#Lockdown

Phil Greaves

PhilGreaves01

70% drop in cancer referrals in UK, this means there are 10,000's of people with cancerous tumors growing and spreading inside them without treatment, leading to greater complications and early

emptywheel

emptywheel

Since Trump has abdicated any national effort on COVID I thought I’d share the national guidelines Ireland sent by mail to everyone before this most recent shutdown started. We've obviously

Philip Watson

PhilipWatson_

"First Minister Arlene Foster has said there are few options left to curb the crisis, apart from a possible curfew."When your actions don't seem to be working, you change them,

Parth MN

parthpunter

35 migrant workers in Ahmedabad were arrested for rioting on 18 May. They got bail today more than a month later. HC in its bail order said they are "more

AL 🙂

Metabo_PhD

The reasoning given for justifying lockdowns by public health officials (& people) is based on the assumption that lockdowns drive down spread/transmission of a virus by reducing people’s mobility, which

JohannesBorgen

jeuasommenulle

An update post lockdown. Unfortunately, we don't have Google mobility data post-Oct 30th (start date of the lockdown) yet, so let's look at how hospital data changed since then. Quick

Sanjeev Sanyal

sanjeevsanyal

Covid19 is genuinely unpredictable. It will spare a country/region and then suddenly reappear in full rage. For almost a year it seemed that East & SE Asia had controlled it,

Eoin Kelleher

EoinKr

Ireland's #Level5 lockdown is almost a month-old now, and incidence of Covid is decreasing. But have we made productive use of this time, or are we doomed to merely cycle

Palli Thordarson

PalliThordarson

Perth lockdown #covidwa highlights Australia's strength with each State responding differently depending on context and experience. The NSW approach works fine in NSW. VIC crushed their big wave with hard

Dr Bex

BexGraham

A bit nonplussed at the ridiculous statement being shared in certain circles as though its true (how even??) that "lockdowns kill people" when, ah, actually it is the opposite?! Lockdowns

Torsten Bell

TorstenBell

We do know that almost no-one is actually down the pub don't we? They're at home - where they've been spending far more time than normal for months & will

MargaretSimons

MargaretSimons

Been talking to a experts regarding the NSW outbreak. The view expressed is that while the numbers are good, what we are presently seeing is the effect of the lockdown

AL 🙂

Metabo_PhD

1/n Lately, we have have been drowning in headlines stating that hospitals are bursting with COVID-19 patients.#whereiscovid#COVID19 #Coronavirus #lockdown #pandemic #science #fear #Canada #COVID19ontario #data #onpoli 2/n Many people are

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RokoMijicUK

lol I'm even more pessimistic than this poll. There's a good chance that lockdowns will become the new normal, at least until 2030 or so. Our governments are a combination

Joshua Gans

joshgans

It is time for a reminder that the optimal herd immunity strategy requires a hard lockdown. This paper by @LukaszRachel demonstrates the idea. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tVTfyEeD0xTIcZVlvCZvDN95CZ6uVdmU/view [1/3] If the HI threshold

Alistair Haimes

AlistairHaimes

This is Toby Young (@toadmeister)'s response to my piece in the @spectator, which he very fairly follows by a frontline account from an in-house senior doctor in London.https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lockdown-sceptics-should-suppor

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