Every single bloody day @guardian says ‘It is the biggest daily rise in deaths across the country since the outbreak began.’ Somebody please explain exponential growth to them! The real news would be the rate declining (which – perhaps – it already is).
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@neil_hallows How about a loo roll for an hour’s home schooling?
RT @globalhlthtwit: Unlike all other countries, the UK strategy aims to build herd immunity by allowing the steady spread of #COVID19. The…
Growth rate of tested +ve cases in UK averages about 1.3 daily. If 10K people ‘actually’ have it (Whitty yesterday), and government ‘target’ is 60% infection, we’ll hit that in about five weeks. So the game of Russian roulette isn’t that long – hope hospitals are ready!
On Sun 1st March I predicted we’d pass 1000 ‘confirmed cases’ on Sunday 15th. Now looks like it will actually be tomorrow. The numbers are remorseless, relentless, but also broadly predictable. Although the number of unconfirmed, mild cases is a massive unknown. twitter.com/DHSCgovuk/stat…
The abrasive prophet of our times explains in a nutshell why the UK government’s #coronavirus policy is cretinous. More briefly: it’s Russian roulette (with an unknown number of bullets, one or more). twitter.com/nntaleb/status…
RT @tomaspueyo: “With the number of known #coronavirus cases today in South Korea, Italy, Iran, France, Spain and the US, Wuhan was already…
Petition: Close schools/colleges down for an appropriate amount of time amidst COVID19. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/3004… (nearly 260,000 signatories so far)
And they’re still playing it. twitter.com/richardhorton1…