covid19 can involve at its most serious. youtube.com/watch?v=ejlbCm… [173].
Coronavirus: what's next? Public service broadcasting at its very best. @BBCRadio4's "The Briefing Room", in which @DAaronovitch interviews @devisridhar, @drjeromekim1, @neyts_johan, @JennerInstitute's Adrian Hill & @uniklinik_hd's Philipp Zanger: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… [174]
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bostonglobe.com/2020/03/19/opi… [176, 20 March] - via @redasadki
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Seriously serious rather than funnily serious. A really good piece by @MarinaHyde: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… [182]
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Dr. Fauci Has Been Dreading A Pandemic Like COVID-19 For Years. @Anna_Rothschild retrieves a 2019 interview: fivethirtyeight.com/features/dr-fa… [185]
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The world goes bust, by @adam_tooze in @LRB. Bleak but informative (and almost racy) 3 April overview of the interplay between Europe, China, and the USA, their politics and financing, and Coronavirus: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/… [190]
"Every time a Michael Heseltine or Gordon Brown comes on the radio, social media brims with nostalgia for the heavyweights of yore." @Freedland: theguardian.com/world/2020/apr… [191]
Coronavirus and the social impacts on Great Britain. An impressive service from @ONS. Updates published weekly: ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati… [192]
This from Emily @maitlis deserves the close to 3m views it has already had: [193]
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Worth thinking about the practicalities of running large people-centred organisations under roughly the "on-off" pattern summarised here by @tylercowen (for the US): marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu… [196]
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This Is Trump’s Fault. The president is failing, and Americans are paying for his failures. Article by @davidfrum in The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… [201]
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"Covid-19 is a global pandemic, but in South Asia its economic and social effects are faced by governments and populations that are less well prepared for disaster. In this region, the crisis has only begun." From article by @suddafchaudry: newstatesman.com/world/asia/202… [204]
What could the Coronavirus crisis mean for the longer-term future of the UK labour market? Educated predictions from @TorstenBell and Hannah Slaughter of the @resfoundation: resolutionfoundation.org/publications/c… [205]
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Coronavirus and the language of war. Really worth reading by @LawDavF: newstatesman.com/science-tech/2… [208]
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A 5-item "public service" thread from @BallouxFrancois: [210]
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Does Covid raise everyone’s relative risk of dying by a similar amount? More evidence. [212] - more to come, based on future weekly ONS data-releases.
“We can only do our best. A lot of people are going to be ill and die but we can only do our best. That is all anyone can ask.” Outstanding, unflinching reporting by @ShaunLintern: independent.co.uk/news/health/co… [213]
A thread about why making data properly open matters: [214]
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Very informative commentary by @d_spiegel and @srichardson962 on Public Health England's daily figures about Corona cases and deaths: theguardian.com/world/2020/apr… [217]
The pitiless crowbar of events. Dan @cityofsound Hill steps back from the shocking day-to-day of the CV crisis: medium.com/slowdown-paper… [218]
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The other side of lockdown. @johnharris1969, as ever, gets properly under the skin of things: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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The question I wish a journalist would ask at the daily press conference, is something like "Roughly how many fewer Covid 19 deaths do you estimate there would have been by now if you'd implemented the lockdown 1 week earlier?" [222] (nearly asked just now by @AdamBienkov)
Worth reading, by @miss_mcinerney: theguardian.com/education/2020… [223]
Compare and contrast: sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/s… [224] via @harrytlambert
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Contact Tracing in the Real World. "What we need is a radical redistribution of resources from the surveillance-industrial complex to public health." Authoritative piece on contact-tracing by computer security authority Ross Anderson: lightbluetouchpaper.org/2020/04/12/con… [227] - via @jjn1
Very informative thread by @faisalislam on PPE: [228]
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Scientific clarity in government: [233] (Writing this just as Mat Hancock has a "can I finish?" moment.)
