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Covid: Police cancel fine for couple visiting care home
Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.
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It's not a given.I think the phrase is "No Shit Sherlock".
It's not a given.
And it's a good headline. We've confirmed what we've suspected. Which is great.![]()
Given how rare reinfections has been most sensible people had worked that out a while ago, but good to see PHE have caught up.
I wad trying to post that one.
At least its answered one of my questions, theyve also note some London boroughs are approaching herd immunity, so every asymptomatic infection is also better than a vaccine.
The net is closing in on an uncomfortable conclusion.
Uncontrolled and invisible super-spreaders are better than a controlled vaccine rollout?!so every asymptomatic infection is also better than a vaccine.
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Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
This systematic review and meta-analysis examines evidence for household transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), disaggregated by several covariates, and compares it with other coronavirusesjamanetwork.com
//edit - there's also one knocking around studying 10 million people, but it's from China and..erm...yeah![]()
Factor in the time lag delay from contracting the virus to when a test can give a positive result - it can take three weeks for people from first infection to produce enough antibodies to be even detectable by a covid test.
Xmas infections should start showing up in tests being performed about now - so those spikes are bugger all to do with xmas.
nice to know that all the old codgers we've all given up a year of our lives for to protect are going to get their holidays
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Over-50s rush to book holidays as vaccine boosts confidence
Tui, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.www.bbc.co.uk
I think the reason we haven't gone down the masks outdoors route is that there is no real evidence they will have any effect - the evidence base is even weaker than it is for masks indoors. I follow Professor Dingwall from SAGE on Twitter, as he's been one of the more reasonable voices throughout this, and he posted this the other day on masks outdoors:
View: https://twitter.com/rwjdingwall/status/1348642511565320193?s=20
He also restates the SAGE view on masks in general in the replies - weak evidence of a small potential benefit, but more likely to be a placebo. Hasn't transferred to the rhetoric sadly, but that is their view.
Interestingly on compliance, Sky posted a survey that showed people were complying more this time round than in March, so I do suspect people's views on compliance are like their views on driving - everyone thinks they're better at it than everyone else
The emptying hospitals out into care homes in March is one of the biggest, most deadly clusterfucks I have ever seen frankly - I've seen figures from 15k to 25k deaths attributed to this. Add in 35k non-COVID excess deaths and it's starting to look like the response to the virus was more deadly than the virus itself. I'd heard rumours this had started again, but I note that Hancock was talking about using hotels for this - this would make sense, but what would make even more sense, is to use some of the Private Healthcare capacity that is pretty much just sitting on the shelf, and could easily be used for non-electives/recovery, and would take some of the strain off the frontline workers. Doesn't look like that is an option sadly, because politics:
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Exclusive: Medical leaders seek to ‘shame’ private hospitals and their staff into supporting NHS
NHS England and senior clinical leaders in London are 'profoundly uncomfortable' that some routine elective care is continuing in private hospitals, while the NHS faces 'unthinkable' pressures from coronavirus.www.hsj.co.uk
Gotta say I have massive respect for the front line NHS workers, but the senior management can go fuck themselves, frankly.
Is covid just doing a world tour?
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Boris Johnson admits he is 'concerned' over new Covid-19 variant from Brazil
On Sunday, authorities in Japan recorded the variant in four travelers from Brazil's Amazonas state - raising fears it would spread around the globe like variants from the UK and South Africawww.mirror.co.uk
I think it it actually is a great start to a paper.Even in the abstract it mentions the importance of airborne transmission as being controversial and and the probability of airborne transmission is still uncertain. Not a great start to a paper.
It's not a given.
And it's a good headline. We've confirmed what we've suspected. Which is great.![]()
I think it it actually is a great start to a paper.
They're saying "we don't know for sure". And if that's the case, that's the case.
Oooooookay.They are saying we don't have a clue but thanks for the cash you gave us to write this stuff. Next..
nice to know that all the old codgers we've all given up a year of our lives for to protect are going to get their holidays
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Over-50s rush to book holidays as vaccine boosts confidence
Tui, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.www.bbc.co.uk
The headline says 50+ but the article talks mainly about 65+ which is more the age group I was referring to. Agree with your sentiments.Speaking as one of those (technically) "old codgers" I'd be very dubious about booking anything yet. We actually have our ferry and gite booking in France carried over from last year to this summer but I'm still very doubtful it'll happen, because I have the sneaking suspicion that "40-60 in good health" are going to be just about the last group vaccinated.
The headline says 50+ but the article talks mainly about 65+ which is more the age group I was referring to. Agree with your sentiments.
*runs off to gorge on donuts and chips to get higher up the vaccine listMaybe they will have solved the vaccine shortage by then ^^
But bear in mind, conditions such as diet control type 2 diabetes, higher blood pressure, hypertension etc etc all bump you up the list a lot. Then of course when you hit 55+ you are more likely to suffer from 'underlying health conditions' .
*runs off to gorge on donuts and chips to get higher up the vaccine list
lol
Surely this should be illegal?
I think it it actually is a great start to a paper.
They're saying "we don't know for sure". And if that's the case, that's the case.
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
I am pretty sure it is.
People with strong anti-vaccination beliefs may be protected under equality law, Ms Hill added
I fundamentally disagree with this:
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Pimlico Plumbers to make workers get vaccinations
Founder Charlie Mullins says it is a "no-brainer" that workers should get immunised.www.bbc.co.uk
Surely this should be illegal?