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Rachel Lavin

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Data journalist at Bloomberg @BBGVisualData Formerly @thetimes @ST_Ireland @businessposthq @TheSundayIndo @WIPLive Got data? rlavin16 @bloomberg .net

London / Dublin

Joined March 2011

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Rachel Lavin

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🗞️If you’re looking for a data journalist in finance, 5’11, blue eyes… I work here now👇 Proud to be joining @BBGVisualData where I’ll continue to cover the stats on conflict, climate change & current affairs. You can send data, news & tips to rlavin16 @bloomberg .net

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Is there a word for when you are not at all close with someone but you know if they died soon you would absolutely go to their funeral? Other than 'insane'.

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___________________________ | The Peace Process is | | more important than | | Brexit | |______________________ | (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　づ

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It seemed like @RTE focused less on expensive toys this year and more on simple fun and entertainment as well as giving to those in need. Thoughtful response to the economic state the country is in. 👌 #LateLateToyShow

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**Weekly Covid-19 Update** ❗️The bad news is that the true number of cases is estimated to be between 60,000 & 80,000 per day. 😷 1 in 10 estimated to be isolating at home. 📉 But the good news is Ireland's #Omicron wave is projected to peak this week. Here's how 👇 🧵1/11

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On this mildly bleak night, here's the best advice I got when I was diagnosed with cancer for the third time. No inspirational quotes or motivational cliches, it was: "Just keep going."

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Rachel Lavin

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Found out today that a doctor I've been interviewing on and off this past year in my role as a pandemic reporter once shared a children's cancer ward with me almost 20 years ago. So much life after childhood cancer 🎉

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This was highly co-ordinated. The same 10 lies about fake Ukranian attacks were told by 10 different Russian news networks, according to @DFRLab disinfo analysts in Ukraine. These are not just the ramblings of Putin & random officials - it is part of their strategy.

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Rachel Lavin

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From tomorrow, testing positive or new symptoms will mean a Christmas Day spent in (10 day) isolation. Take care: 🔺 Reduce social contacts to a core bubble 🔺 Use KN95/FFP2 masks 🔺 Keep washing hands/distancing/choosing well-ventilated spaces 🔺 Get boosted 🎄🙏🎅😷

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Rachel Lavin

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*How to trigger a border poll* 🚨🇮🇪🇬🇧🗳️ I've been researching the numbers behind when Northern Ireland should hold a referendum on whether or not to leave the UK and form a United Ireland for a while. Here's how the data could help us decide: 🧵📈 👇 1/20

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Rachel Lavin

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New: The HSE has been keeping at least 1.5 million antigen tests in storage. They've only dispatched 35,000 so far (2%).

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Rachel Lavin

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Paddy Cosgrave has spent €20k in the past 2 months promoting his political opinions on Facebook & Instagram. On Twitter, where political ads are banned, the platform intervened.👇

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Twitter blocks Web Summit from promoting founder’s political tweets

Paddy Cosgrave was using the company‘s platform to boost tweets in which he accused The Irish Times of political bias

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Rachel Lavin

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How violence spread over 30 years of The Troubles - every scaled red dot is a fatal terror attack. No part of Northern Ireland was left untouched. D3 map developed from previous code with @cboutaud , data from @START_UMD . Read the full story here:

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Rachel Lavin

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There's a sense the significance of the conflict in Northern Ireland & the importance of protecting the peace has been lost in #Brexit drama. So the #BrexitBorderlands project set out to chronicle the Troubles in a new way - interactive data visualisaiton. Thread on data here:

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Rachel Lavin

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The government quietly released estimates of how many women & children were placed in mother & baby homes in the history of the state on Friday afternoon. 190,000 women & children. 57,000 still alive today. These are historic figures. Read my story here:

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Rachel Lavin

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As Omicron reality dawns, consider investing in better masks: "....tight-fitting FFP2 masks provide *75 times* better protection compared to well-fitting surgical masks"

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How well masks protect

A detailed study shows the maximum risks of being infected by the coronavirus for different scenarios with and without masks

