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Prof. Christina Pagel

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Prof Operational Research @UCL_CORU , health care, women in STEM. Member of @independentsage . chrischirp at bluesky.

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Prof. Christina Pagel

1 year

Tonight is the 15th anniversary of my brother's death. My mum reminded me of the statement I did for the trial & I found it. In it, I list the things I want to be able to do but can't. It brought back the memories- those moments that are our relationships. Here are some. 1/4

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3 years

THREAD: meet my brother Unsurprisingly, being locked down over Xmas and New Year turns thoughts to family – and to my brother who died almost 14 years ago in a motorbike accident when he was 39.

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Prof. Christina Pagel

2 years

THREAD: I keep being asked when we can go "back to normal" or "like it was before". My personal thoughts: We've added a new disease to our population, more infectious and more severe than flu. The world pre 2020 no longer exists - we may want it to, but it just doesn't. 1/13

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1 year

My husband was given a bird feeder with camera for his birthday recently and it's proving very delightful...

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2 years

Also "learning to live with covid" would actually involve some learning. For instance creating safer environments through mass investment in clean air. Pretending covid is not a problem is not the same thing.

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2 years

SHORT THREAD: Was just on @BBCNews responding to the comments made by Sunak & backed by Truss saying scientists had too much power, lockdowns were a mistake etc 1. They are rewriting what happened - the situation pre vaccine was very very scary with 150K dying pre wide vax. 1/7

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3 years

since this interview seems to have upset certain people I am retweeting. Judge for yourself if you think I am being unfair! #HardlineCentrist

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Prof. Christina Pagel

3 years

Giving some examples on @BBCOne @BBCNews just now about why we we could have - and should have - avoided more than100,000 people dying from Covid.

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2 years

That 🔥🔥from Germany...

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3 years

THREAD - Covid-19 in England. Things are going from very bad to much worse. Here is where we are in 9 tweets. 1/9

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2 years

Fundamentally, world is different now. Acting as if it isn't, which UK seems determined to do, may feel good in short term but will result in a new normal worse than the old one. I prefer for us to build a new normal that's *better* than frequent sickness & disruption. 13/13

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2 years

We *can't* go back - but we *can* go forward *if* we accept we need some adaptations - driven by what we have *learned*. Learning: 1. Outdoors is pretty safe - so let's invest research and funding into making indoor air as much like the outdoors as possible 4/13

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2 years

It's *not* easy, but it *is* possible - we did it with clean water, electricity infrastructure, CFCs, telephone and broadband... The best thing about cleaner indoor air is it works against *any* airborne disease and also reduces e.g. allergies. 5/13

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2 years

Admitting the parts of the NHS will be overwhelmed, that NHS on war footing, heart attack patients being advised to get a lift & not rely on ambulance... This is not living with it. expecting 1000s of teachers and 10,000s of students to get sick is not living with it.

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3 years

LONG COVID THREAD: The people running the BBC Horizon "Great British Intelligence Test" challenge on over 80,000 people took the opportunity to see if they could detect any differences by whether people had had covid or not...

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2 years

A virus isn't endemic just cos a govt minister says it is and just cos people want it to be. The current pattern of waning vax, new immune evasive variants, and minimal public health response seem set to doom us to massive surges once or twice a year. 1\5

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Prof. Christina Pagel

3 years

So all the bad covid things me & others were shouting about in the 2 weeks before Xmas are happening & continuing to worsen. And the govt... Is doing nothing. Just the same incremental strategy that has never worked & won't work now. Given situation, opening schools is madness.

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3 years

It feels really surreal (and not in a good way) to be living in a country that is actively trying to infect young adults and children with Covid. I just can't imagine ever being ok with it.

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2 years

A friend was at a small party last weekend (11 people). Everyone had neg LFDs first, all vaxxed inc 3 boosted. All windows open. 1 person tested +ve 2 days later. Now another 7/11 have tested +ve (inc my boosted friend) & 2 out of remaining 3 have symptoms & waiting for PCR. 1/2

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3 years

Personal reflection on "freedom day". Until cases get much much lower, no indoor restaurants, pubs, museums, theatre, cinema etc for me. I don't want to get covid and I definitely don't want to pass it on to anyone else. Feels quite shit to be honest.

