I am not saying that you are wrong in your assessment of what teachers are asked to do (remove all risk for the kids), but I am saying that that is what is wrong with risk assessment in general. Ther… (View Post)

Indeed, under the Confidence Building Measures of the Biological Weapons Convention, we do know what the MOD side of Porton Down is working on. CBM A Part 2 deals with the programme, and an update ha… (View Post)

The immune system has two components - the innate immune system which is non-specific to the pathogen/antigen, and the adaptive, which produces various T cells and antibodies specific to the immune c… (View Post)

The La Roche antibody test has - a sensitivity of 100%, i.e., if you've had COVID, it will say you have - a specificity of 99.8%, i.e. if you've haven't had COVID, there's a 0.2% … (View Post)

Thanks, once again, Nigel for posting this. Very promising indeed. (View Post)