NEW: Mayor of London: “I asked the Commissioner...to give me an explanation of yesterday’s events. I am not satisfied with the explanation they have provided”
Remember: the Met Commissioner is directly accountable to BOTH the Mayor and the Home Secretary - one a Labour politician, one a Conservative
“The Commissioner is accountable in law...to the Mayor & is held to account for the delivery of policing by the Home Secretary & Mayor. Both have a role in appointing the Commissioner, with the decision taken by the Home Secretary following consultation with the mayor.”
NEW: Home Secretary says there are “still questions to be answered” having read the report from the Met

Has asked HM Inspectorate of Constabulary to review the policing yesterday

BUT it *sounds* like she’ll be sticking by Cressida Dick
Meanwhile Labour leader (and former Director of Public Prosecutions) Sir Keir Starmer decides not to call for Cressida Dick’s resignation

Likely a reminder that outrage on Twitter rarely translates to the real world and he knows it....
Cressida Dick has just spoken and come out swinging- certainly no apology or contrition

She said the gathering became unlawful under the Covid restrictions and her officers had to act
Very much the “rules is rules” defence from Cressida Dick

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💉 NEW: AstraZeneca responds directly to safety concerns about blood clots following Covid vaccine- strongly refutes a link -says no evidence of increased risk

Says the number of people suffering blood clots after vaccination is LOWER than would be expected in general population
AZ: “careful review of all available safety data of more than 17m people vaccinated in the EU & UK has shown no evidence of increased risk of pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or thrombocytopenia, in any defined age group, gender, batch or in any particular country”
“So far across the EU & UK, there have been 15 events of DVT & 22 events of pulmonary embolism reported among those given the vaccine, based on the number of cases the Company has received as of 8 March. This is much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general...
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It feels like many will think the Met has made a terrible miscalculation today that will look awful for days and weeks to come.

Now facing its greatest crisis since Stephen Lawrence?
The videos now circulating on social media will be played out across mainstream UK (and possibly global) media for days to come- this is going to be a *huge* crisis and I expect will lead to questions about just how tenable is the position of the current leadership of the Met.
Even the future Queen went to Clapham Common today- the Sunday newspapers will juxtapose her at the bandstand, and then police pulling women off it.

And that will be a very bad look.
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22 Feb
💉 NEW: New study from Scotland shows vaccines massively reduce the risk of hospitalisation

By the 4th week after first dose- the risk of hospitalisation is reduced by:

📉 Pfizer ⬇️ 85%
📉 AstraZeneca ⬇️ 94%
🧬 This is real world data in a study by scientists from the University of Edinburgh, University of Strathclyde and Public Health Scotland
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Dataset is entire Scotland population of 5.4m people

Prof Aziz Sheikh: “These results are very encouraging and have given us great reasons to be optimistic for the future. We not have national evidence - across a whole country- that vaccination provides protection”
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22 Feb
🔐 No more tiers: restrictions will be eased across England-no regional differences

⏰ PM announces roadmap this afternoon

4️⃣ Roadmap has 4 steps

🗓 Easing starts March 8th

🌳 Outdoor activities restart before indoor ones

🗳 MPs to vote on new regulations in coming weeks
🔐 4 tests to continue each step of roadmap

1️⃣ vaccine rollout continues successfully
 
2️⃣ vaccines effective in reducing hospitalisations & deaths
 
3️⃣ no resurgence of hospitalisations that pressure NHS
 
4️⃣ risks not fundamentally changed by new variants
🏫 All schools opening from March 8th will be stage 1

🌳 Outdoor meeting with one other person likely to be allowed also- so you could meet in a park for a drink

✅ Then need to pass the 4 tests to move to the next step of the roadmap
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2 Feb
💉 NEW: One dose of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine offers 76% protection after day 22 post vaccination - and offers sustained protection through a 3 month period until second dose
New analysis by Oxford University

▶️ vaccine shows sustained protection of 76% during the 3-month interval until the second dose

▶️ analyses shows single standard dose efficacy from day 22 to day 90 post vaccination of 76% with protection not falling in this three-month period
▶️ After the second dose vaccine efficacy from two standard doses is 82.4% with the 3-month interval being used in the UK

▶️ 82.4% effective, with a 95% confidence interval of 62.7% - 91.7% at 12+ weeks
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2 Feb
💉💸 Stark difference between big pharma over COVID

🕊 AstraZeneca & Johnson&Johnson will produce their vaccines not for profit during pandemic

💵 Pfizer now expects $15 BILLION in revenue for its vaccine THIS YEAR

💵 with profit margin in the high 20s % -could be $4bn profit
🇺🇸 🇩🇪 Pfizer splits costs and profits with BioNTech

💉 It’s vaccine costs about $20

💷 AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine is more like $4

🌍 that vaccine will be provided to the developing world at cost in perpetuity
🤷‍♂️ You pays your money & you takes your choice-Pfizer vaccine uses new, cutting edge technology & they were first to get approval

It’s a private company with shareholders & its job is to make money - that’s how they fund incredibly expensive research & development
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