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2 years

THREAD on England & Omicron and what is going on. My take on it. TLDR: things are pretty bad and I'm sad & bewildered at lack of govt action and general levels of hopium. 1/18

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Prof. Christina Pagel

3 years

Oi Priti et al - STOP BLAMING THE PUBLIC! illegal parties are rare! large majority people complying. YOU have allowed people to do far more than in Spring. Blame the rules not the public. Oh and pay people properly to isolate so that they can afford to get tested & stay home.

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3 years

1. Was on @BBCNews earlier & was quite shocked to be interrupted by presenter trying to dismiss long covid as if we didn't yet know that is it common with large health burden. #LongCovid @Dr2NisreenAlwan @LongCovidKids Here is 1st July ONS report.

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2 years

THREAD on the new variant B.1.1.529 summarising what is known from the excellent South African Ministry of Health meeting earlier today TLDR: So much uncertain but what *is* known is extremely worrying & (in my opinion) we should revise red list immediately. This is why: 1/16

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2 years

2. Vaccinate the world as soon as possible - and keep working towards vaccines that are longer lasting and more variant proof. 3. Invest in global infrastructure to support surveillance of new variants of Covid *and* other new infectious diseases. There will be more. 6/13

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2 years

I think it's quite telling that we've not heard anything from Chris Whitty or Patrick Vallance for weeks and weeks.

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Prof. Christina Pagel

2 years

Dropping isolation makes work & socialising riskier & boosters are waning, covid keeps evolving & it's harder to know about local case levels. Basically govt plans that we will all get covid several times - like a cold but with a much more dangerous disease. Not science based

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Prof. Christina Pagel

3 years

So Hancock confirms that B.1.617.2 ("India" variant) is now dominant in England. Harries says we must remain "vigilant". What does vigilant even mean? That we watch very carefully as a new, more dangerous, variant takes over cos it was so fun last time? Yeah, I'm pissed off

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3 years

I am getting sick of the constant attempts to explain away any bad news. I get the desire to be optimistic (honestly) but minimising delays action and ultimately makes things worse. Exponential growth is a red flag. Delta has been growing exponentially since early April. 1/3

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2 years

A plan should *not* mean long national lockdowns, which represent a failure of public health systems. In fact, refusing to do the *learning* in "learning to live with Covid" is the biggest risk for such future lockdowns. 11/13

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Prof. Christina Pagel

2 years

6. We need to urgently increase funding and staffing for NHS if it is expected to cope with regular Covid surges *and* existing backlogs *and* years of understaffing and not enough money. This includes *supporting* existing staff to stay..! 8/13

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Prof. Christina Pagel

2 years

We *could* act as we used to & accept millions of people getting sick once or twice a year. Yearly education, business disruption. And gradually, a slightly sicker pop'n. That seems to be the current plan in UK and e.g. US. But that's NOT the *old normal* - it's worse 3/13

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2 years

Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance have been notably silent of late. I've signed this open letter asking them what the science advice to govt was & to publish any evidence supporting that this is a good time to end self isolation & scale back testing...

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2 years

Dropping isolation makes work & socialising riskier & boosters are waning, covid keeps evolving & it's harder to know about local case levels. Basically govt plans that we will all get covid several times - like a cold but with a much more dangerous disease. Not science based

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2 years

This is bollocks

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2 years

Sajid Javid says that Britain is now ‘properly post pandemic’ ‘Of course Covid is still out there. Covid is endemic like flu is and other viruses ‘Thankfully, it’s no longer a pandemic and we’ve got the tools to fight it ‘We should be proud as a country of how we tackled it’

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3 years

Giving some examples on @BBCOne @BBCNews just now about why we we could have - and should have - avoided more than100,000 people dying from Covid.

