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Journalism in the Age of Untruth:

Kuenssberg’s tweet was unacceptable, & here’s why.

Every day, there is a BBC journalist somewhere in the world who is risking their life to get to the truth. The truth
Not what someone in power has told them, the truth. bylinetimes.com/2020/05/28/in-…
Powerful from Patrick Holden & @BylineTimes

It needed to be written and said.
I apologise. I should have said Patrick Howse.
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Chinese couple, pre-symptomatic, attended church service in Singapore 19/1/20
Symptomatic 22/1/20

Another 2 people who attended the church service got CV19

So did a woman who attended a later church service but who sat where the Chinese couple had done bbc.co.uk/news/uk-528407…
Aggressive contact tracing in Singapore established that the disease transmits symptomatically. S Korea confirmed it although at the time, China was saying not so. Later a leaked Gov report suggested maybe 30% did.

The range of estimates of asymptomatic cases vary wildly.
Diamond Princess testing also suggested there were more asymptomatic than symptomatic passengers and that they spread the virus, altho’ I am not clear whether full follow up was carried out to establish how many were presymptomatic.
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I'm an NHS consultant. We're exhausted – and a second surge is on its way | NHS | The Guardian

We know what it does to people who are sick enough to need to stay in hospital. For a start, it kills almost 40% of them, more if they are elderly.

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Many of the survivors suffer horrible lung damage & “storms” of inflammation, often needing weeks on a ventilator.

It makes the blood unusually sticky, causes clots all over the body – particularly in the lungs – & may do so for weeks after even mild infections.
It is a cruel disease.
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I see through his eyes the colossal affront of someone you love – of all that your beloved has been & meant to the world – being reduced to a numerical bit part in tomorrow’s headlines. “He is not a statistic,” Michael repeats
From ⁦@doctor_oxford⁩ theguardian.com/books/2020/may…
As we reel, punch drunk, from press conference to press conference, we must not allow those standing at their lecterns on the podium to gloss over recent history.
“It is a fact that a whole swath of our most vulnerable citizens, those residing in care homes, have already been abandoned once to coronavirus. “
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