Patrick Vallance was our head of department of medicine at UCL about fifteen years ago.
Yes. I am hoping that some of the reasons why they shouldn't be doing this will filter through to the science teams involved (at least I got...
Yes, and for good reason. I know one of the advisers
It is no longer important to know how many people in Sweden are infected with the corona virus, says the Public Health Authority. The public...
The problem is that to keep things 'manageable' you need to keep the current infection rate down such that it will take about ten years for...
An explosive bout of coughing is really quite possibly coronavirus just now. It seems to be the hallmark. I hope not, but I don't think you were...
The current rate of notified infected people is about 1 in 100,000. If that is only a tenth then the real rate is 1 in 10,000. If you aren't in an...
I agree. I cannot see that it can be worse than no mask. I am using a scarf, bandit style.
Absolutely. Nobody knows exactly what the pattern of transmission is for this one and it is perfectly possible that it can be spread by mass...
Some time back I suggested cleaning your hands with meths. Now you can discover the opinions of my much more famous nephew Al - at least on mixing...
It seems to be generally agreed that disposable masks are useful at least in some ways and situations - thousands of professionals are wearing...
I don't think the evidence points t that. As far as I know even the cluster of cases that came from the French chalet were all traced and the...
It sounds a perfectly sensible idea to me.
What I mean roughly is that it ought to be possible to limit infection to perhaps a total of twice the current number of cases - say 1000 people...
I do not think it is too late to deal with this crisis. Some countries in the east are doing very well. The rate of new cases in the UK has...
I don't like to be constantly critical but I am afraid that to me this looks like a muddle of half-formed and unsubstantiated ideas involving...
I agree but even 'getting through the initial epidemic' is going to need a complete ban on air travel as far as I can see, as judged by the fact...
Yes. It may be important that the whole of Italy is now in lockdown. The ridiculous business of Italy infecting the rest of the world after China...
"One person in a 70,000 seater stadium is not going to infect the stadium, they'll infect potentially a few people they've got very close contact...
There are two different issues. One is the time from picking up infection to being infectious. That tends to go along with the incubation period,...
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