Can't get over how much Diego Garcia looks like a single-celled organism.

Finding it hard to believe that this was just a week ago when I was out walking on the South West coastal path and swimming in the sea.

“Six people have died from an outbreak of Marburg virus in Rwanda, the health minister has announced.”

Marburg virus in Rwanda: Six killed

Most of the victims are healthcare workers in the intensive care unit, the health minister says.

“Rwanda has confirmed its first cases of Marburg disease, a viral hemorrhagic fever that can cause death, among some patients, the country's health ministry said on Friday.”

Do you remember that buzz when you would pick up the ringing house phone and have genuinely no idea who was going to be on the other end?

"There is more to know than just what you can count" Powerful testimony from the #CovidInquiryhttps://buff.ly/3Xzn5fC

There is more to know than just what you can count

Powerful testimony from the covid inquiry on the limits of what data can convey.

"Immunologists push for increase in testing and more widespread vaccine booster rollout as XEC emerges" There's so much more we could be doing to prevent the spread of covid. Instead we act like it isn't an issue any more. The reality is inconvenient. https://buff.ly/3XUSOJH

"The UK government has shelved plans to create a national mathematics academy, withdrawing £6 million in funding to support its establishment." Feels like a big blow for maths in the UK and speaks to how our subject is regarded by the government.

Labour scraps UK’s planned national academy for mathematics

Body proposed by former government was seen as a way of upskilling workforce and growing the economy

I can’t imagine how traumatic it must have been to watch a relative die over video link. It’s also impossible to imagine how hard it must have been to bear witness to that event again and again and again. Harrowing doesn’t cut it.

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Here Prof Fong explains how every nurse he met was traumatised by watching patients die, being only able to hold up ipads to their relatives and how it went against their normal practice of trying to ensure a dignified death, with family there. 1min video youtu.be/87OGgexUMrU

Prof Kevin Fong testifies to the Covid Inquiry on impact on ICU nurses

YouTube video by Christina Pagel

NHS hospitals in England entered the pandemic in early 2020 with a “very low” level of beds in intensive care compared to similar high-income countries. “That's a political choice. It's a system configuration choice, but it is a choice,” Chris Whitty told the inquiry.