That is nonsense. I don't know why people keep parroting this. We knew about the new strain, and all the other strains ages ago, we have been tracking them since the beginning of this crisis. Bi… (View Post)

He just said NERVTAG reported in the last 24 hours or so. (View Post)

That's not really accurate. They knew about the new strain before, but the CMO has just said that they only knew about the increased tranmissibility at the end of this week. (View Post)

Well fixing test and trace in two weeks is even more absurd than the two week lockdown. You wouldn't even want to mess with the existing system, realistically you'd want a second system to … (View Post)

Any lockdown shorter than the time it takes for the virus to work through everyone in a household is not worth it. Just thinking about typical UK households and the timeline of an infection it looks … (View Post)