COVID 19 Pandemic

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The Hartree centre is part of Daresbury Labs was involved in Noble prize winning medical research and played an important role in global medical understanding of the COVID 19 virus.Encouraging closer collaboration between academia and industry through the power of Supercomputing Link  and give due credit.

The UK government outsources IT services, including for NHS records and disability benefits, to the French IT giant's UK arm of ATOS. BBC News

Daresbury labs 24-25 Sept 2019

Update 12 Sept 2024, the Technology Secretary Peter Kyle, has announced the government has now classed UK data centres – the buildings which store much of the data generated in the UK – as ‘Critical National Infrastructure’. It is the first Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) designation in almost a decade, since the Space and Defence sectors gained the same status in 2015.

The Hartree Centre was created in 2013 to accelerate the adoption of high-performance computing, big data and artificial intelligence by UK industry.

Britains medical supercomputer A giant calculator, Analogy of walking into a room with a chair and a mirror it’s about who invited to operate it.

The Double Noble Prize winner Medical research center with the computing power and Access to Records that can scientifically prove Discrimination in Healthcare Leading to Changes in the Law. see Public Health Well being.

Powerhouse of the North, international medical research centre, Invited as 3D specialist to be panel of experts and met the team of scientists and computer scientists, soon their work reached a new global importance with the COVID pandemic. description: multi cultural team of international experts, and work with the highest regulatory body in the World.

Testing in a sandbox environment to reduce the need for testing on animals and reducing testing time by a number of years 

Personally invited as a 3D specialist to meet chief science officer and see the work carried out, LGS in the creative industry known as the forth Emergency service, in case of public emergency provided the technology to clearly communicate information to the public.

Dec 2018 Invited to meet leading scientists and personal screening of projects to share their work @ Daresbury Campus, Hartree Centre and Cockcroft institute.

 

VR model of corkscrew shaped stomach virus, including the highest detail 3D model of a cancerous cell. Feb 2018 photo permission granted by Scientific team who wished me to raise attention of their work

Behind the screen now replaced with 8k screen

The Hartree Centre is supporting global efforts to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic through partnering with the Folding @ Home project, led by the Washington University School of Medicine, in order to simulate protein behaviour using their Scafell Pike a Bull Sequana X1000 supercomputer, Tightly coupled Intel and Nvidia architectures Which Includes 24,960 Intel “Skylake” cores, Direct liquid-cooled compute nodes.

The government, via UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has agreed to invest £172 million over five years, met with a £38 million in-kind contribution from IBM. 4 June 2021 link

the previous IBM Blue Gene/Q Blue Joule Supercomputer officially named the number one supercomputer in the UK and thirteenth most powerful in the World in 2012. upgraded in 2017, Scafell Pike has the capability of performing around four quadrillion calculations per second and is composed of Intel® Xeon® (Skylake) and many core Xeon Phi™(Knights Landing) processor technologies. It has been designed to accommodate blade systems for Deep Learning, GPU and ARM based computing. peak performance of 4329 TFLOPS. That means it’s capable of performing 4.3 quadrillion calculations per second!

"gaining a deeper understanding of these mutations at the molecular level and how they provide the virus with an evolutionary advantage." latest findings Improving the way we prepare for future COVID-19 variants:link

CovidSIM is one of the data modelling tools used globally, epidemiological model for COVID-19 developed by Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, to Determine the variability of the duration of the course of disease. link

Globally there was hype and hysteria surrounded the Pandemic, fear mongering and profiteering, children where the most affected by this who having an important part of there childhood and education affected.

A pandemic originating from Asia was time-bomb waiting to happen an eventuality taught to me since at school, the way the flu virus transfers from living in close proximity to animals Farming etc.

the Asian communities suffered from a backlash in the following global Mental Health crisis that followed, See Mental Health Act reforms, and stop online Cyberbullying. Wind and Cloud.

 

Folding @ Home empower anyone with a computer and an internet connection to become a citizen scientist and contribute their compute power to help fight global health threats like COVID 19, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Cancer.

When it was installed in 2017 it had a World ranking of 60 in top 300 since then they have added its atos hybrid-Quantum Supercomputer, link other projects include improved Weather systems modelling. For agriculture.

"At the Hartree Centre, we have explored how our quantum-integrated workflow can provide an advantage in virtual drug discovery. Similarly, we have also explored how we can model the molecule reactions in more detail with quantum machine learning, helping to discover potential medical treatments and new materials."