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Rachel Lavin

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When will you be vaccinated?💉 This is my estimate of Ireland's timeline presuming a vaccination rate similar to the flu vaccine, steady supply, & each priority group's size. But there's lots of variables influencing the rollout - read my analysis here👇

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Rachel Lavin

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My local newspaper has my cool data self in bits 😭

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Why did last month's "up the Ra" incident stir such debate? Perhaps because something deeper is happening in modern Ireland. A new survey by @ST__Ireland shows significant generational differences in memory of the Troubles south of the border... 1/8 🧵

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▫️Tested positive for Covid for the first time on Tuesday 😷 ▫️Just took my first dose of Paxlovid today - delivered to my door by the NHS. 🙌 Very grateful for an added 88% risk reduction on top of everything else the scientific community has provided in the past 2 years 📉 🙏

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Rachel Lavin

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We're starting to observe the "vaccine effect" in Ireland. 💉🎉 Hospital admissions of over 65's have fallen 15 percentage points more than those under 65 since the peak of the third wave. 📉

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Rachel Lavin

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My six-month investigation into the history of violence at the border and the dangers Brexit poses to peace in Northern Ireland has just gone live - take a look... #hardborder #meaningfulvote #brexit #irishborder

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Keeping the Peace | The Irish Times

An in depth look at the 'Irish Border problem', including the history, the context, the victims during the Troubles and how Brexit now threatens 20 years of peace in Northern Ireland.

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Rachel Lavin

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If you'd like to read the Good Friday Agreement, here's a website I coded a while back to make it easy to scroll through🕊️ With key highlights and explainers from some amazing women @EmmandJDeSouza @SusanMcKay15 & @OxfordDiplomat 👇

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Rachel Lavin

4 years

My twitter feed today is full of Irish millennials using terms like "tan", "West Brit" and even "taking the British shilling".

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Rachel Lavin

3 years

And on that note, this is sadly my final week reporting with the @businessposthq Thank you for following my work on here, I hope I helped make a little sense of these strange times. 🙏

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Rachel Lavin

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I think we’re finally nearing the end. And so does our exclusive interviewee - the WHO’s Special Envoy on Covid-19 David Nabarro. w/ @DanielTMurray

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Rachel Lavin

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I am, dare I say, optimistic about the rollout as deliveries escalate this month. 💉📈🗓️ My estimates (based on new age range model): By June - All over 35's received 1st dose Mid-July - Over 25's Early August - All adults over 16(!) Read in full here👇

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Rachel Lavin

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Picking up my first and last @businessposthq Post Plus in my new local in Hackney. A two year investigation into the increased toxicity of Irish politics that analyses millions of your tweets…

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Hello, I work with the fantastic data team at @thetimes and @thesundaytimes now and we've been working all week to visualise the invasion of #Ukraine . Here's 14 charts to track the conflict and contextualise its causes and consequences 👇

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The Ukraine-Russia war explained in maps and charts

The West has responded with sanctions. Here are the maps and charts that explain how and why the Ukraine invasion has unfolded

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Rachel Lavin

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On mapping all 208 official Border Crossings on the #IrishBorder : Simply click on a crossing to find out about it's history during the Troubles as reported in local newspapers at the time... #irishborder #irishbackstop #brexit #interactivemap #leaflet

Explore the Border | The Irish Times

Discover all 208 Irish Border crossings, their history during the Troubles and what they look like today.

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Rachel Lavin

3 years

My biggest graph to date - a six generation family tree for my Dad 🙏

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Rachel Lavin

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British roommate just politely reminded me that because Ireland was still in the Commonwealth we still have to answer to the Queen. 😬

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Rachel Lavin

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If we want to know if hospitalisations will rise in Ireland in the coming weeks we don't need a crystal ball or a 'wait and see' attitude. We just need to watch the UK - they are about 6 weeks ahead of us with a similar vaccine type + rollout rate + reopening (and great data).

