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As in bio, have now mostly given up fighting through this spammy, bot-filled mess.
May return if improved (e.g., foreclosure, change of ownership) but doubt it.
Paul Mainwood
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Paul Mainwood
@PaulMainwood
Used to study physics. Now my job title has "strategy" in it.
(Taking a break from this site until change of ownership, foreclosure or similar.)
Joined April 2019
- That … does not seem to be the most striking feature of the data.Boys are now more enthusiastic than girls about school for the first time in 30 years, according to a new study in Scotland tes.com/magazine/news/…
- ICNARC have updated their analysis of COVID patients in critical care in England, Wales and NI. They now show boosted patients as well. They are shown in green. Yes, I've put them on the chart. You have to squint.
- Beautiful example to reveal the nature of an LLM (a sophisticated statistical model trained on a large corpus of text).
- Trying to keep objective. But looking at the numbers around boosters, my main concern is that the results are being absurdly undersold. Most people are sick of COVID, sick of being told what to do, and are thinking of boosters are a nice-to-have. They are transformative. (1/4)
- Still blathering on about this because I can't see it being reported. Numbers say NHS emergency response is on its knees. If you have a stroke/heart attack and call 999, there's a good chance you'll be waiting an hour for an ambulance. In the South West, two. If unlucky, four.
- 0.52: "We have broken the chain of transmission with the vaccination programme." There are many views you could have about managing COVID in the UK. But if Maggie Throup (the vaccination minister) believes this, the government has absolutely zero grasp of the situation.With rising Covid cases, York MP Rachael Maskell has called for free lateral flow testing to continue for another three months in England - as is being done in Wales. Health Minister Maggie Throup rejected the idea, saying: "We have moved on and broken the chain of tranmission."
00:00 - "40% of UK hospitalisations are vaccinated" is good, in an image. The age distribution of who we've given vaccines to suggests that if they didn't work, ~90% hospitalisations would be vaccinated. Actual figures imply that vaccines stopped ~92% of recipients ending up in hospital.
- Sunak and government still haven't got it. They're talking about the NHS emergency care crisis as if it's just a different kind of waiting list. It's not that. It's more like a social contract - that if you're in real trouble, someone will come. Right now, that's not true.
- Don't really know what to say. Category 2 ambulance calls include those for suspected heart attacks and strokes. The mean response time in December was 1 hour 32 minutes across England; 2 hours 39 in the South West. The target is 18 minutes.
- French bookings for vaccinations over time. Spot the day Emmanuel Macron told the nation that if they weren't double-vaxxed, they couldn't go into a cafe.Replying to @nicolasberrodSeuls 3,5% des rendez-vous ont été pris par des 60 ans ou plus, les deux tiers l'ont été par des moins de 35 ans. Très forte poussée des 12-17 ans. #Passsanitaire
- Hello. Back. Short break was needed. Thank you to everyone who said nice things. Very, very much appreciated. Looks scary doesn't it?