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Prof. Christina Pagel

2 years

8. We also need to invest massively in reducing inequalities: in health, in housing, in workplaces, in sick pay, in education - this will make us more resilient to future outbreaks and reduce ill health and death - from Covid & everything else! Both nationally & globally 12/13

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2 years

4. Add permanent surveillance of Covid infection rates in UK to existing programmes for flu, measles etc in public health 5. Invest in understanding & treating longer term clinical impacts of Covid, inc organ damage & Long Covid + treatments (eg antivirals) for acute phase. 7/13

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2 years

I know I must be speaking for pretty much everyone, especially in Covid twitter, but I am Quite Tired.

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Prof. Christina Pagel

3 years

We just published a letter in the Lancet signed by over 100 scientists explaining why a policy that allows mass infection should not be an option. Please read & share Led by @dgurdasani1 Press conference on it tomorrow @10am

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Mass infection is not an option: Press conference

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Prof. Christina Pagel

3 years

By date of test 41,000 people tested positive on Monday already in England, compared to 35,000 week before. Admissions and deaths rising too. Is govt going to acknowledge this? Or, even better, do something about it?

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Prof. Christina Pagel

2 years

Just under three weeks ago, the WHO gave B.1.1.529 the name Omicron and declared a variant of concern. At the time, it was perhaps 0.1% of cases in the UK. Tomorrow it will likely be the dominant variant here. Just can't quite get my head around that.

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2 years

Was on @TimesRadio earlier today discussing covid... And yes, I am still wearing a mask on public transport! And in shops.

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2 years

Vaccines are amazing but do wane - esp vs sympomatic infection. Immunity from infection wanes too. Surely Omicron has proven that high levels of antibodies in your population are no guarantee against v high levels of illness & disruption. 2/13

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3 years

THREAD: Boris Johnson is basically talking bollocks about the 3rd wave in Europe inevitably coming here and he must know it. It's cynical opportunism to blame any resurgence in England on the European wave. It is frankly absurd. Here's why: 1/6

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PM: Covid third wave will 'wash up on our shores' - BBC News

Boris Johnson says the UK will "feel effects" of growing case numbers in Europe amid a row over vaccines.

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3 years

1.THREAD on Covid, children, failure, bafflement and anger. TLDR: English policy has failed children, and then everyone else, I am baffled why people aren't angrier. I am angry. 23 tweet rant.

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7 months

For fuck's sake, stop stoking a stupid culture war and come up with at least one policy that makes lives better instead - preferably one looking more than 15 mthss ahead. Science is NOT in danger from "woke ideology", which is a bullshit invented culture war concept anyway.

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NEW: Conservatives are safeguarding scientific research from the denial of biology and the steady creep of political correctness. @michelledonelan announces plans to depoliticise science at #CPC23

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3 years

This makes no sense at all. None. Not a thread of logic.

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3 years

Jacob Rees-Mogg says Conservative MPs don’t need to wear facemasks in the Commons chamber because they regularly attend parliament and meet other MPs and says if opposition MPs also "worked a bit harder… they might not need to wear face coverings either."

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3 years

THREAD: Where are we in UK with cases, where are we going and should we care? TLDR: nowhere good, somewhere worse, absolutely yes. 1/24 (yes, I know, another long one. Still worth a read I hope!)

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Prof. Christina Pagel

3 years

I've been doing quite a bit of media today. Yesterday's PHE report on the new dominant variant B.1.617.2 was not good news. Cases, hospitalisations & deaths have all risen quite a bit this week. Not great. On @SkyNews just now, I may have lost my patience half way through.

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Prof. Christina Pagel

2 years

There is no public health justification for removing work from home where possible or mask requirements when we're at v high cases & high hospitalisations. Plus we *have to* make schools safer, not less safe, inc clean air + offer vax to 5-11s, in whom cases are shooting up.

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2 years

The first 18 mths of Covid were very dark, very scary & 150,000 people died of Covid. The NHS was battered to within an inch of its life and its current crisis would be nowhere near as bad if we'd responded better. Govt ministes are trying to rewrite history. Don't let them. 7/7

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3 years

There are now more people in hospital in England with Covid-19 than at any point in the pandemic. Where is the government?

