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13 Sep, 5 tweets, 2 min read
BREAKING: Chris Whitty and chief medical officers of UK APPROVE Covid jabs for over-12s.

huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/covid-ja…
What's most interesting about their advice is:
🚨 children in most deprived areas hit most by loss of schooling
🚨 serious risk to mental and physical health over short term and long term from disruption to education
🚨 'competent' under-16s can get jab without parental consent
Key line from their advice: "It is essential that children and young people aged 12-15 and their parents are supported in their decisions, whatever decisions they take, and are not stigmatised either for accepting, or not accepting. Individual choice should be respected."
Crucially, CMOs consulted widely on the jab plan, with many Royal Colleges and public health chiefs all part of the process.
The advice today is narrowly applied too. Ie it will reduce spread in school community, there's deliberately no assessment on the wider community
🚨Calling all parents, here's the UK CMOs' letter in full:

Chris Whitty's Advice To Ministers On Why Covid Jabs Should Be Offered To Over-12s.

huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/chris-wh…

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14 Sep
Chris Whitty just burned @nickiminaj for promoting untruths about Covid jabs and it was a beautiful thing.
❤️‍🔥
Fair play to @BorisJohnson for saying "I am not as familiar with the works of @nickminaj as I am with the works of Nikki Kanani, superstar GP of Bexley [Medical Director of Primary Care for NHS England], who will tell you vaccines are wonderful'
Whitty: Minaj line re male impotence 'designed to scare' + 'just untrue'.
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Mic. Dropped.🎤
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22 Jul
On plans to exempt 'critical workers' from isolation, @KwasiKwarteng tells @BBCr4today: "I don't think it's a question of applying...we will be publishing today the sectors that will be affected."

2 days ago, No.10 said firms *would* have to apply + there'd be no list of sectors
PM's official spokesman on Tuesday: "We’re not going to be producing a list covering individual sectors, these business-critical areas will be able to apply for exemptions to their host departments."

So, another U-turn today. Dizzying rate of these this week.
I explicitly asked the spokesman why the govt was not repeating its practice last year of precisely defining list of critical workers exempted from overseas travel bans in the 1st lockdown.
He said cos this was a smaller list of ppl it would be done on a "case by case" basis
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U-turn on a U-turn.
Govt press release confirms 3% pay rise for NHS staff.
.@sajidjavid “We asked the independent pay review bodies for their recommendations and I’m pleased to accept them in full, with a 3% pay rise for all staff in scope, from doctors and nurses to paramedics and porters...
"NHS staff are rightly receiving a pay rise this year despite the wider public sector pay pause, in recognition of their extraordinary efforts.."
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21 Jul
Interesting mask wearing by party allegiance in #PMQs.
I'd say only a quarter of Tory MPs are wearing face coverings.
Every Labour MP, @theSNP
and @LibDems MP wearing masks.
DUP MPs also not wearing masks.
Update, more Tory MPs have now out them on.
Current count: 14 with masks (tho just two on front bench), 17 without (including the Leader of the Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg)
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19 Jul
Just asked Jonathan Van-Tam which restrictions he wd reimpose if the NHS looks like it can't cope this summer.
He said Sage would have to assess but pointed out "close contact indoors" would be the big factor.
Sounded like a new mini-lockdown wd be needed (ie masks/WFH marginal)
Also asked Sir Patrick Vallance if he should level with the public this unlocking is a huge experiment.
He sd govt had made clear the risks.
"It's very likely we'll get to above 1000 hospitalisations a day, it could be quite a lot higher than that."
When I asked @BorisJohnson if @JeremyFarrar was right that his decision to delay a public inquiry to 2022 was just "political manoeuvring", the PM said it wd be wrong to ask senior officials to focus "energy and mental space" on it while dealing with the current third wave.
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BREAKING Govt wins overseas aid cut vote by 333 votes to 298. Big Tory rebellion
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/boris-jo…
Criticism has been swift from aid charities. Church of England's Bishop of Worcester now wades in: "The criteria which the govt has now set out for a return to 0.7% are so stringent that it risks making permanent rather than temporary the reduction in our overseas development"
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