Are you getting the data from CVS/EXCEL files rather than easily access dashboard data? (I seem to have a problem with my iPad accessing them. I don’t have a laptop.).
I could see the shortfall but not fill in the gaps.
THIS Story by @ShaunLintern is going to make you mad
Rather than rapidly expand and support NHS labs with existing equipment, QA, information systems linked to GPs & PH they outsourced to companies with labs THAT HAD TO SET UP LABS FROM SCRATCH
They relied on volunteers! Students, not realising there were supporting commercial companies, volunteering as they expected to learn RT-PCR testing set to opening thousands and thousands of test bags, day after day.
No wonder they felt exploited.
All the tests failed at the beginning as they set up labs using donated equipment.
As I suspected there were NO common protocols, systems or QA between the various labs and OF COURSE they were not networked into NHS software systems.
If you don’t share the results properly, nothing works: Local health officials say they have been left in the dark on spread of coronavirus | The Independent
NOPE. Fast accurate information.
Pillar 2 Lighthouse Labs were not providing Local Public Health of GPs with test results so they could hunt down the fires and extinguish them.
Even now it only provides aggregate totals.
Turns out the Labs are only provided kits with barcodes. The results of the barcodes is then sent to NHS digital who match the barcode with patient details and send it on to PH England.
PHE and NHS labs can enter their test result data directly into a system that GPs can access
Leicester’s City council was provided with detailed testing information for the first time on Thursday (25 June), one week after the Secretary of State Matt Hancock announced that there was a local outbreak in Leicester
How the hell can the Leicester Council, local Public Health (or GPs) HOPE to contain an outbreak when they are only getting positive test data weeks after someone has been tested?
Doesn’t look as if it includes this week’s data either.
Seemingly believing Desmond is still The Express, Jenrick asks his parliamentary staff to arrange a meeting. The email makes no reference to the #Westferry application, but is sent late at night the day after he “inadvertently” sat next to Desmond at the Carlton Political Dinner.
21,243 “people tested” under pillar 1
Who knows under pillar 2 for over 1 month.
Apart from the usual fiction of pillar 2 posted kits (65k today). (NB 42% are never returned or void per today in Parl.)
120k supposedly under surveillance serology pillar 3 & 4.
NOT
They added 40k historical corrections to Pillar 4 ‼️. How can any remotely competent authority overlook 40k?
Where do they come from?
This is ON TOP of another 50k last week. ⁉️
3k historical correction to Pillar 1.
Can Coronavirus Contact Tracing Survive Reopening?
Learning lesson: Liberia: Ebola
“Because we could not spare doctors or nurses, we hired social workers and schoolteachers as contact tracers—people who were respected in the community.” newyorker.com/news/us-journa…
“Welch recalled long meetings with village and tribal leaders, to identify trusted and influential people to hire as tracers. “
They got that contract tracing was more than minimum wage bums on seats.
And it was more than asking people to self isolate.
There was a daily check.
In a very poor country with a population of 5 million, they employed 10,000 contact tracers.
And put their success in containing Ebola down to contact tracing.
It seems to me there needs to be a lot more humility at Government level about learning from the poorest countries.
Welcome to your new rulers: UK Commissioners Gove, Johnson and Cummings | Westminster Confidential
Brexit is not so much “taking back control of our laws” through Parliamentary Sovereignty as giving it away to Johnson, Cummings and the executive. davidhencke.com/2020/06/21/wel…
This is the House of Lords analysis and report referred to in this blog that details the extraordinary extent to which this is already happening.
Always reflect. If this is not the Gov of your choice would you want them to have this much power?
Boris Johnson says we shouldn't edit our past.
I agree with him
We should not allow Mary Wakefield’s grandfather, Sir Evelyn Baring, to destroy his past
The British Concentration camps in Kenya in the 1950s with “Labour & Freedom” on the gate. Murder. Rape theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Some were anally raped with knives, rifle barrels and broken bottles, mauled by dogs or electrocuted. Many were castrated, with a special implement the British administration designed for the purpose.
“By the time I cut his balls off,” one of the killers boasted, “he had no ears, & his eyeball, the right one, I think, was hanging out of its socket”.
When 11 people were beaten to death that upstanding member of the community, Baring, said to report it as dying of dirty water
My life would be much poorer without your political reflections.
Nobody makes me think more than you, even when I don’t agree.