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2 years

7. There *will* still be future surges. We need to have a plan to deal with these surges - as we do for other diseases. A plan which is supported by the rapid outbreak identification & rapid understanding of virulence & transmission we've learned to do so well in the UK! 9/13

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2 years

THREAD on all the reasons why I think Omicron does *not* signal the end of the pandemic TLDR: vaccines & mitigations can hasten its end but we're not done yet & Omicron is just another milepost on the road. So here goes: Omicron is the 4th major variant to dominate here 1/10

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Prof. Christina Pagel

3 years

This really is gaslighting. *Of course* they can control the spread of the virus. They choose not to. Even basic mitigations like masks in secondary schools, shops, public transport etc would help. Requiring people to isolate if a close contact would too!

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3 years

THREAD: It's tiring to be attacked as if I (and others) am an "extremist" on covid or with suggestions that I'm a mouthpiece for others... when actually I'm very mainstream and it's UK policy that isn't. 1/10

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2 years

i really don't think NHS staff and teachers were boozing it up at the hospital or school. what is wrong with you?

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2 years

"I don't think at any time he thought he was breaking the law... he thought just like many teachers and nurses who after a very long shift would go back to the staff room and have a quiet drink" Tory MP Michael Fabricant urges Boris Johnson to apologise

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3 years

This is what is it like to be abandoned by the state. The cabinet is not worthy of the name, abdicating their responsibility for leadership, honesty and difficult decisions just when it is needed most. I find it hard to forgive.

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3 years

THREAD: Where are we with Covid-19 in England now that the new tiers have started? TLDR: nowhere good and things are quite scary. 1/13

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2 years

The plan might include (temp) reintroduction of large scale testing (inc better tests?), high quality masks in indoor spaces and - *if & only if* there is a serious threat from e.g. a new variant (or disease!) - further measures, such as targeted test, trace & isolate. 10/13

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Prof. Christina Pagel

2 years

Many from govt to scientists to the media to the public have decided that 100,000s cases a day are fine. We are dangerously weakening our NHS & its staff. Too many people will end up with chronic illness & too many will die. All I can do is keep saying it's not fine. 18/18

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Prof. Christina Pagel

2 years

Javid starting with the "inevitable" excuse. It's inevitable because govt did nothing to prevent it, despite several & detailed warnings from SAGE. Again.

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Prof. Christina Pagel

3 years

Any delays to the road map or a bad new surge are entirely on the govt. They should be the target of our anger. Not me, or any of other people who have been warning about this for weeks - which btw includes SAGE several times. 3/3

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3 years

Been chatting to a hospital doc friend tonight. "Just saw a terrified twentysomething with a very high oxygen requirement. ... It’s very scary." "We are writing off a generation. The text books will have a chapter dedicated to complications of Covid for years to come"

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3 years

very flattered and honoured to receive this award for public engagement from @bmj_latest tonight! it even comes with a statuette!

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Congratulations to Professor Christina Pagel for constantly discussing science, breaking it down and making it digestible and keeping the public engaged during the pandemic @chrischirp #TheBMJAwards

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2 years

We did it through mass programmes to bring clean water to people, to improve housing & working conditions, mass vaccination. We invested in enabling better health for everyone. And now we're giving up cos we're bored & it's hard? Bodes ill for climate change & our future. 5\5

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2 years

This was in London so it's likely this was Omicron. It's *so* infectious. My boosted friend has mild symptoms - but still not pleasant. PLEASE PLEASE restrict your social activities! 2/2

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3 years

THREAD on VARIANTS, VACCINES & POTENTIAL FUTURES: I’ve been looking at data on sequenced variants. I’ve also been thinking about our vax programme & India. TLDR: the Indian variant needs to trigger surge testing in England. And India needs to be on red list. 1/23

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3 years

1. LONG THREAD (25+ tweets sorry) of my somewhat depairing musings on Covid. Where we are, how we got here, why I'm sad about it.

