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We could easily have reached 100,000 tests a day. And reduced PPE usage. And staff time. UK turned down offer of 10,000 tests a day four weeks ago Government declined ‘game-changing’ US-approved coronavirus saliva tests

OK folks, let's do it the European way. Oh, hang on there a mo... Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, the deputy chief medical officer for England, says the new death figures out today are an improvement. But ultimately the government will be able to look at excess death figures, which show all the excess...

No, you can't know the members of SAGE. Ah, OK, you already know, so we'll let you know. Yes, the members of SAGE have all the experience we need. Ah, OK, so there are no virologists. Yes, of course' we'll ask around a few universities to see if there is anyone else we can drag in to shoulder...

Higher up the HoC agenda as well: Dominic Raab offers his congratulations to the PM and his fiancee. He offers his condolences to the families and friends of the 85 NHS workers and 23 social care workers who have died with coronavirus. Are they completely unable to understand how sickening...

We did, in a manner of speaking, develop immunity to smallpox. Thanks to infection by cowpox.

As if anyone could possibly consider the approach had been perfect! God knows (we don't, thanks to poor statistics) how many have died. Still less do we know how many deaths would have allowed the approach to be counted "perfect". Yes, we all know that sometimes things come out not as meant...

Paternity leave - here I go... ? Who will be in charge this time?

Search doesn't see him even mentioned in the news for ten days. Submit as today's Q from a member of the public?

The members do not get paid. And you know what they say about free advice being worth what you pay for it. And you have to ask why anyone would accept nomination as an adviser? They must see some benefit - whether a higher profile, being seen to do what your boss wants you to do, being visible...

Where is that from OG? The date of that is a bit concerning... :)

OK so weak and small: Professor Dame Angela McLean, the UK deputy chief scientific adviser, confirmed that Sage recommended that there was “weak evidence of a small effect in which a face mask can prevent a source of infection going from somebody who is infected to the people around them”...

That is about the same level of faith I have in official testing statistics - with my suggestion that numbers will drop either side of "end of the month". But Matt draws better and makes it funny. :)

If he isn't fit enough to face one very civilised and humane adult at social distance, just why are we expected to believe he is ebullient, raring to go, in charge and able to run the country? No 10 unable to say if Boris Johnson will face Keir Starmer at PMQs Labour not yet told that PM is...

Well I never - Deloitte appear to have screwed up. Women’s fashion manufacturer to make reusable gowns for NHS Derbyshire factory’s products could replace 1.25m disposable gowns in local hospitals . . “We offered our suggestion of a reusable gown in this exact fabric four weeks ago. It’s a...

Do remind me, is it spoiled brats who say "It's not fair"? Hancock suggests that the BBC Panorama investigation looking at the government’s record on stockpiling PPE was not fair and objective.

OK Hancock, we are actually interpreting your 100,000 tests aspiration not to be "capability", not to be achievable only by manipulation, and certainly not to include tests that are lost and not done properly: Concerns over delays and errors at UK drive-in coronavirus test centres Staff at...

I know!

Again, to pervert our childhood (or later) memories, The Magic Roundabout got rather taken the wrong way at this Barmouth cafe. :)

What figures are you writing about? 21,284 is 52.9% greater than 13,917.

Well, what's a few percent here or there? The Covid-19 death toll in England and Wales was 52.9% higher than the daily figures. The Office for National Statistics said it had recorded 21,284 fatalities that mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate as of 17 April, compared with 13,917 in the...