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Fundraiser for Afghanistan:

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@Nigel_Farage Nice debit card 🙃!

@CouttsandCo 🧐

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@zen_tropy @TOWiU2 @RNAiAnalyst Hope so. He has been optimistic on the timelines before tho.

Also probably a difference between being able to prove what they made in trials is same as ‘good’ batches and being able to consistently produce large amounts of batches at the required quality.

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

The US was being asked to keep 2500 soldiers in Afghanistan. They have 25,000 in South Korea today and they have been there for 70 years. And nobody is pushing to remove them. 👇

[amelia gentleman @ameliagentleman]

UK outsourced the risks involved in protecting its Kabul embassy to locally contracted staff.

Most now of these employees now face losing their jobs and have been told no help available from evacuation schemes, despite Taliban threats

https://t.co/ZC6ygDesY1

[Lisa Nandy MP @lisanandy]

The Government had 18 months to prepare for this moment.

[Douglas Alexander @D_G_Alexander]

In August 2006 as Secretary of State for Transport I was briefed when on holiday of an imminent threat to transatlantic aircraft. I immediately decided to return, was helicoptered back by the RAF, & - with my Permanent Secretary - led the response. This is basic stuff.

[Henry Zeffman @hzeffman]

EXCL: The permanent secretaries of the Foreign Office, Home Office and Ministry of Defence are ALL on holiday during the Afghanistan evacuation

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

Afghanistan has been betrayed into horror + it’s easy to feel helpless. But we can still support people on the ground. We have a small charity supporting a few 1000. Please donate if you can below. And there are, of course, many other great charities too https://t.co/YfgEl84GGd

[Benjamin Barnard @benjaminbarnard]

Read my latest report for @policy_exchange:

“Government Reimagined: A Handbook for Reform”

https://t.co/0n2ZRQ7DzE

A thread....

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@TWenseleers For the none epidemiologists what does a transmission advantage of 60% mean in practice?

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@sailorrooscout @chrischirp do we know the sinopharm/astra mix?

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@PaulMainwood How many of those will need to be held back for second doses? Or are they all for use in the week allocated?

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@ThatRyanChap @stevebrown2856 are people only invited to take a test if they log symptoms?

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@alex_jay_clark @PaulMainwood Seconded!

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@PaulMainwood Ig I don’t know what assumptions to make about time horizons etc

[Ready for Rory @Ready4Rory]

@PaulMainwood thanks. have you done a thread explaining how you use these Scottish numbers to make forwards projections?

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@sailorrooscout Is the differential between Moderna and Novavax fold drop significant? And if so what might be the reason for the difference?

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@ThatRyanChap schools closed for easter? fewer LFDs?

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@MarkUrban01 unfortunately I think it's 'only' 500k doses or so in April.