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Letter in this week’s Economist from one of @dave30th ’s colleagues at Berkeley School of Public Health on prevention of future viruses spreading from animals: https://www.economist.com/letters/2020/04/23/letters-to-the-editor

Many thanks to Simon and to the organisers. A couple of comments/questions in addition to those that I asked, and were answered, on Zoom. 1. Has what is listed in the slide below under “what we have discovered so far” been published in peer-reviewed journals? How much has been replicated...

I’ve just re-read this blog. Very useful. Thanks. Two questions: 1. If the proposed ME/CFS GWAS study goes ahead, would it be able to confirm whether or not there is an association between these HLA alleles (or any other HLA alleles) and ME/CFS, or would that require whole genome sequencing...

Rosalyn J. Moran et al. Estimating required ‘lockdown’ cycles before immunity to SARS-CoV-2: Model-based analyses of susceptible population sizes, ‘S0’, in seven European countries including the UK and Ireland: https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/covid-19/Moran_arXiv_2020.pdf I'd recommend...

I wonder if the police will investigate the psychiatrist who told the BBC that he didn’t need to self-isolate when his wife had confirmed Covid-19 – the one that the BBC had to prevent coming to their studios, against his wishes. I wonder if he was still seeing patients during that time. Do we...

Article by Tom Chivers (who once wrote a good article on ME/CFS and the lightning process): https://unherd.com/2020/04/how-likely-are-you-to-die-of-coronavirus/ Not much in there that’s not been discussed on this thread (perhaps he’s been reading it) but well written. One important point that...

I wonder if the behavioural scientists have been advising Michael Gove to lie:

My impression was that she is very well informed about how ME/CFS affects people but not necessarily particularly knowledgeable about the different organisations, research etc. That is not a criticism, just an observation. I thought she came across as a very warm, thoughtful and likeable person...

Miranda Hart (UK comedian) has posted two posts on Instagram about ME/CFS and other chronic illness. 1: 2 (video): https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-XggCGFgmr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link She starts talking about chronic illness and ME at about 10 min 30 sec. In the video she shows a lot of...

Long article in the New Yorker (also available as audio): How Does the Coronavirus Behave Inside a Patient? We’ve counted the viral spread across peoples; now we need to count it within people: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/how-does-the-coronavirus-behave-inside-a-patient

Boris Johnson on 3 March: “I’m shaking hands continuously. I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were actually a few coronavirus patients and I shook hands with everybody, you’ll be pleased to know. I continue to shake hands. “We already have a fantastic NHS, fantastic...

Posts moved from Coronavirus - worldwide spread and control I’ve just read Phil Hammond’s M.D. column in Private Eye (free to read): https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1518/news In the column he repeats the assertion he made on BBC BH: I would be very interested to see the evidence he is...

Yes, I wonder if that psychiatrist who was interviewed on the BBC Today programme might be one of them. Can’t remember his name. The one who said he didn’t need to self-isolate when his wife had confirmed covid-19. The one who wanted to go to the BBC studios when the BBC website was publishing...

More from Hilda Bastian: "FIASCO" REBUTTAL POSTSCRIPT: WHAT ABOUT THAT 0.3% CASE FATALITY ESTIMATE? http://hildabastian.net/index.php/8-secondary/88 Also, an interesting article on Buzzfeed by Alex Wickham: 10 Days That Changed Britain: “Heated” Debate Between Scientists Forced Boris Johnson...

Hate to promote the SMC but some good comments on there. Prof Willem van Schaik, Professor of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, said: This puzzles and concerns me too. Why did the UK Government adopt a different strategy to the rest of the world? Did it have access to...

Yes, it will be particularly useful if they’re randomised to the placebo control arm of the trial.

Oh, the irony! Worthy of a Blog @dave30th ?

Something I’ve been wondering for a while is whether Covid-19 could tell us anything useful about ME/CFS. If outcomes (eg mortality) following infection were significantly different in people with ME/CFS compared to other groups that would presumably be useful to know, and could possibly give...