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Rachel Lavin

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I was trying to avoid the @universitytimes issue but here goes; Self-important privileged Trinity students love to overreact to minor campus dramas by punishing each other mercilessly in the name of 'professional standards' - Latest attempt is to defund their own student paper...

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Rachel Lavin

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With a history of immunosuppression my haematologist recommended a private antibody test to make sure I had mounted a vaccine response. <0.8 is a negative for antibodies. As of Tuesday, I have 2,369. 😳

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Rachel Lavin

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Will 80% of us still get a vaccine by June?💉 My estimates based on four new scenarios: 1. Age-restricted AstraZeneca - Mid-June 2. Additional Pfizer - Late June 3. Restricted J&J - Early June 4. Delayed dose - End of May Full analysis👇

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Rachel Lavin

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Where are you in the vaccine queue? In yesterday's @businessposthq I made some early estimates of the size of each priority group based on Census and HSE data.

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Rachel Lavin

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In 5th class I decided I looked too smiley & nice so trialed a more serious face for a few days. My teacher called me out as "looking like Eamon Dunphy" which inevitably became my nickname for the rest of my primary school days. Anyway, a pleasure to chat with the real deal😅👇

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Ep 1319: Covid-19 - Too Early To Be Sure But Omicron Could Lead Us Back To Normality @RachelLavin talks to Eamon and gives four possible scenarios. #Covid -19 Listen / Follow / Subscribe: Acast:

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Rachel Lavin

11 months

Not the local news making me tear up on a Sunday 🥹

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Rachel Lavin

4 years

The data journalist in me thinks one person carrying out a cowardly and uncivil act is an anomaly but the number of accounts with large followings on this platform trying to justify assaulting elected reps points to a more worrying trend in the state of our civil democracy.

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Darren Cleary

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You can dislike Leo Varadkar, you can criticise his policies, you can disagree with him, but this is nasty and unnecessary thing to do.

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Rachel Lavin

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My story on how the #NewChildrensHospital bought facial recognition CCTV that is more expensive, likely both illegal and impossible to use and purchased from a blacklisted Chinese company who provide surveillance to Muslim detention camps in Xinjiang...

Children’s Hospital buys potentially illegal face-recognition technology

The software, purchased from a Chinese company, was acquired at huge cost and may be impossible to use under GDPR law

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Rachel Lavin

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👍 Telling people to vote today. 👎Telling people what to vote today as if they don’t have their own opinions. 👎👎Trying to pressure someone into voting your way with fear-mongering, meme shaming, ‘don’t talk to me if you vote this way’ etc. Respect choice - it’s democracy.

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Rachel Lavin

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The way many countries are reporting Oz & New Zealand's transition out of zero Covid as a 'failure' is a bit cringey. The challenge now doesn't negate the success of the past 18 months. Sounds like they're saying: "I told you so-you should have failed from the start like us".

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New Zealand is abandoning its "Covid zero" goal of eliminating the coronavirus. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern acknowledged an end to the strategy seven weeks into a lockdown that has failed to halt an outbreak of the Delta variant.

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Behind the failure of the reopening is a failure of ideas. The plan to reach herd immunity through natural infection failed last week when cases didn't go down as expected. “The reopening was a grand experiment on the population" said @GabrielScally .

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Rachel Lavin

2 years

Bringing a *big hair* lewk to my 10 year cancerversary check-up 🤞

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Rachel Lavin

4 years

With the first vaccine approved in the EU, here's an early estimate of the vaccination rollout timeline in Ireland. Based on earlier estimates of the size of each priority group, and presumed rollout rate. Read the analysis (and caveats) in full here👇

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Rachel Lavin

5 years

Irish media, you know what would really annoy that tech event organiser? If you ignored him.

