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Our thoughts and prayers are with all our colleagues and friends in India, Bangladesh and Nepal right now. This catastrophe means vaccine production MUST expand beyond the few companies who

Let us be clear on ten reasons why the Barrington group letter to...er... the Daily Express is profoundly wrong.https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1427568/Lockdown-latest-face-masks-social-distancing-scientists 1. They state confid

On hunger, child development and our economy (1) Here is a summary of influences on children as they develop. From the Lancet Commission 'A Future for our Children?" https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/future-child (2)

Karl Friston's model suggests that LSHTM/Imperial/Academy of Medical Sciences projections of numbers of deaths in a second wave are way too high. But a functioning ‘find, test, trace, isolate, support

In the press conference Prof Van Tam admitted that circuit breakers work less well as cases rise. And that cases are rising in every region. That's why SAGE argued for

We’re in a mess. Cases, hospitalisations and deaths are all rising. It's too late for test and trace to stop it. Things will just get worse. We have FOUR options:

The Barrington Declaration from the quadrangles of Yale, Stanford + Oxford: "People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection

The test and trace data from government is highly misleading. How many people are estimated to have the virus? We dont know. How many were missed by the tests? Don't

An alternative, more effective and sustainable way to link contact tracing to primary care. (1) In England there are 7435 practices with 54,000 GPs. If we have 5000 COVID19 patients

Another remarkable fact about this mismanaged epidemic. Your personal doctor, your GP, is not able to order a test or home test for you. You have to go yourself through

A public health doctor writes to me on care homes. "Last week was the most embarrassing week in my career so far. We submitted more complaints from our team and

Tomorrow we launch our Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies Report. We make 18 recommendations to the government to help the UK suppress the virus, save lives and get the