indie_SAGE. (2022, February 11). Indie_SAGE 11.02.2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GC9QsKfrNc

Boris Johnson: Do not throw caution to the wind on Covid. (2022, February 20). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-60446908

Bill Hanage. (2022, January 7). So a brief thread on the state of the pandemic in the Boston area. It is quite plausible that about 10% of the population is currently infected, more in some age groups than others. A lot of omicron. What next? 1/n https://t.co/aXgc5GYk0V [Tweet]. @BillHanage. https://twitter.com/BillHanage/status/1479574053807697920

Adam Bienkov. (2021, December 15). “Wear face masks indoors,” says Boris Johnson, who has repeatedly refused to wear face masks indoors. Https://t.co/8v8AYTqR7x [Tweet]. @AdamBienkov. https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1471168011096961024

Eric Feigl-Ding. (2022, January 13). WATCH📺—Despite 97.5% of all adults in England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 with antibodies to #COVID19 (via vax/infection)–hospitalizations still surging. Why? Because variants like #Omicron are adapting. Need multivalent vax, plus ➡️N95 & ventilation are agnostic to variants—Key! Https://t.co/gDNRJIWojX [Tweet]. @DrEricDing. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1481732793482813443

Reuters. (2021, September 1). English study finds long COVID affects up to 1 in 7 children months after infection. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/english-study-finds-long-covid-affects-up-1-7-children-months-after-infection-2021-09-01/

https://ukhsa.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=fe4f10cd3cd509fe045ad4f72ae0dfff

Gabriel Hébert-Mild™ ⓥ. (2022, February 12). Well well well. Source: Https://gov.uk/government/publications/sars-cov-2-variants-of-public-health-interest/sars-cov-2-variants-of-public-health-interest-11-february-2022 https://t.co/LhrPXp2ooA [Tweet]. @Gab_H_R. https://twitter.com/Gab_H_R/status/1492517768738058243

Alastair Grant. (2022, February 16). Samples likely to be BA.2 (SGT positive in TaqPath data) now make up 34% of COVID cases in England. The proportion has roughly doubled in a week. That represents a growth in absolute numbers of BA.2, even if overall infections are falling at the same rate as reported cases https://t.co/LNr5baChby [Tweet]. @AlastairGrant4. https://twitter.com/AlastairGrant4/status/1493880986660225024

Professor Susan Michie. (2021, December 27). We (UK) don’t have to be here: It’s a political (and harmful) choice. Https://t.co/gIL3bmA17i [Tweet]. @SusanMichie. https://twitter.com/SusanMichie/status/1475436150420656131

Prof Claire J. Horwell 😷. (2021, December 2). With UK regs changing to mandatory #masks, here’s a short 🧵to answer the question: Can you wear a disposable #facemask more than once? The answer is YES. Many manufacturers state that masks should be disposed of after 8 hours but this is not true. Read on to find out why ... 1/ https://t.co/f9jXCKq3LT [Tweet]. @claire_horwell. https://twitter.com/claire_horwell/status/1466400270137630727

Eric Topol. (2022, January 18). It seems the people who write the vaccines w/ a booster aren’t working against Omicron are completely out of touch with the data I’d consider ~90% effectiveness vs hospitalization pretty, pretty damn good https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1046853/technical-briefing-34-14-january-2022.pdf Especially compared with 44% without a booster https://t.co/y8ixbmG8uH [Tweet]. @EricTopol. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1483543711623512065

APPG on Coronavirus. (2022, January 18). 🗣Dr.Claire Steves continued: “Looking in the national core studies, from cohort studies across the UK we’ve looked at 10 different longitudinal studies. Our best estimates are that about 5% of middle aged people are experiencing long term.. 27/ #APPGCoronavirus #LongCovid [Tweet]. @AppgCoronavirus. https://twitter.com/AppgCoronavirus/status/1483453895061999618

