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A lot of it is over my head but the bit I do get is that the virus, as with regular flu, mutates into different strains. Hence the yearly flu jab is a best guess of which strain they think will be dominant that winter. What this appears to be saying is the virus already existed but in February...

For those who are keen to sue China, not that I'm sure there's even a mechanism to do that, this report suggests that the strain of the virus causing so many problems in here and in the US is D614G which may have originated here. Spike mutation pipeline reveals the emergence of a more...

Got to post some more tests out to get the numbers up!

Even by the Telegraph's standards this seems irresponsible. Just had my Mum on the phone in a complete state because according to the Telegraph the furlough scheme is to be wound down. As I'm furloughed she's now panicking that I'll be made redundant. However looking into it what has actually...

It makes no sense. They won't have the players playing more games than they do now anyway, ie weekend - midweek - weekend, so why the need to shorten the games?

Interesting stuff in the DCMS select committee. Bill Sweeney (RFU chief exec) said they'd already lost £15m and even if the scheduled international games go ahead they expect to lose a further £32m in revenue. However the talk was rugby will be 'the last cab off the rank' potentially not...

Probably not the best look for Hancock to tell the Shadow Minister for Mental Health, who is also an A&E doctor, to watch her tone when she questions the impact of the lack of testing. Interestingly while Hancock was telling her she was wrong Sir Patrick Vallance was telling the Commons...

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Interesting, or should that be worrying, that as well as wanting all your data now they aren't providing any means for you to request its deletion when this is all over. Its like being in a time warp. We're back to we're right and everyone else has got it wrong.

Rick Parry, EFL Chairman, has been reported as telling the DCMS they want to finish the season and use all grounds not neutral venues but realistically need to be finished by July 31. Has also said if there's no promotion and relegation it will lead to very messy legal action. Interestingly he...

Needs to be a balance though. If they tell everyone to go back to work but you can't go to pubs, restaurants, cinema, theatre, football etc thats going to be a tough sell for an extended amount of time.

Anyone looked at the alleged 'back to work' plan that's been leaked. Assuming its genuine how is it going to work making companies or staff who are returning stick to stricter rules than those that have worked straight through? That seem completely unworkable.

I wouldn't have a problem with that if he was only reporting on the playing side. Really anything past that should be dealt with by a news or business reporter depending on what the story is. The other issue is that you've got him presenting everything to do with Wasps as a positive while...

No its not updated, the 0.7 is from an Imperial College report a few days ago but the reality is we're not doing enough testing to have an accurate number.

Using the latest excess death data to model through to the current date it has us unfortunately going past. Hopefully this will turn out to be wrong but so far every time the ONS has released data the figure has been updated to a higher number as they are trying to keep the modelled numbers as...

If, and its a very big if, all 4 divisions announce they are going to finish the season BCD you can see what is coming a mile off. Sky, BT and the BBC will split up the additional PL matches between them so all games are shown live and the PL clubs will get extra money for them to offset the...

There's a huge difference in those numbers. One is 6% of the population and the other is 50%. If its 50%, and re-infection isn't possible, you're getting to the point of herd immunity being a viable way forward. Going to need a lot more certainly on the numbers before they can be used to...

Why on earth are you worried? Its not like this will be run by Faculty (previously ASI Data Science who were linked to SCL Group in the Cambridge Analytica scandal). And its not like Faculty is run by Marc Warner. The same Marc Warner whose brother, Ben, was recruited by Cummings after...

On the face of it yes it is a good thing. If its purely that we created extra capacity in case it was needed and shut it down when it wasn't then job done. However if it has been shut down as other hospitals have stopped referring patients there due to them being turned away as there't no...