NEW: We have joined @Foxglovelegal & this coalition in bringing legal action to stop the NHS data grab. It is SUCH an important fight. These are our private health records. The deadline is June 23. There is so little time. We need your help. 🙏🙏🙏
Yesterday, as @madhumita29 in @FT reports, we sent govt our pre-action letter. We're asking for immediate pause on June 23 deadline. If you haven't opted out by then, it means all your confidential medical records gone forever. We cannot let this happen. ft.com/content/a13225…
Almost exactly 1 year ago, the govt stopped doing daily briefings. It left an information vacuum. So Independent SAGE began regular Friday briefing with weekly analysis of all data. Yesterday’s has already been watched by 10k people. (This is relevant) 2/
Week after week @chrischirp (& later @Kit_Yates_Maths) has presented an analysis of all available data. Yesterday’s was perhaps clearest yet. But it was also very stark. What has happened with the new variant is yet another national disaster. These numbers are bad. 3/
BREAKING: More than £600,000 has been donated to the Conservative Party by firms and individuals that have been awarded some £400 million in public contracts during the Coronavirus pandemic.
A thread by @ALLTHECITIZENS and @BYLINETIMES
Yesterday’s release by the Electoral Commission of quarterly donations shows that since Q4 (October) 2020, John Bloor, Wol Kolade, Peter Rigby, John Nash, Vin Murria, & Michael Ashcroft, together donated £615,000 to the Tories. All linked to huge gov contracts in the pandemic.
Oluwole Kolade gave £205,000 between November 2020 - March 2021. Wol sits as managing partner of Livingbridge, a private equity firm that until Jan 2021 held a controlling stake in Efficio, which has now received £11m from the gov since the pandemic began
We are so proud of the work we do to support @IndependentSage. This week's briefing couldn't be more important. It streams live on Twitter & YouTube & is watched every week by 10,000+ people & anyone can ask a question
This is completely astonishing from @PHE_uk. It has repeatedly refused to release actual data on spread of the new variant in schools - despite our legal letter.
And it has now published a non-evidence-based blog that literally contradicts its own latest technical report. Wtf?
On the #bbcqt panel tonight, @Independent Sage expert Anthony Costello @globalhlthtwit: New variant is 50-70% more transmissable, people are 2.7% more likely to end up in hospital, there is evidence of vaccine escape & only 40% of people have had two doses.
We probably need to retain restrictions on indoor mixing and wearing of masks. Things can very quickly get out of control.
"We're just playing the same game, time and time again."