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Prof Christina Pagel, director of the clinical operational research unit at UCL, reports some good news:
Some good covid news:
More evidence that the reduction in covid cases after 19th July was real - hopsital admissions in England have dropped quite a bit over the past few days.
Looking regionally, this is mostly driven by drops in the NE, but no region is increasing. pic.twitter.com/y5x2UonZNU Continue reading...
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