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Models are back in Vogue, and it didn't take that long.

Models are back in Vogue, and it didn't take that long.

If the UK Health Security Agency is modelling Bird flu, perhaps they should start by revisiting the 2005 models.

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The UK Health Security Agency stopped publishing Covid modelling data this January. However, finding alternative labour for the out-of-work modellers only took a month. 

The UKHSA’s Chief data scientist Dr Nick Watkins said the country is living with Covid thanks to vaccines and therapeutics, and the data is “no longer necessary.” 

The Agency is now turni…

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