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bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/ar… [237] (By @andreaskluth, whose wrote the very far-sighted "Among the audience" in 2006 (google.com/amp/s/amp.econ…)
Informative long thread by @faisalislam, spread over several days, with a focus on how non-hospital deaths are or are not accounted for in the UK's reported Covid-19 data: [238]
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A short thread about R and the need to keep it below 1: [240] via @profkeithdevlin
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It is time to think the unthinkable. France’s president believes the coronavirus pandemic will transform capitalism — but leaders need to act with humility. @FT interview with @EmmanuelMacron: ft.com/content/3ea8d7… [243] - snippet below
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People are understandably looking for good news. But the truth is, we’re nowhere near controlling coronavirus. By @BillHanage: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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For non-medics this is a really eye-opening piece: abetternhs.net/2020/04/16/a-m… [249] via @trishgreenhalgh
Eleven days in March, when "taking it on the chin" for a bit seemed to be part of a thought-through, science-based, strategy. (When I started this thread that's what I thought.) A personal account by Dominic Minghella: newstatesman.com/2020/04/eleven… [250]
A detailed thread from @pmdfoster on ventilators, and recent efforts to get more of them. "Expert people TEARING their hair out at the willful numbskullery of the people at the top." [251]
Some thinking ahead, by @RSAMatthew Taylor: thersa.org/discover/publi… [252]
Fantastic. "Don't count the days. Make the days count." [253]
bmj.com/content/369/bm… [254]
This, by @DEHEdgerton, author of the wonderful "The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900", is really worth reading: [255] - via @RichardALJones
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Maybe because it validates parts of an email I sent "my" senior team right at the start of this crisis, I really like this piece by @TomChivers: unherd.com/2020/04/we-can… [257]
Unprecedented times, unprecedented (for the last decade, anyway) measures: gov.uk/government/new… [258]
Many practical and privacy-related insights in this 24m discussion between @colinrtalbot and @Netcompany_DK's Andre Rogaczewski, whose company is working with the Danish government, and, in effect Danish citizens, on control of Coronavirus: youtube.com/watch?time_con… [259]
30 March Bllomberg @business piece about several of the scientists working on the development of Coronavirus vaccines: bloomberg.com/news/features/… [260]
The psychological impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Another informative edition of The Briefing Room, in which @DAaronovitch talks with @DrGeorgeHu, Helen Westerman, @BobbyDuffyKings, @ReicherStephen, and @ProfNGreenberg: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… [261]
Andrew Cuomo, "Trump-whisperer": newstatesman.com/world/north-am… [263]
I'm glad that @davidallengreen has written this short thread about Boris Johnson's weird Coronavirus-mentioning early February speech: [265]
"Romer, who served as the chief economist at the World Bank from 2016 to 2018, is calling for at least ten million tests per day, and ideally as many as twenty million or thirty million." See msnbc.com/all-in/watch/n…, paulromer.net/covid-sim-part… & newyorker.com/news/our-colum… [266]
A Sustainable Exit Strategy: Managing Uncertainty, Minimising Harm. A policy paper/presentation from @InstituteGC: institute.global/sites/default/… - 38p PPT/PDF [267]
What happens after the clapping finishes? The pay, terms and conditions we choose for our care workers.
From the @resfoundation: resolutionfoundation.org/publications/w… [268]
From the @resfoundation: resolutionfoundation.org/publications/w… [268]
Social Distancing Education. Caution from @BiIIDutton: billdutton.me/2020/04/13/soc… [269]
On the longer-term objectives for higher education beyond Covid-19, with key issues to consider. Piece by @AndyWWestwood in @Wonkhe: wonkhe.com/blogs/imaginin… [270]
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theatlantic.com/politics/archi… [272] - via @LizRees_
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'... we all need to stop thinking about "what things will be like when this is all over" and recognise that "it" won’t be all over, the future is there for us to shape and craft from now.' From candid, broader-than-FE piece by @AoCDavidH: tes.com/news/coronavir… [278]
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Good piece by @campbellclaret on the balance that needs striking between supporting the government and challenging it: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… [281]
Truth about the virus is better for us than hope. @Dannythefink: thetimes.co.uk/article/truth-… [282]
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Gordon Brown interviewed by @stephenkb: newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20… [285] - Brown has particular things to say about increasing child poverty.
A clear explanation of why mass testing alone would not be enough to control Covid-19, by a epidemiologist whose research is the mathematical analysis of infectious disease oubreaks: [286]
New Yorker interview by @IChotiner with @JeffDSachs on the American response to Coronavirus. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/j… [287] - via @DanielFalush
Relies on extrapolation, but @ChrisGiles_ has done this thoughtfully and cautiously: ft.com/content/67e6a4… [288]
Phone-based tracking. This podcast discussion between @DAaronovitch and @dannyfortson is well worth listening to: [289]
The kind of approach published here by the Scottish Government - - is what I think we need. Not to accelerate change, but to help people running organisations think ahead [290].
When "the top knows best". A long and enlightening piece by Paul Collier about the problem with modelling: the-tls.co.uk/articles/probl… [291] via @AndyWWestwood
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John (Visible Learning) Hattie has interesting things to say about educational shut-downs, distance learning and technology in learning: corwin-connect.com/2020/04/visibl… [294] via @DonaldClark, with three key paragraphs below, though there's much more.
