Helen Ward
Prof Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Director of Education, Imperial School of Public Health. Left wing, LFC, cats. Views my own. RT/like does not mean endorse
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Patient Information: What Is Herd Immunity?
This JAMA Patient Page describes what herd immunity is, how it limits disease spread, and how it is achieved in a population either by vaccination or by infection and recovery from a disease.
Students from northern England facing 'toxic attitude' at Durham University
Exclusive: university vows to look into report detailing numerous claims of bullying
LSHTM to jointly lead new study of COVID-19 infections in schools | LSHTM
Letters will go to a sample of primary and secondary schools shortly asking them to take part in the study, which is being sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care.
The sample will consist of two year groups from 100...
Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on teen mental health | Imperial News | Imperial College London
An Imperial-led project is set to explore the impact the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and wellbeing of adolescents in the UK.
Covid-19’s known unknowns
The more certain someone is about covid-19, the less you should trust them
In 2019, the medical historian Mark Honigsbaum concluded his book The Pandemic Century by saying: “The only thing that is certain is that there will be new plagues and new...
The pitched battle over lockdowns is missing the point: Covid-19 is a class issue | John Harris
The UK coronavirus crisis – even more so in its second phase – is all about basic inequalities – and lockdown makes these worse, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Helen Ward
This: “The basic point was recently nailed by the Financial Times writer Anjana Ahuja: “This crisis has broadly separated us into the exposed poor & the shielded rich.””
Lockdowns increase inequalities. Must have full financial support & income protection
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Jennifer Arcuri 'admits to Boris Johnson affair'
Businesswoman appears to confirm relationship in interview with Daily Mail
Coronavirus: Test and Trace consultants paid equivalent of £1.5m salary
Sky News has further revelations on the day rates being paid to private sector consultants working on the £12bn scheme.
Hammersmith and Fulham council leader says capital at critical moment in fight against coronavirus
The next two weeks are crucial to stop coronavirus and its potential to kill, a senior west London politician has warned. Hammersmith and Fulham council leader Stephen Cowan issued the stark warnin…
A map-based tool to explore trends in oral PrEP use globally as countries introduce and scale up PrEP programs.
The Global PrEP Tracker is a map-based tool to explore trends in oral PrEP use globally as countries introduce and scale up PrEP programs.
Estimating epidemiologic dynamics from single cross-sectional viral load distributions
Virologic testing for SARS-CoV-2 has been central to the COVID-19 pandemic response, but interpreting changes in incidence and fraction of positive tests towards understanding the epidemic trajectory is confounded by changes in testing practices....
Anger as London Palladium 'packed' while sports fans not allowed in stadiums
One critic said seating was 'not socially distanced enough', but others have defended Andrew Lloyd Webber's theatre.
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So scousers can’t go to the gym or meet friends outdoors, while Londoners can go and mingle with rather more than 6 people in the London Palladium.
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Cristiano Ronaldo tests positive for COVID-19
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo has tested positive for the coronavirus, the Portuguese soccer federation said Tuesday. The federation said Ronaldo was doing well and had no...
Genomic evidence for reinfection with SARS-CoV-2: a case study
Genetic discordance of the two SARS-CoV-2 specimens was greater than could be accounted
for by short-term in vivo evolution. These findings suggest that the patient was infected
by SARS-CoV-2 on two separate occasions by a genetically distinct...
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How to avoid losing 16,00 COVID-19 test results: a data scientist’s view
A critical piece of the UK Test and Trace infrastructure failed hard this week. All contacts of almost 16,000 COVID-19 infected people were allowed to circulate unknowingly for an entire seven days…
Government 'bobbing all over the place' in Covid response, says Starmer
Labour leader accused Boris Johnson of making ‘13 or 14’ major U-turns
Helen Ward
Starmer right on this : “Getting a test quickly, getting the result quickly and then reaching the contacts so that self-isolation works – that’s not working properly...So, that bit needs to be fixed.”
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On November 3, Vote to End Attacks on Science
Choosing Donald Trump for president is choosing fiction over fact—a fatal mistake