The Wizard
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UK vaccine trials starting Thursday, fantastic news.
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I think in the original target they were assuming that the antibody test would have been included
oldboyroy
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Very well done Matt Hancock was a promising update today
The Wizard
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- Jul 2, 2009
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Still only 305 cases in Brighton and Hove, I just cannot fathom how there is so few cases in such a populated city. I’ve read things like being by the sea/less polluted can help ect whether or not that’s true it will be very interesting to find out in future what is really going on here and why certain cities are so effected whilst others are not.
nicko31
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Top civil servant says ministers made a 'political decision' to DELIBERATELY snub EU schemes to buy equipment to help coronavirus fight - after Downing Street insisted it missed out because of 'communication problems'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...decision-DELIBERATELY-snub-EU-PPE-scheme.html
Puttng ideology ahead of human life, and then lied about it.
In other times heads would roll...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...decision-DELIBERATELY-snub-EU-PPE-scheme.html
Puttng ideology ahead of human life, and then lied about it.
In other times heads would roll...
I wondered that. Maybe with that initial hit it spread wider than thought and left a large number asymptomatic or mildly affected
It's definitely an anomaly especially with so many commuters here and london hit so hard
Green Cross Code Man
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None of the equipment cited has happened. Anywhere. It is a non story.
And at today's briefing Hancock was asked about it and completely refuted it - saying he did get the invite (to join as an associate member) and straight away said yes. He also said that, as of today, nothing had been delivered anywhere in the EU. Somebody's not correct but I can't say who (unless they're talking about different things).
When the decision was taken not to join was it known that none of the equipment would materialise?
Same difference. The virus neither wants or needs to mutate. It just mutates anyway.
Ok, I don't agree with you. They won't take just that one course, they'll take all courses. The virus mutates and if one mutation is able to replicate in the host and also pass to another host, it will. And if it's able to continue passing between hosts, it will, and it will do so alongside any other mutations that can do the same. Some mutations will be so similar that they won't be called different strains. Others can be different enough to be called a different strain. While I appreciate you probably already know/agree with most of that, the point is that the virus can take multiple courses, and it won't not do so purely because the original strain was able to carry on regardless.
They've backtracked now and said you can take your kids out for a quick walk near your house.
A different scheme which started some time after the ventilators scheme being discussed.
keaton
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Nightingale hospitals being empty might not be thrilled good news it was described as Nurse shortage causes Nightingale hospital to turn away patients
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...tients?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...tients?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard
nicko31
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What happened to the lost email / dog eat my homework story Gove was pedaling? First the Sunday Times now the Mail, what is going on?
Creaky
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Why then hasn’t my wife been tested, nor any of her fellow care workers nor her colleagues who are in self-isolation due to having Covid19 symptoms - meaning agency staff have to be used, who haven’t been tested either.
beorhthelm
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management of the testing? lots of layers going on, not always pulling in same direction at same time. there is antibody testing going on thats been rolled out by private sector, hopefully that will show some promising results soon.
Machiavelli
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Up to 319 now. I've been looking at this regularly, and it's been trickling up. We can only speculate as to why but, for comparison, Bristol's number is about 50% higher whereas their population is double B&H. If we are on the low side, two factors might be high % of residents able to WfH, and also a comparatively younger population.
Someone pointed out Brighton was one of the first areas affected in UK - loads more May have had it way back when it first started and hardly tested
That was my GP and then her friend from Hove became the first UK ‘super spreader’. They traced back his subsequent movements to a yoga class, The Grenadier, her’s to a large Hollingbury doctors surgery. Some people in contact must have got the virus, but self healed and so never knew.
My family work on empty covid-19 prepared wards at Brighton and Worthing. Some staff are now standing down to go back to original duties.
Could this be the calm before the storm, or have the good people of Sussex (in the main) taken social distancing really seriously over the last month or so?