I think you need to take those estimates with a huge dose of salt. They're based on a very simplistic model in which transmission of the virus is uniform throughout the population. In reality, t… (View Post)

More like a choice between two planes, one of which has a safety record three times better. But thankfully there should be enough Pfizer vaccine for people in the highest-risk groups. And the fact th… (View Post)

There is a larger Phase III trial of the AstraZeneca vaccine in progress in the USA. As far as I can see, it is using two full doses. But it may make it clearer that there is a real difference betwee… (View Post)

I must admit I've been surprised at the lengths to which Trump is going to try to overturn the election result. But nothing I've seen suggests that Republican politicians in general will be… (View Post)

Full marks to any Polish immigrant who succeeds in basing a political career on telling us that foreigners shouldn't be telling us what to do. (View Post)