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he's landed gentry, Eton and Oxford, old English money class. I can't see he'd fit in at the Guardian.

I am sorry to see him go. He was an improvement on Paul Dacre. Money controls what the media write and the media control what their readers think and how they vote.

I think the professor meant the capsid proteins. The Pfizer and the AZ vaccines contain only a segment of the spike, not the capsid. When the body fights successfully a full blown covid infection, its immune system will recognise not only the spike but also lots of capsid proteins. A variant...

I would re-install the 160mm rotor and use a few washers on the M5 caliper bolts to clear the motor casing.

my friend who is a nurse at Southend General told us yesterday that the covid ward at her hospital has more and more unvaccinated and fewer vaccinated. This week, all patients in there are unvaccinated. Personally, I think the Pfizer is worth the effort.

problem with planting new trees is most of them (90%) die in less than 10 years without good care and thinning work of foresters. Algae, hemp or bamboo do a better job.

I think probably not but the idea of adding a few covid proteins into the next generation of covid vaccines is a good one. Same with treatments, a two-pronged approach, combining nucleosides + 3CL protease inhibitors should work better.

Dr John Campbell is wrong in his conclusion.

I can agree with that. from the stats on Roche N assay, I reckon that N-antibodies are needed to combat covid at the early stage (week 1). That may explain why new tech vaccines aren't very good.

The Roche N assay is the interesting one. It measures the level of N-antibodies (N=nucleocapsid) post infection, the higher, the better. It shows that London region has the highest seropositivity, South West lowest. That explains why the death rate in London is lower than national average. NHS...

I reckon the article confirmed what we already knew, the virus changes so fast that having S-antibodies is not enough to avoid infection.

for comparison: Covid deaths from 1/7/2020 to 8/11/2020: 9,857 From 1/7/2021 to 8/11/2021: 13,825 up 40% As you said, despite the fact that we have had vaccines, masks, PPE and treatments, covid deaths have gone up by 40% . The numbers don't look good. Let's hope that herd immunity is going...

it does not matter much whether you call the AZ, Pfizer, Moderna vaccines vaccines, compare them to the well known vaccines made with older techniques like polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, MCV, HPV, HIB, RV, flu, pneumococcal...

I am more skeptical now than last year. I don't doubt that in the absence of treatment, vaccines were better than nothing. We now know that vaccines can't keep up with variants and covid will be with us for a very long time, we need herd immunity now.

agreed. However, the efficacy of covid vaccines need to be put into cost comparison with emerging treatments, not on the individual basis but on statistical basis because governments have spent and will still spend billions on them. Just look at the cost effectiveness of test and trace. We pay...

Relative risk: testing positive is roughly equal to having two jabs. Not vaccinated, not positive previously, 21 days or more before vaccination (reference group): 1 Vaccinated first dose AZ vaccine 21 days or more previously 0.71 Vaccinated first dose PF vaccine 21 days or more...

You can download the stats here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19/latestinsights Weekly age-standardised mortality rates for deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status, England, deaths occurring Week...

it will take a lot more than slow growth for that.

which tory MPs would you like to have those two posts?

I still like him better than his two predecessors (Hancock & Hunt). for education, I like Nadhim Zahawi better than Gavin Williamson.