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A really informative and interesting article. About Kerala and what they did so differently; also talks about India as a whole. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/13/999313/kerala-fight-covid-19-india-coronavirus/ What the world can learn from Kerala about how to fight covid-19 The...

Prof Montgomery from UCL says covid 19 is a blood and blood vessel disorder - clotting factors and oxygen changes (3mins30 sec video)

I am so sorry about your grandma :( @JaneL Such a sad and awful situation. Wish things could be so different. :( I’m thinking of you. *hugs*

@Hell..hath..no..fury... Yeah I definitely think it’s worth contacting them.

that’s terrible. Who brought your meals? When I ordered, which was quite a few months ago now (Before the corona virus crisis), DPD brought the parcels - not a courier from Gourmade themselves. And DPD have usually been quite good in my area. I think if they’re not actually frozen by the time...

Controlling spread at airports / international travellers I simply do not understand how this decision can be defended anymore. Especially when compared to what other countries are doing. London coronavirus: Matt Hancock defends decision not to test for Covid-19 at airports as Heathrow and...

The latest news, it seems, is that the UK doesn’t have an exit strategy. There have been calls to use this time in lockdown, to start implementing large community networks of testing, tracing and monitoring, by Anthony Costello, among many others, (earlier in this thread) so that the UK can have...

Ive been trying to find out where those patients in the chart are from. I’ve just found out that the data is from the UK, not the US, so I will edit my first post. The person who shared this chart, Eric Topol, is a scientist in the US and said on twitter: “The #COVID19 symptom complex, as we've...

Total figures can be misleading though because as you can see the London figures and perhaps in other cities, the amount of benefits comes out high because of the housing costs. But what people don’t see is that housing rents in London are absolutely ridiculous, and the housing benefit amount...

Ive had loss of taste, when I’ve had other respiratory type infections in the past.. ones that have led to vertigo. Not loss of smell except when nose has been very bunged up and I need to use lots of tissues and blow my nose etc, so that’s more expected. Edited to add, I do think this loss of...

@Wonko is that for ESA?

Oh ok.. they change the amounts quite a lot depending on if you have savings, if you have a “spare” bedroom, where you live, if you’re in a couple.. if they assess you as disabled.. infact they make it as complicated as possible so it’s hard to just get one number. I’ll just take it for a...

For example, I just put in Brent (Inner north London), and 2 bedroom property , it’s coming out with £365.92 per week as the housing benefit rate. But doing a quick google search of average rents in Brent, for a 2 bedroom property rent is £2,012 pcm and rents for a flat are around £1800 pcm..

Universal credit: https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit/what-youll-get And then for housing benefit (which is paid on top of the universal credit amount), or on top of ESA, it’s capped depending on where you live, as well as other circumstances (second bedroom etc)...

Split from the Coronavirus Worldwide Spread and Control thread From the COVID-19 symptom tracker app: It shows the prominence of loss of smell. This is data from the UK. It looks like they’re using people who have been tested in this graph. https://covid.joinzoe.com/us Ive been recording...

Exactly Mithriel. Are they trying to rewrite what we already know about sensory processing difficulties / sensory processing disorder? When I got my autism diagnosis, my lifelong sensory processing difficulties (which of course got a lot lot worse with onset of ME), were never treated as...

COVID REPORT 14 04 20 Published on 14 Apr 2020 Counting the Dead. Tonight's host is Afua Hirsch and our guests are: Dr Anthony Costello, Director of the Institute for Global Health, University College London Dr Allyson Pollock, Director of the Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-coronavirus-lockdown-doctor-death-certificates-latest-a9462796.html ‘I’ve never written so many death certificates’: Is Sweden having second thoughts on lockdown? ‘The data says we are heading for catastrophe, we are now part of an...

From Channel 4 News tonight: Here are my notes on what the Channel 4 news reporter says was alleged by a whistleblower:

I did see that. I would hope you are right, but when I last saw an anaesthetist (for that surgery that got cancelled), he told me that I was considered very frail, and he knew what conditions I had.