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The ordure continues to flow, unabated. This is what taking back control means? Ending up with a contract to a French company. When they reported: Eleven days ago, the DHSC announced a new “24/7 military operation” to oversee the supply of PPE to health and care workers. “We’ve had to create...

But not for the antibody treatment - which was what I meant. :) They are collecting post-covid-19 patients' blood for that. I wonder if Johnson will donate?

“With so many coronavirus deaths, Labour should not be holding back,” writes Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former director of communications. It has been both a curse and a blessing for Keir Starmer that he has become Labour leader amid a global pandemic. A curse because in normal times his...

Make sure they get a jolly good diet, rich in iron, B12, proteins, etc. :) Anyone ever tried bovine antibodies? You could get a lot more blood from them than humans. (I have little idea about trans-species antibodies - probably kill us!)

Standard Russian Roulette probability for one chamber/one shot is 16.67%. Will vaccine be better or worse?

Tuesday 21/04/2020 Country 2018 population Total cases Deaths Deaths / cases % Cases / pop % Death/pop % England 55,977,178 96,117 15,606 16.2% 0.17% 0.028% Northern Ireland 1,881,641 2,758 207 7.5% 0.15% 0.011% Scotland 5,438,100 8,672 915 10.6% 0.16% 0.017% Wales 3,138,631...

But if the volunteers are frontline NHS staff without adequate PPE...

Remember cowpox wasn't man made! Not all vaccines contain the full set of genetic material to be able to reproduce in any sense. Just similar enough for our immune systems to react and be expected then to reognise and attack any of the real virus.

Today's paper on this perfect drug, this beautiful beautiful medicine that is going to solve this little problem... It will open up the USA. CONCLUSIONS: In this study, we found no evidence that use of hydroxychloroquine, either with or without azithromycin, reduced the risk of mechanical...

A Nobel Prize-winning scientist has accused the Welsh and UK governments of a "dereliction of duty" for failing to make better use of domestic assistance to address testing and kit shortages. Sir Martin Evans said every resource should be mustered against coronavirus. But instead he claimed...

Another permanent under-secretary on his way out? Staying out of EU ventilator scheme was 'political decision', not email error, says Foreign Office chief Patrick Wintour UK ministers took a political decision not to be involved in an EU ventilator scheme, Sir Simon McDonald, the Foreign...

Laura Kuenssberg ✔ @bbclaurak Just spoken to Keir Starmer on PPE problems - 'what we’re seeing here is an increasing gap between what the government says or thinks is happening and what the frontline are telling us'

Possibly not! Coronavirus: Skomer man self-isolates on island with just five people https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52152960 I haven't looked for, nor have I seen, any updates on this.

His Dark Statements: Philip Pullman: ministers should face charges if Brexit politics slowed PPE Novelist says government should be ‘charged with conspiracy to murder’ if reluctance to work with the EU obstructed provision Sir Philip Pullman, CBE, FRSL...

Even the Falklands has covid-19...

My brain immediately thought of Johnson being made PM of Rockall and living there... Poor fish and birds. :(

I think they mean respirators as in facemasks - a commonly used term in industry even if the full term is longer and more precise: An FFP mask (Filtering Facepiece Particles, also called respiratory protection mask) is a type of protective mask certified by the European Union that serves to...

As in calling Hancock's 100,000 tests arbitrary? They have a dilemma. If Hancock is to go (seems definite - just when), how can they maintain that they had the right, the best possible team in place so far? On the other hand, if he can demonstrate his incompetence so forcefully, he has to go...

Will our joy never cease? Boris Johnson steps up his workload with focus now on preventing 'second wave' of coronavirus The Prime Minister is receiving daily updates from his team as he re-establishes his grip on the coronavirus crisis Project Fear is ramping up as they threaten he might...

When I worked in the NHS, for a while and a long time ago, the system seemed very clear: SRN - blue stripes, SEN - green stripes, acilliary, cleaners, etc., something else, often white or pink. More senior nurses were usually solid blue. Trouble was, even then, not all hospitals (or areas or...