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Brilliant graphical representation of why social distancing matters. Please share #COVIDー19 PS I understand this was devised by Bruno Strigini, ex boss of pharma giant Novartis.
Original source of this easy-to-grasp graphic: Moores Cancer Centre, University of California San Diego signerlab.com
Graphic created by Robert Signer, assistant professor of medicine at University of California
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For those who delighted in saying my question on #Peston to the deputy CMO Jonathan Van Tam about possible use of antibody tests (blood tests) to detect live virus was pointless and stupid, this may be worth a read. To repeat, I was not arguing FOR the antibody tests to be...
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ever be accurate enough to confirm live virus. I don't dispute that. But surely it is the job of a journalist to probe an expert like Van Tam, especially since the government has spent several million pounds buying kits from China's Wondfo that claim to be able to...
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Robert Peston
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Fascinating language in tonight's press release from HM Treasury that modifies the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme. It says lenders are "banned from requesting personal guarantees on loans under £250,000". Hmmm. This is - to put it mildly - a bit...
of disingenuous, though political expedient, bank bashing. Because it implies it was the banks which wanted borrowers from the CBIL emergency scheme to pledge their business premises and any assets (other than the primary residence) as security against the loan...
In fact, this demand for personal guarantees, which so alarmed the owners of small businesses desperate for the help, was actually stipulated by HM Treasury and its partner the British Business Bank: the original documentation for the scheme said the lending banks had...
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I've got three things to say about the joint venture between GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca to automate and speed up processes in existing NHS labs that test for #Covid19 and also build a kind of new age laboratory that would use new reagents and techniques for even more...
efficient testing. 1) It is a highly significant initiative that takes two of the world's biggest and most success pharmaceutical companies into diagnostics, and could have long term benefits to them and the UK. 2) The process improvements in labs could increase testing...
capacity in UK within weeks and even the newfangled lab could make a contribution before too long. 3) All of this has only been discussed and agreed this week, with the big meeting - involving @MattHancock - happening only last night. So why on earth didn't the government...
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His Knowledgeable
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#COVIDー19 LOCKDOWN, ABOUT SOCIAL DISTANCING; NOT MARSHAL LAW REQUIRING ROAD BLOCKS, STOP & SEARCH: BE GUIDED LAI MOHAMMED

I religiously listened to Prez. @MBuhari's address to Nigerians, yesterday, where he declared #COVIDー19, a NATIONAL EMERGENCY, giving DOs & DON'Ts.
2/ Following yesterday's address by Prez. @MBuhari, I had called on @NOA_Nigeria to collabo with other agencies to EDUCATE & SENSITIZE Nigerians, including Security Agencies, on the PRESIDENTIAL GUIDELINES ON SOCIAL DISTANCING, amid the #COVIDー19 LOCKDOWN in Nigeria.
3/ As if I was prophesying like Prophet Jeremiah, I've come across reports and videos where agents of government are dishing out MILITARISTIC DIRECTIVES, as if SOCIAL DISTANCING to contain #COVIDー19 PANDEMIC, is tantamount to MARSHAL LAWS, declared during WARS or COUPS.
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#COVIDー19 is a respiratory virus. This is why, as a precautionary measure, in the last 72 hours, the Delta State Government has acquired 19 new ventilators and a good number of monitors that will be used by our medical staff in the event of an outbreak.
Yesterday, in a live broadcast, I announced the following precautionary measures that are aimed at protecting our citizens and residents of from the #COVID-19 Virus.
#COVID19Update
1. All institutions of learning: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary are to close for a period of 30 days at the end of school hours today — Wednesday, 25th March, 2020.
#COVID19Update
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Mikey Kay
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#COVIDー19 22 March 2020|

IMPORTANT THREAD.

Part 1

There’s important data coming out of Italy on confirmed cases & deaths due to COVID. This should be treated as an Indicator & Warning by all of us. Please watch & share. (Birds chirping in the background for moral support!)
2. #COVID19 Part 2

Reliable data source:

Coronavirus.jhu.edu
3. #COVIDー19 Part 3

Government policy & guidance needs to rapidly turn into a proactive stance to reassure us, the public, that there is a plan. What happens when, and it will happen, we get zero confirmed no new cases?
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Penny Sarchet
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Here’s what I wish everyone knew about #covid-19, especially young people who believe they are “low risk”.
1) “I’m not at risk” – everyone is at risk from the #coronavirus, and even young and healthy people can end up on a ventilator in an intensive care unit with this disease
2) “There’s no chance I have it” – you can’t know this without taking a test. The symptoms can be very mild, such as a runny nose or sore throat, and many people may not even get symptoms at all
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Kenya ☮️🗳#CheckOnYourNeighbors🗳☯️
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#Covid-19 hidden victims

For Survivors of Domestic Violence being quarantined with their abusers, the #Coronavirus presents an impossible choice:

💥Stay home to quarantine or face the virus homeless?

Please share the resources below and REACH OUT‼️

time.com/5803887/corona…
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Follow @ndvh National Domestic Violence Hotline:

☎️ 800−799−7233 or

☎️ 800−787−3224

CHAT at thehotline.org

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thehotline.org/2020/03/13/sta…
This is a valuable resource on gaslighting in the context of Domestic Violence Survivors and their abusers.

Abusers tend to manipulate words and emotions turning them against Survivors.

Learn how to identify these abusive techniques.

#Gaslighting

thehotline.org/2019/11/22/a-d…
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Abigail Ogle
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‼️CORONAVIRUS WARNING: This is from a metro doctor

“The first patient I tested Thursday when I received COVID kits tested POSITIVE!!! This patient had NO travel and NO sick contacts. This means that the virus has been actively circulating in OKC for at least one week....
... Please take this seriously. Please follow all hygiene and social distancing instructions.
Please share this widely so that everyone can be prepared and take this seriously.”
NEW INFO: Patient lives and works in Canadian and Cleveland counties.

OKC Mayor Holt reports that this patient does not reside in Oklahoma County and therefore the Oklahoma City-County Health Department will not be an investigating agency.... @davidfholt
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