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Contact tracers speaking anonymously to @Telegraph said England’s test and trace service is so complex they fear potentially dangerous symptoms could be missed or the wrong advice given to the
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PHE's COVID surveillance report covering 7th - 13th December landed today. It's difficult reading. It's just the second week since lockdown ended but case rates, hosp admissions, and now ICU
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Latest PHE weekly COVID surveillance report, covers 25th to 31st January.Cases, admissions, deaths all falling; vaccination numbers rising.Signs are good but ICU admission rates are still double that seen in
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1/ Trade unions, health experts, education experts, educators, @ChildrensComm @amanda_spielman, local authorities, natl govt all weighing in on #schoolsclosure debate - huge conflict & a total lack of coordination. And
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This week's @PHE_uk COVID surveillance report is now out. Covers 1-7 Feb.It's going in the right direction but still pockets of high case rates & hospitals are still far from
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CRUSH VIRUS NOW OR ELSE WE ARE SCREWED: Denmark’s CDC thinks new B117 #SARSCoV2 variant is so much more contagious (R +0.4 to +0.7) & inevitable that **if any country
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What's gone wrong in care homes? Twenty questions a Covid-19 inquiry should answerhttps://www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/covid-19-care-homes-inquiry-an-urgent-call 1. What was known, by whom and when, about the COVID-19 process of t
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Given the concerns raised about the delayed vaccine dosing regimen in the UK, I'm doing another post on this. This probably won't have all the answers, but will hopefully reflect
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FOLKS—if you think #COVID19 cases is really bad in the US, it is even more epically surging in the UK & Ireland . I made a short video... and
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1. This thread has been given a new lease of life today. People keep saying, "We can't do #ZeroCovid, it doesn't fit with our way of life."Look around. What way
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Latest @PHE_uk COVID surveillance rpt out, covers 28th Dec to 3rd Jan, will start to capture Christmas mixing.It's devastating reading. Please do everything you can to comply with lockdown, and
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This week's PHE COVID surveillance report now out.Most recent week covers 8th-14th Feb.tl,dr: Things continue to improve but NHS bed/ICU situation has only *just* dipped below April peak. And some
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Latest PHE flu and surveillance report now out.Looks at 23/11 to 28/11Case rates falling, flu remains low, and as ever, big regional/age/ethnicity/deprivation variation.https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surv
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PHE's latest COVID surveillance report now published. Covers 4th-10th Jan.Cases rates remain astonishingly high and whilst they may be turning a corner, rates are still rising among 80yrs+.Hospital admissions and
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1/14 Morning @SophyRidgeSky, just watched the interviews w/ @DominicRaab @annelongfield @timspector & @bphillipsonMP re #schoolsreopening fully on 8th Mar. Discussions focused on dates, primary vs secondary, catch up plans, mental
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So, you've all seen the rising cases and hospitalisations, you've seen the local lockdowns, you've seen that social gatherings are reduced to 6, and we are now spiralling towards another
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