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4 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Lagevrio Antiviral Covid pill approved by UK regulators (MHRA) in world first. It can be taken at home and is safe and effective at reducing the risk of hospitalisation and death among those with mild to moderate Covid. Javid: it's a game-changer.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/0…
Clinical trials have found the drug cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death by 50%. The oral pill works by interfering with the virus’ replication and prevents it from multiplying, keeping the virus levels in the body low.
It is most effective when taken early and the MHRA recommends taking the drug as soon as possible after a positive test and within five days of symptoms.
Javid: "This will be a gamechanger for the most vulnerable and the immunosuppressed, who will soon be able to receive the ground-breaking treatment." The govt is “working at pace” with the NHS to set out plans to deploy the drug to patients "as soon as possible".
"This antiviral will be an excellent addition to our armoury against Covid. It remains vital everyone comes forward for their life-saving Covid vaccine, particularly those eligible for a booster, to ensure as many people as possible are protected over the coming months,” he said.

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Saudi Arabia Vision 2030 is not simply a decarbonisation plan, it’s an economic programme spearheading a complete social, political and cultural overhaul of the Kingdom. It’s already happening. telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/0…
Under its millennial Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), Saudi Arabia has seen dramatic cultural, economic and social changes in the last 5 years. Not only women are driving, but the guardianship laws that restricted their movement have been dismantled. Image
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5 Nov
#COP26 Coal consigned to history. China stands isolated: Xie Zhenhua, silent so far, might still have a big surprise. According to the IEA, the pledges so far bring the world temperature trajectory to 1.8 degrees: a miracle.

— thread from AEP's article.
telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…
The floodgates have broken: developing diehard coal nations have been lining up to forswear coal, the dirtiest of fossil fuels. 4 of the biggest East Asia coal emitters have signed the pledge to abandon new projects and shut down existing plants far earlier than anybody expected.
“It’s a massive deal. The whole region is turning around and this puts the screws on China to do more,” said Dave Jones (anti-coal group Ember). “The big surprises are Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines”
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#COP26 Finance Day.
High finance can help the world hit net zero. A $130 trillion Investor Club has signed up to empower #NetZero with vast sums of capital — as we indeed already understood from Draghi words on opening day.
telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…

— thread from AEP article
Those $130 trillions are the asset base of the 450 banks, fund managers, and wealth funds that have signed up to help. Those are not the sums about to flow, but vast sums of capital are indeed there for the taking.
Global plutocrats are crawling over each other to get into the lucrative business of decarbonisation before rivals beat them to it, and to get out of fossils before they begin to lose serious sums and face the long-tail ‘asbestos’ risk of perennial litigation.
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Hugh Montgomery, professor of intensive care at University College London: “I’m fed up with anti-vaxxers and Covid-deniers taking up ICU beds”.
telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness…
“We are running three beds to one nurse. It’s supposed to be 1:1,” says Montgomery. The problem is exacerbated by the burden of keeping Covid patients isolated. “We cannot put a Covid patient next to a cancer or hip-replacement patient, so we are running two health services.
It’s not fair. We have got a disease we now understand, a safe vaccine that works, but the wards are full of people who don’t believe that to be true.” 
Montgomery is exasperated by the conspiracy theories peddled by anti-vaxxers.
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Modelling seen by the Govt predicts a fall in infections in November without implementing Plan B.
Scientists believe the virus is close to reaching endemic equilibrium and recent oscillations in case rates will soon settle down.
Epidemiologists at the LSHTM are projecting a smaller spring wave and have modelled the impact of Plan B restrictions in April: they found even if face coverings, WFH and vaccine certificates are introduced in the spring, it would only serve to delay deaths until next autumn.
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24 Oct
The EU is still attempting a colonial power grab. EU concessions do not solve NIP fundamental problems. To get rid of all of them, the EU law must be extirpated from NI.

— from Martin Howe QC (Chairman of Lawyers For Britain) article

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/2…
Coverage of the NIP has focussed on disruption to trade. But this is just a symptom of an underlying fundamental issue. The NIP imposes in NI a huge number of EU laws, subject to interpretation by the EU Court, amendment by the EU Parliament, and enforcement by the EU Commission.
They include the EU laws on licensing and marketing of medicines. Once the present “grace period” expires, medicines (including vaccines) authorised by the UK regulator will be illegal in NI unless and until they receive authorisation under the EU’s cumbersome system.
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