Brexit, for once some facts.
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I'm glad to say that this turned out not to be the case for my wife. She has just had her test result, it was negative. That's a huge relief. It seems its just luck of the draw how quickly you get your result back. My wife was tested on Friday, she knows people who were tested on Thursday who are yet to have their results.
Excellent news, so glad to hear that.
I think this piece in the Guardian sums up how most of us feel about BJ and this Government.
www.theguardian.com
Boris Johnson is the wrong man in the wrong job at the wrong time | Polly Toynbee
The Sunday Times revelations confirm all our worst fears: the prime minister’s handling of coronavirus has been shockingly complacent, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
I think there is a strong probability that high levels of air pollution lead to higher Covid death rates see here.
www.theguardian.com
Air pollution may be ‘key contributor’ to Covid-19 deaths – study
Research shows almost 80% of deaths across four countries were in most polluted regions
www.theguardian.com
From a Wales perspective, that does make a lot of sense. Newport and Cardiff (and two or three up the valleys), then Swansea, Llanelli. Powys very good and down here also pretty good. But there is also an apparent link simply with population.I think there is a strong probability that high levels of air pollution lead to higher Covid death rates see here.
Air pollution may be ‘key contributor’ to Covid-19 deaths – study
Research shows almost 80% of deaths across four countries were in most polluted regions
Amazing:
Oil prices fall to historic lows
The US oil market has collapsed into negative prices for the first time in history as North America’s oil producers run out of space to store an unprecedented oversupply of crude left by the pandemic, Jillian Ambrose and Martin Farrer write.
The price of US crude oil has fallen by more than 105% on Monday as rising stockpiles of crude threaten to overwhelm oil storage facilities. It is the lowest level since futures contracts began trading in 1983.
Mind, still 107.9 at my nearest petrol station m(Tesco). Probably 5p less ten miles away.
Oil prices fall to historic lows
The US oil market has collapsed into negative prices for the first time in history as North America’s oil producers run out of space to store an unprecedented oversupply of crude left by the pandemic, Jillian Ambrose and Martin Farrer write.
The price of US crude oil has fallen by more than 105% on Monday as rising stockpiles of crude threaten to overwhelm oil storage facilities. It is the lowest level since futures contracts began trading in 1983.
Mind, still 107.9 at my nearest petrol station m(Tesco). Probably 5p less ten miles away.
I wish he'd explained. We can interpolate and guess, but at times like this we need it in simple direct words, please.
The World Health Organization chief has warned that the worst is still ahead of us in the coronavirus outbreak, reviving international concern just as many countries ease restrictive measures aimed at reducing its spread.
The director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, didn’t specify why he believed the outbreak that has infected some 2.5 million people and killed over 166,000 could get worse. He and others, however, have previously pointed to the likely future spread of the illness through Africa, where health systems are far less developed.
“Trust us. The worst is yet ahead of us,” Tedros told reporters from WHO headquarters in Geneva. “Let’s prevent this tragedy. It’s a virus that many people still don’t understand.”
The World Health Organization chief has warned that the worst is still ahead of us in the coronavirus outbreak, reviving international concern just as many countries ease restrictive measures aimed at reducing its spread.
The director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, didn’t specify why he believed the outbreak that has infected some 2.5 million people and killed over 166,000 could get worse. He and others, however, have previously pointed to the likely future spread of the illness through Africa, where health systems are far less developed.
“Trust us. The worst is yet ahead of us,” Tedros told reporters from WHO headquarters in Geneva. “Let’s prevent this tragedy. It’s a virus that many people still don’t understand.”
Posted it before but worth reposting > https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/how-cities-flattened-curve-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic-coronavirus/
You've got to keep your foot on it till it's well flattened to stand the best chance of it not jumping back up
Could be that - but other suggestions include it romping through Africa. And I am not convinced India isn't going to erupt in awfulness.
it's a virus that behaves like a computer virus.
it holds all of us to ransom.
If only we could trash the system and restore from a backup. (Obviously, a backup that is isolated so it can't get infected.
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COVID19 is a very clever virus, it spreads silently while exhibiting no symptom and allows nearly 99% of its victims to survive and we currently can't remove it.
It kills randomly so that nobody can feel completely safe.
The worse aspect of it, not only we now have the complete genome in the public domain, but also we have the knowledge and equipment to make similar viruses.
Do you know that COVID 19 and SARS differ only in fewer than 330 amino-acids?
I just can't see our way out.
It kills randomly so that nobody can feel completely safe.
The worse aspect of it, not only we now have the complete genome in the public domain, but also we have the knowledge and equipment to make similar viruses.
Do you know that COVID 19 and SARS differ only in fewer than 330 amino-acids?
I just can't see our way out.
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Indeed, I've raised this already in respect of London's high pollution and very high Covid-19 infection rate.
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Just one pre-publication paper's view of Trump's perfect medicine for covid-19 -
Hydroxychloroquine
Conclusion: This study indicated no clinical benefits regarding HCQ for treatment of COVID-19 patients. However, further large clinical trials should be taken into account in order to achieve more reliable findings.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20065276v1
Hydroxychloroquine
Conclusion: This study indicated no clinical benefits regarding HCQ for treatment of COVID-19 patients. However, further large clinical trials should be taken into account in order to achieve more reliable findings.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20065276v1
I don't see how Remdesivir is going to treat Covid19. It helps to slow down the replication of CV but there is no mechanism to target Remdesivir to most or all of the affected cells.
The vaccine that Sarah Gilbert talked about on Marr's show targets the spike protein. Instead of attacking the head of the spike, she intends to cut the spike in the middle which does not change during mutation. Her antibodies remain in the blood plasma and kill the virus minutes after it gets into the victim. Only problem is it could blow up more than Covid19.
The vaccine that Sarah Gilbert talked about on Marr's show targets the spike protein. Instead of attacking the head of the spike, she intends to cut the spike in the middle which does not change during mutation. Her antibodies remain in the blood plasma and kill the virus minutes after it gets into the victim. Only problem is it could blow up more than Covid19.