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Olivia Kay
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NIHR ACF Med Micro @UniofExeter | National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow @ PHE 20/21 @FMLM_UK | Health equity, infection, wider determinants |
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If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while.
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky
Why hasn’t the bird flu pandemic started?
Some scientists examining mutations found in H5N1 viruses fear major outbreak is imminent but others says pathogen remains unpredictable
www.science.org
December 6, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Reposted by Olivia Kay
New research from the IFS showing the closure of youth centres during the 2010s was shortsighted. For every £1 saved, the costs to affected users, crime victims and public spending in the police and the criminal justice system amount to £2.85

ifs.org.uk/publications...
The effects of youth clubs on education and crime | Institute for Fiscal Studies
Using quasi-experimental variation from austerity-related cuts, I provide the first causal estimates of youth clubs' effects on education and crime.
ifs.org.uk
November 14, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Reposted by Olivia Kay
Vaccines are one of the most important inventions humans have ever made. Period.
November 15, 2024 at 4:49 AM