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This is a compelling piece about why we should all wear face masks in public, by @trishgreenhalgh, Oxford Prof of primary care. It is to protect others from us, if we have the virus and cough, rather then to protect ourselves. It is to massively slow...fast.ai/2020/04/13/mas…
the spread of #covid19 so that the rate of transmission - the famous R0 - falls to less than 1. Many of you have been in touch with me outraged that @CMO_England @uksciencechief @MattHancock and @DominicRaab haven’t ordered compulsory mask wearing or at least recommended...
it. But there has been a shift. Deputy CMO Jonathan Van Tam said there was no case for mask wearing about ten days ago. Yesterday @uksciencechief said there may be a case. In Austria for example, which today is starting a process of gradually coming out of lockdown...
it is obligatory to wear masks in supermarkets and pharmacies. According to Greenhalgh, cotton ones are best for slowing the spread. So is it time we all wore masks when out and about? What do you think?
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In the week to 10 April, there were 6,213 deaths where #Covid19 was mentioned on death certificates, according to @ONS, and 7,996 more deaths than the rolling average for that week of the previous five years. Depending on which number you think is more like to show the...
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Sources in the fledgling#COVID19 testing industry tell me that it is not surprising Public Health England’s’s antigen test may not have been as reliable as would have been desired. One says “The use of the temporary assay [testing procedure] has been associated with...
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The leaked document attached to this ⁦@openDemocracy⁩ story is extraordinary. It seems to imply Public Health England core #COVID19 test is much less reliable than commercial alternatives. Questions for ⁦@MattHancock⁩ opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
Read the extraordinary Public Health England memo here drive.google.com/file/d/1Zoki1x…
Though in the first instance the questions about the apparent low reliability of the #COVID19 test are surely for Public Health England itself and its senior scientists. Here is what PHE originally said about its own test gov.uk/government/new…
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