Chris Whitty's evidence to today's @CommonsSTC is particularly impressive as is Greg Clark's searching questioning: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/ec… [295]
COVID and ‘excess deaths’ in the week ending April 10th. Newly published by @d_spiegel, and a caution against jumping to the wrong conclusions: medium.com/@d_spiegel/cov… [296]
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Barton plugs away. With justification. Because shutting down and opening up are not opposites of each other. Opening will go wrong [aka do harm] if it is not well planned and executed, by people who know their organisations. [299]
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A classy/unusual/stylish thread from @MyDoncaster: [301] - via @statsguyuk
This by @JohnRentoul "rings true": independent.co.uk/voices/coronav… [302]
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newyorker.com/news/daily-com… [304] - via @stefaanvw
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Guided by science, or guided by the science? Clear, by Matthew Paris: thetimes.co.uk/article/minist… (£/login) [306]
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The best thing I've read about SAGE and Dominic Cummings's involvement in it. By @cptyler: theconversation.com/amp/dominic-cu… [308] - via @Stephen_Curry
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unherd.com/thepost/imperi… [313] (Less about Sweden, more about CV generally, its impact, and the decision-making that is needed. Does not tackle the "what if there'd been action two weeks earlier" question.)
Three-page letter by @Keir_Starmer to the Prime Minister, focusing on testing, tracing, shielding, and exit. I think Starmer is saying, with great clarity, what many are thinking: [314]
A 16-tweet thread from @AdamJKucharski about the relative and combined impacts of different measures against Coronavirus: [315]
A striking thread by @ActuaryByDay summarising Conronavirus hospital admissions data including by, geography, ethnicity, deprivation, age and gender: [316] - via @YvetteCooperMP
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Outstanding interview with Christian Drosten by @lfspinney, author of "Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World". Note Drosten's (scientific!) uncertainties, and his comments on the "prevention paradox": theguardian.com/world/2020/apr… [312]
We may be in this together, but that doesn’t mean we are in this equally. Text of article in The Times by @TheIFS's Director @PJTheEconomist: ifs.org.uk/publications/1… [313]. Snippet below:
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An informative thread about the variable impact of Coronavirus in France, by John Lichfield: [316]
Carehome death date analysed by @faisalislam: [317]
independent.co.uk/voices/coronav… [318] - via @HCFEprincipal
12 minute discussion about Sweden's approach to Conoronavirus, between @spaikin and Lars Tragardh: tvo.org/video/sweden-g… [319]
MIT Technology Review piece by @antonioregalado: technologyreview.com/2020/04/27/100… [320]
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"We have been paying for a third-party fire and theft insurance for a pandemic, not a comprehensive one. We have been caught out.” From Guardian article about last year's briefing to government on the need for pandemic planning: theguardian.com/world/2020/apr… [323]
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Wide-ranging and clear article by @edyong209, bringing together evidence from many sources, with lots of links out. US-focused but UK relevant too: theatlantic.com/health/archive… [326] - via @LawDavF
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I learned a lot from this Brookings Institute piece by @CT_Bergstrom, @ashk4n, and Ryan Calo: brookings.edu/techstream/ina… [328] via @BallouxFrancois
This by @JenWilliamsMEN is relevant to cities other than Manchester: [329]
Bailout for business after coronavirus. @instituteforgov report: instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/… - 39p PDF [330]. Has education, strikingly, as the sector most affected by lockdown. Via @stephenkb
"You know what northerners are like: after 200 years of having manure poured over our heads, we are used to soldiering on." Uplifting interview by @helenpidd with @tony4rochdale: theguardian.com/world/2020/apr… [332]
Covid 19 – Epidemic ‘Waves’. 30 April piece by Tom Jefferson, and Carl Heneghan of @CebmOxford: cebm.net/covid-19/covid… [333]
I'd missed this, by @david_conn and others, which supports the argument that early harder action would have by now resulted in far fewer deaths: theguardian.com/world/2020/apr… [335]
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Another excellent edition of @DAaronovitch's "The Briefing Room": 30/4/2020, 28m - bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… [336]
Another excellent edition of @DAaronovitch's "The Briefing Room": 30/4/2020, 28m - bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… [336]
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"The idea that contact tracing can be done with an app, and not human health professionals, is just plain dumb." The knowledgable Bruce Schneier (@schneierblog) on app-based contact tracing. schneier.com/blog/archives/… [338]
Grim reading. By US economic historian Brad @delong: project-syndicate.org/commentary/tru… [339]
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How poor planning left the UK without enough PPE. Free-to-read @FT investigation by @SarahNev and @pmdfoster: ft.com/content/9680c2… [341]
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A thread on targets, by @peterkyle: [343]
