Hancock, daily testing capacity now up to 73,400 tests and on course to hit the 100,000 a day target.
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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NilSatisOptimum
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Ok, i have watched it now rather than just listen.
No disrespect to the public questioners but they were just being patronised. Its as if Tories have sat down brain stormed and come up with their version emotional meaningful politics, and as day follows night is comes across wooden in the most unique and worst of ways.
Hancock would have done better saying the lords prayer or something. And I wont be watching again, its awful and cringe.
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Greece mate.Sorry should have said.
In my defence, the first two eh? were genuine questions. After that I just got bored.Y'all?
NilSatisOptimum
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It was like guilty pleasure roughing it with me! You just cant leave me alone.
You forgot sniffy! Good of you to add it now, hope i never offended anyone...
FFS guys. Stop. Take the hint or take an enforced break.
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Obviously the first one. Whether or not they were wearing a mask. Two totally different environments.I wasn't trying to be facetious. Here are two pictures from the south bank of capital cities on Saturday
The first one, from Prague was taken after a lockdown in which people have been told they can go about their business as long as they wear a mask. The second, from London, where we're encouraged to stay at home. Which environment do you think is more likely to result in transmissions?
As long as you're not Carra you shouldn't need to be told that anyway.
Hopefully this will be the case.
However, the vaccine will only be effective if it can cause a significant enough response by the adaptive immune system. The live virus seems to cause quite a weak response by the adaptive immune system in most people because they only get mild symptoms for a few days. Maybe that is because their innate immune system works well, but vaccines rely on the adaptive system being triggered to make antibodies.
The lack of effective vaccines against other coronaviruses like sars and mers is what concerns me, which suggests that the immune memory response is not very long lived and protective antibodies may only be present for a couple of years at most.
Not only that, but if this thing behaves like some other viruses such as influenza, rhinoviruses and other coronaviruses then it might mutate sufficiently to avoid the body’s immune memory anyway.
It’s a devious bug this one, and personally I’m a bit concerned that the “lockdown exit strategy” is betting on the availability of a vaccine that may not work, or may not work for long. There is too much talk of a second peak and that it must be avoided...but the reality is that this thing will probably return either because our immune response wears off or because it mutates, and so a second peak or second wave is not really avoidable.
Obviously I hope I’m wrong here.
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You may be right, and I hope you are.
The catch with viruses is their mutation rates though, and many antiviral drugs may help reduce the viral load and slow viral replication, but even then the effectiveness of many drugs used against common viruses such as influenzas, herpes and hepatitis viruses have become reduced in effectiveness because of mutation in, say, the DNA polymerase gene of the virus.
We need to pray that we don’t see too much mutation with this coronavirus and any close strains.
The government claims they're following the 'science'. Erm, the 'science'
Q: There is confusion about what the social distancing measures are. Can you clarify them?
Hancock says it is clear; people have to follow the social distancing rules.
What distancing rules?
Robert Dingwall, of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG), says there has ‘never been a scientific basis for two metres’, naming it a ‘rule of thumb’.
‘There’s never been a scientific basis for two metres, it’s kind of a rule of thumb. But it’s not like there is a whole kind of rigorous scientific literature that it is founded upon.’
Q: There is confusion about what the social distancing measures are. Can you clarify them?
Hancock says it is clear; people have to follow the social distancing rules.
What distancing rules?
Robert Dingwall, of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG), says there has ‘never been a scientific basis for two metres’, naming it a ‘rule of thumb’.
‘There’s never been a scientific basis for two metres, it’s kind of a rule of thumb. But it’s not like there is a whole kind of rigorous scientific literature that it is founded upon.’
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