A bit of that and bit of them just not trusting the data *at all*. Only when the data started coming out of Italy did things change. Too late in my view but there we are. To me it's a case of: Do I t… (View Post)
On the China statistics, true or not. Individual groups of clinicians provided accurate data from studies within their hospitals describing the symptoms, CFR, the hospitalisations %, the severe-mild … (View Post)
Day 8 (me) and Day 11 (wife) with the virus. It's so up and down. Yesterday we felt good, almost better. Today it feels like Day 2 again. I have seen some good accounts of people on Twitter with simi… (View Post)
There is an incentive for individual journalists to offer the next hot-take. In particular, political journalists when they dip their toe into science seem to confuse themselves and think there is su… (View Post)
I have heard it mooted by someone, potentially the CMO, that our current molecular diagnostic, called a PCR test, is only 75% sensitive for Covid19. That means out of all those who actually have Covi… (View Post)