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I'm confused about what is happening with Vaccines. There is the Oxford group https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/18/coronavirus-vaccine-trials-could-be-completed-by-mid-august who are claiming that they will have a vaccine tested by September. Yet others (including Lipkin) talked about...

As I understand it Apple and Google aren't supportive of the NHS app which presents problems in that for it to work the phone needs to be unlocked and the app needs to be in the forground. They are doing their own library to support apps that have a decentralized privacy model instead but the...

From the presentation they did at the CMRC conference it seems like a very good facility with quite automated testing at good scale.

This looks like a good article on the advantages of wearing masks and how it affects R0. It goes through the different bits of evidence. https://www.fast.ai/2020/04/13/masks-summary/

This paper came out yesterday talking about ACE-2 receptors and the relationship with SARS. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.10.036418v1 Also another story talking of ACE2 receptors...

Not sure. Hancock talked about it today so it could happen sometime in the next 10 years. The concern would be what data they are tracking. They talked about releasing source code but they also need to publish protocols they are using for review.

The point about what the DP-3T group are trying to do is to reduce the privacy risks by not having central data collection. If you don't have good data then it is hard to abuse the privacy of individuals - although correlation with mobile records could be possible. I did see something...

I thought is was a great cartoon. I've not read through the protocols yet but I suspect there is some complex maths behind bits of it and cryptography is often not easy to explain or understand.

I thought this is quite a nice cartoon explaining the latest privacy enhanced tracking apps. I believe the apple and google approach is using these protocols - not sure about the proposed NHS one. It does rely on take up and people remembering to tell the app they are ill...

Given the article and the mention of a database where this information is exchanged its clearly something that is just going on in the background with out much associated publicity.

I've not seen this story being discussed. Its talking about tracking infection paths by looking at virus mutations. Its interesting to see how they can try to trace mutations and therefore infection paths. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/science/new-york-coronavirus-cases-europe-genomes.html...

Maybe not that well known but a famous mathematician https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway

The model may already be wrong looking at the predicted death rates vs what has happened over the last couple of days where they were predicting 1300 deaths in the UK rather than the 900 we had. But the data in the UK seems so flakey that it is hard to tell. Also the UK data only included...

Well done I've not got as far as a complaint just having a rant here. I did feel like shouting at people - and I think I'm normally quite carm. The police sometimes seem to have strange priorities in how they enforce the rules. I do think if they had someone going into supermarkets at various...

They do that but people ignore them.

Listening to today's UK press conference someone asked about exit strategies and whether this relied on a vaccine coming along and the answer (I think it is Powis) seemed to be there could be treatment drugs coming along as well. No mention of tracking and quarantine or any approach such as...

I wonder if it suggest something about levels of antibodies or the effectiveness of the testing rather than real immunity levels. Also some of the 9 did get the disease but without symptoms.

When the digital signature act came into law in the early 2000s I found it interesting that they excluded wills from it (at the time I was using a will as an example of the need for long-term secure digital storage).

The whole thread is quite interesting it starts here

I've just been shopping to Asda and I'm concerned about peoples ability to keep a distance. Clearly there are a lot of people who don't get it. The staff are quite bad but they are generally just close to the other staff. The last couple of weeks when I shopped most people were keeping there...