I think Rob might be referring to the instance of Goldacre uses the fact of him being a father of twins – your fatherhood of anyone probably wouldn’t be a factor of your medical records.
Bingo!
I don’t disagree with the overall point he’s making; that’s just a bad example. I had a ponder about the datasets I have access to as a population health analyst and I wouldn’t be able to identify him from the pseudonymised data.
The concerns people are expressing in this thread are real, though. This can be done well, but there are many IG issues to cover.
If anyone’s familiar with WSIC they will be aware with just how bleeding difficult it is to get & retain access to the pseudonymised datasets, not to mention the jumping of hoops required to actually get the data when things are tightly controlled.
I had twins last year (it’s great; it’s also partly why I’ve been writing less). There are 12,000 dads with similar luck each year; let’s say 2,000 in London; let’s say 100 of those are aged 39. From my brief online bio you can work out that I moved from Oxford to London in about 1995.
On installing it for vaccine passport reasons I found I needed to make an appointment for the dreaded gastro camera. It solved the issue of why I hadn’t received the referral letter I’d been expecting for 2 months.
Probly for virtue signaling or something. Bloody do-gooder
BRIAN: Who cured you?
EX-LEPER: Jesus did, sir. I was hopping along, minding my own business. All of a sudden, up he comes. Cures me. One minute I’m a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood’s gone. Not so much as a by your leave. ‘You’re cured mate.’ Bloody do-gooder.
Why will vaccinated people be allowed to fly abroad get into bars, retaurants etc, as they still pose the same risk of catching and spreading the covid virus?
You mean the same as people with positive antibody tests?
Doesn’t make any sense either way. For the foreseeable pcr tests will be the benchmark.
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