Coronavirus | The Guardian Threat not discussed until weeks after chief medical officer warned of ‘significant risk’ it would reach WalesThe Welsh government’s cabinet did not discuss the threat posed by Covid as the virus spread across the world until a month after its chief medical officer had warned there was a “significant risk” it […]Continue reading
Coronavirus | The Guardian Surge in infections prompts state’s chief health officer to urge holiday season cautionFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails,free app or daily news podcastAn unseasonal spike in respiratory illnesses has hit Queensland, prompting a warning from the chief health officer in the lead-up […]Continue reading
AWS Machine Learning Blog This post was co-written with Greg Benson, Chief Scientist; Aaron Kesler, Sr. Product Manager; and Rich Dill, Enterprise Solutions Architect from SnapLogic. Many customers are building generative AI apps on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon CodeWhisperer to create code artifacts based on natural language. This use case highlights how large language models […]Continue reading
Coronavirus | The Guardian Chief inspector’s report on England’s schools highlights absenteeism and parental challenges to rulesThe “unwritten agreement” between parents and schools in England has broken since the Covid pandemic, according to Ofsted’s chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, with pupil absences remaining stubbornly high and disruptive behaviour now more common.Delivering her final annual report as […]Continue reading
Coronavirus | The Guardian England’s chief medical officer says incomplete knowledge of epidemiological concepts can be ‘dangerous thing’Sir Chris Whitty spent early parts of the Covid pandemic trying to “implore” people in government not to publicly discuss health concepts they did not fully understand such as “flattening the curve” of infections and herd immunity, he […]Continue reading
Coronavirus | The Guardian Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser during the pandemic, revealed that the then prime minister, Boris Johnson, found it a struggle to understand some graphs. Vallance, giving evidence to the Covid inquiry, said Johnson last studied science at the age of 15 and ‘would be the first to […]Continue reading
Coronavirus | The Guardian Chief scientific adviser in 2020 found the ex-PM ‘completely inconsistent’ in his evidence to the Covid inquiryBoris Johnson’s decision-making during the coronavirus pandemic was described as “bipolar” and “completely inconsistent” by Sir Patrick Vallance, the Covid inquiry has heard.The government’s then chief scientific adviser acknowledged his frustration in his diary entries, […]Continue reading
Coronavirus | The Guardian The former chief medical officer for England issued an emotional apology to the Covid bereaved at a public inquiry into the UK’s preparedness. It emerged she had asked for a review following an earlier coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong but was told ‘it won’t come here’. Prof Dame Sally Davies was […]Continue reading
15Five Welcome to HR Superstars. I’m Adam Weber, former chief people officer and creator of the HR Superstars community. I am excited to introduce you to one of my favorite HR thought leaders, Ben Eubanks. Ben is an author and chief research officer at Lighthouse Research, and I think you’re really going to enjoy how […]Continue reading