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Rachel Lavin

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📢**New visual project**📊 After 25 years of peace through the #GoodFridayAgreement , there is a serious chasm in how gen Z & millennials in the Republic of Ireland remember the conflict. Tldr: They don't. 📉A data thread🧵 1/14 Artwork w/ @Cappaert1410

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Rachel Lavin

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Cases are meant to peak today. But what happens if they don't? Here's how we compare to Nphet's models at the moment (yellow line) 👇

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Rachel Lavin

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🚨 Some good news for the high risk: The Irish government is currently in “advanced negotiations” to independently acquire the Pfizer Paxlovid pill. The pill could reduce hospitalisation risk by 89%.👇

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Government seeks to get Paxlovid before other EU countries

Pfizer anti-viral pill cuts risk of hospitalisation and death from Covid-19 dramatically

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Rachel Lavin

4 years

More people have died on the island of Ireland from Covid-19 than the violence of the Troubles. - A startling statistic @TJRyan_77 rightly pointed out on #cblive tonight.

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Rachel Lavin

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📖The Lost Families of Gaza - a special project from @thetimes . Over 1,800 families have lost multiple members in the past six months. We worked with @airwars to name 161 of those families, and who they lost in the war. 1/12🧵

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Three generations killed within days: why whole families are dying in Gaza

More than 1,800 have lost multiple members since Israel began its operation against Hamas in retaliation for the October 7 atrocities. Here are some of their stories

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Rachel Lavin

4 years

A real nerdy exercise for this week's @businessposthq . @killianwoods and I pulled data from LinkedIn to see who exactly the biggest employers in Ireland's tech scene are and what roles do their employees have? 1/2

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Rachel Lavin

5 years

While we joke about how ignorant the British are about Irish history & smugly tell them off (myself included), there's a serious problem in the way colonial history is taught in the UK. Listen to why on this @PassportIrish podcast - 'The Knowledge Gap'.

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Rachel Lavin

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Notice how, despite large individual attacks elsewhere in Europe, Northern Ireland was consistently the most densely clustered region where fatal terror attacks occurred in the past 50 yrs. It was one of the deadliest longest-running conflicts the European Union has ever seen.

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In which a popular Irish meme page accuses an SDLP politician from South Belfast of 'taking the soup' for working as a civil servant in the UK.

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Rachel Lavin

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Tactically turning down journalist interviews is a growing problem in the UK. Glad to see @KayBurley empty-chairing to call it out...

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Matt Chorley

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“And yet we have an empty chair” Pretty devastating rundown of Tory blunders by @KayBurley while party chairman James Cleverly is 15ft away and refusing to come on air

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Rachel Lavin

3 years

Lies have played a big role in this war. The main narrative - that Russia is the innocent victim of "nazi" Ukraine's aggression - goes hand in hand with the military strategy, and even precedes it. An analysis by @DFRLab shows how this propaganda began in November.👇

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Rachel Lavin

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Bought a *stunning* vintage suit in the charity shop and found this in the pocket.

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Rachel Lavin

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There's a new pro-Palestinian bloc in the British parliament. 5 MPs who primarily ran on the issue of the Israel-Gaza war now outnumber the Greens & are equivalent in size to Reform's seat share. They are largely first-time independents who beat key Labour candidates👇

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Rachel Lavin

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And finally, how do EU borders elsewhere compare? There are 120 external land border crossings along the most eastern border of Europe. In Northern Ireland there are currently 208. Compare both here:

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Rachel Lavin

4 years

Ireland's excess mortality rate ranked as 8th out of 18 European countries, during the peak of the pandemic. Our excess death rate per million population was 9 times Norway & 4 times that of Denmark Read our latest analysis in the @businessposthq here:

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Rachel Lavin

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Weekly update to @businessposthq Covid tracker: I have 'united' Northern Ireland's local government districts with Ireland's county map. NI is a stark contrast! Cases per 100k: 534 in Derry City & Strabane. 321 in Newry, Mourne and Down. 241 in Belfast. 🧵

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Rachel Lavin

3 years

If Omicron **doubles every two days** then surely, every two days you wait the resulting wave will get twice as bad?

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Rachel Lavin

4 years

The DoH tracks the Irish public's emotional wellbeing in a weekly survey. Since the vaccine was announced they've added a new emotion - hope.

