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12 Jul, 5 tweets, 6 min read
NEW: Extraordinary statement from @HelenRSalisbury from emergency press conference on UK govt's plan:

'I cannot understand why the government would opt to do herd immunity by infection when they could do herd immunity by vaccination. I think it's criminal.'
PRESS RELEASE: “Scientists: government’s herd immunity by mass infection’ plan is unscientific & unethical”

By authors of Lancet letter now signed by more than 1,000 UK & international scientists & doctors
FULL EMERGENCY STATEMENT: response to July 19 ‘unscientific & unethical’ govt plan

Signed: @dgurdasani1 @chrischirp @Zubhaque @ArisKatzourakis @martinmckee @GabrielScally @ProfJohnDrury @trishgreenhalgh @Kit_Yates_Maths @SusanMichie @SGriffin_Lab @robertjwest
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Dr @HelenRSalisbury on the government’s herd immunity strategy. ‘I think it’s criminal’

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12 Jul
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Over £22.4bn has gone to just 50 companies in UK Gov Covid-19 contracts since the start of the pandemic.

In total, over 1,500 companies were involved in a UK contract bonanza worth £52.5bn – more than the Gross Domestic Product of 140 nation states and territories.
The top 5 companies won £9.2bn or 30% of the total amount given out in contracts since March 2020. This alone is more than the 2019 GDP of countries like Nicaragua and Armenia, according to World Bank data.
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11 Jul
NEW: There are a lot of worried & angry scientists & doctors. They're wondering how they can shout any louder.

Help us help them hold the government to account.

cc @dgurdasani1 @chrischirp @trishgreenhalgh @doctor_oxford @CarolineLucas @SusanMichie
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Nearly 100k people have now watched emergency summit @theAliceRoberts hosted on Thurs with speakers that inc Lancet editor @richardhorton1, ex-CSA @Sir_David_King & hon VP of BMA @KailashChandOBE.

The public is listening. It's the government that's not.

It's gratifying that issue of mass infection has finally broken into mainstream. It's depressing because it comes after 2 months' of work with @dgurdasani1 to expose spread of Delta variant in schools & challenge the govt for suppressing the evidence.
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9 Jul
With just over a week to go until 'Freedom Day' the latest figures from @chrischirp at today's #IndependentSage briefing show infection rates ↗️ across the board. Cases in over-60s in the Northeast rapidly climbing to levels last seen in November peak
Latest Imperial REACT study shows highest rates in young people overall and much higher rates in men than women over last month, probably a result of people getting together to watch the #Euros
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9 Jul
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7 Jul
NEW: Scientists from UK & around world will publish emergency response to UK govt’s plan to lift all restrictions on 19 July in Lancet tomorrow.

Join editor of @TheLancet @richardhorton1, chair of @TheBMA @CNagpaul, scientists & MPs tomorrow Thurs 10am
Please join the emergency summit & press conference tomorrow hosted by @theAliceRoberts. Speakers to include @trishgreenhalgh & @dgurdasani1. MPs inc @CarolineLucas @Debbie_abrahams & @Dr_PhilippaW will be invited to respond.

Questions from press & public welcome. DM us.
The letter has been described as a ‘follow-up’ to the ‘John Snow memo’, an international response signed by 6,900 scientists to the Great Barrington Declaration which advocated the lifting of all restrictions & a policy of herd immunity by infection

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