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An informative public @GreshamCollege lecture about Covid-19, and pandemics more generally, by Chris Whitty: (@CMO_England): youtube.com/watch?v=3BdPKp… (30 April, 1h20m) [345]
A thread from the @LGAcomms about contact tracing: [346]
Yesterday's briefing by Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo). Calm, clear, fierce, generous, without overclaiming or self-justifying. This link starts at the point Cuomo is talking about the US's lack of a public health system: [347]
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Uplifting interview with Anthony Fauci: nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/0… [349]
The Sydney Morning Herald's @BevanShields probes Britain's Coronavirus response: smh.com.au/world/europe/b… [350]
Eight clear points from @devisridhar: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… [351]
Deaths involving COVID-19 by local area and socioeconomic deprivation: deaths occurring between 1 March and 17 April 2020. Striking and diligent work by @ONS: ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati… [352]
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Really worth reading in @tortoise by @campbellclaret, and all the better for having been written over a reasonably long period: members.tortoisemedia.com/2020/05/06/ala… [356] < the focus on @NYGovCuomo is particularly relevant.
Clear thread about testing by @globalhlthtwit: [357] via @anandMenon1
"Thousands more people are going to die in Britain. Our government has devastatingly serious questions to answer. This is what we should be talking about, not the sex life of a scientist." theguardian.com/commentisfree/… [358]
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A long thread by @lewis_goodall about poor pay and lack of sick pay in care homes: [360]
A thread by @devisridhar about track and trace and its relationship with loosening lockdown: [361]
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Outstanding and humane reporting by @JohnDomokos and @johnharris1969: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… [364]
David (@d_spiegel) Spiegelhalter's evidence to today's @CommonsSTC is really worth watching: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/b4… [365]
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"...we can't just use happy talk..." This @NewYorker interview with @paulmromer by @IChotiner (focus in part on why mass testing matters for confidence as well as for Covid control) is worth reading in full: newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/p… [367] via @jjn1
A striking image from today's mailing from @jjn1: johnnaughton.substack.com/p/thursday-7-m… [367] < of course all data of this kind is uncertain; but these differences are huge.
A thread by medic (also Reith Lecturer, Checklist Manifesto author) @Atul_Gawande: [368]
Contact tracing apps v. Exposure notification apps. A good mix of insights and explanation from @doctorow: [369]
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Five weeks after the "green shoots", this @MatthewdAncona article still reads well: standard.co.uk/comment/commen… [372]
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A secondary head (@johntomsett), writing one month ago about social distancing in school: johntomsett.com/2020/04/08/thi… [374]
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Today's ten minute interview by @AndrewMarr9 with @d_spiegel is worth watching in full. (It starts at 46:28.) bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… [376]
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A first take on lockdown changes, from the always thoughtful @stephenkb: newstatesman.com/politics/econo… [378]
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) related deaths by occupation, England and Wales: deaths registered up to and including 20 April 2020. A thread from @ONS: [382]
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I listened to Episode 7, while out running just now. Strongly recommend it for the way it gets under the skin if Covid as a disease, using the voices and experiences of health workers and others from Bradford and its surroundings: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… [385]
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We can't restart Britain's economy until we get coronavirus under control. @sjwrenlewis focusing particularly here on Test, Trace, and Isolate: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… [388]
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COVID-19: nowcast and forecast. Realtime tracking of the pandemic by the MRC Biostatistics Unit COVID-19 Working Group (@MRC_BSU): joshuablake.github.io/public-RTM-rep… [391 - 11/5/2020] < charts below (there are many others) some regional variations.
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What is meant by "the risks of COVID"? Really clear explanations by @d_spiegel: medium.com/@d_spiegel/wha… [395] < read right through to the rant at the end.
A 14-tweet thread by @trvb: [397] via @timoreilly
Talk of angels and heroes avoids reality. "..... while this may be a time for solidarity and support for NHS workers, it’s a poor time for high rhetoric." @DAaronovitch: thetimes.co.uk/article/talk-o… (£) [399] - via @LouiseMesma
The Country That Beat the Virus. 1 hour Channel 4 documentary presented by @krishgm, about how, with plenty of intrusion, South Korea (population 50m) tackled Covid 19: channel4.com/programmes/the… [400] (See ig.ft.com/coronavirus-ch… for UK/South Korea death comparison.)
