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New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn
(www.independent.co.uk)
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That "random person" is Trisha Greenhalgh - Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford.
Here's an excerpt from her Oxford Uni profile:
Trish is the author of over 400 peer-reviewed publications and 16 textbooks. She was awarded the OBE for Services to Medicine by Her Majesty the Queen in 2001, made a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2014, and elected an International Fellow of the US Academy of Medicine in 2021. She is also a Fellow of the UK Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of General Practitioners, Faculty of Clinical Informatics and Faculty of Public Health.
https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/trish-greenhalgh
Her Google Scholar profile shows that her work has been cited almost 95,000 times in other research papers.
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=8KQwEGcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works
Definitely a them problem because it's not a problem over here where I am
"Not knowing the details" is part of scientific endeavour. If we already knew the details there would be no need for science in the first place. We should not hold it against her.