That is very powerful.
I voted Lib Dem (despite some misgivings about Policy - because -hey- no party can perfectly reflect ME)
@GuitarMoog But, for instance, I was not comfortable with the UNION policy.
Not because I thought that another referendum for Scotland would be a good thing right now, but because I could see that forcing a country to a state of subjugating its preferences to England (NI/Wales) was unwise.
@GuitarMoog You really helped me separate my reservations about another Independence referendum from the key issue:-
Self determination. NOT being held back by another country that wished to pull in a different direction.
That is one of the reasons why I cannot vote Lib Dem now.
There needs to be a spotlight in this.
GPs who certify death in a public health emergency need to have a hard look at themselves
No data. No certainty itv.com/news/2020-06-0…
If no tests because the Gov won’t provide them even when a GP orders one, then they should be erring on the side of caution. Symptoms? Then COVID.
Because without it the true extent of the spread and the emergency is hidden until too late.
Which is exactly what has happened.
This is basic science. If we do not know what is going on it takes longer to solve a problem and more people will die avoidably as a result.
In this instance mostly without palliation because GPs would not attend.
This, too, needs to be scrutinised in a Public Inquiry.
Cambridge UNI and PHE study suggests 17k new infections a day UK wide (a LOT more than the ONS study of ⬇️6k). We need to get to the bottom of the variation.
At 17k a day new infections and assuming a 14 day infection period that would mean c 238k infected people at any one time and 127k of them in the higher transmission period.
Even in the areas where the median level is below one in most, if not all it has risen in the last few weeks to bring R0 perilously close to 1.
East, London, Midlands and South East are all at 0.9 or above.
Rather a lot are from the National Guard - a 450k strong part time civilian soldiers drawn from local communities & trained to support disaster response (well Trump and Barr sure are disasters)
In Washington they (unlike federal troops) do not bear lethal or non lethal weapons
The Bully In Chief has threatened to “federalise” them (which hasn’t gone down so well) and also invoke the Insurrection Act sending federal troops into states.
That hasn’t gone down so well either with federal troop generals or his Defence Secretary, Mark Esper.
Early intervention was seen as crucial - not just in trace and track but also in the management of (rather than the abandonment of sick patients, as in the U.K.)
They also engaged their 400 local authorities putting them at the centre of their local tracing and containment measures, not just identifying contacts but also supporting people through isolation.
They had been neglected over the years so recruitment for more staff was early
So whilst the U.K. Gov was busy lying about our testing and abandoned comprehensive tracing, excluding GPs, our depleted local authorities and local public health, Germany faced the consequences and got recruiting and including.
Yes. Why do some suffer only mild symptoms and other severe requiring oxygen?
Patients with Blood Group A had a 50% increase in likelihood in needing oxygen or a ventilator.
This makes me quite cautious as I am blood group A.
But, quite apart from the other risk factors already identified (age, diabetes, Male, coronary heart disease, high BP, BAME, this finding is quite striking.
Scientists are hoping that DNA tests will identify who needs the most aggressive treatments
Over 20 more schools closed (total 87) as Israel sees largest daily virus rise in a month | The Times of Israel
301 students and teachers have tested +ve for CV19 during the fresh outbreak, with another 13,696 people in quarantine. timesofisrael.com/over-20-more-s…
Schools started reopening early May subject to strict hygiene measures and face masks, despite which schools seem to have been driving the recent spike in infection leading to 118 new infections over the past 24 hours, the largest rise since 2nd May.
The number of active cases ticked up to 2,191, with 17,495 infections recorded since the start of the pandemic.
From the Vallance Security & Intelligence report (I think June 2019) he clearly said diagnostics and PPE needed to be stepped up.
Nothing happened. Change of leader.
@katylindemann@DRTomlinsonEP@cpeedell BUT in that report whilst the possibility of a bad flu pandemic was seen as risking £trillion economic hit, a coronavirus like SARS was seen as a markedly smaller risk “Like Toronto”
Indeed even after CV19 was identified right into early mid Feb it was being described by China and WHO as a symptomatic transmitter. By mid Feb we knew otherwise.
Thousands Who Got CV-19 in March Are Still Sick - The Atlantic
The long tail of the illness in the mild-moderate group, often left untested, untreated, alone & trapped in a statistical limbo, uncounted & thus overlooked
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