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Interesting observations: Testing the association between blood type and COVID-19 infection, intubation, and death https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20058073v1.full.pdf+html Chile appears to have by far the highest incidence of blood group O in the world - 85.8% (UK has about...

You might have thought, from your suggestion, that Johnson would have the foggiest but he plainly hasn't.

I am absolutely sick of reports on Johnson. On the Yorks packing cupcakes. (What? Someone actually thought it worthy of being mentioned!!!) On D of Cornwall recommending books. While dead medical and care staff, bus and train drivers, and so on appear to be mentioned in passing. Just let us...

at least slightly competent politicians

In comedy, so they say, timing is everything. Quite clearly, this government group of completely hypocritical idiots without a single speck of morality has not the slightest vestige of good, appropriate nor even barely acceptable timing. Promotional material The UK's points-based...

I've been trying to come up with a best outcome for precisely that. Maybe, he says he is better, but almost immediately has a temporary relapse and the view of everyone (else?) is that he mustn't continue in role?

Just think how much PPE they could save by only using it when the patients have been shown to have the virus! Funny how the procedures for all sorts of things changed dramatically when HIV/AIDS came onto the scene. No-one seems to suggest that we revert to pre-HIV/AIDS approaches. The...

He doesn't half write well (I know I've said it before!) - the logic and language flow. Also mentions brexit. Coronavirus has exposed the myth of British exceptionalism Fintan O’Toole...

Some people are making lockdown escapees less than welcome. Announcement from Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: We would like to advise people living in second homes in North Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic that routine medication will not be provided to temporary residents unless...

Lives are at stake from not having any face masks. The research looked pretty good but I agree it does need confirmation. PS Can governments be safely sterilised and re-used? Hmm, I thought not...

I have had low body temperature (only slightly) and low blood pressure (only slightly) for most of my life. Both have improved, a bit, since being prescribed levothyroxine. But, at some point as the dose was increasing, I felt as if I had a lung infection and wandered in to see a doctor. They...

That is a pretty amazing pulse pressure - 50 is said to be the point at which they should be concerned! (Mind, I know full well they usually don't even work it out, let alone act.)

We have Castlemartin range just down the road so could repel almost anything, were the army told to do so. :)

There is a very recent paper which has investigated reuse of N95 facemasks and found that most can be effectively sterlised for re-use using the standard sterilisation techniques (e.g. autoclave). So long as they are removed from point of use promptly and carefully, and then sterilised, it might...

Unnecessary travel: Massive new Covid-19 testing lab in Milton Keynes will play "crucial" part in beating coronavius, Matt Hancock announces tonight Health Secretary Matt Hancock has today officially - and secretly - launched the biggest diagnostic lab network in British history right here in...

Currently in the process of renaming itself "Further Apart". (I don't think I have ever heard of it!)

To many of us, they actually look like total pillocks. Even more so after this statement in today's briefing: Asked to comment on Cambridge police saying they would monitor “non-essential” supermarket aisles, he said We set out a list of shops which could remain open and if the shops are on...

Johnson doesn't know anything about precautions. Otherwise we'd not have regular "Guess the number of children" competitions.

Yet the type of outlet which I think could very likely justify themselves, garden centres and nurseries, are closed. At best, delivery available. But we tend not to buy enough at any one place or time to make deliveries worthwhile for them or for us. Our tomatoes are currently having mixed...

Self-evidently promoted above capabaility. While partner went into Aldi (only one person allowed - but implemented in a very pleasant, friendly way), a police car came into the car park, did a loop round and left. Suspect only doing that to be visible. But they might have had some registrations...