This study estimates the cost to produce the missing vaccines to protect *the entire world* from COVID. https://t.co/c1oTe5Pvf7 Facilities to produce 16 billion doses of a Moderna type vaccines would only cost around $4 billion, ~$2 a jab. Easily the best deal of the decade.

Nurseries remain open. What are the scientific or other reasons for this particular exemption?

(2/2) Are transmission risks for 0-3 yrs different to 4-11 yrs? Do we care less about EYFS workers with limited union support, on minimum wage or zero hour contracts?

(1/2) Is there any guidance for private nurseries in light of new Covid variant? @globalhlthtwit @martinmckee @IndependentSage @GavinWilliamson #schoolclosures #EYFS #Covid19UK

Colin Mathers, former coordinator of mortality and burden of disease statistics at WHO, raises challenging issues over ownership of global health data. (1)

also, here is the other working paper we uploaded this week, on the factors that seem to determine (or not) how different countries are responding. https://t.co/AKLV1L9ya8

Initial supply of #COVID19 vaccine is going to be limited - the world must agree on a fair and equitable distribution mechanism, to reduce mortality & protect the vulnerable @GaviSeth @CEPIvaccines @WHO @JeremyFarrar @VictorDzau @ChrisJElias https://t.co/8kbYNTsqmr

Attached is the advice from the Texas Medical Association on which activities carry the most risk of transmitting COVID-19 infection. Go to the bottom to see the activity that is counted riskiest of all - which we are all permitted to do from 6am tomorrow morning. Cheers!

#COVID19 is bad for international cooperation. It undermined global health cooperation (see @WHO). But, as viruses are prone to do, it has "spread" to "infect" other areas of international cooperation. Let's take a tally of the damage done. [THREAD]

NEW with @AndyBounds, @sarahnev & @Laura_K_Hughes: The UK government’s published numbers of new cases at local authority level only include pillar 1 and *not* pillar 2 cases, meaning as many as 90% of new cases are missing from the data https://t.co/xGydQLHWjX Thread:

Computational social scientists are exploring massive and unruly data sets, extracting meaning from society’s digital imprint. Over the past decade, these researchers have picked apart topics that social scientists have chased for more than a century.

I don’t understand the passivity of my fellow countrymen and countrywomen. Why are you not more angry? Why are you allowing this government to orchestrate the deaths of your citizens, your families, your neighbours? This is a mass delusion. Resist. Resist. Rebel.

Face mask policies in Germany had staggered state-level introductions. Two new studies have used this timing variation to try and estimate effects: - Relationship between masks and behaviour: https://t.co/96jDWEBECy - Estimated infection reduction:

Sage epidemiologist Professor John Edmunds asked by Marr if he regrets anything in science advice... immediately replies: “yes we should have gone into lockdown earlier...it cost a lot of lives unfortunately”...

Friends of ⁦@WHO⁩ offer constructive agenda for this essential multilateral project during & after #covid19 crisis & send a message to its masters: ‘waive some national prerogatives for the benefit of global public health’ ⁦@MBoccoz⁩

Today @GAVI raised $2 billion from donors for an Advanced Market Commitment to buy a future COVID-19 vaccines for poor countries. This is hugely important. A big win. Currently I see almost no coverage. If you are a journalist, this would be a very good thing to report on.

Sir David Norgrove has today replied to @MattHancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care regarding the Government’s COVID-19 testing data https://t.co/jOvTnLMSXK

Timely, tough new piece from @ChelseaClinton @devisridhar @LawrenceGostin @EricFriedman18 on President Trump's withdrawal from @WHO via @ThinkGlobalHlth https://t.co/h7pxUP05pF

Why did so many people die of Covid-19 in the UK's care homes? https://t.co/o5WR8ohR73