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Rachel Lavin

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I find trying to discredit scientists who highlight risks of the pandemic simply by saying they’re pessimistic really odd. Optimism is a bias too. Convo shouldn’t be about the person’s individual outlook - it should be about whether or not what they’re warning about is true.

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Rachel Lavin

3 years

Good Twitter advice from Dorothy Parker. 🎉

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Rachel Lavin

3 years

Thinking today about Covid optimism and the Stockdale paradox (based on the pov of a Vietnam prisoner of war who spent 8 years in captivity) 👇

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Rachel Lavin

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"If we can teach them about (the holocaust) why do we not teach them about what neighbours did to neighbours in Northern Ireland?" Thoughtful response by @mairiac31 to our @ST__Ireland poll showing young people's ignorance of the Troubles in the South👇

We must teach children the full, bloody reality of the Troubles to break the cycle of violence for...

Last month I was out for lunch with Joan Burton and I mentioned that my daughter had never seen the GPO. “What’s that?” my Saorlaith then asked. “Have you ...

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Rachel Lavin

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@sarahcareyIRL @dangerdillon @ronanlyons @davidmcw Oh and 90% of sick children traveling to children’s hospital by car - the public transport arguement is largely pointless.

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Rachel Lavin

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Something I always find confusing in reference to atrocities in The Troubles - if killings, particularly when innocent civilians such as children were intentionally murdered, are explained as part of a "war", is there not then grounds to consider them "war crimes"? #rtept

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Rachel Lavin

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Happy New Year to everyone who has endured all my Covid data reporting this past year 🥳 With a fresh start and fresh stats, I do think 2022 will measure up better overall 🤞📈

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Rachel Lavin

3 years

Did you know you can catch Covid from an empty room? Or that your lungs have the same surface area as a tennis court and you breath 7 - 8 liters of oxygen a minute? Allow @Orla_Hegarty to convert you into a ventilation enthusiast with this long read 👇

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Rachel Lavin

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And how that terror in the UK compared with the rest of Europe. Every fatal terror attack across Europe since 1970 - the size of each red circle represents the scale of loss. Hover on a circle (desktop) to see the details of each attack. Made with D3 & data from @START_UMD

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Rachel Lavin

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Secondary schools about to become a lot safer 🎉

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RTÉ News

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The Covid-19 vaccination programme is to be extended to include 12 to 15 year-olds, RTÉ News understands

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Rachel Lavin

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It appears delta is now dominant in Ireland, accounting for 55% of cases, according to S gene testing.

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Rachel Lavin

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Also, let’s not be all negative here. There are upsides to British ignorance - ie. I successfully convinced a date that the reason I was 45 minute late was because I was ‘jet-lagged’ and ‘still confused about the 40 minute time difference’.

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Rachel Lavin

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I'm suspicious of any sign of bots (have analysed it indepth in the past) but be very careful with confusing accounts of new users who joined twitter to follow #CoronavirusIreland during this anxious time & as a result don't have much followers/numeric handles/'mom' tweets.

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Rachel Lavin

5 years

Excited to have started as a data journalist with the @sundaybusiness this week. Here's some of my data analysis from today's edition:

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Rachel Lavin

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Where did Ireland go wrong in the run-up to Christmas?🎄📈 I looked back through the data showing how weak warnings from Nphet, relaxed regulations from government & cognitive dissonance in the public lead to Ireland's worst wave of Covid-19.... 👉

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Rachel Lavin

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One great reassurance at the moment is Ireland's rapid booster rollout. Just look at this 👇 A peak of 120k doses 5 days before Christmas, dwarfing all previous daily records from the original rollout. 7/11

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Rachel Lavin

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This is just getting beyond #thethickofit levels of ridiculous now...