I was aware of when the Quantum computer was installed and it’s now programmed for use in the advancement of medical treatments I’m excited to see what it will achieve See AIDS/HIV

“Drug discovery and development is time-consuming, taking on average 10-15 years from drug discovery to market. Computational modelling of reaction pathways and mechanisms can help facilitate the synthesis of drug candidates and accelerate the development of new medicines for patients,”

Through the HNCDI programme, the Hartree Centre and IBM worked with global biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to utilise quantum computing. AstraZeneca developed a quantum computing framework that characterises both protons and electrons accurately.

A more accurate characterisation of molecular interactions involved in drug synthesis will enable more efficient development of drug candidates going forward, saving time, resources and costs. STFC

COVID enquiry hearing The former national clinical adviser in emergency preparedness at NHS England recalled a conversation with an intensive care doctor during a visit in December 2020.

“I asked him immediately what things had been like and… I’ll never forget, he replied it’s been like a terrorist attack every day since it started, and we don’t know when the attacks are going to stop.”

Attempt to put it simply

 

Arrived on last flight on 16 March On March 17th, 2020, the GORTT initiated its first travel restrictions, barring all non-nationals from entry into the country. This was updated on March 21st, 2020 when it was announced that there would be a total closure of all air and sea ports for international travel from March 23rd, 2020 and continued for 15 months to July 17th, 2021.

involved in national Education and Health care initiative, while not a pleasant experience. Either taking part in public health fairs or the remainder of our free time tied up with local lawyers.

The public avoided treatment sites in case of contact, At the end of the SoE State of Emergency of Emergency, Volunteered in the community for a year supporting free local public health fair screening to the public to improve health and well-being, in community centers organized by the Community hospital. completed Community Hospital Volunteers Training an NGO non governmental organisation non profit private hospital opened in 1962, to supplement the two national hospitals the year of independence.

Amidst a constant barrage of conspiracy theories (some questioned why volunteer to be around sick people)

Attempt to put it simply

pick up any news paper…

improving quality of healthcare in third world,  The health fairs are the only locations we have visited or where tied up with visiting lawyers because of the welcome we received. Clear Social reformers not welcome in Trinidad,

Attempt to put it simply

All Beaches and rivers where closed for bathing and fresh air during the Covid pandemic lockdown, SoE stay at home orders and two years international lockdown some countries including Ghana had two weeks the presence of COVID blamed on visitors similar to a prison sentence.

One main national importer of medicines, looking for best price supply chain issues meant shortages and use of what was available, it can be harmful to  suddenly stop or swap and change medicines. (Can’t just come off them)

The public avoided treatment sites in case of contact, At the end of the SoE State of Emergency of Emergency, Volunteered in the community for a year supporting free local public health fair screening to the public to improve health and well-being, in community centers organized by the Community hospital. completed Community Hospital Volunteers Training an NGO non governmental organisation non profit private hospital opened in 1962, to supplement the two national hospitals the year of independence.

Amidst a constant barrage of conspiracy theories (some questioned why volunteer to be around sick people)

The #1 form of suicide in the third world was taken off the market after approx 40 years on sale a Agrie spray used, disturbingly heard it described as Indian Tea as farmers facing serious hardship drank it.

health fairs found many living without water and daily Life threatening temperatures.

Outside temperature in the shade 35 degrees inside temperature with standard building material over 40 degrees at times, When retro fitting simple cost effective foil Roof insulation drops the temperature by 5 degrees or more, Helping reduce health risks.

For those with AC units they are turned on at dusk time putting peak load demands on the national Grid.

 

UN data shows in US healthcare only one in 25 medical prescriptions work first time treating symptoms, as the doctor attempting to identify and treat the root cause highlighting the importance of having follow up tests to find what’s works for the patients

Trinidad is not for beginners

Britain drew up a rescue plan repatriating it’s citizens, and those mentally ill and high on drugs celebrated in the street at the harm of those left behind and at the Height of Xenophobia Locals attempted to force us from our home. Into the hands of local lawyers blamed as the root cause of many of the problem by police, Highlighting why the UK and US give travel warnings to its citizens. Clear no one was in our corner.

Mosquitoes

H1N1 was present before the first reports of COVID 19 and the long pandemic as elsewhere created mental health issue's,  now small numbers of Dengue fever are reported on the rise as taking lives.

Malaria treatments are based of a Chinese tea a US spy story of attempts to discover plant while all along it grew in view of the White House, its known to trigger mental health issues in tropical counties.

Quinine which can be found in slim line tonic water is a known help in the treatment of Malaria, And can also help with night muscle cramps.

Protein structures are examined for the development of therapeutic in the treatment of illnesses getting the correct amount and timing for treatment if incorrect can be harmful.

ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH (ASH) registered Charity number: 262067

NATIONAL AIDS TRUST registered Charity number: 297977

ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH (ASH) registered Charity number: 262067

NATIONAL AIDS TRUST registered Charity number: 297977
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