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BarrySym - well done volunteering with St John's Ambulance for being a vaccinator. Thank you!!

As a nurse she would not have believed she was immune. A) she knew she had only 1 dose and not the second B) as a nurse she knows that even after 2 doses, efficacy is not 100%.

I can understand her anger that as a nurse she should not have had her 2nd dose delayed, and so awful that she and her colleagues are sadly on their knees. but to say that she thought she was immune is just wrong.

Do we know which of their funds Polar are buying Synairgen for? Looking at their website they have biotech fund but it’s soft-closed, then a few different healthcare funds. As of end Nov none had Synairgen in their top 10 portfolio list. Wondering whether their current position is now enough to push Synairgen into their top 10. Might give us an idea if they’re likely to buy more or if they’re already exposed enough to Synairgen and wouldn’t want to buy more.

Doc - I also live near Bushy Park (plus Richmond Park is even closer for me)

How lucky are we to have so much beautiful open space during lockdowns? Seeing the deer peacefully going along with their lives as normal, is a great reminder of perspective.

I paid for Simply Wall Street last summer for 1 year. Not sure I will re-subscribe.

- Main pros are they pull together lots of financial stats, ownership info, ratios, news plotted v share price etc all into one very user-friendly dashboard
- Plus they have a nice search for stocks based on certain categories, or you can pick your own using filters.
- Data Viz is very good and user friendly.
- Their articles are rubbish, as you say they are automatically computer generated.
- I used their searches and filters to pick a number of shares for my SIPP this year. A few flatlined, despite great predictions, and rather than wait LT I sold out and bought more SNG and ODX :-). But I picked one winner in Innovative Industrial Properties, a US share. Massive increase in share price in 6 months since I bought, about 80%. They buy and manage real estate that they lease out to legal medical marijuana companies and are expert in what they do. Not trying to ramp another share, just an example of simply wallst finding me a profitable share that I never would have discovered by myself.

- Unsure if I will re-subscribe, let's see if I can retire with SNG profits before next summer!
- Pretty sure you can do a free trial and a certain number of searches on their stock-pickers.

Re: MP response - That's a copy and paste of a very old response. The data already has been peer-reviewed and published in Lancet. Quite some time ago!

Either lazy response from MP, or ministers have sent her an out of date copy and paste.

Boris on Andrew Marr ...
I lost count of number of times Boris said the phrase Lateral Flow Testing. Once we get tech transfer done and approved, we should be good to go for orders of millions for mologic antigen test.

Great news too that India has approved Astra Zeneca vaccine. According to bbc India already has a nationwide electronic system for recording who has had what vaccine. Wonder if it can also record who has antibodies?

Unless the govt / NHS is paying for the vaccine antibody tests that people will be having at home, then it won’t happen.

Maybe on for the rich who want proof so they can travel. But many millions in this country have no spare money to pay for something they would rightly think should be paid for by Govt. and that includes many millions of pensioners.

Otherwise it just creates a 2 tier system for the rich v poor.

THousands have heart attacks and strokes all the time. If you do a mass vaccination programme of millions of people, law of averages will tell you that at some stage, someone will get the vaccination and have heart attack on the same day. It absolutely does not mean the vaccine caused the heart attack.

Thanks for the insight into your triaging process DanRey.

A reminder to us all of what a tough and important job you all do. And of course yet another reminder (as if we need one), of why each of us must do whatever it takes to avoid getting and/or passing on Covid to others.

Do you have another GP in the practice you can ask as a 2nd opinion. Shocked that your GP refused. What reason did they give you?

I also didn’t realise that this was a requirement. I thought the trial was all run via Synairgen.

DanRay - firstly, thanks to you and all your colleagues for working so hard through Covid in the ambulance service.

Distressing to hear that a lot of patients are being left to manage the illness at home. What is your current criteria for being too ill to be left at home? Eg is it a certain oxygen saturation rate, or other factors? And has the criteria been tightened because the hospitals are too full?

Agree with you: how many of these people left struggling to breathe at home could have been helped early on with SNG.

We’ve waited this long for trial starting RNS, I’d rather it was early Jan than next week. We only have trading Tues, Wed and half day Thurs.

So it would be limited impact. Plus we don’t really want to clash with the almost certain AZN news fest on TV, backed by 100-strong AZN PR team next week, drowning out little old Synairgen with their genuine life saving treatment and no PR to speak of.

We’ll get our day in the limelight when it’s approved and saving lives. Til then I’m happy in any case they spend their time on trials, manufacturing and govt stockpile orders / pharma licensing negotiations.

We’ve gone from:

- science based on peer reviews and full data sets published TO
- science based on press release from the company flogging the product, with just a couple of carefully chosen stats (this practice was started by Pfizer few months ago, repeated by Moderna, and then AZN, so it is now just the norm with decades of scientific rigour out the window) TO
- science based on the CEO of a company flogging the product just saying “I’ve got the winning formula” with zero data published to back up his claim, and not even a press release with the carefully chosen stats.

Unbelievable how media and govts have allowed scientific rigour and challenge, to be shoved out of the way by big pharma CEOs, desperate to prove mine is bigger than yours.

Oil - bah humbug much?

So basically the UK govt provides £10m free funding to UK diagnostics companies that are providing UK jobs. In return it gets a share of the commercial profits. (And it gets zero profit from PHE / NHS sales)

The funding allows UK population to have access to rigorously tested (and urgently needed) covid tests. Manufactured across all 4 uk countries. Providing skilled science jobs to uk people. And making uk more self sufficient and less reliant on China, for this and future pandemics.

Sounds like a damn good idea to me! Oh and if UK govt profits, that actually means the UK taxpayer profits. A bit like semi nationalisation really, which in the current situation ain’t a bad thing. Grrrr guardian articles and Jolyon Maugham (and a behind the scenes Deeks).

Sorry I meant google search engine results (not google ads)

Welsh - try getting a friend / family member to do same google search? Just to check ...

Google ad results may be influenced by the fact google knows you are interested in Synairgen.

Did anyone else see Matt Han****'s knowing smile when Andrew Marr asked him if the AZN would be approved? The words coming out of his mouth said MHRA is independent, I don't want to put any pressure on them, blah, blah. The smile on his face and the way his eyes suddenly lit up when asked the question, said a big old YES.
(And when I say his eyes lit up, I mean as much as an uncaring robot's eyes can light up)

Geovanni - I'm often astounded by journalists who seemingly can't think on their feet, and react to what the interviewee just said. Have found myself shouting at the journalists on TV often during the govt press conferences. It feels they only want to push their pre-agreed questions, to get their 15 second clip shown on the 6pm / 10pm news.

As you said, if a scientific professor says twice during an interview that "treatments are coming", how can their brain not go ping and think to respond with "so what are these treatments that are coming?"