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@Discript @TorstenBell Hi Torsten. Any link to this research please? I'm my head I have a different hypothesis for why this pattern. Thanks 👍

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@pauljholmes Not sure of evidence for "pandemic easing" with hospitalisations trending up https://t.co/91Io5ToMvg but today approx 50% face to face at my GP surgery (local to you). Others didn't need face to face and were happy with phone. Glad health sec will be answering our phones 😊

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.@NIHRtakepart When will the "technical fix" in #JonathanVanTam Deputy @CMO_England open letter of 11th June at https://t.co/Qtivlq2XnT be fixed please? #vaccine #clinicaltrials

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@NHSCCIO @NHSX Is there a policy document to back up this announcement? Is there any data in support of it? https://t.co/vdvMvgcOvy

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Would appreciate a response @stuart_lines @EnfieldCouncil Thanks!

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.@stuart_lines Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 Just wondering: 1) Who does the swabbing at #Enfield #COVID19 mass test centres? 2) Who analyses samples? 3) Which kits are you using? 4) How many people have been tested and how many test positive? Thanks!

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(2/2) Perhaps researchers could monitor antibody titres at varying intervals after 1st dose, as a check?

(Disclosure: I am a participant in #oxfordastrazeneca vaccine trial, with many months between dose 1 and 2. Just unblinded, I now know I received covid vaccine)

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(1/2) Just watching @_OliviaBlake on news. I agree that communication on booster intervals could be clearer. Given her degree in biomedical science, she can check @TheLancet herself: Search for "more than 12 weeks after the first dose" https://t.co/p9yreMwbfU

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Are we doing pooled testing, which is more efficient than testing each sample individually? If not, why not?

https://t.co/ywOjGNI0vW

@BorisJohnson @MattHancock @DHSCgovuk @Meg_HillierMP @Jeremy_Hunt @BBCHughPym @BBCFergusWalsh @GabrielScally @AllysonPollock @chrischirp

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Dear government #TestandTrace @DHSCmedia

I have re-labelled the graph with system capacity

Best wishes

@stianwestlake @carlheneghan

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https://t.co/EGNRY2sFIH

Dear government

If you physically can't swab people or send kits, it doesn't matter how many tests your labs can process. The daily capacity stats should be at the system level. Otherwise they're misleading.

#TestandTrace

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@DHSCgovuk @chrischirp @AllysonPollock @trishgreenhalgh @UKStatsAuth @JoshHalliday @d_spiegel @Jeremy_Hunt @MattHancock @BBCHughPym @BBCFergusWalsh @JonAshworth @Keir_Starmer @NHSEnglandNMD @jburnmurdoch @carlheneghan @GabrielScally @afneil @sarahwollaston @drphilhammond

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@trishgreenhalgh @mjknight0380 @mariabuxton2gm1 @ChristineACourt Thank you all for a really interesting paper. 😊

A little question: I assume you intended to say SpO2<96%, rather than PaO2? 📉 I can't imagine many people are doing blood gases at home or in primary care💉🤷🏻‍♂️

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Update: Friend called helpline. He has really bad muscle pains. Nearest test centre 8 miles away (despite him being in London zone 2) and no home test kits available. Stats on lab capacity are meaningless if people can't access testing @AllysonPollock @chrischirp @GabrielScally

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Hello @didoharding @BWCHBoss @tomriordan. Friend had Covid symptoms at work. 🥵 Went home, self isolated, requested test. Test delivered, sample bottle broken, buffer leaking out. Asks for replacement but told to go to test centre despite feeling rough. Thoughts? #testandtrace

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@NICEComms Where can I find a list of all NICE decisions on drugs approved or not approved in the last few years please?

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@thomasforth @puntofisso @oobr @owenboswarva @jburnmurdoch @MurrayData @DanRavenEllison Thanks. Cool project! 🙂 Is there somewhere with an origin-destination matrix showing the shortest feasible 🚶‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚗 travel distance between (centroids of) two MSOAs?

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Dear #DataScience twitter, where can I find an adjacency or connectivity matrix for small area geographies of the UK (eg MSOA level), using time or distance? Trying to do some 🚑🏥 analysis @oobr @owenboswarva @puntofisso @jburnmurdoch @MurrayData @DanRavenEllison

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@jamesrbuk Indeed, a text was issued by all networks a day after I asked SoS digital about it... but it was essentially a manual process by each operator https://t.co/Wxo4qDdhYp

https://t.co/teeJMtTBjr

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@PHE_uk @CMO_England @BorisJohnson @OliverDowden Can the Public Emergency Alerts system be used to push "go home, stay home" messages to people's phones, particularly where there has been an increase in cell usage? 5/8

https://t.co/IslMOMCm3U

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@jamesrbuk It was trialled... and this is as far as we got...

https://t.co/O7G3KI8sXM