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Our chief scientific adviser / chief medical officer, Whitty & Vallance on Sky news just now, after being asked about the lack of PPE and tests on NHS: “Only science-y questions please, not on the NHS and things like that” @Jonathan Edwards So who is responsible for this then, if it is not...

Do we even know what the current plan is? I am unclear on it. Sometimes I feel we are still in herd immunity. (And some twitter commentators like Devi Sridhar and the times journalist I posted above seem to agree). Sometimes I think we are under suppression. Sometimes I think we are under...

People have been questioning why celebrities are getting access to coronavirus tests when even frontline healthcare workers aren’t. Then there’s also the fact that MPs also got tested (even under the old rules - which meant you had to have had contact with a confirmed case, or had returned from...

From what I’ve gathered, in the UK they are still not thats interested in testing the community. They said they will use that 25,000 tests to test people in hospitals and also medical staff, but only because then they can be sure whether it’s coronavirus or not, so they can get back to work if...

Testing in the UK - from a Times journalist. Recently Vallance said we would be able to test 25,000 a day - but in only a months time (no set date given). I’m sure before we were told it would happen a lot earlier than that, and it hasn’t happened. We currently have “capacity” to test 5,000 a...

Hi @Simon M thank you for writing up an analysis of the study. I found it really helpful. Do you know who was responsible for writing the original paper / model - the one which the UK used to go ahead with their mitigation model? And do you know where to get a copy of it? I would’ve thought...

I think it could have been Cheeky panda but might have been another one too. And I also remember some of the reviews saying how it was the 3 ply (or 4 ply?) that was causing it to get clogged - it was thicker than other tissues. I’m sorry I can’t actually remember very well, I just remember...

I have heard the bamboo toilet paper clogs the toilet. Or at least that’s what the reviews on Amazon (I think) said.

Can someone explain why Vallance keeps saying the UK will have 20,000 deaths and that would actually be a good thing if that’s all there was, whereas China was able to suppress the virus with around 3,000 deaths, with a population 20 times the number of the UK?

https://theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/japanese-flu-drug-clearly-effective-in-treating-coronavirus-says-china favipiravir

Is this the same as hydroxychloroquine - ie can that be used instead?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coronavirus-france-travel-ban-british-boris-johnson-cases-a9408221.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1584525723 France threatens to ban British travellers due to Britain’s slow response to coronavirus

I think this is at the forefront of everyone’s minds now. It is horrific on a scale I never imagined would happen. I see Richard Horton is talking about it and is in contact with NHS staff. I see other prominent people and scientists/doctors talking about it. I don’t know how or what they’re...

I’m finding it difficult to contain my anger. Thank you, a very very helpful report and easy to understand. The failings are on a level of other horrific decisions and failings, enough to warrant a public enquiry. This needs to be known. They do not model and so ignore standard contact...

I actually read that (I found it on the guardian site) after I had attended the appointment, last night, and am now terrified I got it. Since he’s anesthestics and was 1 hour late and cited the coronavirus, he would’ve dealt with coronavirus patients. I sat less than 1 m distance from him; for...

Renting at a cost of £2.4million a day! I would’ve thought requisitioning them, like other countries are doing, would have been the far better option. Coronavirus isn’t going to go away in 3 months.

This is a personal story but relevant to spread of covid-19. I went into hospital today and the anaesthetist has recommended I don’t do the surgery now. Because coronavirus is circulating so much in my community. I already knew it’s bad in London but didn’t realise how bad. He was 1 hour late...

http://chng.it/jVHWrM2Cqs Does it work now @FMMM1 ?

No, I didn’t pay to support it? You just have to sign it. The paying to support spread the word is another optional thing.