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Ben Bradshaw. (2021, October 19). Very disappointing non-answer from the Health Secretary to my question why the U.K. has the highest #Covid19 infection, hospitalisation & death rates in Western Europe. Https://t.co/jrxb872YpB [Tweet]. @BenPBradshaw. https://twitter.com/BenPBradshaw/status/1450426408614993923

Tom Moultrie on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved February 13, 2022, from https://twitter.com/tomtom_m/status/1472561128240824324

Carl Baker. (2022, February 11). When I last updated this chart in September, the maximum y-axis value was ~120. Https://t.co/Fhywj3xweI [Tweet]. @carlbaker. https://twitter.com/carlbaker/status/1492096944390475798

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NHS bosses facing daily scramble to cover gaps in workforce hit by wave of Omicron cases. (2021, December 29). Inews.Co.Uk. https://inews.co.uk/news/covid-absences-nhs-staff-cover-gaps-hit-wave-omicron-cases-1374255

James 💙 Neill - 😷 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧🔶. (2022, January 14). @Kit_Yates_Maths Update. Note @UKHSA has revised recent RSV downwards. Https://t.co/tkGQRivemE [Tweet]. @jneill. https://twitter.com/jneill/status/1482009727760539649

Deepti Gurdasani. (2022, February 9). I don’t even know what to say. There were 2.8 million people estimated to have prevalent infection in the last ONS survey. 1 in 19 people in the community in England. ~1,800 deaths/wk in the UK. Removing requirements for self-isolation will lead to preventable illness & death.🧵 [Tweet]. @dgurdasani1. https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1491426843135655936

Campbell, D., & Davis, N. (2022, January 14). Covid booster jabs in England to be thrown away as demand falls. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/14/covid-booster-jabs-in-england-to-be-thrown-away-as-demand-falls

PaedsHaemDoc. (2022, January 9). Had the misfortune (via @fatemperor) to come across Dr Paul Alexander -apparently credentialed yet in single blog post demonstrates perfectly either a disconnect from rational thought or deliberate misinformation spreading of the #masspsychosis of the anti-Vax crew let’s examine https://t.co/Ctd49cb1qK [Tweet]. @dr_barrett. https://twitter.com/dr_barrett/status/1479986071832248322

Yaneer Bar-Yam on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved February 7, 2022, from https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1474091037861761026

Dr Nisreen Alwan 🌻. (2022, January 21). 8% of UK primary school kids had covid last week. Eight percent. Https://t.co/RKP23YxcYd [Tweet]. @Dr2NisreenAlwan. https://twitter.com/Dr2NisreenAlwan/status/1484647167956598787

Barnes, O., & Alabi, L. O. (2022, January 27). UK coronavirus cases tick up 10%, symptom tracker app shows. Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/f9833324-7986-48c4-a96c-153049ed9b5a

Smith, J., & Duncan, P. (2022, February 3). Firms handed £1.3bn in Covid contracts claimed £1m in furlough grants. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/03/dozen-uk-companies-given-vip-covid-ppe-contracts-also-claimed-furlough-grants

Mahase, E. (2022). Omicron sub-lineage BA.2 may have “substantial growth advantage,” UKHSA reports. BMJ, 376, o263. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o263

James 💙 Neill - 😷 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧🔶. (2022, January 27). Norman has NOIDea Covid is almost entirely notified by labs not GPs. Norman is an embarrassment to @QMUL 🤦 https://t.co/3EqNd25OXZ [Tweet]. @jneill. https://twitter.com/jneill/status/1486671110372577290

Devlin, H., & correspondent, H. D. S. (2022, February 3). Novavax Covid vaccine approved for use in over-18s in UK. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/03/novavax-covid-vaccine-approved-for-use-in-over-18s-in-uk

Arogbodo, M. (2022). Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Online Security Behavior within the UK Educational Industry. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h5qgk

