In the US, data about Covid-19 testing was collected haphazardly by states. This left the federal government flying blind, unable to see where and how quickly the virus was spreading.
Eventually volunteers, led by the journalists Robinson Meyer and Alexis Madrigal of the Covid Tracking Project, put together a serviceable data dashboard. “We have come to see the government’s initial failure here as the fault on which the entire catastrophe pivots,”
The US ASSUMED good data would be available but did not build the systems to deliver.
But the data integrity machine has only just started in one way.
It has to be fit/nimble for the next stage and the next pandemic.
Part of that nimbleness will be reflected in the scalability and flexibility of the IT and data infrastructure that has been built and corrected this time around.
How adaptable is it?
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Lord Lister it seems resigned because he brokered the deal to sell the old Royal Mint site to the Chinese Gov, in his role as non exec director of the FCO, Johnson his then boss. At the time he was paid by two other parties connected to the sale.
The tanker, when it arrived, delivered enough for 1.5hr supply for 140 critically ill patients. The hospital hoped that would be suffice to until a tanker with a full load arrived.
The staff must be desperate constantly going to the wire fir basic supplies.
A Gov failure.
The National Centre for Disease Control said the Delhi surge was directly correlated to the UK variant. “We have seen a rise in the proportion of the UK variant from 28% of Delhi’s genome sequenced samples in the second week of March to 50% in the last week of March.
“In between treating patients at the COVID-19 intensive care unit of Mumbai’s prestigious Lilavati Hospital, Parkar appears regularly on TV to give updates on the current, devastating second wave of the pandemic that is killing thousands of Indians.” time.com/5957118/india-…
He himself spent time in the ICU last year and almost died after suffering multiple COVID-complications. Now, he confesses to losing his calm over what he is seeing unfold every day.
“Our healthcare system has collapsed. We have let down our own people in the country,” he says.
“What can doctors do when our infrastructure is unable to take the patients, when there are no hospital beds or oxygen cylinders?”
The distress, horror, rage and despair is palpable
The Supreme Court of India has called this a "national emergency"
“This is beyond an emergency. It is a "complete collapse of the goddamn system", said one of India's leading virologists. In hotspots like Delhi and Mumbai, life, itself, is now a privilege” bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
India's healthcare system is buckling as a record surge in Covid-19 cases puts pressure on hospital beds and drains oxygen supplies, reporting 332,730 new cases of coronavirus on Friday, setting a world record for a second day running. Deaths were numbered at 2,263 in 24 hours.
“We do not have that many oxygen points
Whatever oxygen points are there, they're full
Patients are coming in with their own oxygen cylinders or without oxygen
We want to help them but there are not enough beds & not enough oxygen points even to supply them oxygen if it is there”
Very interesting from @PickardJE .
Mandarin, Heywood worked at Morgan Stanley for Robey, who not only was a pallbearer at Heywood’s funeral, but has hired George Osborne for his now boutique banking business, Robey Warsaw,- presumably to “open doors” as Cameron was for Greenshill
It was Heywood that promoted the idea of installing Lex Greenshill in NO 10, Greensill having been a former Morgan Stanley colleague.
Heywood also pressed Robey to introduce Greensill to Robey Warsaw clients. Indeed a mate ting took place between Greensill and BAE.
Indeed Robey himself was thought to have been hired by BAE because of his perceived ability to open doors in Whitehall and “manage” the Prime Minister’s office.
I have to say that seeing Cummings- who oversaw the sleaziest and most staggeringly untruthful referendum Vote Leave campaign - now exposing his compatriots in that campaign still in power of unethical conduct and sleaze is really quite something.
I mean...his blog is full of rebuttals and innuendo,
Coat trailing. I filled with “Nothing to do with me, Guv’ “