For each day, that's adding up the last seven days of reported cases, divided by population. That smooths out variations from weekday to weekday while being responsive to the most recent data. E… (View Post)

Fourth day in a row with a week-to-week fall in cases in England. 17845 v 24540 last Friday (and 20268 the week before). Decline started 11 days after the start of lockdown, which lines up pretty wel… (View Post)

The W German constitution was very much based on the Weimar one, whereby the constitutional assembly tried to fix the problems with that, so e.g. the President no longer has emergency powers, and the… (View Post)

What's more, any immunity derived from cold coronaviruses could actually be lower than at the start of pandemic now, due to those viruses also being hampered by the Covid measures. (View Post)

What an idiot. Cases in England have only been down week-to-week for the last three days, which is entirely consistent with the lockdown start on November 5, an incubation period of about a week and … (View Post)