11-09-2020, 03:32 PM
Vaccine progress is being made and that will be great for vulnerable groups. Looks like it was based on the first 100 or so Covid sufferers with 40K participants.
The trouble is the success criteria have yet to be clearly published and we've no idea yet of the demography or health of those who participated. I'm assuming this will be published so it can be replicated.
As an aside when the govt got asked for the list of people on the UK Vaccine Task force it redacted all their names. Hard to judge whether there are any conflicts from that (although reports on the head of this task force over the weekend may lean us in one direction). I'm sure Mr Vallance is very happy mind.
On other news excess deaths in line for this time of year (although strangely 80% of the excess are deaths at home not hospital) and I quote "the ICU/HDU rate for influenza was at 0.00 per 100,000 in week 42 (based on data reported from 110 NHS Trusts) and there were two influenza (2 influenza A(unknown subtype)) confirmed ICU/HDU admissions.". Similar for many weeks. So I think we can officially agree we have cured Flu.
Also revised data out this weekend showed "cases" dropping from start of October. Making even more ludicrous the lockdown we are now in.
The trouble is the success criteria have yet to be clearly published and we've no idea yet of the demography or health of those who participated. I'm assuming this will be published so it can be replicated.
As an aside when the govt got asked for the list of people on the UK Vaccine Task force it redacted all their names. Hard to judge whether there are any conflicts from that (although reports on the head of this task force over the weekend may lean us in one direction). I'm sure Mr Vallance is very happy mind.
On other news excess deaths in line for this time of year (although strangely 80% of the excess are deaths at home not hospital) and I quote "the ICU/HDU rate for influenza was at 0.00 per 100,000 in week 42 (based on data reported from 110 NHS Trusts) and there were two influenza (2 influenza A(unknown subtype)) confirmed ICU/HDU admissions.". Similar for many weeks. So I think we can officially agree we have cured Flu.
Also revised data out this weekend showed "cases" dropping from start of October. Making even more ludicrous the lockdown we are now in.