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BBC Regional TV colleagues put this together to give viewership an idea of efforts going into producing TV news right now:
Even though schools are still shut my BBC colleagues have put together this timetable for start of term MONDAY for national curriculum lessons for your primary school kids on IPlayer and Red Button here:

#BBCBitesizeDaily

And likewise this timetable for national curriculum lessons for secondary school kids on red button and on IPlayer will start when term should have started on Monday:

#BBCBitesizeDaily @bbcbitesize
They’ve also got a new game to help kids with counting... Bud might have a future in economics... @bbcbitesize
And here is some explanation about how Home schooling help for 5 to 14 year olds is being rolled out from 9am Monday...
#BBCBitesizeDaily

How’s everyone’s kids getting on with virtual termtime...?

Spanish counting lessons to be provided by Sergio Aguero

Science with @ProfBrianCox

Geography with Sir David Attenborough

@bbcbitesize

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bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/…
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Raab says deaths in care homes coming down at similar rate to those in hospitals... though should be said those more frequent and timely care home numbers aren’t being published...
In one of the press conferences this week, they also referred to a regional breakdown of care home death stats, again not published...

It’s pretty clear that there are some internal more detailed stats - we are expecting updates from CQC, and ONS this week...
Most timely published stats on acute respiratory outbreaks in care homes notified directly to PHE, which month ago were showing exponential rise - have for 1st time, been published LESS frequently - fortnightly, not weekly, since March, as I spotted here:
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limited set of scientists - profs and PHDs on only previous public list of SAGE members that I can see - this is from the report into 2009 H1N1 swine flu - Health Protection Agency, since abolished and rolled into PHE, also represented:
There were other committees with wider membership though feeding into Sage such as SPI.. SPI-M on modelling, SPI-B&C on behaviour and comms etc... all scientists though.
In the 22 meetings of SAGE during H1N1 - Department of Health provided secretariat and DH “reps” updated it on “the thinking of ministers” and the civil contingencies committee, and updates on vaccines, licensing and procurement...

So precedent for factual civil service role...
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NEW: Vacuum cleaner and fan manufacturer Dyson in statement says its medical ventilator project “not now required” but has “some hope our ventilator may yet help the response of other countries”... “but that requires further time and investigation”
via @Theothebald
Dyson was working closely with JCB among others, after both were asked to speak on the Number 10 conference call on this - this was the closest images of what it might have looked like:

No cost to taxpayer, says my colleague:
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