Jim Reed
Health Reporter at BBC
BBC health reporter. Was at #VictoriaLIVE, #newsnight, #newsbeat. Dad to three small, screaming children. DMs open or email me on [email protected]
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1 week ago |
bbc.com | Jim Reed
Cash to isolate 'would have cut Covid deaths'Covid inquiryDido Harding said she had repeatedly urged greater financial support payments during the pandemicIf the UK had spent more money helping people to self-isolate during the pandemic then fewer people would have been infected or died, the former head of NHS Test and Trace has said.
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2 weeks ago |
bbc.com | Jim Reed
Johnson wanted tighter Covid rules, inquiry hearsPA MediaLord Patrick Vallance, former government chief scientific adviser, gave evidence to the inquiry in west LondonBoris Johnson pushed for a more "ruthless, authoritarian approach" towards people who refused to self-isolate during the pandemic, the Uk's former scientific adviser has told the Covid inquiry.
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2 weeks ago |
businesswire.com | Jim Reed
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As part of its global expansion strategy, ProMed Molded Products a leader in medical-grade silicone molding and contract manufacturing, has announced its establishment in Costa Rica with the construction of a new manufacturing facility in the Costa Rica Green Valley Business and Technology Park, located in Grecia.
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3 weeks ago |
bbc.com | Jim Reed
Hancock ignored call to test all NHS staff, Covid inquiry hearsGetty ImagesThe government ignored an early warning by two Nobel prize-winning scientists that all healthcare workers should be routinely tested for coronavirus in the pandemic, the Covid inquiry has heard. The advice came in a strongly-worded letter sent in April 2020 by the chief executive of the Francis Crick Institute, Sir Paul Nurse, and its research director, Sir Peter Ratcliffe, to the then health secretary Matt Hancock.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Jim Reed
7 hours agoIt's not a boom, but it is something to be roundly welcomed. Today's economic figures may reflect erratic trade war factors, and a bounceback from stagnation at the end of last year. The growth may prove short lived if the gravitational pull of US tariffs and tax rises do hit hard. The valid …
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PSG team bus has just parked up outside the flash Langham hotel (opposite BBC HQ off Regent’s Street). Meant to show balance and all that but come on Arsenal. https://t.co/Ez5T11vxAy
The infected blood inquiry, which we thought was done and dusted with its final report last year, has just called cabinet office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds back to special hearing on May 7. All to address concerns that compensation is taking way too long to get off the ground.
If you read the small print looks like there’s an exemption for pharmaceuticals in the Trump tariff announcement. That will please Glaxo and AstraZeneca given the UK exports £9bn of drugs a year to the US. https://t.co/yDmzWTb2Hu https://t.co/3R8twpbKFw