Dr Duncan Robertson. (2022, January 31). Cases will increase today. The way that cases are counted is changing. A short thread. 🧵 https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/whats-new/record/af008739-ffa3-47b8-8efc-ef109f2cfbdd https://t.co/WY655My1RV [Tweet]. @Dr_D_Robertson. https://twitter.com/Dr_D_Robertson/status/1488115542263271427

Gabriel Hébert-Mild™ ⓥ. (2022, February 1). UK Deaths following a reinfection! Tell me what you see here 👀 https://t.co/TbVAksnvrW [Tweet]. @Gab_H_R. https://twitter.com/Gab_H_R/status/1488623303463952387

Adam, D. (2022). Will Omicron end the pandemic? Here’s what experts say. Nature, 602(7895), 20–21. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00210-7

Torjesen, I. (2022). Covid-19: Peak of viral shedding is later with omicron variant, Japanese data suggest. BMJ, 376, o89. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o89

Andrew Account for lags Kunzmann. (2022, January 30). Wait two years before we can tell who took the correct approach. OK, we’ll check back in March. Https://t.co/9ypiVCK428 [Tweet]. @1987Andrewk. https://twitter.com/1987Andrewk/status/1487727392286248963

Routen, A., O’Mahoney, L., Ayoubkhani, D., Banerjee, A., Brightling, C., Calvert, M., Chaturvedi, N., Diamond, I., Eggo, R., Elliott, P., Evans, R. A., Haroon, S., Herret, E., O’Hara, M. E., Shafran, R., Stanborough, J., Stephenson, T., Sterne, J., Ward, H., & Khunti, K. (2022). Understanding and tracking the impact of long COVID in the United Kingdom. Nature Medicine, 28(1), 11–15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01591-4

Just An Ordinary Bloke. (2022, January 30). PORTUGAL 90% of the Country is double dosed. This is what a good job looks like https://t.co/WctxHqsO8z [Tweet]. @Unusual_Times. https://twitter.com/Unusual_Times/status/1487756024450887687

ReconfigBehSci. (2022, January 28). RT @Unusual_Times: Worth mentioning IF BA.2 takes off in the UK & causes mass reinfections we won’t see it in case no’s because to count as… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1487123742128066566

Early data indicate vaccines still protect against Omicron’s sister variant, BA.2. (2022, January 28). STAT. https://www.statnews.com/2022/01/28/early-data-indicate-vaccines-still-protect-against-omicrons-sister-variant-ba-2/

Jorge A. Caballero, MD (jorgecaballero.eth). (2022, January 25). I’m not sure what to say anymore https://t.co/wapOCaoD6X [Tweet]. @DataDrivenMD. https://twitter.com/DataDrivenMD/status/1485914512360235010

Male, V. (2022). Menstruation and covid-19 vaccination. BMJ, 376, o142. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o142

Elliott, P., Eales, O., Bodinier, B., Tang, D., Wang, H., Jonnerby, J., Haw, D., Elliott, J., Whitaker, M., Walters, C., Atchison, C., Diggle, P., Page, A., Trotter, A., Ashby, D., Barclay, W., Taylor, G., Ward, H., Darzi, A., … Donnelly, C. (2022). Post-peak dynamics of a national Omicron SARS-CoV-2 epidemic during January 2022 [Working Paper]. http://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/93887

Woolcock, E. Y., Chris Smyth, Nicola. (n.d.). Record school infections mean national Covid cases no longer falling. Retrieved January 27, 2022, from https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/record-school-infections-mean-national-covid-cases-no-longer-falling-k2t6js59s

Coronavirus: Inside a long COVID clinic as patient who was “fit and healthy” can now “barely do anything.” (n.d.). Sky News. Retrieved January 25, 2022, from https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-inside-a-long-covid-clinic-as-patient-who-was-fit-and-healthy-can-now-barely-do-anything-12522619

