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Oh no I hadn’t even realised this. As I don’t go out and people I know are also staying at home. But it looks like lockdown in the Uk (and US) isn’t really a lockdown I think this is all because Boris Johnson kept talking about making sure you get one form of exercise a day, get out of the...

Yes I came across this before - the prices are hugely inflated, more than I’ve seen anywhere else except maybe Ebay, but in an emergency could be helpful.

This is so interesting. I hope this team of researchers (or others) will follow up with this with a really big sample size. So if it’s proved true we can possibly try to get medications that could work against these auto antibodies, or even symptomatic relief. To me it certainly feels like...

Oh ok -I actually still don’t know what Bluetooth is used for, and I never have it turned on. But what if people have their phones turned off at that time or don’t use a phone? Or on the airplane mode? I guess they will need to give advice that people have to have their phone turned on whenever...

This is very worrying:

From the guardian article, “The app would not need to access location data, but could log users’ proximity to each other through Bluetooth. Once a user reports symptoms or a positive test result, the app would trace back through close contacts over the past seven days and alert those calculated...

This could be really helpful, didn’t they do something similar in China and South Korea? The problem I can see is with people not engaging with the app because of data protection concerns and privacy concerns, differences in way public views this level of interference and tracking and...

Even if they don’t test enough, we can still track symptoms as a “positive”, and track and trace and self-isolate..

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/theyre-leaving-us-to-die-ecuadorians-plead-for-help-as-virus-blazes-deadly-trail They're leaving us to die': Ecuadorians' plead for help as virus blazes deadly trail Edit: I thought I heard that some of the richer countries were going to help...

It looks like one trial from China says there is benefit, and the other one Andy posted says there isn’t any? Is it because it possibly only helps mild patients? Or that it works alone better, than it works in combination with the other drug? Or that the sample size for the Chinese trial was too...

This could be neuropathic pain, as I’ve had shingles before, and it’s an awful neuropathic pain. And then I’ve had similar awful pains like shingles (but without the actual shingles) on my body and it’s been called “chronic pain” and “neuropathic pain”. I get feelings like heart shocks as well...

Matt Hancock was on Question Time last night, and meeting people, 7 days after testing positive for COVID-19. That’s just one person. There will obviously be many more going out and about after 7 days.

“But today he refused to guarantee it will happen, saying it is only a "plan" and a "goal". And he refused to say he will resign if there aren't 100,000 a tests by May. He told LBC radio: "It's much more than about that. It's about getting the country out of this situation we're in." Mr...

Leila, thank you for posting this. It gives me cold shivers too. “Each theory has its own moral logic. Egalitarianism seeks to treat patients equally; using a lottery system to select vaccine recipients is one example. Utilitarianism aims to maximize total benefit, generally measured by the...

Community deaths in the UK released by the ONS, which weren’t counted in the official figures:

They may be trained in helping with some end of life care, but looking after patients without PPE during a pandemic that can sweep through the population of the care home and can cross-infect between staff and patients and vice versa, this seems to be very different. In other countries even mild...

They’re still at it. And then..

Now the reason I know this is doing research into these things in the past..as far as I know, it does seem to live on soap. Contact with the soap itself doesn’t kill virus or bacteria, it’s the physical act of actually rubbing and lathering the soap with the water which breaks down the lipid...

As far as I know, all normal hand soap works. It’s something to do with soap breaking down the lipid layer (I think)? But you don’t need antibacterial soap. I think anything that becomes soap-y and foamy in your hands; like washing up liquid, hand soap; bar soap etc. (With bar soap though it’s...

This situation is so desperately sad - the chronic neglect of the social care system, underfunding of the NHS, and the dithering of the UK govt when we had months to prepare combined with making decisions like following herd immunity and no testing and stopping contact tracing, and asking Dyson...