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🐳 Science Editor at The Daily Telegraph/Sunday Telegraph/ sarah.knapton @telegraph .co.uk
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Well, after being in two press briefings about why 16 and 17-year-olds will now be vaccinated, I'm none the wiser about why JCVI has changed their advice. Not convinced they know either.
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The government is refusing to tell me what models each of these lines represent. They have shown a graph at a national press conference that they are refusing to release the key for. It's extraordinary.
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Not gonna lie, I've seen better examples of exponential growth
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Interesting quote from Oxford's Prof James Naismith on masks - "The ONS survey results on prevalence shows that the Scottish and English approach to masking although formally different since July has made no meaningful difference to Delta."
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Hugely dispiriting to find women at The Telegraph are being paid 35 per cent less than men. And astonishing to hear it will take seven years to put right. Have sudden desire to throw myself under a horse.
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I’ve been pretty disappointed in this pandemic to see how politically biased much of the scientific commentary has been, rather than being based on the actual evidence.
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This graph looks scary, but bear in mind that at the peak in April around 33 per cent of tests were coming back positive, now it's about 1.7 per cent.
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Kemi Badenoch is anti-woke, loves Britain - and is not afraid to take on the ‘hateful’ Left
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@PhilipPullman
This is such a silly and ill-informed comment. The whole country, press included excitedly embraced Meghan. Look at the wedding coverage. It's her and Harry's behaviour since that has caused the situation we find ourselves in.
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Covid modelling that prompted first UK lockdown based on ‘inaccurate’ case numbers
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Remember when Whitty said yesterday that Liverpool rates in over-60s were still rising - he's been forced to admit he was wrong
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Exclusive: Britain will pass Covid herd immunity threshold on Monday, UCL predicts
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Put simply, if you test more people, you'll find more cases.
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Sobering reading. Sage estimates of non-Covid lockdown deaths. Around 81,500.
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It’s pretty dispiriting that a lot of ‘experts’ don’t seem to know the numbers of respiratory deaths we would usually be experiencing at this time of year.
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High Covid death rates skewed by people who died from other causes, admits Sajid Javid
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Eye of Sauron appears in London as full moon rises over The Shard....
http://t.co/oQ46IkxM4N
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Oxford vaccine is just as effective at fighting the UK variant as the original virus, new study shows. This is very good news.
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This is the saddest story I’ve written for a while. Care homes asked to place blanket ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ orders on residents at height of pandemic
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Revealed: How scientists who dismissed Wuhan lab theory are linked to Chinese researchers
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This is totally insane! The government has NOT told people they can't walk outdoors. Derbyshire police are now using drones to target people in the middle of nowhere and near nobody.
Despite posts yesterday highlighting issues of people still visiting the
#PeakDistrict
despite government guidance, the message is still not getting through.
@DerPolDroneUnit
have been out at beauty spots across the county, and this footage was captured at
#CurbarEdge
last night.
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@DavidLammy
This is the kind of sneering, London-centric drivel that led millions of people to vote leave. Nice one David.
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I know lateral flow is important etc but all these millions of bits of plastic ending up in landfill every day makes me feel a bit ill.
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This beetle has just been named after Greta Thunberg by
@NHM_London
Nelloptodes gretae, is less than 1mm long and has no eyes or wings, and belongs to the Ptiliidae family
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BREAKING: World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended Oxford vaccine for over-65s.
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Some good news on the immunity front
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@ProfKarolSikora
Also test, track and trace makes it more likely we're picking up asymptomatic cases that would never have troubled the testing services previously
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Are the cracks beginning to show between Vallance and Whitty? Whitty says he never shows projections beyond six weeks to ministers because they are unreliable - Vallance said he showed the long-term graph to the PM. Vallance looks furious.
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Glad that this 'Covid hangs about in the air for ages' nonsense is starting to be debunked - close contact has always been the major transmission route
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Double-jabbed people carry same levels of Covid as unvaccinated
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The last time a cabinet was this treacherous, Lucy ended up in Narnia.
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Chris Whitty has just told the Science and Technology Committee that rates in older groups are still going up.
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No reported deaths from Covid in England, Scotland or Northern Ireland today. Just one in Wales.
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@BareReality
We should all get back in our box and stop asking awkward questions. It's not like our freedom hangs on it or anything.