Mike Honey 💉💉💉. (2022, January 22). Here’s the latest variant picture for BA.2 (Omicron). Globally it has been far less common than it’s sibling BA.1 lineage. The frequency of BA.2 is rising rapidly in several countries, notably India, Denmark & Singapore. 🧵 https://t.co/nE926hn9ws [Tweet]. @MikeHoney. https://twitter.com/Mike_Honey_/status/1484707779327950855

Nath, V., & Lockwood, G. (2021). Implications of the UK Equality Law for tele-homeworking: COVID-19 and beyond. International Journal of Law and Management, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print). https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLMA-07-2021-0183

Brown, N., Nicholson, J., Campbell, F. K., Patel, M., Knight, R., & Moore, S. (2021). COVID-19 Post-lockdown: Perspectives, implications and strategies for disabled staff. Alter, 15(3), 262–269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alter.2020.12.005

“Endemic” Covid? The pandemic will only be over when the world is jabbed. (2022, January 15). Inews.Co.Uk. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/endemic-covid-the-pandemic-will-only-be-over-when-the-world-is-jabbed-1402691

Dave McNally. (2022, January 23). For the BA.2 watchers, looks like it doubling roughly every 4 days in the UK at the moment. Would make it the dominant strain around about February 14th. Maybe it is time to move away from the Greek alphabet and move onto their Gods instead. Eros variant? Https://t.co/G6mR5DUkz8 [Tweet]. @OliasDave. https://twitter.com/OliasDave/status/1485048710623076355

James 💙 Neill - 😷 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧🔶. (2022, January 23). Of 51,141 deaths due to ischaemic heart diseases 32,872 (64.3%) had pre-existing conditions.💔 Do those 33k heart disease deaths not count? Or is an absence of pre-existing conditions only required for Covid deaths...😡⁉️ Source: ONS England 2019 [Tweet]. @jneill. https://twitter.com/jneill/status/1485327886164844546

Elliott, L., & editor, L. E. E. (2022, January 24). Omicron pushes UK business growth to 11-month low. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jan/24/uk-business-growth-omicron-covid-variant-january

Karam Bales🐝🚫🐄. (2022, January 23). Gov: Its all about managing personal risk, No not that like that Right, ill have to ban you then https://t.co/mrFBxdYOyJ [Tweet]. @karamballes. https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1485327422912356360

Murray, J. (2022, January 21). ‘Care hotel’ set up in Norwich to relieve ‘unprecedented’ pressure on hospitals. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/21/care-hotel-set-up-in-norwich-to-relieve-unprecedented-pressure-on-hospitals

Davis, N., & correspondent, N. D. S. (2022, January 21). Covid reinfection: How likely are you to catch virus multiple times? The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/covid-reinfection-how-likely-are-you-to-catch-virus-multiple-times

Devlin, H., & correspondent, H. D. S. (2022, January 21). Mixed messages? How end of Covid plan B could change behaviour in England. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/mixed-messages-how-end-of-covid-plan-b-rules-could-change-behaviour

Prof. Christina Pagel. (2022, January 19). This makes it so clear that the release of all measures right now (esp masks, esp schools) is only to protect himself & his job. Boris has zero interest in protecting others from getting sick, needing hospital or dying. Or protecting businesses, schools, NHS from disruption. [Tweet]. @chrischirp. https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1483884632651313152

Stefan Schubert. (2022, January 16). Pretty big difference US vs UK in this wave. Vaccination differences likely a big part of it. Https://t.co/qnHvRRb0rE [Tweet]. @StefanFSchubert. https://twitter.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1482728763779686405

Halliday, J., & correspondent, J. H. N. of E. (2022, January 17). ‘Christmas was awful’: On the Omicron frontline at the Royal Preston hospital. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/17/christmas-was-awful-on-the-omicron-frontline-at-the-royal-preston-hospital

Covid-19: Cutting self-isolation to five days would be helpful, Nadhim Zahawi says. (2022, January 9). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59925702

