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Carole Cadwalladr

23 May, 8 tweets, 5 min read

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1396237333192642560

I still can’t believe Public Health England did this. They held a press conference y’day trumpeting ‘good news’ with a 10.30pm embargo. And then dumped long overdue critical data showing devastating news about spread of variant at exactly same time on Sat night. Absolutely stinks

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1396237333192642560

@chrischirp

Here’s @chrischirp’s reaction. The headline is that this is an absolute emergency.

A total scandal that body in charge of our public health is playing cheap, shitty politics with our public health. I sincerely hope that PHE director @SMHopkins is asked some hard questions today

https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1396244506287169537

AND IT WORKED. Look at that headline. This is most definitely *not* the headline news today. The virus is now 50% of sequenced cases. SAGE warned this week that a third wave could be worst yet. The news is truly awful. But PHE has apparently played active role in covering it up

And PHE *still* hasn’t published data on schools I reported on here. We have seen evidence that Number 10 was directly involved in decision to suppress it. I really hope that every public health professional in England asks what on earth is going on today
theguardian.com/world/2021/may…

@SusanMichie

And here’s @SusanMichie on PHE’s behaviour & a thread on what the new data shows by @dgurdasani1 who describes it as ‘seriously worrying’

https://twitter.com/susanmichie/status/1396362788939997184

Govt got headlines it wanted. And PHE played central role. Is not public health. It’s actively harmful to public health. It’s covering up news that public desperately needs to understand & hear. That govt’s decision to lift mitigation’s as variant taking off has been disastrous

@dgurdasani1

Here’s entire thread on new data by @dgurdasani1. I’m getting serious start-of-pandemic vibes. Not least because messages like this starting to arrive. The data on schools that @ObserverUK saw (that govt suppressed) showed 164 cases in schools up to May 12. What’s happening now??

https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1396244879966154761

@Zubhaque

And here’s @Zubhaque with the ‘good news’ on vaccine efficacy in full. This is what PHE held press conference on yesterday

https://twitter.com/zubhaque/status/1396366283113893892

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