#Lockdown

Dr Karen 🕷Schafheutle🇪🇺🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

KSchafheutle

This tier 4 and 3/4 no-lockdown is unlikely to last just 4 weeks.Why? It's not a lockdown. Therefore,A. it will take longer to drive down new infections.B. infections still driven

Steve Baker MP

SteveBakerHW

Government scientists briefing MPs were clear this week that the effects of lockdown would not be visible in the data until this weekend @MrHarryCole That is, cases may have flattened

whippletom

whippletom

Sage has just published its estimates of the *indirect* effects of lockdown on mortality 6,000 excess deaths in March and April due to changes in emergency care 10,000 excess deaths

David Paton

cricketwyvern

In his recent article, @cjsnowdon claims that England's November lockdown was a good example of lockdown effectiveness. Let’s look at that claim using the ONS death-by-date registration data which have

Zach Carter

zachdcarter

The dynamic here is really obvious and has been for a long time. Local officials are afraid to shut down businesses that spread COVID because they're rightly worried that those

Gilbert Jackson

youth_unheard

I feel like my position is getting more "extreme" in some eyes by still opposing any lockdown. But I am immensely worried about where compliance is leading us. I prefer

Richard Spoor

Richard_Spoor

Governments strategy to fight Covid 19 in a nutshell:1. Covid spreads.2. Shut down the economy, except the essential part, which is most of it.3. Covid spreads.3. Ease the shut down

TNK 🙂

TTBikeFit

A new way to look at lockdown severity and its effects. We have all heard of the Oxford lockdown stringency index described here https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-projects/coronavirus-government-response-tracker which uses 17 indic

Kit Yates

Kit_Yates_Maths

Is this lockdown 3.0 as tough as lockdown 1?Here are a few pieces of data from the @IndependentSage briefing which suggest that despite tackling a much more transmissible virus, lockdown

Norton's Digbeth

nortons_digbeth

So I've done some spreadsheet work while working out which grants we're waiting on. There's a really good tweet from @brigidjones that explains this better, I'll RT when I find

Ottilia Anna MaSibanda

MaS1banda

This is the extension of the national state of disaster, not of "lockdown"…https://twitter.com/bongadlulane/status/1294647244956864512 Language matters.SA went into a national state of disaster on 15 March in light of the corona

Leana Wen, M.D.

DrLeanaWen

Can we please stop talking about lockdowns? A national lockdown is not going to happen. Every time it’s brought up, it distracts attention from practical public health measures that can

Leon Sjogren

Leonsjogren

Help me cast the ‘Melbourne Covid Lockdown’ movie, I’ll start...- Martin Freeman as Brett Sutton #LockdownMelbourneMovie #COVID19Vic #COVIDVIC19 #Melbourne #lockdown #CovidVic #COVID19au #brettsutton #sutton Casting the ‘Melbourne C

Silkie Carlo

silkiecarlo

Our Dear Leader will address the decimated nation tonight to declare new TOUGHER stay at home orders.No questions from pesky journalists (though they now only do rhetorical why-not-yesterday Qs anyway)The

David Paton

cricketwyvern

Put to one side for a moment whether or not you believe the current lockdown to be justified. It is simply unconscionable for scientists & politicians to be appearing in

Policy Sketchbook

policysketch

So there's your 0.4. what we presumably don't know yet (since this variant was quite localised) is whether that's entirely down to differences in the virus or partly down to

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