@SkyNews

Sky News

3 years

"Today, anyone over 30 can get a vaccine. So get out there and get your vaccine," says Health Secretary Matt Hancock, before running away from reporters as they ask questions on Dominic Cummings' appearance at a joint inquiry on #COVID19 . Follow live:

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Westminster has never seen so many women. 41% of the incoming female MPs are women - representing the largest share of women ever to take their seats in parliament. This will be the most equal parliament in the UK’s history. w/ @matildakdavies @MaxKendix

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3 years

I think we’re finally nearing the end. And so does our exclusive interviewee - the WHO’s Special Envoy on Covid-19 David Nabarro. 👇

@businessposthq

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Are we nearly there yet? How the Covid-19 crisis could be reaching its endgame. By @RachelLavin and @DanielTMurray .

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If Nphet's models are correct - cases will peak at 20,000 - 25,000 confirmed cases per day (est. Jan 6-9) before plummeting. Projected cases per day: End of Jan: <10,000 End of Feb: <1,000 End of Mar: <100 🤞 2/11

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Rachel Lavin

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@sarahcareyIRL @dangerdillon @ronanlyons @davidmcw - 75% of patients are from outside M50 - No maternity likely to ever be at James’s. - Most staff live in commuter towns, not city centre. Your points are sort of correct - but they’re arguements for moving to Connolly not James’s.

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Rachel Lavin

3 years

In my latest bout of Covid nerdiness I bought this carbon monitor for checking indoor ventilation is safe. Carbon dioxide below 800 parts per million is “very good” - means you’re likely breathing in less than 1% of another’s expelled air.

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Rachel Lavin

3 years

Me to Irish radio 😚

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Peter O' Dwyer

3 years

Another great piece here by @RachelLavin . Her work throughout this pandemic has been unique and unmatched in Ireland. It astounds me she’s not invited on the national airwaves (ever?) to talk more about it.

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Rachel Lavin

3 years

It was 5% in the previous week. 👇

Delta variant accounts for 20% of new Covid cases, Holohan warns

‘Concerning increase’ in variant reported as 284 more coronavirus cases are confirmed

www.irishtimes.com

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Rachel Lavin

3 years

Feeling pretty privileged to be post-Covid and reading my first spread for The Sunday Times on how the Russian’s are statistically disadvantaged in Ukraine 📉 🎉

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Rachel Lavin

4 years

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who followed my data work this year! 🙌 Twitter can sometimes be an intense place but I'm so grateful for all the kind, funny and constructive questions, comments and DM's! 🥂 Warming my cold data-led heart.📈

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Rachel Lavin

4 years

They've developed a 94.5% Covid vaccine and all I can think about is why does their logo look like Tesco's.

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Moderna

4 years

We just announced that mRNA-1273, our COVID-19 vaccine candidate, has met its primary efficacy endpoint in the first interim analysis of the Phase 3 COVE study. Read more:

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Rachel Lavin

2 years

"Education is the only way we won’t repeat the mistakes of the past and, if there is one thing that this island has had enough of, it is mistakes. If we’re so proud of our path to peace, why aren’t we teaching young people about it?" @aoifegracemoore

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Rachel Lavin

3 years

Ireland has one of the highest incidence rates in Europe - what are we doing wrong? Here's how current restrictions compare across a number of areas:

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Rachel Lavin

5 years

Perhaps some of the most jarring figures I've ever graphed. The 192,256 people placed in Mother and Baby Homes, broken down by institution type and women and children. 57,000 are still alive today. Read the full story here:

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Rachel Lavin

3 years

Ireland currently with the second highest incidence rate in Europe (and that's with a 50% positivity rate).

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Rachel Lavin

3 years

2 years, 1 pandemic and est. 500+ charts later I just want to say a special thanks to the great team at the Business Post and their editors who gave me the opportunity to do data journalism in Irish media.

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Rachel Lavin

2 years

But using religion to assume opinion in a border poll is considered reductive. "It's simplistic to equate religion to political beliefs in 2022,” - Katy Hayward, a professor of sociology at Queen’s University Belfast. 8/20

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Rachel Lavin

3 years

Today Ireland's int'l travel reopens & the UK 'moves on'. I spoke to those who fear being 'left behind' - the immunocompromised for whom the vaccines may not work. That includes cancer, lupus, COPD, and organ transplant patients, like @astaines 👇

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