Theo Sanderson. (2022, January 5). Version with fewer ages and the CIs plotted: Https://t.co/WI2dA231xM [Tweet]. @theosanderson. https://twitter.com/theosanderson/status/1478740695041073152

James 💙 Neill - 😷 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧🔶. (2022, January 4). I hate it when I have to keep increasing the y-axis... #Omicron is #NotMild #LongCovidKids #SpotCovid https://t.co/rRBQveLqFa [Tweet]. @jneill. https://twitter.com/jneill/status/1478514263882932235

John Drury. (2022, January 7). @IndependentSage Booster coverage by deprivation and age in England @IndependentSage https://t.co/9C6Tx4fRVo [Tweet]. @ProfJohnDrury. https://twitter.com/ProfJohnDrury/status/1479451829977198596

Craig, F. (2021, December 9). Covid: 150 deaths a day in UK an ‘unacceptably high number’, says professor. Channel 4 News. https://www.channel4.com/news/covid-150-deaths-a-day-in-uk-an-unacceptably-high-number-says-professor

Drury, P. J. (2021, December 31). the crowd: Three forms of Covid leadership. The Crowd. https://drury-sussex-the-crowd.blogspot.com/2021/12/three-forms-of-covid-leadership.html

Siddiqui, T. R., Virginia Pietromarchi,Usaid. (n.d.). UK PM Johnson rules out new COVID curbs before Christmas. Retrieved January 16, 2022, from https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/21/omicron-now-dominant-in-the-us-as-who-sounds-alarm-live

James 💙 Neill - 😷 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧🔶. (2021, December 30). @dgurdasani1 And for age 0-5... Https://t.co/ve3v92iJgR [Tweet]. @jneill. https://twitter.com/jneill/status/1476701258392211456

Prof. Debby Bogaert 💙. (2021, December 20). @chrischirp NL is slightly behind the UK re #omicron and based lockdown on a.o. This model (source @MarionKoopmans). Despite uncertainty the ‘continue as is’ effect on ICU beds occupied (red) is chilling. Green model is with lockdown after and blue is before Christmas. Decisiveness matters! Https://t.co/2IODZGnNJ6 [Tweet]. @DebbyBogaert. https://twitter.com/DebbyBogaert/status/1472845880411758592

Eric Topol. (2022, January 14). Much less loss of smell and taste with Omicron, but more sore throat than with Delta https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1046623/Technical-Briefing-34-14January2022.pdf @UKHSA symptom data from ~175,000 Omicron and ~88,000 Delta cases https://t.co/DIGRGkoXa9 [Tweet]. @EricTopol. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1482029245580808192

Devlin, H., Davis, N., & correspondents, N. D. S. (2022, January 14). Expect another Omicron wave in early summer, Sage says. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/14/expect-another-covid-omicron-wave-in-early-summer-sage-says

Kit Yates. (2022, January 4). There are sone issues with data from Wales and Northern Ireland covering the holiday weekend, but still, wow. U.K. breaches the 200k daily cases mark for the first time. Https://t.co/k5P96LeiRU [Tweet]. @Kit_Yates_Maths. https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1478414522205577224 i

Kit Yates. (2022, January 5). I can tell you for a fact that it isn’t ‘mild’ for everyone. Https://t.co/9DJHOMBv7F [Tweet]. @Kit_Yates_Maths. https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1478651876329594882

David Spiegelhalter. (2022, January 6). Good news: Admissions for flu not quite as tiny as last year, but close. Https://gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports-2021-to-2022-season https://t.co/YILvkQ4Vqu [Tweet]. @d_spiegel. https://twitter.com/d_spiegel/status/1479139047515856901

Sample, I., & editor, I. S. S. (2022, January 13). Covid isolation to be cut to five full days in England, says Sajid Javid. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/13/covid-isolation-to-be-cut-to-five-full-days-in-england-says-sajid-javid