Interesting Links for 18-09-2020

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Scotland's Covid tracing app reaches million download milestone(tags:Scotland pandemic apps )Statistics, lies and the virus: five lessons from a pandemic(tags:statistics pandemic )Coronavirus in Scotland: 11 cases linked to Edinburgh student flats(tags:Edinburgh students pandemic )Writing About Brexit: Tory MPs Vilify Their Own Withdrawal Agreement(tags:UK Europe politics conservatives OhForFucksSake )Coronavirus: Woman faces ten years in German prison after going on bar crawl while waiting for test results(tags:Germany pandemic OhForFucksSake )Demand for coronavirus testing outstripping capacity 'three to four times', Dido Harding admits(tags:pandemic testing Doom )Private Firms Handed Almost £200m To Run the UK's Test And Trace Will Not Face Financial Penalties If They Fail To Perform(tags:UK testing fail privatisation )German Hospital Hacked, Patient Taken to Another City Dies(tags:computers hacking hospital healthcare )TUC: UK's Trades Union Congress condemns anti-trans group LGB Alliance(tags:transgender unions GoodNews UK LGBT )North Carolina Is Already Rejecting Black Voters' Mail-In Ballots Five Times More Often Than White Voters'(tags:voting racism USA )Non-Binary People Protected By U.K. Equality Act, Says Landmark Ruling Against Jaguar Land Rover(tags:UK rights law gender LGBT GoodNews )Local authority calls on care home providers to accept covid-positive hospital patients(tags:pandemic OhForFucksSake UK England age )Second national lockdown proposed by UK scientific advisers (second half of October)https://twitter.com/MattGarrahan/status/1306698937185828865?s=19
(tags:pandemic uk )Surfaces vs Airborne: What We Know Now About Covid-19 Transmission(tags:pandemic virus ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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