Thanks so much @Snow Leopard for your analysis of this paper, much appreciated. I posted the following report which supports the public wearing...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/05/just-273-people-arriving-in-uk-in-run-up-to-lockdown-quarantined
All the members of (the actual) SAGE group have now been published, except for two members who did not give permission for their names to be...
As reported on The Guardian website today, The Royal Society for Data Evaluation and Learning for Viral Epidemics (DELVE) has just published a...
Rival Sage group says Covid-19 policy must be clarified And more......
I think you might be getting specificity and sensitivity mixed up (it’s a bit confusing so easily done!). 99.5% specificity means that 99.5% of...
Thank you @Snow Leopard for your comments. I wonder whether you find the evidence for asymptomatic transmission presented in the following study...
This study found that children are at a similar risk of infection to the general population: [My bolding] They also found that 20% of cases...
Perhaps I am mistaken but I thought it had been demonstrated by this study?: Temporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of COVID-19...
Yes and we also know that there are very high rates of asymptomatic transmission in adults so people can certainly be very infectious without any...
Actually that’s a different study to the one I commented on (the names of the two studies have very similar titles so I can see how one could...
I wonder if the idea of behavioural fatigue came from this paper (co-authored by Wesseley and on SAGE’s evidence list): The psychological impact...
The FT data on excess deaths is a few weeks old so is now out of date. The more recent data suggests Sweden is doing much worse than that...
Coronavirus: Switzerland says young children can hug grandparents https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52470838
Apologies for cross-posting, but what I posted on the coronavirus - worldwide spread and control thread probably belongs here: Wessely’s name...
Wessely’s name appears on a number of publications that have been used as evidence for “SPI-B” who are the SAGE subcommittee on behavioural and...
[My bolding] After taking another look at this paper I noticed that Charlotte Houldcroft made a small but crucial mistake in this interview for...
Thanks Leila, that was my mistake. When I first read your post I saw that you had mentioned another study but during the time in took me to read...
So cute :)
Thank you Leila! Yes I think that is probably the study to which she is referring. Yes maybe but this is only one study and it’s only looking at...
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