News Round-Up
5 May 2024
by Will Jones
...do not represent a major vector for transmission”. Citation 10 claims the “attack rate is similar to that in adults”. A recent study put the secondary attack rate of children at...
...the numbers on the airline sector. They were bad enough. But theme parks like Disneyland were equally vulnerable. (Do see South Park’s Cartmanland episode to get the basic idea). V-shape...
...through an entrance is tantamount to distributing plague like alms but walking alongside a crowd of people going in the same direction through yards and yards of corridors is ‘safe’....
...data shows that the pandemic has in fact ended as far as the UK and many other countries are concerned and that the “second wave” being threatened by the Minster...
...“infectious”. In the manner essential to proper probability analysis but likely to put off most people, we must think about test outcomes in much greater detail. A PCR test is...
...make fun of our politicians? Evidence from the first month of lockdown suggests that many of us harbour an inner Stasi: in April the UK Police received 194,000 calls from...
...which policy is formulated by the UK Government (and slavishly repeated by a lazy and uncritical public broadcaster). Belief in the so-called ‘second wave’, and in the importance of lockdown...
...as part of ‘contingency arrangements’. There will be some changes to examinable course content in some subjects, mainly at GCSE level. In Scotland, Education Secretary John Swinney announced on October...
...the dining room. Shown to my table, I was permitted to de-mask – but only when the waitress took my drink order. When, however, it was my turn to approach...
...UK labs were doing 50,000 tests a day, which is absolutely phenomenal, and at the time it was world-beating, and it was more than enough to get a grip on...
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