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BREAK: a staggering 938 people died of Covid-19 today. Why? How did we get here? What's next??

We just couldn't take another press briefing. So we're launching The Covid Report: real experts, real questions with @paulmasonnews & @afuahirsch

Stay home. Speak out. Protect the NHS
We recorded this tonight with a truly remarkable group of experts. They're not in the press briefings. And they're not being listened to. But we decided they need a platform. Please watch. Please share. Please ask questions

Who are we? Good question. We're a bunch of volunteers - journalists, filmmakers, lawyers, advertising creatives, data scientists, you name it...we're @allthecitizens. And this is an experiment..we just believe these scientists & doctors & academics need to be heard. Urgently
Thank you so much @globalhlthtwit, @Doctorshaib, @sarahwollaston, @DeenanDpillay, @AllysonPollock for sharing your expertise in public health & virology & communicable diseases. There’s so much we don’t know. & if there’s one thing we desperately need right now it’s more experts
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Shocking story by @PaulLewis & team. @Guardian has seen documents showing govt using Peter Thiel’s Palantir’s & NHS patient data to model ‘herd immunity’ week after policy supposedly dropped

theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
There’s another company at heart of this story too. Meet @faculty_ai. Formerly known as ASI, the ‘secret’ data firm Dominic Cummings hired to do Vote Leave’s data modelling. There’s so much about this work that has never come out. A small fraction here:

theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
This is data nirvana. Now in hands of one company owned by a Trumpian ideologue & another Cummings used in his law-breaking Vote Leave campaign. If you don’t think there is an issue with how this data is being used or where it could end up, you are very very much mistaken
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Why did UK govt abandon testing? It BAFFLES public health experts. This week, the lack of accountability & scrutiny became so alarming that we launched this to try & get these voices heard. An amazing 40k people have already watched: experts being expert

Turns out that in the time of pandemic, people of this country *haven’t* had enough of experts. And they understand that ‘we’re following the science’ is a meaningless catchphrase. Which science? What data?

The point is that my opinions - like yours - are neither here nor there. What matters is scrutiny. Political scrutiny from parliament. And scientific scrutiny from the wider community. We have neither of these things currently. Just a massive vacuum of information
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Failing to hold Dominic Cummings & Boris Johnson to account: what I learned. You have to act now. After the event is after the event. You’ll be told to ‘move on’, to ‘get over it’ to ‘look forward’. This is already happening now. While people are dying.
The idea that press has power to hold the government to account is a fantasy from another era. The press is divided, partisan. Half of it is propagandists for the government. Only political will & concerted action by MPs in parliament will have effect. We need parliament back NOW
We have no idea how this govt made its decisions re lockdown & testing because we don’t have the data. But already counter-narrative is in play. ‘Herd immunity was never a plan’. ‘We took the right measures at right time’. Where is the evidence? The data? We simply don’t have it
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