Yes, right now nobody should give a stuff what vaccine or number of doses they get if it keeps them out of hospital. Stopping severe disease is by far the most important effect that the vaccine has. (View Post)

I expect that this pandemic will last several more years, by the time this is over the league table could look very different. It is entirely possible that there are worse waves to come, and also qui… (View Post)

He's drawing the wrong lesson. It's not the UK that needed to join the EU scheme, but the EU needed to follow us, in terms of investment, priming the pump, onshoring etc. (View Post)

I thought that was interesting as well. Wasting three months and not even saving any money would be a particularly crap outcome. (View Post)

I bloody well hope so, because he is clearly incapable himself of understanding the figures — several people here came up with plausible altenatives like confidence intervals or the size of the cohor… (View Post)