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As a high-end Neanderthal myself, I resent that accusation! Probably their Denisovan inter-breeding...

On 10th January WHO published: Infection prevention and control during health care when novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection is suspected (The advice might have been inadequate but it clearly recognised human to human transmission.) The linked article says: The WHO kept incorrectly...

Yet another collision for number 10... The government is on a collision course with the information commissioner over its refusal to publish a confidential report warning that the UK’s health system could not cope in a pandemic. In a dramatic move, the Information Commissioner’s Office has...

Perhaps the mobile phone company was (frighteningly, terrifyingly) prophetic? The future is bright, the future is orange. I can, unfortunately, imagine Johnson...

Opens her mouth and ordure is emitted?

He always has dropped into apparent normality - for a sentence or two.

What total nonsense: Trade secretary Liz Truss has argued that parliament would be able to block a trade deal if a majority of MPs wanted a vote on it, but only after the deal had been already been negotiated and signed.

Is that the one off Cornwall? Or off Brittany? Or "I don't bloomin' well know where it is. I'm lost, I am." :)

But a medicine that used to cost £12 (typically per month), rose to £268, and has now fallen back to about £120, is widely refused to UK NHS patients. Even when they have possibly been taking it for years and are supported by doctors. (Despite costing only just over a euro in Greece.)

Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale is set in Gilead - which is a not even thinly disguised USA. The company producing Remdesivir is called Gilead.

I have more than average: You have more Neanderthal DNA than 85% of other customers. Neanderthals were prehistoric humans who interbred with modern humans before disappearing around 40,000 years ago. Bizarrely, the only identified trait that I might have is: You have 2 variants associated...

Whereas the other treatment is reported: Therapies in the same class as Regeneron’s antibody cocktail cost on average more than $96,000 per course. There again, he apparently got an 8 gram dose - which was said to be massive. Possibly a multiple of the above cost. And further news on that...

Or is it Gilead-ean Pharma? Thank you, Margaret Atwood, and The Handmaid's Tale.

Thank you, EU, for letting us join you. NHS to provide remdesivir to Covid patients after joint EU deal EU commission secures enough doses for 500,000 patients in 36 countries including UK

If anyone deserves urine extraction over language errors, it is she! Get a comma wrong and you should be strung up. Miss a whole word, or select the wrong word, in a very important situation, and she probably expects it to be ignored.

Project Fear? Or Project Really Quite Accurate and Maybe Optimistic. UK reveals plans for up to 10 inland border sites to cope with Brexit chaos Sites being acquired as part of efforts to avoid long lorry queues at ports such as Dover The government has announced plans for up to 10 inland...

Unless the republicans decide that the disaster of 2020 was so bad they want a big separation from anyone connected with it. We can hope.

I see Trump isn't totally in control of the FBI: Six people charged in plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer FBI said plot involved reaching out to members of a militia who ‘talked about murdering tyrants or taking a sitting governor’

Looks like there is a lot of potential challenge to the government: Brexit strategy risks UK 'dictatorship', says ex-president of supreme court Lord Neuberger condemns internal market bill for exempting some of its powers from legal challenge...

I see Hunt is still ambitious: Tory ministers to hold 'rapid' inquiry into government's Covid-19 response Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt and Greg Clark will lead cross-party investigation