@DJHunter_EPI

Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine University of Oxford. Formerly a Dean at Harvard. Chief Science Advisor to Our Future Health.

Joined November 2016
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Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, is threatening to unseat elected officials if they do not follow his orders to shut down the government during the holidays. Are we still a democracy or have we already moved to oligarchy and authoritarianism?
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Drew McCartor@drewmccartor19 Apr 2024
Pure Earth welcomes a new Senate resolution calling on the United States to take a leadership role in ending lead poisoning globally. The data that @PureEarthNow and others have been generating is helping policymakers see both the impacts and solutions. foreign.senate.gov/press/dem…

Cardin, Duckworth, Merkley, Booker, Van Hollen Introduce Resolution to Tackle Toxic Lead Exposure |...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Chair of Subcommittee...

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Lord Bethell
@JimBethell28 Feb 2024
Life expectancy data from @HealthFdn is grim. Progress stalled. Outcomes unequal. Costs to 🇬🇧 national finances immense. There’s so much we could be doing to embrace modern prevention technologies to enjoy long healthy longevity. Why don’t we? That’s the central health challenge of our times. protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/DL… – at Camden Town, London
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Steven Riley@SRileyIDD17 May 2021
If you are in the UK and you have been offered a vaccine but refused, please think again, especially if you are over 50. There is a lot of uncertainty about whether infections might go up for a bit, so now is the time to reconsider.
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Retweet if you think Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley should resign immediately.
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Edmund Monk@edmundmonk30 Dec 2020
This is Sarah Gilbert who oversaw the team who did the actual work in creating the Oxford vaccine. This is the woman who deserves credit today and our eternal gratitude. Not politicians in white coats. #COVID19
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Powerful new paper in @bmj_latest lays out strong evidence-based arguments for suppression/elimination strategies over the mitigation strategy presently failing across most of Canada. bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m490…

Elimination could be the optimal response strategy for covid-19 and other emerging pandemic diseases

Michael Baker and colleagues argue that aiming for elimination of community transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus could offer important advantages over a suppression or mitigation strategy with...

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Another exciting #WCPG2020 day ahead. My highlights: 1.Plenary session with @DJHunter_EPI on ‘Polygenic risk score and Diseases’ 8am EDT / 1pm BST
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NEJM
@NEJM7 Oct 2020
Why has the United States handled this pandemic so badly? The Editors note that although we came into this crisis with enormous advantages, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent.

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Marcus Chown@marcuschown2 Oct 2020
Retweet if you think Margaret Ferrier AND Dominic Cummings must resign
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"While they're run by Whitehall, England's local lockdowns are bound to fail" A piece by me on the mess that is the government's current response to #COVID19 theguardian.com/commentisfre…

While they're run by Whitehall, England's local lockdowns are bound to fail | Gabriel Scally

Without a proper strategy for suppressing Covid, this reliance on tweaking restrictions will only ever be partially successful, says academic Gabriel Scully

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We need Covid-19 mass-testing. But who will trust the government to deliver it? | David Hunter | Opinion | The Guardian ⁦⁦@DJHunter_EPI⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfre…

We need Covid-19 mass-testing. But who will trust the government to deliver it? | David Hunter

A huge amount of work will be required to convince a sceptical public fatigued by talk of ‘world-beating’ new systems, is rolled out

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Neil Pearce@neilpearce53x11 Sep 2020
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“If Britain ditches overseas holidays, we can eliminate coronavirus” The additional reason for supporting this is so that those holiday pounds can be spent in the holiday industry at home. #ZeroCOVID is the right goal to adopt in Britain and Ireland now! theguardian.com/commentisfre…

If Britain ditches overseas holidays, we can eliminate coronavirus | David Hunter and Neil Pearce

The Spanish travel U-turn should inspire us to emulate other islands and wipe out Covid-19, say epidemiology professors David Hunter and Neil Pearce

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Dr Rosena
@DrRosena23 Jul 2020
😷✅ Retweet if you'll be wearing a mask in shops and on public transport tomorrow (and beyond), because you want to keep others and yourself safe. (Note: There are people who can't wear mask for valid reasons - please be mindful.)
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Letter to MPs stating risks if #NHS & UK health institutions not explicitly excluded from international trade deals Signatories inc. @NeenaModi1 @richardhorton1 @SoniaAdesara @MichaelMarmot @KailashChandOBE @trishgreenhalgh Letter &first 400+ sign'ries: weownit.org.uk/blog/open-let…
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Neil Pearce@neilpearce53x27 Jun 2020
Weekly testing for everyone could end the pandemic royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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NHS Million
@NHSMillion14 Jun 2020
Boris Johnson has not hosted a Cobra emergency committee for over a month Please RT if you think everyone should be aware how this crisis is being managed theguardian.com/politics/202…

Boris Johnson has not hosted a Cobra emergency committee for over a month

Downing Street is warned against sidelining devolved nations over government’s Covid-19 response

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Just listened to the penultimate edition of this series of @BBCMoreOrLess @TimHarford The work they have been doing on the Govts C-19 statistics has been magnificent. I suggest a weekly 15 min “More or Less Covid?” programme to continue its invaluable work. RT if you agree.
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Vincent@VincentPlagnol3 Jun 2020
Just out, here is our take on the much debated topic of utility of PRS for cardiovascular disease prevention. Big improvement for middle-aged men, but classification improved across the board, with different types of improvement across age and sex. medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

An integrated polygenic and clinical risk tool enhances coronary artery disease prediction

Background There is considerable interest in whether genetic data can be used to improve standard cardiovascular disease risk calculators, as the latter are routinely used in clinical practice to...

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