With perhaps the mildest New Year's ever, we really ought to say "go outside". (View Post)

If Omicron had arrived early 2020 it would have been far worse than the Wuhan strain, even if it were milder with no prior immunity or vaccines the case numbers and hospitalisations would have been e… (View Post)

I'm not even arguing that UK testing is good enough, what bugs me is the belief that too many have that it is easy to do better, and that the UK is bad at testing. The only countries that conduc… (View Post)

I hope this works. So there you are, a bunch of relevant countries showing the tests done and positive results. Note where South Africa and the UK are. There is as far as I know no country with a pop… (View Post)

It was in the context of "what has gone wrong with testing?" Saying SA does more PCR tests was only true as a fraction of the total testing, in reality the UK does over 20 times as many PCR… (View Post)