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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 21 March 2022
The relentless increase in new covid infections continues here, and in many other parts of the world. At the beginning of March we were...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 18 March 2022
The number of Covid 19 tests being done continues to rise by about 10% week on week. For the last 7 days it is almost 5 million tests,...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 16 March 2022
Despite concerns that people were likely to drop routine testing if they were no longer required to, the British public have responded to...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 14 March 2022
Yet again the data was late, it finally was posted at 5 30pm, but lacked a lot of detail from Scotland. It is supposed to be released at...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 11 March 2022 PART 2
My apologies for the fact that today’s report has been in two parts. I have provided you with the data for today and now I will turn more...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 11 March 2022 PART 1
There have been delays yet again with the data tonight and the upward trend in new cases continues. 4,553,814 tests have been done in the...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 9 March 2022
The concerns I expressed on Monday night are confirmed tonight with all the figures now suggesting a new wave of Covid infections is...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 7 March 2022
I have concerns tonight that we are beginning to see a change in the data suggesting that the number of new cases may be rising again. It...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 2 March 2022
Today is the third day of data being produced in 7-day chunks. Data for tomorrow is collated by adding the most recent days figure and...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 28 February 2022
As other dramatic and worrying world events continue into a fifth day, news about Covid has all but disappeared from the news media. To...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 25 February 2022
Tonight, the loss of life is beginning to rise significantly following the Russian aggression in the Ukraine. Most people had hoped that...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 23 February 2022
By the time I write my next report all mandatory Covid restrictions will have been removed. It looks as though an invasion of Ukraine is...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 21 February 2022
The statistics became available before the PM made his parliamentary announcements today, so I will deal with them first. The numbers...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 18 February 2022
I write my report tonight wondering how many of you will be able to read it, and even if I will be able to complete it before we lose...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 16 February 2022
The number of tests being done have dropped significantly this week with only just over 880,000 on each of the last two days. The drop...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 14 February 2022
Today’s data suggests that all is on track with our gradual withdrawal from the Covid pandemic and the country can continue to get back...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 11 February 2022
Following my last report, I was asked to expand on the science behind hand washing. The story begins with a Hungarian obstetrician giving...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 9 February 2022
In what is clearly a political decision and without public reference to SAGE or his Principal Medical Advisors, the Prime Minister today...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 7 February 2022
For most of us no news is good news when it comes to Covid. On the other hand, the media and news organisations want bad news because bad...
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Doc Hines - Covid News & Views - 4 February 2022
After a further week of political turmoil emanating from Parliament it is pleasing to be able to say that they seem to be getting things...
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