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2 years

🧵THREAD: a new wave has started in England (and likely about to or has in rest of UK) TLDR: this will be 3rd wave within 6 months. Long covid an increasing issue - particularly in overexposed professions. We don't need a UK ventilator challenge we need a ventilation one! 1/xx

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3 years

i'm furious. The report is really bad. I think it's too late to contain. And it's released late on a Saturday night hoping that no one is paying attention. We *should* be paying attention FFS. Will do a tweet thread tomorrow. report is here

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3 years

Unbelievable. Public Health England has just dumped the very shocking data on spread of Indian variant 3 days late on a Saturday night in the middle of Eurovision. And they *still* haven’t released schools data I reported on here. Wtf is going on??

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2 years

Some personal thoughts: Husband and I have just recovered (mostly) from Covid... no idea how we got it since we've been super careful and not done much. Shopping or swimming we think. I am left grateful for masks & vaccines - here's why: 1/8

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3 years

There seems to be a narrative that as long as things don't get as bad as January for hospitals we're ok. January was a massive public health failure to contain a new variant which resulted in a devastating wave and traumatised the NHS. That should not be our benchmark for "ok"!

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3 years

We need lockdown, closed (in person) schools & unis for Jan, much better support for isolation and ramp in vaccination. we need it now, today. Watch @GabrielScally lay out what needs doing here 9/9

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2 years

from what my friends with primary school kids are reporting about outbreaks in their schools, being a teacher should come with hazard pay...

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3 years

23. Finally - where is the accountability? where is the anger? Our govt, the JCVI & public health officials downplaying spread in schools, have failed our children and they've failed us. And yes, I'm fucking furious. And no, I'm not sorry for swearing. /END

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2 years

Just to highlight for those watching brave Russians arrested for protest, the Tory police bill gives UK state similar powers: every protestor is liable to be arrested, no matter how peaceful - or even just for facilitating protesting Freedom is fragile.

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3 years

I looked at London Covid admissions today & they made me cry. We've been admitting a medium sized hospital worth of Covid patients EVERY day for 3 weeks. KCL hospital is one of London's largest at 950 beds. On 6th Jan we admitted 977 Covid patients. What have we done?

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2 years

What's the plan for us not getting sick with Covid every few months Sajid? Oh that's right, there isn't one.

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Britons should brace for rising Covid cases, says Sajid Javid

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3 years

1,564 Covid deaths reported in the UK today. Not really any words - it's not surprising or shocking. Anyone looking at case numbers & hospitalisations over last few weeks knew this was coming. But it is horrifying and an unforgiveable failure of government policy in December.

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3 years

The PM & CMO are repeatedly stressing the benefit of opening while schools are off and the big expected impact of school return in September. After spending the last 6 months telling us schools are safe and not big contributors to transmission. FFS.

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2 years

this is very damning... and tbh having a good laugh about their party while London & SE were in lockdown, people were making huge sacrifices, the NHS was straining and alpha was allowed to spread everywhere else is pretty fucking shit.

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ITV News has obtained a leaked video showing Downing Street staff laughing about a party which was allegedly held in Number 10 last Christmas. | ITV National News

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2 years

Anyone else feel like politics-wise we are circling the drain down towards a truly terrible winter climactic ending?

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Chris whitty acknowledges serious issue in schools and high rates in children. He favours 3nd dose for teens. And yet no mention of masks in schools?!

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An NHS doctor sent me this message last night after the press conference - the NHS is in *real* trouble. The problem is that hospital staff can face the sack if they talk to media without going through formal press office. Just cos they can't speak, don't think it's not bad!

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For fuck's sake. Maths and physics are beautiful subjects. The barriers to entry are NOT difficulty, but attitudes like this and what is still a massively male dominated field and all the challenges that come from that when girls and women consider their careers.

