If it is such a good idea, why didn't they do it weeks (or years) ago?
Could an accountancy company call in a C-17, if required?
Brexit, for once some facts.
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Could an accountancy company call in a C-17, if required?
I was just meaning that it is so incredibly feasible. Unless something else is using up C-17 capacity?
Sit down restaurants could liquidise everying into into a consommé able to be slurped through N95 masks...
My local Chinese takeaway has been doing a roaring trade esp with home deliveries for folk who can't cook or bored with band on toast - they're taking on staff to cope with demand. I watched with facination as they had a Polish girl taking orders and this led to all sort of confusion with the English / Chinese translation over the phone going to the kitchen.
"Asked about the delayed shipment from Turkey, the Department for Healthand Social Care referred queries to the Foreign Office, which was contacted for comment."
Wonder if its 'Made in Turkey' stock or coming via Turkey from elsewhere - whatever has happened the govt are keeping stum over the reason for delay. Wonder if Erdoğan guzumped the price or attached something to the deal, and can't see any news about it on Turkish websites (theyre using a partial lockdown with a claimed 2k deaths)
Wonder if its 'Made in Turkey' stock or coming via Turkey from elsewhere - whatever has happened the govt are keeping stum over the reason for delay. Wonder if Erdoğan guzumped the price or attached something to the deal, and can't see any news about it on Turkish websites (theyre using a partial lockdown with a claimed 2k deaths)
Meanwhile, just what is Johnson doing? The PM, who is five COBRA meetings short of a pandemic, at one and the same time is said to be doing things and yet nothing has changed, from our PoV.
"Mendez says she spent 10 days on the ventilator thinking she was a character in the Netflix show On My Block. Her imagined exploits on the “show” felt real, but everything happening in real life felt like a dream. When she finally came to, the hospital wing was covered in Christmas decorations. She assumed she’d been in a coma for almost a year, until a nurse told her they were only an April Fools prank. "
Wonder if Boris also thinks it's all a bad dream / all over and he's happily living the life as World King in his secluded mansion...
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Wonder if Boris also thinks it's all a bad dream / all over and he's happily living the life as World King in his secluded mansion...
The Next Coronavirus Nightmare Is What Happens After the ICU
When Janet Mendez first got off the ventilator, she had no idea who she was. “[The hospital staff] kept calling me Maria,” she told The Daily Beast. “I said, OK, that’s my name.’”Except, of course, it wasn’t. Maria is her mother, who had been anxiously calling Mount Sinai in upper Manhattan...
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Yes BS. The Irish Gov sent an aer lingus plane all the way to China a fortnight ago. It was a national event in a sense, It was about 2 hrs on the ground there and flew back. First time an aer lingus plane was in Asia..I think.
The UK response is frighteningly inept . I of course worry ,having 2 brothers and a sister there, with their families ,and also cousins..
But is it CHEAP ? that is what the government wantsif I understand correctly, the vaccine that the Oxford group is proposing is a mRNA vaccine. It's cheap and easy to produce but there are reasons why none of them has been approved.
why do I have a bad feeling about this?
The Danish Government has been the first to specify that companies based in tax havens wont be given tax Bailouts
Lets do the same!
Lets do the same!
There really is no cure for the criminal stupidity of the Express
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Boris Johnson has NOT mishandled coronavirus response - No10 issue extraordinary statement
BORIS JOHNSON has been accused of mishandling the UK's response to the coronavirus crisis, but Downing Street has published an extraordinary statement defending the Prime Minister.
And the rabid alleged to be genuine readers comments that support the party line
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Boris Johnson has NOT mishandled coronavirus response - No10 issue extraordinary statement
BORIS JOHNSON has been accused of mishandling the UK's response to the coronavirus crisis, but Downing Street has published an extraordinary statement defending the Prime Minister.
And the rabid alleged to be genuine readers comments that support the party line
The Daily Mail is trying to present Boris as the "good guy"
Boris Johnson is 'reluctant to end lockdown over fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections' - despite lowest daily death toll for two weeks - but Sunak and Gove want to 'run hot' and ease restrictions sooner
Boris Johnson is 'reluctant to end lockdown over fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections' - despite lowest daily death toll for two weeks - but Sunak and Gove want to 'run hot' and ease restrictions sooner
Utter bilge. The number 10 statement.
Let us look at one single issue. Building Nightingale hospitals.
If it was appropriate to do so, due to known lack of capacity, why did they leave it so late? It wasn't something, like lockdown, that should be left until some precise magical point.
By 8th March, when covid-19 issues were becoming ominously clear, where was his focus?
"What I've been doing since the flooding began is co-ordinating the national response but also looking at what we can do in the next months and years to ensure this country really is ready to cope with the impacts of flooding."
Mr Johnson received a mixed reaction as he spoke to residents affected by the floods and said he would "get Bewdley done".
We can all understand there was the flooding emergency but his words suggest he has nothing else on his mind whatsoever but flooding.
yes, relatively speaking.
Sarah Gilbert is co-founder of Vaccintech.
I read somewhere that they only need £100 Mils injection to develop their universal flu/Mers/Covid19 vaccine.
I guess the long term payout is the licence for their modified virus vector.
Too late for that, he’s killed too many people.
I note that the EU discusses those who are 65 and older, whereas the UK continues referring to over 70.
Executive summary
Overall, large increases in COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to be reported from the EU/EEA countries and the UK. In addition, in recent weeks, the European all-cause mortality monitoring system showed all-cause excess mortality above the expected rate in Belgium, France, Italy, Malta, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, mainly in the age group of 65 years and above.
www.ecdc.europa.eu
Executive summary
Overall, large increases in COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to be reported from the EU/EEA countries and the UK. In addition, in recent weeks, the European all-cause mortality monitoring system showed all-cause excess mortality above the expected rate in Belgium, France, Italy, Malta, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, mainly in the age group of 65 years and above.
Rapid risk assessment: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: increased transmission in the EU/EEA and the UK – eighth update
Since 31 December 2019 and as of 7 April 2020, over 1.3 million (1 316 988) cases of COVID-19 have been reported worldwide, and more than 70 000 (74 066) deaths. Half of these cases (608 500) have been reported from the EU/EEA countries and the UK, and over 50 000 (51 059) of them have died.
Six points of criticism: UK government's flailing coronavirus response
Aspects of contingency planning for pandemic are coming under scrutiny, from PPE to political leadership
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"Boris Johnson "has been at the helm of the response to this, providing leadership during this hugely challenging period for the whole nation"."
I've just been listening to the CEO or Roche talking live on the CNBC TV channel. He said they have developed a reliable anti-body test that will be in production by May. It is a blood test and so will not be for people to use at home themselves.
The test in the lab only takes a few hours but obviously that does not include the logistics (taking blood sample, sending it to the lab and informing the donor).
They have the structure to scale this test up fairly rapidly, and should be able to do several million a day by June. I think this was in the USA though where they have facilities. Our Government probably wont want to use them because they are "European".
The test in the lab only takes a few hours but obviously that does not include the logistics (taking blood sample, sending it to the lab and informing the donor).
They have the structure to scale this test up fairly rapidly, and should be able to do several million a day by June. I think this was in the USA though where they have facilities. Our Government probably wont want to use them because they are "European".