I am looking on a daily basis at the site someone flagged up at: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries UK figures have been...
I remember who Powis is. He was in the UCL department of medicine based at the Royal Free. He was sufficiently outstanding that I never heard of...
Not at all. Tuberculosis has spread throughout the world but most countries have an eradication strategy. Success varies but it is still an...
I think we already have an adequate sample size. The problem for me is that the difference between ME and control was marginal - not the sort of...
Easy, you just provide adequate funding. Something closer to Germany. The administrative culture arises from penny-pinching - to the extent that...
It seems that people in the UK are going out to parks more. I doubt this is a big factor, although in towns I think everyone should be wearing a...
The idea of solving contact tracing by inventing a new untried app seems daft to me. It is perfectly possible to trace people using conventional...
I agree. The need for a proper infrastructure had been set out for the UK government within the last ten year and ignored due to shortage of...
It looks as if the real experts are now stepping in in the UK - including Alyson Pollock, who is a very smart lady indeed. She has a track record...
I think this is a misconception of evidence based medicine. The idea of evidence based medicine was to stimulate doctors to get evidence to...
I hesitate to ask but I wonder if any of the 2215 members of the forum think they have had Covid19? nd what was it like? The only people I know so...
Vaccination in the past I think would be irrelevant. The helpful action of BCG would be only at the time of giving.
The tubercle bacterium has a particularly potent innate immune stimulant in it that became the central ingredient what was called Freund's...
Real soap is actually different from most synthetic detergents like washing up liquid in that the combination of sodium ions and weak...
I actually think this is the opposite of the case. Evidence based medicine was introduced by the medical profession to try to clean up its act...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851497/ Gives an idea of background
Costello says it as it is, again;...
And so it seems is Public Health England or whatever they are called. This really does look to be the root of the problem. Elsewhere in Guardian...
It looks as if the antibody tests so far are too unreliable to be much use. I thought it was a bit much to expect a reliable IgM test early on....
I like Herd Protection. Another neologism that occurred to me earlier today is Pagliocracy (government by clowns) Edit: Maybe it should be...
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