Rowland Manthorpe
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#AllKidsMatter - Google My Maps
Google My Maps 130d 1 tweets
A map of restaurants helping our kids this half term. Hats off to Marcus Rashford. List taken from Marcus' tweet listing names and locations.
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Rowland Manthorpe A Marcus Rashford map, by 130d
Coronavirus: People told to self-isolate stopped from claiming £500 grant by 'flaw in contract tracing app'
Sky News 130d 4 tweets
A button to allow those to claim the cash was never added to the app, sources have told Sky News.
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Rowland Manthorpe EXCLUSIVE: Low-paid workers in England can be entitled to a payment of £500 if they have to self-isolate But if they're told to isolate by the contact tracing app, they can't claim it It's simply impossible 130d
Cumbria’s ace test-and-tracers put Whitehall officials to shame
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When it comes to tracking Covid-19, the Lake District proves it is best to go local. In May, 10 days before the launch of the national test-and-trace scheme, Cumbria set up England’s first fully...
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Rowland Manthorpe A natural experiment: do areas with publicly-run contact tracing do better than privately-run Test and Trace? One data point of sorts (private and public and actually working in collaboration). I'd like to see more 142d
Coronvirus: 'Dr Johnny Bananas' and 'Dr Person Fakename' among medical signatories on herd immunity open letter
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Other listed supporters include Dr Harold Shipman and Dominic Cummings of "Durham Univercity".
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Rowland Manthorpe NEW: the anti-lockdown Great Barrington Declaration claims to have been signed by 16,661 public health scientists and medical professionals That's true. But only if you count the homepaths, therapists and fake names 144d
Coronavirus: Contact-tracing app has only sent one alert about an outbreak in a venue
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The absence of such alerts has raised questions as the mass closures of pubs and bars is expected in parts of the country.
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Rowland Manthorpe NEW: The contact tracing app has been running for two weeks. The Saturday after it was launched it recorded 1.5m check-ins So how many alerts has it sent about outbreaks in pubs and restaurants? One. Just one 144d
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Rowland Manthorpe Latest stats show the contact tracing app has been downloaded 16.5m times, with more than 640,000 QR posters generated for the check-in system So how many venue alerts have been sent out since last week? You guessed it: none 138d
Dominic Cummings' plan for a $1 billion UK moonshot agency was set back after his top candidate to lead it dropped out
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Dominic Cummings, the UK's top political adviser, is creating a $1 billion innovation agency. The top candidate to lead it dropped out this summer.
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Rowland Manthorpe Interesting discussion of UK ARPA at . No answer, though, to the damning verdict of Michael Nielsen, Dominic Cummings' handpicked candidate to lead it, who withdrew from consideration saying he didn't think it would be truly independent 146d
Coronavirus: Cancer tests for thousands could be delayed because of NHS supply issues
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Problems with an NHS supplier mean GPs and hospitals will have to ration blood tests and screening for cancer and diabetes.
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Rowland Manthorpe This is a huge story. One source tells me that Roche supplies 1 in 5 labs in the UK. The implications of shortages are terrifying 146d
Getting 'R' below one key to lifting North West restrictions, says Johnson | ITV News
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The Prime Minister has told ITV News that getting the R number below one is the measure that will be used when deciding whether to lift local restrictions.
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Rowland Manthorpe This is a car crash 150d
Coronavirus: Some users of NHS tracing app incorrectly given COVID-19 exposure alerts
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Users get notifications that they have been near someone who tested positive, but when they click into the app it disappears.
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Rowland Manthorpe NEW: The contact tracing app is sending notifications telling people they've been near someone with covid-19 They haven't. These are "default messages" from Google & Apple I spoke to scared and confused users - including one who'd wrongly self-isolated 152d
Coronavirus: How testing is going in other European countries
Sky News 153d 1 tweets
The UK's COVID-19 testing capability has come in for major criticism, with some having to wait and travel long distances to find out if they have the virus.
