Sorry, I was a bit slow on the uptake of your humour! Yes, I get it!
Of course it is contradictory. Obviously masks are vitally important to protect frontline medics, who are surrounded by a high density of infected...
It seems that the WHO are publishing self-contradictory statements that lack common sense. In that 6 April document they say: In other worlds,...
You raise a good point. Thinking about what you said, perhaps it could be argued that we have two sub-populations co-existing in the same country:...
Unfortunately the virus does not care too much whether the NHS can cope; the virus will continue on its own course. So it's only the maths that we...
Would anyone agree with my calculation that in the UK, this pandemic will be over in around 6 weeks' time? If you look at the UK death toll graph...
The new Masks4All website champions the universal wearing of masks or improvised face covering in order to halt or slow the coronavirus pandemic.
I think guidelines are important, not just for best allocating the very strained and limited hospital resources, but also to preserve the sanity...
Yes, it's just commonsense that masks are likely to make a substantial difference. The death toll is 100 times higher in countries which do not...
Sure, agreed. I thought about testing being a possible factor, but looking at this graph of testing per capita by country, some countries like...
The useful Worldometers website graphically demonstrates the dramatic power of universal wearing of surgical masks to slow down the pandemic:...
There's no clinical trial evidence in that particular paper, but one of the studies we were discussing a while ago is about the efficacy of a...
I think some of the medical scientists in labs are doing very well in their response to the pandemic. I was watching a news article about a...
Possibly the topic for another thread, but how would change the administrative culture of the NHS to allow these guys raring to try new things...
Great article!
I gave the bouncing bomb as an example of lateral thinking, creativity and the willingness to try out an idea when it looks like there's a...
That may be so, but in a situation like this, we don't really have the luxury of time, to conduct a study on the efficacy of surgical masks...
Appreciate that point, and certainly doctors may have been more experimental in the past. But in countries like the UK, where evidence-based...
One general observation about how the world is dealing with this coronavirus pandemic: Obviously this is a medical issue, so the medical...
Glad to see the CDC are more on the ball with this. The UK are still saying that there is no need for the general public to wear masks or to...
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