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[poikka] 07/4/2020 13:49

Alps - "Gove"

Well, well, I actually agree with you, but Boris is doing a grand job and try as they might, the media haven't managed to kill him off, yet.

[poikka] 07/4/2020 13:47

maxidi - "ALP try not to sound so superior it's not very nice. You just sound big headed and nobody likes that!"

Alps - "There is much too much rubbish posted - a few facts from time to time is a novel idea to some."

You just gorra larf.

[ladeside] 07/4/2020 13:44

Maybe we can trial it on Boris ????

[aceuk] 07/4/2020 13:43

In matters healthcare and medicinal Alp is way above you.

For once maxidi shut your mouth and listen to a very knowledgeable poster

[alphorn] 07/4/2020 13:42

maxidi - you know me long enough - I don't mix emotions and facts.
There is much too much rubbish posted - a few facts from time to time is a novel idea to some.

[maxidi] 07/4/2020 13:26

ALP try not to sound so superior it's not very nice. You just sound big headed and nobody likes that!

[maxidi] 07/4/2020 13:23

The facts are that the French have used hydroxychloroquine weeks ago in a trial on 50 very ill patients and 48 were completely well after a 5 day trial. It was also used in one of the U.S. states with very positive success.

IMO we should be using it now and not waiting for our own lengthy trial and trust the French trial... it could save a lot of lives.

[alphorn] 07/4/2020 13:09

Sanofi Pharma sells Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine), a medicine indicated in some rheumatological and dermatological diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. It is also indicated in some countries for the prevention or treatment of malaria. It was developed in the 1950s from chloroquine, an old anti-malarial drug.
The question is not whether it is approved - the question is centred on 'Off-label' use; different question.
Sanofi is launching two clinical studies on hydroxychloroquine for Coronavirus themselves and are also providing the medicine for free to research centres participating in the WHO trial and other researchers.

Try and keep to the facts.

[ladeside] 07/4/2020 13:03

"socialist doctors"

Give yourself a break, not that it actually matters but I think you'll find that the vast majority of Doctors are in fact Tory voters for obvious reasons.

You still don't get that the majority of people in the world don't live and breathe by a set political ideology as they tend to do what's best for them at any given time, political ideology's carry even less significance to the average person than your choice of football team etc.

Apart from this there's really very little difference between extreme left and extreme right and by the same token there's very little between left leaning and right leaning.

I do tire of this constant narrative on here about "lefty this", "socialist that", honestly,get a grip of yourselves !!!

[stonedyou] 07/4/2020 12:44

Boris Johnson 'is extremely sick' in intensive care says professor

The Prime Minister was moved to the critical unit at St Thomas' Hospital on Monday evening


An expert has shed light on Boris Johnson's likely condition after being rushed to intensive care.

The Prime Minister has been fighting coronavirus since last week and was taken to hospital after his condition got worse.





Derek Hill, professor of medical imaging at University College London (UCL), said

Mr Johnson was "extremely sick" - with many coronavirus patients who need

intensive care requiring invasive ventilation.

The Prime Minister was moved to the critical unit at St Thomas' Hospital on Monday

evening as part of his ongoing treatment for Covid-19.

He was understood to be conscious when he was moved to intensive care at about

7pm, as a precaution should he require ventilation to aid his recovery

[stonedyou] 07/4/2020 12:43

Boris Johnson 'is extremely sick' in intensive care says professor

The Prime Minister was moved to the critical unit at St Thomas' Hospital on Monday evening


An expert has shed light on Boris Johnson's likely condition after being rushed to intensive care.

The Prime Minister has been fighting coronavirus since last week and was taken to hospital after his condition got worse.





Derek Hill, professor of medical imaging at University College London (UCL), said

Mr Johnson was "extremely sick" - with many coronavirus patients who need

intensive care requiring invasive ventilation.

The Prime Minister was moved to the critical unit at St Thomas' Hospital on Monday

evening as part of his ongoing treatment for Covid-19.

He was understood to be conscious when he was moved to intensive care at about

7pm, as a precaution should he require ventilation to aid his recovery

[k38] 07/4/2020 12:35

Well... I was making sure Bob's correct. Lol.

[aljm] 07/4/2020 12:29

ALL morning ??? lol

[k38] 07/4/2020 12:25

bob good call ... I was buying all morning. lol...

[xxxxxy] 07/4/2020 12:24

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The combination of the two firms' expertise is encouraging and will accelerate the efforts to build a reliable and effective vaccine. EasyJet's biggest investor threatens to sue bosses: Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, EasyJet's founder and biggest investor, has threatened to sue the airline's bosses after the company secured a £600 million emergency loan from the Treasury's coronavirus scheme and borrowed a further £400 million from creditors. The airline has spent £300 million in just three weeks and £170 million of that was to fund a dividend. Sir Stelios has said he will call for the removal of directors until a shareholder vote on the removal of Andreas Bierwirth and Andrew Findlay is held over their failure to terminate a £4.5 billion order from Airbus during the pandemic.Airlines still continue to lobby the Government for support, arguing if this does not come, healthy  businesses will go into bankruptcy. ABTA chief executive Mark Tanzer said "It's in nobody's interests for normally healthy, viable businesses to be pushed into bankruptcy. Hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk and the UK taxpayer will have to foot the bill for customer refunds if there is an industry-wide collapse of travel businesses." On our site today: Today's first article comes from Joshua Mackenzie-Lawrie, a Senior Research Executive at cross-party, eurosceptic campaign, Get Britain Out. His article commends the government position of leaving the European Aviation Standards Authority and stresses the UK's current authority is already world leading in its regulation of the industry. You can read the full article here.Our second article is written by Gerard Lyons and Paul Ormerod. Dr Gerard Lyons is Chief Economic Strategist at Netwealth. He is also on the Board of Bank of China (UK) and a Senior Fellow at the Policy Exchange think tank. 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[mr.elbee] 07/4/2020 12:20

Pierre would that be the same vaccine as for flu?

tamiflu? or the one they havent invented for the common cold? or BSE?..or Sars?


This is ALL political..socialist doctors playing totally unnecessary games with people's lives in the name of science!

Hydroxychloroquine now licensed on restricted prescription in India and the US

IT WILL NEVER COME HERE.

[pierre oreilly] 07/4/2020 12:06

Mx, yeah i agree, but i bet he's still drinking copious amounts of hand sanitiser to cleanse his absent brain.

[maxk] 07/4/2020 11:59

Well, you're safe...no brain to wash.