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you are wrong there. The Daily Mirror broke the story on Tuesday 30 Nov, KS took it to PMQ on Wednesday 01 Dec. Rayner asked Simon Cask to investigate and refer to the police on Thursday 02 Dec. you are joking, right? The guy is a liability, stop defending him.

it was the Daily Mirror that first reported the story. As it was on the subject of one rule for Tory elite, another for the rest of us, it fell to Angela Rayner's sphere of competence. She duly did her job and asked the police to investigate. Now it turns out that there were not one but two...

I watched him talking about the AZ's blood clotting (reaction of adenovirus on PF4). 442 cases of suspected CVT, 73 deaths in the UK. Old Dr John Campbell veers to the quacky side a bit. I don't think the current way of injection was responsible for it. The point is we already know for some time...

what negative information?

SW does not care you get a jab or not but besides him, nobody on this thread is anti-vaxxer.

I understand the difference, but that's been the common basis for trials for yonks. As I said before, they sold several billions of doses on flimsy evidence. I am happy with the relative risk reduction though. You need to convince zlatan, not me.

Natural selection does not need to be very intelligent. The immune system of the recipient does all the work. Each individual who got the double dose and subsequently infected with covid will produce dozens of viable variants, not all will succeed better than the original variant but those that...

Look at how long it takes to make a prototype of mRNA vaccines. They made a bunch of samples in just 2 days (AZ, Pfizer, Moderna) and picked the best for production candidate. The only reason we got them so quickly is because a) MRHA waved them through acceptance quickly on emergency basis and...

Another way is to reset the unfurl attribute in the link from unfurl="True" to unfurl="" to avoid this kind of problem.

As far as I can make out, the current crop of vaccines are not very effective. Those based on mRNA suffer from issue of dosage and too much specificity, requiring new versions to be manufactured each time WHO identifies a variant of concern. Good business model for the producers though. those...

I reckon your quoted sentence does not truly reflect the tone of the written piece. You should have added: "said Anne von Gottberg, microbiologist at NICD. "

I doubt that segregating the vaccinated and unvaccinated would work, as long as vaccines can't stop vaccinated people from catching covid. The virus will mutate naturally among the vaccinated to evade vaccines. The main danger comes from new variants issued from recombinations, such as HIV +...

Agreed. I have my doubts about vaccine efficacy as soon as the Pfizer phase 3 trial results were out (November 2019). They pre-sold an awful lot of doses for a high price on very flimsy evidence.

I can partially agree with you on this. The available statistics on Covid deaths show such a wide difference in ASR(Age Specific Rate, deaths per 100,000 people) that passive mitigation won't explain enough. Most of those deaths are in the 80+ group (yours, 80% of the total) plus a smaller...

=950 * (100% /1000 sample size) =95% is the absolute risk reduction. For vaccines, you use relative risk reduction. You run a 3 month trial with 1000 people given a placebo and 1000 given your vaccine. If 10 people in the vaccinated group and 30 people in the unvaccinated group got Covid in...

I reckon our government would like to divert public attention from the question 'Is he alright, our PM?' BJ lurches from one disaster to the next, his only success was the vaccine.

I read somewhere that the initial samples was taken from a patient being treated for HIV in SA. The spread is centered in Tshwane, Gauteng province, North of Johannesburg. It's still early days but the reaction from our government seems a bit alarmist. Stopping some direct flights: OK, put some...

it's Boris Johnson's fault. We want something from the French, the least we must do is to ask politely. Not only we keep repeating that we are paying the French police £54 million to police the coast while we have still not paid a penny, BJ's letter to Macron is undiplomatic to say the least...

Those people know the risk better than anyone of us and they will still take it. The politics of 'pushbacks' is just as popular in the EU as in the UK. It is illegal under international laws. Blaming the traffikers is our government cop-out. We can adjust a bit the pull factors in our social...

You are correct on this, 8.8 was indeed =SUM(G461:G464), Percentage of total age-group population. There was in fact only one death in week 1 in the double dose, in cell E464, so the corresponding ASR for the double dose (=SUM(H461:H464 ) is practically zero. That made a strong case for the...