The Precarious Influence of Influenza
...the ultimate decider… the ultimate priority”. Presumably what he meant is that it outweighs all other considerations and should come first at the expense of everything else. “We do need...
...the ultimate decider… the ultimate priority”. Presumably what he meant is that it outweighs all other considerations and should come first at the expense of everything else. “We do need...
...have saved the lives of approximately 3.1 million people in 11 European countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK). In the UK alone,...
...to be “shut down”. More specifically, the campaign wants Stem subjects – science, technology, engineering and maths – to be “shut down”. Crikey, I thought when I first read it....
...the presence of the virus in ways that would have harmed the economy. But the lockdown increased that harm by an order of magnitude. Sweden’s economy, for instance, is expected...
...order to stop the blood from clotting around the plastic tubing within my veins. While preventing deep vein thrombosis (DVT) it also encourages internal bleeding. The opiates made me oblivious...
...strategies for COVID-19 in the UK“. It starts with a brief hint that maybe epidemiology models can be problematic (my emphases in bold): Well, one interesting paper just published by...
...she reported as saying that “Coronavirus kills you”. That he seemed to be alive, conscious and on the way to recovery had apparently passed both him and Crawford by. “Even...
...transmission by limiting contact between individuals was disproportionate”. Having been involved in a similar application to the Irish courts, I recognise a certain familiar circularity in this logic: because the...
...infection fatality rate (“IFR”) in the region of 0.9% that continues to be used by the UK government’s model builders . Other epidemiologists assess the situation differently. Based on a...
...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...
