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rowland.manthorpe@sky.uk
Joined May 2008
THREAD For the last six weeks, I've been covering the digital election, in its all horror and, well, more horror I'm not allowed to tweet about politics tomorrow and after that I probably won't want to, so with apologies for the self-referentiality, here are the things I found:
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Rowland Manthorpe retweeted
Preliminary data from South Africa suggests that the novel variant 501.V2 wasn't recognised by antibodies in 21/44 serum samples collected from people infected in the first wave - worth watching today's presentation for more info & caveats invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=Ja_tLG8C…
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It's great the vaccine programme is going well, but remember: those jabs need to get to everyone According to SAGE, 72% of people in Black or Black British groups say they're unlikely/very unlikely to be vaccinated gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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Tired: all your texts are 2FA messages Wired: all your texts are people joining Signal
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Rowland Manthorpe retweeted
Thank goodness for sensible opinions from sensible people. Enough with scaring people unnecessarily and encouraging people to extend the use of face coverings to situations with arguably neglible risk. BBC News - Covid-19: Can you catch the virus outside? bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-55…
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Sunday Telegraph reporting that every adult in "Britain"* could be vaccinated by the end of June. Sounds unlikely, but not completely impossible, although supply would have to come in very quickly for that to happen *NI is part of the UK-wide vaccine plan
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My analysis, using numbers rather than anonymous sources. Remember there's a delay between getting the vaccine and putting it in someone's arm, so to have actually vaccinated every adult by the end of June would be very rapid indeed news.sky.com/story/covid-19-…
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How the new variant spread in England in December, as seen from the Alderley Park Lighthouse Lab Preprint by @mjwigglesworth and team medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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