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23 May, 6 tweets, 2 min read
New Public Health England Report on variants shows people vaccinated with one dose are only 34% protected against B.617.2 (India). (1)
And that variant B617.2 is spreading rapidly. (2)
This new UK data fits with anecdotal experience in Delhi where many vaccinated people have become ill or been hospitalized requiring oxygen. Of 244 doctors in Delhi who have died, 3% reported to be fully vaccinated. (3)
The way to suppress new UK outbreaks is a comprehensive LOCAL test, trace and isolate programme: rapid results within a few hours, ten times the number of contact tracers we have, and monitored isolation with proper financial support. (4)
This is advice from WHO since January 2020. If we don’t divert some of the ineffective outsourced £38 billion now to local public health, we risk thing’s getting quickly out of control. Why is this not happening? (5)
The PHE report link is here. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… (6)

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20 May
It seems virtually none of the £38 BILLION has been spent on local public health teams. So where has all the money gone?
£38 billion is equivalent to the entire England national spend on public health for the next TEN years, and almost seven times the current global commitment to the Covax scheme for global vaccination.
The outsourcing to Serco, G4S, and Sitel, employing 50,000 workers has had little public health impact, abuses employees rights, and makes use of mini-umbrella companies to avoid tax.
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28 Apr
Our thoughts and prayers are with all our colleagues and friends in India, Bangladesh and Nepal right now. This catastrophe means vaccine production MUST expand beyond the few companies who hold patents. Otherwise many MILLIONS of people across the world will die.
Covax is not enough. It is at the mercy of governments and big Pharma.They are undermining it. And World Bank loans to countries to acquire vaccines at inflated prices are stopping Covax procurement from the same companies!
World leaders have had a year to act, but done nothing on a patent waiver. Vaccines, oxygen, ventilators are a public good. They should not be provided through the highest bidders and black markets.
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25 Apr
Let us be clear on ten reasons why the Barrington group letter to...er... the Daily Express is profoundly wrong.express.co.uk/life-style/hea…
1. They state confidently "the vaccine programme will almost totally eliminate deaths and hospitalisations from Covid-19". Yet half the UK have not yet been vaccinated, we don't know how long immunity lasts, +Brazil and India show COVID can surge again in 'immune populations'.
2. This didn't age well did it....
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19 Apr
The European Super League appears to have been backed with $6 billion debt financing from JP Morgan Bank. Says it all...
This is corruption pure and simple. Stealing the heritage and the rules of football from the club fans.
I hope Klopp, Tuchel, Arteta, Guardiola and Solsjaer will alos express their displeasure and resign. This is about defending the integrity of football.
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19 Apr
I respect Susan Hopkins but this troubles me. Watch from 37.04 when she is asked on isolation. She says people when contacted are already isolating and that if people have got a test the vast majority do the right thing. But the evidence is different (1) bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
1. No. of contacts for each COVID-19 case is 17 per case in Taiwan, 2 in the United Kingdom.
2. China had 1 LOCAL contact tracer per 1200 population in Wuhan. UK has less than one per 10,000.
3. Successful countries test contacts and use apps to monitor isolation. We don't. (2)
4. The CORSAIR study showed self-reported adherence to test, trace and isolate behaviours was very low (selfisolation) 18.2%, 95% CI 16.4% to 19.9%. gov.uk/government/pub… (3)
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14 Apr
Remember the global financial crash? Packaged mortgage securities? The Big Short? This time the problem may be hedge funds borrowing to gamble on stocks, using the same stocks as securities.(1)
The hedge fund industry has borrowed a reported $814 billion in the past year, to gamble on stocks, a 49 per cent increase since Feb 2020. The true figure is likely much higher, into trillions. (2)
Gambling on stocks using borrowed money pushes up share prices which can then be sold. But some hedge funds may get the timing wrong, leading to big losses if the market smells a rat. This is what happened with Archegos, a relatively small family hedge fund. (3)
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