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24 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Chair of Health Sel Committee @Jeremy_Hunt calls for more financial support to help people self isolate, telling @soniasodha: “We should say that we will simply make up any loss in salary if you’re asked to self isolate. People need to know they’re not going to be out of pocket.”
Have reported since the start of the crisis about the disincentive paltry levels of statutory sick pay has played in self isolating (eg in care)- given how much money we’ve spent on furlough, the cost of stepping in to guarantee lost income for a fortnight would be nugatory.
My colleagues @katierazz and @sallyches have been leading the way in showing how the assistance which does exist to support self isolation is patchy, at best
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27 Jan
Keir Starmer on passing the 100,000 Covid death threshold: “The question on everyone’s lips is why. The Prime Minister must have thought about that a lot. Could he tell us why he thinks the United Kingdom has ended up with a death toll of 100,000- the highest number in Europe?”
Starmer might have added that it’s also the worst death rate in the world as of yesterday.
PM: “We mourn every death in this pandemic and we share the grief of all those who have been bereaved. Let the House be in no doubt that I and the government take full responsibility for all the actions we’ve taken.”
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26 Jan
NEW: It's official. More than 100,000 people in the UK have now died from Covid-19, according to govt figures.

100,162 died within 28 days of a positive test.

103,602 deaths with Covid on the death certificate.

Over 5x what Patrick Vallance said would be a "good" outcome.
Remember, this is likely a conservative estimate.

If we look at excess deaths (more reliable measure) in England alone, if we look at 2020 and the first two weeks of 2021, total deaths are up 15% on the average, or by 80,704. Image
With these new figures UK is currently the worst performing country in the world in terms of deaths per million. Should be treated with a bit of caution as a result of varying reporting methods/UK having new variant but no doubt the UK is among the very worst performing nations. Image
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26 Jan
Kate Green (Lab Shadow Education Sec) notes that Gavin Williamson hasn’t come to the House to answer the Urgent Question on schools reopening and that Nick Gibb is answering instead: "I am more used to seeing him [Gibb] than the Secretary of State.”
Gibb being repeatedly asked what the plan/criteria for school reopening is. Gibb replying that they’re “consulting with stakeholders” and awaiting scientific advice. Pressed on what the levels of hospitalisation etc has to be, Gibb says they’re relying on scientific advice.
Lot of pressure from the Tory benches for government to explain what the exact threshold is.
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24 Jan
Well, so much for that garden day
Where’s Morissette when you need her
If my Mum were here she’d sagely observe “the sky’s full of it, Lewis.”
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22 Jan
NEW: PM confirms that as well being more infectious "there is now some evidence" to suggest that the new variant may also be more deadly.
Though this is a change to the data, it potentially makes the decision not to lock down everywhere before Christmas (and to allow some relaxation) all the more problematic and the questions in the thread below all the more acute.

More data on new variant

-no change in age distribution
-with the old variant males in their sixties of a 1000 people 10 would be expected to die
-with new variant, that would increase to 13 or 14

Still a great deal of uncertainty. Needs to be treated with caution.
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22 Jan
I understand PHE and other UK health bodies have been investigating new potential mutations in different parts of the UK and adopting extensive contact tracing where they have arisen. I'm told these mutations were discussed by NERVTAG at their most recent meeting.
One (based in Liverpool) contains the mutation (E484K) common in the South Africa/Brazil strains (it's not believed to have been imported but instead developed here). We're not talking about a huge number but instead a few dozen cases based in one hospital.
Nothing to be hugely worried about at the moment but a reminder as one scientist put it to me, that this "could be the year of the variant." The virus is under a lot of selection pressure and big challenge could be to stay ahead of it, especially with regard to vaccines.
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