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Having spent most of my professional life dealing with preparation and contingency planning for dramatic events and disasters as well as...
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May 26, 20224 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 25 May 2022
The statistic show we continue to improve our position in respect of Covid. It has not gone away yet but today in the UK things are...
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May 19, 20224 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 18 May 2022
The latest figures released continue to show substantial improvement across the board. Less than 100, 000 people have tested positive in...
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May 15, 20223 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 11 May 2022
The Government web site from where I get most of my statistics reports that today’s figures are delayed, and they do not know when they...
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May 8, 20223 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 4 May 2022
The situation continues to improve after the latest Bank Holiday and the statistics are promising. With testing no longer required the...
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May 1, 20223 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 29 Apr 2022
As the latest bank holiday weekend begins we can be pleased to see improvements in all the markers as Covid has much less of an impact at...
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May 1, 20223 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 27 Apr 2022
The General situation with Covid continues to improve, it should be less of a problem as the summer draws nearer. Testing is largely...
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Apr 27, 20223 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 25 Apr 2022
The data being provided is becoming more difficult to interpret again. As an example, because of changes with the way Public Health Wales...
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Apr 23, 20223 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 22 Apr 2022
The situation generally continues to improve here in the UK, but there is at least one anomaly in the data released today to try and...
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Apr 21, 20223 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 20 Apr 2022
With the extended holiday over Easter it has been a week since my last report. The good news is that the situation is clearly now...
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Apr 15, 20225 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 13 Apr 2022
Today I have driven nearly 300 miles to get to an important meeting and then rushed home to do the Wednesday report. I find that...
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Apr 12, 20223 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 11 Apr 2022
Sixteen thousand four hundred and thirty-eight people were admitted to hospital with Covid in the last 7 days, just 33 more than the...
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Apr 12, 20224 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 8 Apr 2022
According to the Government web site, the number of tests done in the UK in the week ending today was only 3,629,2226. Over a million...
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Apr 8, 20223 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 6 Apr 2022
I am now convinced that we have been too hasty in stopping testing for Covid. I understand the costs they were incurring, but with the...
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Apr 5, 20223 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 4 Apr 2022
Today we are reminded there is a Covid Crisis, a Ukraine Crisis and a Climate Change Crisis. In which order would you place them in terms...
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Apr 2, 20223 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 1 Apr 2022
Covid levels today are reported to be at the highest levels since the pandemic began. We probably all know friends and family currently...
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Mar 31, 20223 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 30 March 2022
A 5% total drop in the number of tests done in the last 7 days, continues the trend which began on Monday of this week, it’s a drop of 5%...
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Mar 29, 20224 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 28 March 2022
For the first time for 20 days the number of Covid tests done in the previous week has dropped, this week’s total 5,023,854 is over...
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Mar 26, 20223 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 25 March 2022
We come to the end of another week with the weekly number of tests standing at well over 5 million and having grown by 101,000 in the...
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Mar 25, 20223 min read
Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 23 March 2022
Exactly two years ago today our Prime Minister spoke to us all saying “You must stay at home.” It seems a long time ago. At that stage...
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