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Rowland Manthorpe Really informative piece on testing in Germany, Spain, France and Italy. One universal lesson: if you give lots of people access to tests, you'll run out of capacity pretty fast. This is Germany but it happened in France as well 153d
National COVID-19 surveillance reports
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National COVID-19 surveillance reports, weekly summary of findings monitored through various COVID-19 surveillance systems.
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Rowland Manthorpe All charts from the weekly PHE surveillance report, an absolute goldmine of useful data 156d
Subscribe to read | Financial Times
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News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
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Rowland Manthorpe Good piece 158d
The NHS Test and Trace app support website - NHS.UK
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Help stop the spread of coronavirus by downloading the free NHS Test and Trace app. Find out more about the app and how it works.
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Rowland Manthorpe The English contact tracing app launches on Thursday. Here's the official explanation of how its algorithm works 162d
Forget mutinous Tories — it’s parents Boris Johnson fears
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Despite enduring one of the worst weeks of his premiership, Boris Johnson is already looking ahead to the next general election.With mutinous backbenchers muttering ominously about his competence, and
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Rowland Manthorpe Suggestive line in the Sunday Times. "Early data" suggests compliance with the rule of six is low. What is that data? Where does it come from? And when will it be released? 163d
The impact of believing you have had COVID-19 on behaviour: Cross-sectional survey
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Objectives: To investigate whether people who think they have had COVID-19 are less likely to engage in social distancing measures compared with those who think they have not had COVID-19. Design: On-line cross-sectional survey. Setting: Data were...
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Rowland Manthorpe Sometimes it feels like nearly everyone I meet is convinced they've had covid This survey from June found 1 in 4 think they've had it, twice the rate of actual prevelance - and that they're less likely to do social distancing as a result 175d
Modeling the combined effect of digital exposure notification and non-pharmaceutical interventions on the COVID-19 epidemic in Washington state
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Contact tracing is increasingly being used to combat COVID-19, and digital implementations are now being deployed, many of them based on Apple and Google's Exposure Notification System. These systems are new and are based on smartphone technology...
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Rowland Manthorpe New paper by Google and Oxford University on digital contact tracing "In a model in which 15% of the population participated, we found that digital exposure notification systems could reduce infections and deaths by approximately 8% and 6%" 180d
High prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in care homes affected by COVID-19; a prospective cohort study in England
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Background: We investigated six London care homes experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak and found very high rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection among residents and staff. Here we report follow-up serological analysis in these care homes five weeks later....
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Rowland Manthorpe Studies are coming out with the most appallingly detailed data on coronavirus outbreaks This one of six London care homes found covid antibodies in 81% of residents and 75% of staff That is, *surviving* residents and staff. It's hard to even comprehend 183d
Chair of embattled exam watchdog owned data firm that was involved in major NHS care scandal
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Roger Taylor's company was criticised for not giving "complete clarity" about an algorithm - Ofqual is accused of the same fault.
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Rowland Manthorpe Exclusive: The chair of Ofqual was involved in the Mid Staffs hospital scandal Roger Taylor's company was criticised by the public inquiry for not giving "complete clarity" about... an algorithm 191d
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Rowland Manthorpe Seven years ago, Roger Taylor's company was criticised by the public inquiry into the Mid Staffs hospital scandal for not providing "complete clarity" about an algorithm Today he's chair of Ofqual ICYMI, my story 189d
Hancock axes ‘failing’ Public Health England
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PHE to be scrapped this week and replaced by German-style pandemic response agency
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Rowland Manthorpe Big story in the Telegraph, which says Public Health England could be scrapped *this week* and replaced by a pandemic response agency incorporating Test and Trace Years of institutional change are taking place in weeks 198d
A-level results 2020: how historic data protection could impact modern appeals
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Rowland Manthorpe The head of data protection at a major UK law firm thinks the marking algorithm could have been unlawful In a similar case in Norway the regulator has ordered grading to be redone If I were at Ofqual I'd be feeling nervous right now 198d