#Measures

Facts:NHS was never near breaking point across the country.Only 16% of NHS beds were being used by Covid Cases at Peak.By June 35.6% of all overnight beds sat EMPTY.50% of
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Developing the hospital visitation policy is one of the many incredibly difficult tasks we face in this pandemic. In some places (NYC), the policy is simple: no visitors, no exceptions.
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Through the years, the labour movement has fought for legislation which regulates & restricts the risks to which workers are exposed.These aren't matters of morality or good practice, they are
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1/8Thread NEW BLOG: As parliament begins semi-virtual working, Greg Power, founder of @gpgovernance, suggests this will present significant challenges to the crucial informal politics of Westminster parliamentary lifehttps://bit.ly/3bzE2h6  2/8S
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/boris-johnsons-government-reportedly-believes-115000701.html If any country were sure this was true what would they do then? Retaliate with nukes or bioweapons? More likely, a reasonable suspicion would lead to long term de
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"By no means a return to the full lockdown of March," says PM. - Schools and unis to stay open- Businesses can "stay open in a Covid-compliant way"- But office
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A common criticism of population-based epidemic models is that they don't account for individual-level variation in transmission (i.e. superspreading events). But how much of a problem is this? 1/ For
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1/ So let's talk for a minute about the fact that the fire in Chernobyl is headed for the power plant and what the situation is there. 2/ I want
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The manner in which we Kenya as a country are behaving as a country of late is concerning me. A lot of the measures, put in place so as to
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1. Let’s welcome the scale of today’s @commonshealth report on #socialcare. £7bn, a cap, free personal care, and workforce reform is a strong package. You might want to review the
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Just thinking about how Indigenous Nations in North American had complex political confederacies and highly skilled agricultural traditions and economies before contact but American schools teach these concepts as brought
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Twitter timelines full of #Lockdown2. A thread of my thoughts. Schools - especially Primary - I’m sure will stay open. I don’t disagree with this as we know that remote
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There were no delivery times available for Instacart or Peapod for the stores in my town for the next two weeks. We last ordered groceries two weeks ago and are
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The @WHO is NOT backing masks for general use, in contrast to @CDCgov 4 #COVID19:"Medical masks shld be reserved for healthcare workers.The use of medical masks in the community may
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THREAD. The success of Congress’s efforts to support the economy in this once-in-a-century crisis seems to have undermined the perceived need for those efforts to continue.My latest Bloomberg column: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti
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After months of discussion with community groups both in support and in opposition to this project, a completely new plan for the site at Waimānalo Bay Beach Park emerged that
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