This day in 1812 Spencer Perceval became the only Prime Minister to be assassinated. It's the LEAST interesting thing about him.
With his frenemy James Stephen he engineered one of the first bans on slavery in British territory. And he did it WITHOUT parliamentary approval /1 🧵
NEW: there’s been a lot of chatter about why cases, hospitalisations and deaths are much higher in the UK than elsewhere in Western Europe.
I think a lot of the commentary has been overly simplistic, politicised and at-times flat-out wrong.
Let’s see if we can do better:
Interested in contact sites and SARS-CoV-2 replication? We are so we wrote a review with some great examples from @Edgar_lab_UK:
https://t.co/RqBEkh8fye
Don’t know what to make of this (very long) piece by a Swiss medical anthropologist but it is certainly thought provoking .... Covid-19: The game is over?! - Anthropo-logiques https://t.co/o6nIgPJgxP