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This is a pretty big deal - first drug for Covid in the community given green light for people at high risk. Finally we have something more than paracetamol.
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One third of people included in the Covid hospital figures were not admitted primarily for Covid. Up from 29 per cent last week. Probably higher now. This is from December 28. (Got to 60+ per cent in South Africa)
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Jeremy Farrar to become Chief Scientist of WHO. Which doesn't bode well for continued probing into whether Covid-19 leaked from a Wuhan lab, or efforts to stop dangerous gain of function work.
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@ProfKarolSikora
Government also looking at doing this, we were told in a briefing last week
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So after a year of trolling the Royal family they've now stolen the Queen's private childhood nickname 🙄
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After the demise of Cineworld, Picturehouse has just announced it is closing all cinemas from Friday with no reopening date
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Now, I'm not saying Whitehall think's it's a good day to bury bad news, but the Government office for Science has just dropped 62 - yes 62 - papers related to Sage. Can't even fit them all on a screengrab.
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Deaths now falling faster than official models, as experts call for quicker lockdown easing
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@FranMarshallDT
@Shaughna_P
So many people who never pick up a newspaper use phrases like 'barely mentioned in the press' - what they mean is, 'I didn't see it on YouTube'
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I do worry where this ongoing fear of all germs is going to leave our immune systems in the long term.
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Not for the first time, PHE are being hugely disingenuous about death figures claiming it's the worst day ever. By actual date of death we're still a fair bit below the first peak.
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Common cold might have given Britons protection from Covid before pandemic began
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The NHS has consistently resisted publishing this data even though it is crucial to understanding the pandemic.
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For anyone still insisting that Covid-19 is nothing like flu/pneumonia. New ONS data shows the last winter wave was pretty much identical to a typical flu/pneumonia year.
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Four in 10 over-80s are breaking lockdown rules after Covid vaccine, ONS find
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Metro publishes first editorial in 17 years to highlight madness of new law which would see press pick up libel court costs even when we win
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A well-placed sauce warned it would take traffic a while to ketchup
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The collateral damage from the pandemic response continues to grow
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"Is there ever an urgent need to go to the pub?" asks Robert Peston, who has clearly never done a 14 hour shift at at national daily newspaper
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Wei Shen Lim doing a terrible job of explaining why they've changed the advice for 16 to 17 year olds. Something involving hands and dots and fuzziness...🧐
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This is a good point. More transmissibility but less severity means we may see a rise in people dying 'with' Covid but not 'from' it - which would skew daily reported deaths. We won't know this until ONS publishes the breakdown.
Even if Omicron turns out to be benign, would hospital admissions and deaths within 28 days still increase?
The limiting case; everyone admitted has Omicron detected incidentally. Every death is within 28 days of a positive test but not caused by Omicron
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Scientists gaslighted journalists at the start of the pandemic over the origins question. We felt like we were going slightly mad. So it's a relief- and maddening - to see proof we were being systematically lied to by people we trusted.
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Covid modelling has been crude and unreliable, NHS leaders warn
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Just wow. 😳 Doctors hit back at NHS bosses over orders to see patients face-to-face
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The problem with this booster debacle is nobody is taking responsibility. The NHS is blaming GPs, GPs are blaming the NHS, CCGs are blaming everyone and the new vaccine minister is missing in action.
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First coronavirus death in England NHS Berkshire confirms - Older patient who had been in and out of hospital for non-coronavirus reasons has died after testing positive for disease.
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The possibility Covid-19 is man-made is not a ‘divisive’ issue - the world needs to know
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Covid lab leak 'downplayed' by Prof Andrew Rambaut 'to avoid upsetting China'
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If Spiked wanted to do a take-down of months of investigative journalism by The Telegraph, Guardian, Times, New Yorker etc they should have given it to someone who had a vague idea of what they were talking about. 🙄
No, the Lucy Letby trial was not about ‘statistics’. The evidence that she murdered babies in her care is overwhelming. The armchair detectives questioning the jury’s verdict have simply chosen to ignore it, says Christopher Snowdon
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He’s got a point. When I asked the Department of Health for clarity and sent them a ton of scenarios - like getting your hair cut, or going to the dentist - they dodged it and said people should use their own ‘personal judgement’ 🤷🏻♀️
I still have no idea if I can go to the pub tonight, or whether
@StanleyPJohnson
can. The Government has to stop this ambiguity over social distancing & be more decisive. Otherwise young people in particular will just carry on as normal.
