Well this is a good example. Priti could have asked the HO to draft up a sensible berevement scheme to give those who work in healthcare indefinite leave to remain. The HO might have then left out these lower skilled workers. Equally it could have been her own personal oversight. The reality is we don't know who is to blame here and who screwed up. Ofc I'd expect this to be corrected now it has come to light.

If you look at the care homes worst affected, they tend to be cheaper ones that maybe didn't have PPE etc?

As for BAME, I think its a mixture of factors - they tend to work in public facing jobs (healthcare, transport, cleaners etc), and live in urban areas in multi generational households.

Also a genetic factor with more ACE2 receptors in the lungs (I don't understand the science of this, but its what I have heard)

Yikes. So even Henry Bolton ex UKIP leader doesn’t like the NHS migrant surcharge. He just told a shocked @piersmorgan on @GMB. How can the government be even more anti-foreigner than the bloke who ran UKIP? That’s quite an achievement.

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Good illustration why the argument shouldn't really be about whether we should borrow which feels like party politics as usual but when we should borrow.

Thank God for scrutiny eh, not just slavish support of the govt

Priti and the word "sensible" don't mix. She is a (series of words the profanity filter would block)

I'm fine with scrutiny. Not so fine with journalists making a big song and dance about a single comms error in a twitter post and trying to pass it off as govt policy (100k tests scandal).

Such precociousness is touching.

Insults are the sign of a small mind so just ignore him.....I might not agree with many of your opinions but you are entitled to them so don’t stop.

I just don't agree with your '75%' figure you've plucked from up your rectum.

I think people are deeply glad that the NHS is funded out of general taxation - or, in other words, free at the point of need.

I also think people are naturally suspicious of those wanting to fund it differently, because 1) the loudest shouters against the NHS tend to be either those with higher incomes & wealth (who'd stand to gain the most with, say, a 3- or 5-percentage point income tax reduction if the NHS was funded by more direct contributions) or those who are forelock-tuggers towards the wealthy and want a low-tax state; and 2) there's a suspicion that, whilst some European countries have health services funded moderately equitably, we'd likely end up with a system more like the American one, which is hugely regressive in how people pay for it.

Yes, the NHS is far from perfect - it is too decentralised causing replication of jobs and there's far too many non-clinical roles and, as GtW pointed out, suffers from mission creep - but I'm massively protective of the principle of not throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Thanks Nick, that's interesting: presumably it could only have been parts of the RNA of the virus.

As you say, misleading, whether by ignorance or intent.

ROFL. Exquisite coming from someone prone to intemperate language.

Just been reading the summary from the PMQs, still plenty of spin going in wrt tracing. Of course it's already been significantly delayed.

I have my doubts that it'll be 'world beating' given it's email and phone based.

Plenty of self-congratulation to come when it eventually launches.

That, Richard, is completely and utterly irrelevant to the point I was making. 

Look, you're clearly not stupid so why wilfully misinterpret what I said?

Breakdown of the 166 deaths announced today in England by date

• 31 on May 19th


• 63 on May 18th


• 17 on May 17th


• 48 between May 4th and May 16th


• 5 in April 


• 2 in March with one on March 24th

You seem incapable of understanding the meaning of some words. As I said, 'amazing' does not preclude the scope for improvement.

The Wright brothers first flight was amazing but we have, I think you know, moved on a little.

So a new strain or mutation of covid19 is being detected in NE China which is different to the current one.

Unlike the current one it's effect on the heart and the kidneys is less noticeable however it's still attacks the lungs. Outcome for those who have had this one is less severe with a higher chance of survival. 

Chinese are blaming imports on it. The symptoms take longer to appear and it takes longer to get over this however like mentioned above prognosis is better. It also doesn't typically bring with it a fever, but it does bring a sore throat and general feeling of ill. 

Sounds more like a common cold to me. 

Information is on the BBC also a link on the BBC to an article explain more however with this new mobile that I have have I can't figure out how to copy and paste links.

I believe it's world class

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 London sees NO new coronavirus cases for 24hrs in clearest sign yet UK strategy is working

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LONDON and the East of England have both gone 24 hours without a single new coronavirus case being officially recorded. The figures from Public Health England have given the most positive sign yet that the Government's strategy to combat COVID-19 is working. Just 79 people were diagnosed across the whole of England yesterday according to the data.

Swab tests taken on Monday, May 18 in London and the South East of England did not diagnose a single new case of coronavirus. Between them, the two regions have a population of 18million - making up almost a third of the entire population on Britain.

The latest figures come as Downing Street said the number of passengers using London's usually-busy transport network remained "fairly low". This is despite the easing of come lockdown restrictions last week, including workers who are unable to work from home to return to their physical workplace.

 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1284780/london-news-no-new-coronavirus-cases-east-of-england-public-health-england-tests?fbclid=IwAR04uLaz9Ap4p8k7Emux2hbSYIzCxuhslfvU1VVbgN7P9oRYDuPq6FwJqIQ

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I'm betting this is complete twaddle. They are talking about samples taken on Monday, most of which will not have been tested yet. Meanwhile there will have been many positive tests from samples taken prior to Monday. So all this is saying is that the testing results are slow to return.

Source Reuters via ECDC. (% of overall mortality)

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