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Dr Jess Wade liked it here once

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“Physics isn’t something that girls tend to fancy. They don’t want to do it. They don’t like it… There’s a lot of hard maths in there that they don’t want to do.” 🤦🏻‍♀️ @Miss_Snuffy , UK Government Social Mobility Commission Chair #WomenInSTEM

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So let's see. Omicron is just a cold and the pandemic is almost over, but the only fair comparison to how bad things are is a year ago, with a different variant and when hardly anyone was vaccinated? And even so we are not that far off 1st wave peak & hospitals declaring crises

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Prof. Christina Pagel

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Seems we have to learn to live with poverty, inequality, low wages, pandemics and planet threatening climate change. I guess government isn't about trying to actually improve anything!

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I rarely quote tweet but this is not right. Firstly, it's airborne - that means aerosols are as important as droplets. That means masks and ventilation are crucial steps and both necessary. Second, there is excellent evidence on masks in schools: 1/4

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Nick Triggle

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Pupils to wear masks in class in England's secondary schools to tackle Omicron. Story with analysis on why policy seems to be more based on hope than evidence 👇

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Prof. Christina Pagel

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Sort it out @NHSEngland ! Giving blood and no staff in masks, no requirement for donors (although a couple like me are). But asked to sanitise hands on entry! Fine but covid is AIRBORNE! No open windows either. If nothing else can you afford to lose staff if they get sick?

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Prof. Christina Pagel

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Regardless of Omicron, there's a lot of covid around right now. If you are infected from end of next week onwards you are v likely to be isolating over Christmas. Is the Xmas party season worth the risk?

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Prof. Christina Pagel

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This is the stupidest thing I've seen in a long time. Still at least we know who they're preparing to blame.

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Shaun Lintern

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Government says parents responsible for preventing new Covid wave when schools reopen

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Prof. Christina Pagel

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Two things that are being (wrongly) entirely ignored right now: 1) impact of these record cases on long covid 2) impact on children next term as they face another term of disruption through Omicron.

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Prof. Christina Pagel

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Was on @Channel4News earlier responding to Sajid Javid announcing definite further opening on 19th July and its irreversibility... basically - you just can't make such promises like that in a pandemic like this.

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Prof. Christina Pagel

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I note that none of Johnson, Whitty or Vallance even mentioned Long Covid today or that numbers with it have been increasing a lot since we've been tolerating high infections.

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Prof. Christina Pagel

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New @IndependentSage statement: Omicron is doubling so fast that sheer numbers will v likely outweigh any advantage of reduced severity (if it exists). To prevent NHS being overwhelmed in a few weeks & for a safer Xmas we need to act now. Not next week, not after Xmas, now. 1/2

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Prof. Christina Pagel

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well at least it's not a hospital where many sick and vulnerable people are so low risk... oh wait

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Jim Pickard 🐋

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mask, mask, mask, no mask, mask

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Prof. Christina Pagel

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No no no @thetimes . I just can't even. She's just won a grand slam! At 18! In her second grand slam ever! Focus on her achievement ffs

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James Stafford 🇺🇦

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Wow. @thetimes gets in early with one of the worst angles on a fantastic sporting story I have ever seen. This is their lead sport headline right now. #USOpen

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Prof. Christina Pagel

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Right, I will be not on Twitter much for the next few weeks! Good luck all.

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Prof. Christina Pagel

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personally speaking, I really hope that the overwhelming coverage of the royal succession ends tomorrow.

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Prof. Christina Pagel

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To the "faulty data" "PCR tests bad" "no pandemic" crowd - Stop talking nonsense. Hospitals are full up of people who can't breathe with covid lung x-rays. Have some effing respect for the NHS staff battling to save their lives. One day it might well be you.

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Prof. Christina Pagel

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THREAD: Where are we with Covid-19 in England now that the new tiers have started? TLDR: nowhere good and things are quite scary. 1/13

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THREAD: on the connection between age, infection, hospitalisation, death and vaccination... TLDR: it matters! so read 7 tweets :-) Each bar in the charts shows the proportion of people in each of the coloured age categories. 1/7

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Prof. Christina Pagel

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yeah most people get covid from their household members, friends or colleagues.

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Dan Bloom

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Sajid Javid says it's fine for Tory MPs not to wear masks in the Commons chamber because "they're not strangers"

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