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If you only take into account those eligible to be vaccinated, it makes some figures look very odd. For example, every time the range of ages changes, the percentage changes. And if, as now, some under 18s have been vaccinated, you need to make sure they are not counted against the 18+...

What do you actually mean? Beyond getting vaccinated, of course. What learning can I do to jostle along with Covid all round?

Have to say, I am hoping for much from Mark II vaccines which I strongly suspect are being developed. Attributes such as: Non-injection - maybe nasal spray? Temperature tolerant - needing no cooler than domestic refrigerator coolth. Better side effect profile. Better/wider effectiveness. Cheap...

The sun has set on our European existence. O, it's lovely roamin' in the gloamin'! Three has become the latest UK mobile network to reintroduce EU roaming fees, in another post-Brexit setback for customers traveling abroad. A flat £2 daily charge when roaming within an EU country will apply...

Regardless the other aspects of the story, it is obvious that UK is not going to get a fab. And UK motor manufacturing is seriously affected by chip shortages. (Not that the fab will be operating in the relevant timescale.) Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger on Tuesday said he would be willing to pour...

Ah - Patience!!! Twenty love-sick maidens we Love-sick all against our will Twenty years hence we shall be Twenty love-sick maidens still Ah, misery!

Should have saved that for after the she-ruffle. (Nod to Carrie.)

Starmer got it wrong. :( Johnson doesn't so much gesticulate as testiculate. :)

I bunged in an obvious search and found a fascinating array of papers/case studies/etc. about B12 and various viral diseases. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=b12%20shingles&sort=date Topics include post-herpetic neuralgia, AIDS, herpes zoster, and others. I take B12 because it helps...

With vitamin D it is very difficult to separate out the impact of adequate levels per se from any possible impact of additional dosing. There is also the severe problem that some people get very unpleasant symptoms from any vitamin D supplementation. Because this is ignored - almost universally...

As someone who already takes regular B12, I have just seen this: Drug repurposing based on a Quantum-Inspired method versus classical fingerprinting uncovers potential antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 including vitamin B12 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34401881/

A very modest screw-up by Johnson standards. Sorry, did I write "standards" in relation to Johnson? But attitude is typical - ignore warnings and spend regardless. Audit office blames UK government for botched £1.5bn green homes scheme Spending watchdog says home insulation drive was fatally...

1.25% (* 2 as that is on employee and employer contributions - so 2.5% total)

The very word "global"invites thoughts meandering towards spherical objects. Which seems about right.

I so agree. :)

So why the apparent pride in being so well-informed and super-intelligent that they are the ones doing the right thing?

I have seen a particular idea mentioned several times recently. More or less, I'm not anti-vaxx, but I am not going to have a vaccination until it is no longer authorised on an emergency use basis. Probably not before 2023. Ignoring: By 2023 there will likely be enhanced vaccines directed at...

Extended half-term holiday as part of October firebreak?

Around twenty years ago we were being shown pictures of bare shelves in the supermarkets of Zimbabwe. All the blame being heaped on Robert Mugabe (and the rest of the government) by the UK government and a large part of the media. It took Mugabe around twenty years after first becoming PM to...

Or perhaps they have not yet read the email telling them they won't be getting a delivery? :) But although it is apparently the largest source, it is not the only one. Could be your surgery is getting theirs from elsewhere.