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Interesting that overall death rates are tracking pretty much as normal - we've essentially hit winter flu season with Covid-19 killing people rather than flu
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Missing the point. Mass testing would allow better isolation of sick, lowering infection rates, and saving lives. It would release mass numbers of NHS workers, saving lives. It would get the economy moving again, saving lives.
1. Journalists and media need to be more balanced. Testing, is not a cure, it won’t cut the number of deaths, it won’t make people feel better or stop them catching
#coronavirus
it will only tell you if you have or have had it There is no cure. Tests will allow
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The raccoon dogs saga is the latest example of scientists who should know better pushing an agenda and journalists not probing the obvious holes. Blow on it - like Jesse Bloom has done - and it all falls down.
In new study, I have analyzed correlation between SARS-CoV-2 & animal genetic material in full set of environmental samples from Huanan Seafood Market.
Analysis clarifies what sequencing these samples can & cannot tell us about early outbreak at market.
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What Ed never mentions is how much coal we have to ship in every year. Ending coal production just means we have to import more. Beyond dumb.
Last Monday, 142 years of coal came to an end in this country.
Last Friday, the Government launched a whole new clean energy industry for our country, with thousands of good jobs.
Read my piece on a historic week for Britain's energy system.👇
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Fatality rate for hospitalised Covid patients has halved in second wave in UK, Peter Horby tells MPs - Was 30 per cent, now 15 per cent. That's a massive drop.
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@KateWilton1
@Peston
Would you rather he kept it to himself? Journalists aren't the government's PR machines. They are trying to get to the bottom of things. You should be thanking him for his excellent scrutiny at a time like this. We need it more than ever at the moment.
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If you can’t get your copy of a newspaper today it’s because Extinction Rebellion blocked the printing presses last night. It seems a free press isn’t important to XR or
@metpoliceuk
- worrying times.
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Totally willing to test this
Chocolate contains theobromine, a powerful and potentially toxic stimulant, but it would take 40 kg of Dairy Milk to kill an average sized human.
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Never mind the royal wedding. A baby elephant that Chester zookeepers thought had been reabsorbed by is mother three months ago, has just popped out
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Scientists linked to Wuhan lab accused of performing dangerous experiments that could cause leak
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"If you are driven by the data and not by dates, right now you should be looking at earlier unlocking because the data are so good," Prof Mark Woolhouse tells Science & Tech Select Committee
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"The economy isn't real, that's why it's got the word 'con' in it" says Russell Brand, who must also be suspicious of 'bacon' and 'confetti'
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The Lynch that stole Christmas
New RMT strike action on the railways is on:
December 13, 14, 16 and 17
January 3,4,6 and 7
So basically two whole weeks of disruption in a four week period.
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Praying Armando Iannucci is out there somewhere turning the Twitter implosion into a sitcom - Working title: CA 94103
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Whenever I write about cutting-edge science a certain type of elderly medic gets in touch to say I'm an idiot because he has never come across it before. Yes sir, that is why it is 'news'
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No one believed the Covid Wuhan lab leak theory – then the world changed its tune
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Medicines regulator failed to flag Covid vaccine side effects and must be investigated, say MPs
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In the latest example of people sending bollocks into space, a cancer charity has actually sent some prosthetic bollocks into space. This is not a drill.
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More good news - Pfizer and Oxford vaccines are ‘working better than we could have hoped’
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The Downing Street party row has finally woken us up to the madness of lockdown
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Fact of the day: the duck-billed platypus lays eggs and produces milk, making it one of only two animals that can produce its own custard
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So remember that six week projection where the top quartile passed the April peak? The government has quietly revised it down
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@ProfKarolSikora
The problem is, panic/overreacting in this instance isn’t neutral. It’s deadly.
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Vaccines are working as over-80s deaths drop twice as quickly as under-65s
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Overheard in the newsroom; "I haven't got my glasses on. Does that headline say Miley Cyrus or Syria Crisis?"
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Essentially, JCVI has said it has changed its position because it now has greater certainty about the position it had last time...try and get your head round that one.
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Who knew tinkering with the evolution of the immune system by keeping humans apart would cause such long-term damage? Well most proper experts actually.
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UK peak in coronavirus deaths expected within a week, according to latest Telegraph modelling
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