On egotistical optimism and other kinds of optimism. @TimHarford's long and interesting "Why we fail to prepare for disasters" will make you think: timharford.com/2020/05/why-we… [401]
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COVID-19: Roche Antibody Test. @CebmOxford explains the sensitivity and specificity of the newly approved test, and discusses the practical meaning of these terms: cebm.net/covid-19/covid… [405]
Lancet editorial, 16 May. Blunt ending: thelancet.com/journals/lance… [406]
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Informative and carefully written thread by @NickStripe_ONS: [408] < note in particular #7 and #14.
This by @miss_mcinerney will speak to a lot of people who work in education: theguardian.com/education/2020… [409]
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“Trump could have prevented mass deaths and he didn’t.” From a free-to-read @FT investigation by @EdwardGLuce: ft.com/content/97dc7d…? [411]
Too little, too late, too flawed. Scathing assessment of the UK's public health response to Covid-19 in the @bmj_latest: bmj.com/content/369/bm… [412] - via Anthony Costelli (@globalhlthtwit)
The Kerala model, described by @ShashiTharoor in @ProSyn: project-syndicate.org/commentary/ker… [413] via @anandMenon1
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The co-morbidity question. Fascinating article by actuaries Matthew Edwards and Stuart Mcdonald, who consider (and reject) the idea that covid-19 is killing people who were due to die very soon in any event: theactuary.com/authors/matthe… [415] via @GrannyWils
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Coronavirus: fixated on the flu and shrouded in secrecy, Britain’s scientists picked the wrong remedy. Worth reading, by @matthewsyed: thetimes.co.uk/article/corona… [417/£/login] (@LawDavF's 52p "Strategy for a Pandemic: The UK and COVID-19" is at tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.10…)
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Coronavirus and the world’s poorest countries. What is happening? 36m video discussion between economics journalists @BenChu_ & @lizzzburden, and @UNDP's @ASteiner & Nobel prize winning enconomist @DufloEsther: youtube.com/watch?time_con… [420]
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Yesterday's FT Editorial: ft.com/content/582a1a… [424]
12m @BBCNewsnight interview with @JeremyFarrar, starting with vaccine-focused section by @deb_cohen. Briefly considers issues of access, patents, tests, tracing, and timing of easing: youtube.com/watch?v=V8jhla… [425] via @BenChu_
Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Re-entry. What can health-care workers teach us about the safest way to lift a lockdown? A great deal. Outstanding @NewYorker article by @Atul_Gawande: newyorker.com/science/medica… [426] <relevant to all contemplating/planning re-openings.
A constructive angle from @stephenkb: newstatesman.com/politics/educa… [427]
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Today's @BBCMoreOrLess with @TimHarford, @d_spiegel, and @kavpuri cuts through very well on Covid-19: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… [430] (Also worth listening to the @BBCWorld's "Why does Germany have such a low number of deaths from Covid-19? bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…)
Informative thread: [431]
Shocking and bleak piece by @lewis_goodall for @BBCNewsnight comparing the Covid-19 situation in two carehomes: m.youtube.com/watch?feature=… [432]
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Approaches to lockdown, and to track/trace/isolate compared, by @RSkidelsky: project-syndicate.org/commentary/gov… [434]
Newly presented interactive, comparative, COVID-19 projections from @UW's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME): covid19.healthdata.org/united-kingdom [435]
Jens Spahn seems completely free of any bluster about being "world-beating": [436] - via @jennirsl
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On "entering the Jonestown phase of the Trump cult". @sullydish explains: [438] (Jonestown: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown)
5 minute 18 May @BBCNewsnight report by @JamesClayton5 on test, track trace: youtube.com/watch?v=KGSt1h… [439] #covid19
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Despite 50,000 excess deaths (by May 8), Britain’s most vulnerable areas remain at risk from Covid-19. @harrytlambert (@NewStatesman) uses new data visualisations to assess the current situation, focusing mainly on England: newstatesman.com/2020/05/despit… [441] #COVID19
Many different angles touched on in this 15 May @prospect_uk discussion between @arusbridger and epidemiologist @JeremyFarrar, who heads @wellcometrust, is on SAGE, and speaks his mind: prospectmagazine.co.uk/science-and-te…: [442] #COVID19
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We need health and safety at work now more than ever. @sarahoconnor_ charts the impact of long-term cuts to the HSE, and to the H&S inspection function of local authorities:
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