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You can't ethically expose people to Covid so they just had to give people the real or placebo vaccine and let them live their lives.

the 90% comes from comparing the number of placebo people who got Covid with the number of vaccine people who did.

Is this the sort of difference that the GWAS study would identify, @Simon M?

Has this possible study been mentioned - the COVID Human Genetic Effort? It sounds like the sort of thing we would all have wished to have had when we got sick with ME. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02598-6

I really hope that people pay attention to you widely! I'm very concerned that we're going through a mass-ME event with Covid and that a lot of people's health is going to be avoidably and severely damaged in the long term by clinicians' attempts to 'rehabilitate' them out of it.

Anything we can collectively do to stop it playing out?

Ominous:

On the news it just said we're likely in the UK to be going into national lockdown for a month from next week until December 2, except for educational establishments. That surprises me, because I thought educational establishments were where coronavirus is especially spreading. Am I wrong? I...

What's the hold-up on the widespread provision of antibody tests? Is it a lack of some raw material, or manufacturing capacity, or what?

Thanks, Mij. I wish I knew! I've been given no info and I don't know what to expect. I see frightening stuff in places about people with even mild infections having serious problems come up later but I haven't been able to find any credible source that lays out public information on it aimed at...

In this, Dr Klimas is recommending that people with (post?-)Covid take various supplements including 'baby' enteric-coated aspirin of about 80mg daily to prevent strokes because of risk of blood clots. Is this going on in post-Covid patients in the UK, whether they still feel ill or not...

This says 'RFI open until 12/7/20'. Is it too late to propose things? Wondering what research you think should be done now in what is probably a mass-ME-provoking event, @Jonathan Edwards?

I'm sorry that I haven't been following things very well lately but is there scope for an S4ME response to this? For the research that we wished people had done when we'd got sick? Covid is quite possibly a mass-ME event. The rest of us got picked off one by one, mostly, over the years, making...

Very sorry to hear that. It must be especially stressful under the current circumstances. I hope you're able to get good care, one way or another.

Just seen this about 'active challenge' trials: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54612293

This sounds very exciting: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-10-15-oxford-scientists-develop-extremely-rapid-diagnostic-test-covid-19 But:

I'm surprised not to have seen more discussion in the news about the prospect of a diagnostic, mass-produced 'chip' where you'd put a drop of blood on it and it could diagnose Covid-19, like this sort of thing. Do the bioscientists among us here fancy its chances? Surely such a thing could be a...

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Thanks very much - I seem to have missed that opportunity, though! :)

It's showing up as 'Sold Out' now, which seems a pity. But I'd like to know what the proposals are. Are they listed anywhere?