The thing is, with a CFR of now 0.3% and, crucially, hospital occupancy with covid flat in England even though we’ve had time for cases to feed in, is there any requirement for lockdown? I am by no m… (View Post)

Part of me wonders if we’re simply having big issues in progressively amending a system that was originally intended for either training the children of the middle classes and working classes by rote… (View Post)

It’s also quoting effectiveness against any symptoms versus effectiveness against serious illness. And if only 10% of hospitalisations are from a group which provided by far the majority beforehand, … (View Post)

Absolutely. In the UK at least, there is considerable confusion between engineer, technician, and mechanic a lot of the time. Which all require very different training and education, as well as skill… (View Post)

Israel has surely killed off the "False Positivity!" meme forever? You obviously cannot have false positives outnumbering the total number of positives, so the false positivity rate HAS to … (View Post)