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A group of researchers in Oxford are now recruiting participants to their trial to find out what proportion of the population either has the virus, or has had the virus? Will these tests accurately detect whether someone has had it, unlike the UK govt’s approach so far? (I’m a bit confused on...

UK govt admits that none of the 17.5 million tests they ordered, actually work.

It looks like on April 5 the UK had 5,903 new cases. Out of around 10,000 tested daily. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/

I don’t understand what the point of this is. Quite fed up of these institutions doing yet another new but same old thing.. I thought the PACE and PRINCE trials were bad enough So they’re going to do “biological” studies while at the same time still prescribing and carrying out CBT & GET? I’m...

Wow @Hell..hath..no..fury... Your MP sounds so nice!

@Barry It looks like this is the original newspaper article which the Independent is talking about. From the Times: “Britain has “painted itself into a corner” with no clear exit strategy from the coronavirus epidemic and needs to reconsider herd immunity, according to a senior government...

This morning I was thinking the UK was going to let go of the herd immunity strategy because of the article I posted above. Then I just read this “Graham Medley, an expert in the spread of infectious diseases, suggested the government had “painted itself into a corner” by imposing widespread...

I haven’t looked at WHO however just came across this thread, people are talking about what their countries are doing here:

Im so sorry @JemPD. That’s such a terrible thing for someone to have done. *hugs*

They’ve said they will test 100,000 a day, by the end of April. But then they started backtracking on that the next day - saying it was only a goal, and also that the 100,000 number included PCR as well as antibody tests. So yeah..there’s not much clarity really as to how many PCR tests exactly...

It looks like the pressure from scientists and others is getting through. With the UK, rather than doing the things they need to do from the start, they need to be pushed and pushed into doing the right thing by others outside the govt/scientific advisers. But at least they’re finally getting...

Thanks @Jonathan Edwards. That’s really helpful. Do you think that in 12 weeks time, we will be able to have a functioning healthcare system again? 12 weeks is the amount of time us extremely vulnerable people have been told to stay indoors. One of the things I’m most concerned about is the...

@Trish I too have found dry shampoo good, it doesn’t really clean hair but does soak up grease and doesn’t make me feel as bad or like my hairs dirty. I like this thread. One thing I do every day, is tie my hair up into a messy bun on top of my head, with a really nice scrunchie. I have lots...

The other day he said there are early signs that the epidemic is “slowing down”. Which I thought was a weird thing to say at this moment https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coronavirus-uk-cases-lockdown-news-update-neil-ferguson-deaths-a9433111.html

Is this the same acetylcholine that is related to myasthenia gravis? Or is that something else?

Then, after the country has eradicated it, air travel could be seriously restricted, and with anyone who really has to come in - 14 day quarantine upon landing regardless of symptoms, in a specific location set up specifically for this; with continuous checks and blood tests to confirm no virus...

I agree, which is why I’m finding it really hard to understand why nothing is being done about it, even at this stage. What’s the strategy in that?

@cassava7 thats really good news! :) I’m hopeful that we will hear more about this soon then!

I got a strip of blisters just above my eye and a strip of blisters just above that strip of blisters! It was one of the most painful things I’ve ever experienced. (Confirmed as shingles).

Can someone explain or point to information as to why the Uk govt do not feel a need to tackle this. All I hear is people pointing it out, flights have been landing since the very beginning from every country regardless of whether or not they were the epicentre of an outbreak, with no checks and...