Hmm. I'm aware that authors don't always set their own headline, but this one's actually misleading.
If anything, #COVID19 will likely become like a '#FifthFlu', i.e. a seasonal killer - not MERS or SARS, bur *far* less benign than the common cold... unherd.com/2020/07/why-co…
As @TomChivers points out, with so many publications and so much amplification, it can be difficult to work out what's going on.
There's encouraging news on the #vaccine front, with provisos:
And we're still learning about the wider systemic effects of #SARSCoV2 where, e.g. #clotting appears to be a significant factor, unlike either colds or flu.
In reality, we simply haven't lived & died with the virus for long enough to know the answers we so desperately want.
So, less of the "will" and more of the "might", please - and give links to all of the relevant studies!
And then maybe we'll expend a bit less energy just trying to convince others of our hopes/fears/beliefs, and put a bit more into doing genuinely helpful stuff like the #3Ws.
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Nah. This is another puff piece on the #WaitingList pilot, details of which @NHSEngland published - without daring to mention @PalantirTech - over ten months ago...
To be clear, 30 individual NHS Trusts* are using #Palantir#Foundry to manage elective care waiting lists, not patients' entire medical histories - largely by what Ministers have called "cleansing" the data:
Why is this so important? Because #SharedCareRecords - which every new #ICS* is supposed to have - include your #GPdata, which @NHSEngland has been trying to get hold of for years (most recently last summer)...
So let’s talk about where things got up to with your #HealthData, before Rishi Sunak started talking about the need to generate trust in Government with “#integrity” and “#accountability”…
N.B. The chair of NHS Digital announced today’s meeting would be the last public meeting of the Board...
With the news that the Government is rushing through @NHSEngland’s takeover of the statutory safe haven (@NHSDigital) with about the level of planning that went into the 'fiscal event', where exactly *are* things as the former/new Sec State starts work?
First, beginning on page 158, are some Directions that @NHSEngland must know will be HIGHLY controversial - given they are telling @NHSDigital to use @PalantirTech's #Foundry to collect *patient level identifiable data* from hospitals...
I'll tweet as I do a read-through, but even these first two paragraphs are incoherent, e.g. "...in a way that will enable." Enable what?
And if @NHSEngland Directs NHSD to use #Palantir, NHSE is *determining the purposes and means of processing* - i.e. it is a #DataController...