Fingers crossed Boris recovers soon. Since all is a bit miserable here, some better news: numbers of new cases / fatalities (in hospitals) in both Spain and France are declining extremely fast. It's … (View Post)

Yes, actually. I'm quite optimistic that we can do this next time - especially if the consequence is more lockdown! Technologically, solutions are being developed (see this thread: https://twitter.co… (View Post)

Massive testing (100K per day) and rapid contact tracing (manual and using Apps) can not only reduce the number of new cases but also, as per South Korea, prevent the situation getting out of control… (View Post)

These plots, as stated yesterday, depend entirely on the baseline. It thus always has to be put in that context and not over-interpreted (as the tweet does!!). (View Post)

Apologies for the long comment, but I think there are some reasons to be hopeful at present. There are some interesting tweets from top quality epidemiologists this morning talking about an Infection… (View Post)