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But we were told there was plenty of testing capacity! And I I said yesterday, they only just opened testing facilities in Carmarthen and Cardigan the other day.

Johnson says everyone is now being urged to avoid non-essential contact with others Boris Johnson is speaking now. He says we need to go further. Johnson says it looks as though we are approaching the “fast growth” phase of the curve. That means cases are expected to double every five days...

UK government tells World Health Organisation "You don't know anything about corona virus. We are much much more expert than you. So stop telling us what we should do. Just bog off back to wherever you came from and never darken our doors again." Or so it appears. Coronavirus updates: WHO...

The obvious thing to do isn't go from one to another, with the obvious delays, but to shout from the rooftops: "Can anyone make ventilators? Loads of money if you can."

HIV drugs are being used simply because they exist. For all sorts of reasons, HIV went from unknown to being very intensively studied. (At the same time, treatment of some other diseases actually went backwards.) Hence a considerable number of medicines were at least tried. Not altogether...

Doesn't add much, but... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32147496

Phew! The government is, thank goodness, managing the important and urgent issues: Electric scooters to get green light to go on Britain's public roads Legalisation of e-scooters part of government’s wider plan for ‘transport revolution’...

Again, lack of information really is a problem. The time that the virus remains potent on hard surfaces has been claimed to be from a few hours to 72 hours (and probably "forever" according to some sources). But we have no real understanding of whether that means a letterbox in bright sunshine...

I happened to be on the drive at the front of our house this morning when the postie arrived. Yes, he had a letter for me. And insisted (in a very pleasant manner) on putting on a tub and not handing it to me. Muttering something about having absolutely NO contact with anyone.

We have at least two rather older MPs - Bill Cash and Barry Sheerman (there might be others). If they have to self-isolate, they will be unable to vote in the HoC. That strikes me as unacceptable. The HoC simply must institute some form of MP-not-present voting system with a high degree of...

Asda didn't have a good reputation before CV! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3KBCqz8gPGrWkWj5yGpvqgs/asda-home-delivery The lack of clarity about gloves makes it difficult to know if it is good or bad. Are they one-use gloves? Or do they put (potentially) infection-carrying reusable...

It will all be OK folks! Trump Declares National Day of Prayer for Americans Affected by Coronavirus and National Response Efforts

BAE?

I feel it unworthy to wish for someone's demise. But I really find it hard to deny...

And I most certainly wouldn't dismiss them as "Even the daughters ..." :)

I'm sure we can all imagine the result! Bright yellow ventilators running on hydraulics. But why has it taken until now to even count available ventilators? (Or that is how it comes across.) And is no-one able to see the export potential? There will be a worldwide shortage for quite some time.

Will have to stock up even more toilet rolls... UK coronavirus crisis 'to last until spring 2021 and could see 7.9m hospitalised' Exclusive: Public Health England document seen by Guardian says four in five of population ‘expected’ to contract virus...

#72970 :) The word exclusive is positively frightening. His plan is to get it to the USA (or at least a promise) before the presidential election. Then to extort as much as he can from what is left of the rest of the world. He is an enemy.

20,000 tests is 20,000 tests. If you want to know what is happening in a dynamic epidemic, you need to do a number of tests per day (or other time period). And they need to be distributed across the UK. So far, we still only have two cases confirmed in the county. Which is either an extreme...

For some values of random. Given the uneven distribution we have seen so far, I wonder how many pseudo-random tests they would need to do to have a high degree of faith in the results?