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I missed the first part of a radio interview with someone this morning so I don't know who the person being interviewed was, but they were comparing the cost of distributing the Oxford vaccine (assuming its safe and effective) with the cost of distributing the Pfizer vaccine. The person said...

Some bad language in this song, but it's still worth a look just to refresh our minds about what Trump has been up to.

I was listening to one of the leaders of the Oxford Vaccine on the PM programme on radio 4 this evening. He said that they had started their phase 3 trials in April and Pfizer started in June. He went on to say the reason Pfizer have managed to get preliminary results earlier than them was...

This seems very good news. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/09/covid-19-vaccine-candidate-effective-pfizer-biontech

Yes, I don't think there has been enough information given to people about vaccines. If we get safe and effective vaccines then it's in all our interests that these vaccines should be provided to everyone on the planet not just the wealthy countries. If only the rich countries get the vaccines...

I've always thought he wasn't right mentally but I agree with you I think he has got worse. I wonder if it might have something to do with the cocktail of drugs he must be taking to be able to do the rallys he has been doing over the last few weeks. If we think how drained and lethargic BJ...

I think you have clicked on one two many of vfrs links, you will be telling us next your moving to France to live because they are the nicest and most honest people on the planet.

I wonder which Tory MP or ministers wife, brother, sister, other relative or mate they went to school with owns the company mentioned in the article that makes the test machines.

There have been nearly 50 million recorded cases of Covid 19 world wide and probably many times more that have not been recorded and yet there have only been a tiny amount of re-infections. This would suggest that at least for several months after catching the virus the chances of re-infection...

I could be wrong but I assumed Barry was joking when he made that fix comment.

I don't really see how Biden can win now. Trump is going to do the following a) If it looks like he is going to win then he will let the count continue and things will more or less carry on as before. b) If it looks like Biden is going to win then Trump will kick up a massive fuss, lawyers...

Well so much for pollsters, they must now be held in lower regard than tabloid journalists or even our senior cabinet members. How did so many pollsters get it wrong when they had 4 years to work on their methodology. I heard on the radio one pollster got it right, and he got it right in 2016...

Media outlets in the US are putting in place plans to counter act Trump declaring victory before many of the postal votes have been counted. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/03/donald-trump-us-election-victory-speech-misinformation

Can the way we calculate coin toss probability be applied to the US election? So lets say we want to work out the chance of tossing two heads in a row with a fair coin. We multiply the chance of tossing heads once (0.5) by the chance of tossing heads in the next toss (0.5). So we have 0.5 x...

This is a question and answer piece with Nate Silver the founder of FiveThirtyEight polling site. It covers some of the things they have put in place to try and be more accurate this time around, I wonder if it will work, they give Trump only a 12% chance of success...

I was going for a walk the other day and along came a chap I know on a really nice top of the range Specialized full suspension pedelec. I asked him what size battery was in it and he told me it was 730 wh, made by Tesla. I had no idea Tesla made e-bike batteries has anyone here heard about...

Regarding the Downing St. briefing is Boris waiting for DC to come back from another visit up north to tell him what to say. I think its been delayed twice now so far.

Yes I think your probably right. I think I have read that the initial vaccines being developed may well need a booster a few weeks after the first injection. Lets hope that they do actually work effectively and are safe otherwise its going to be very difficult to see a straightforward way out...

I agree but I do think a vaccine can play a big part in developing immunity for people. By the end of this year two or three of the really big phase 3 trials taking place should have released some of their data. Provided they are safe and effective (they need to be at least 50% effective to be...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54750775