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Government #coronavirus science advisor Dr David Halpern tells me of plans to \u2018cocoon\u2019 vulnerable groups. pic.twitter.com/dhECJNbmnI
— Mark Easton (@BBCMarkEaston) March 11, 2020
Government #coronavirus science advisor Dr David Halpern tells me of plans to \u2018cocoon\u2019 vulnerable groups. pic.twitter.com/dhECJNbmnI
— Mark Easton (@BBCMarkEaston) March 11, 2020
Here are the heatmaps for Covid detected cases, positivity, hospitalizations, and ICU admissions. This is for the week to 3 January 2021.
— Dr Duncan Robertson (@Dr_D_Robertson) January 7, 2021
I have marked a line on 21 September, when SAGE recommended a circuit breaker, so you can see how the situation has deteriorated since then. pic.twitter.com/SEEVgUVK4j
One thing civil servants learn is to write things down. Here is @acadmedsci's 14 July report commissioned by @uksciencechief. For the record.
— Dr Duncan Robertson (@Dr_D_Robertson) September 17, 2020
SAGE advocated a ~2 week 'circuit breaker' over 5 weeks ago
— Dr Duncan Robertson (@Dr_D_Robertson) October 30, 2020
Ignoring expert advice and delaying the decision by 5 weeks has:
- increased infections, hospitalizations, and deaths
- extended the period of 'lockdown'
- increased damage to the economyhttps://t.co/aZF5Lwl7Z8 pic.twitter.com/tsUVeZnzOi
Let's take a little review of where we are with UK Covid restrictions.
— Dr Duncan Robertson (@Dr_D_Robertson) October 28, 2020
It wasn't meant to be like this.
A Thread.
With apologies to Nandos. pic.twitter.com/R8YRenjaHj
Since the March lockdown, there have been a number of changes to the list of who can go to school.
— Dr Duncan Robertson (@Dr_D_Robertson) January 7, 2021
For instance, children with a 'lack of devices' 'should attend school'
The rollout of laptops was promised in the first lockdown. What happened to that? pic.twitter.com/vec8RZm6fw
Boris Johnson says Britain's emergence from the lockdown "cocoon" will "not be a big bang but a gradual unwrapping"
— Emily Ashton (@elashton) January 6, 2021
The famous \u201cLucy\u201d, an early ancestor of modern humans (Australopithecus) that lived 3.2 million years ago, and was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, displayed in the national museum in Addis Ababa \U0001f1ea\U0001f1f9 pic.twitter.com/N3oWqk1SW2
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) November 9, 2018