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You hit the nail right on the head here Moljen - "an expert’s job is often to simplify complicated concepts so that other people, with less knowledge, can understand". I remember from 'Communication in Business', (Peter Little), the concept of Transmitters having to work on the right wave length, being that of the 'Receivers', (wireless wise). I had to chuckle when Ruck called you 'Molten' in his reply - (possibly a typo).

'Molten' you were though, 19.49 - wanting to "bang my (your) head against a wall" during fair discussions that bordered on the BB clutching at a wooden pallett for funding again. The idea that finance was sorted because the project was launched is now proven groundless but hopefully discussions about 'Covidity' ARE going on and we just won't know until it happens. So until then it's just GGrrrrrr !

It lloked OK. That's it then. I was surprised when it went '404'. ATB

Inan. Couldn't make your link work - try this . .
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/05/14/virus-drag-economy-effective-stimulus-remains-working-vaccine/

Ruck it's 'CoviDity' not that LOL (oh for that edit function)

Re. your 23.02 - "I wouldn’t get too concerned about newbies being put off by the shenanigans of a BB. 1) if we are reliant on a bunch of green behind the ears newbies to boost the SP then we’re all in trouble and 2) Anyone who is serious about investing a substantial amount of money here will do their own research." (Chester was recently expressing a similar concern). Spot on and I agree with your statement, 100%.

Positive 'sentiment' on the BB is comforting for us beleagured LTH in a shallow way but IMO it's empty of worth unless it is truly representative. Good to hear all sides. Oh and I'm not 'past caring' . . . yet. ATB

Fantastic news : "Fewer than 24 people are catching coronavirus each day in London, new modelling suggests, with forecasts predicting the virus could be wiped out in the capital within a fortnight. Analysis by Public Health England and Cambridge University calculates that the “R” reproduction rate has fallen to 0.4 in London, with the number of new cases halving every 3.5 days. If cases continue to decrease at the current rate, the virus will be virtually eliminated in the capital by the end of the month, raising questions about whether the strict lockdown measures would need to continue."

With average deaths per day in the UK still around 400, this is amazing news. Well done London and C7, you may soon be down the Pub again ! The lockdown may need to be tailored regionally as many are suggesting. Fingers crossed then. Weeks ago I read some research from Israel, a Prof. suggesting that the virus might have an inbuilt limited timespan so let's hope that might indeed be true - (couldn't find it again to post - dooh).

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/14/london-has-just-24-new-coronavirus-cases-day/

Power cut today so see you later. GLA

Thanks for your posts yesterday - if your own faith was anything to do with it at all - Scancell would have all the finance it needs already. Hopefully the funding is coming but otherwise, will we be stuck with a sausage because we couldn't sell the sizzle ? (like that one Dalester). Time will tell - has the coordinated media response moved on ? We have to hope that some discussions are under way . . . . ATB

AS BJ continues to ponder UK border status, quarantines and so on, Europeans are looking forward to their summer holidays (no doubt much needed by now). The pressure to facilitate holiday travel will be immense. So whilst Spain (perish the thought) and others maybe try to find ways to ease border controls to enable tourism, the UK is still in paralysis on implementing any border controls ? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/14/95000-people-flew-uk-lockdown-nearly-5000-may-have-infected/

Got to this via Gooosed's link. Thought provoking ? https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/29/following-the-science-boris-johnson-and-his-government-should-look-in-the-mirror/

Balerno 15.55 - did you mean CH ? (not RG)
Ivy 21.31 - RG and LD definitely sold 'shares' many years ago, 50,000 in GBP or no. (not sure). It caused quite an outcry (unjustified IMO) if I remember.

Dalester - spot on - but we don't quite know or do we ? Moving on - does this help Scancell ?

"No more than five per cent of the population of France and Spain - two of the countries hardest-hit by the coronavirus - have contracted the disease, say two new studies in a major blow to hopes of “herd immunity”. A mere 4.4 per cent of the French population - or 2.8 million people - have been infected, according to findings of the Pasteur Institue published in the journal Science and based on models applied to hospital and death data. Even in the worst-hit parts of France - the eastern part of the country and the Paris region - the infection rate only reaches between 9 and 10 per cent on average, it found.
Such figures are considerably higher than the official count of cases but way too low to effectively stop the spread of the virus through group immunity." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/14/france-spain-say-large-scale-testing-coronavirus-shows-no-herd/

In the UK this seems like the 'Oxford task force' ! Prof. Van Tam, Deputy CMO is on the team - let's hope he does not forget his Nottingham Uni roots !

"UK vaccine taskforce - On April 17, the government launched a taskforce designed to "rapidly develop a coronavirus vaccine", as well as scale up manufacturing so it can be quickly produced and delivered in mass quantities. It will be led by Sir Patrick Vallance and Professor Jonathan van Tam, the deputy chief medical officer, and members will include AstraZeneca and the Wellcome Trust.

The government has initially earmarked £14 million to plough into 21 coronavirus research projects - such as the work by the scientists at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. On April 21, an announcement of a further £44.5 million for the Oxford and Imperial trials increased this funding further still."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-trials-latest-uk/

If 6 months immunity is conferred I guess we'll know - in 6 months ? And so on . . .
Gotta work with what we can I suppose. Time will tell.

Maybe clutching at a wooden pallett rather than a straw ? Some research from China FWIW. ATB

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8300921/Nearly-recovers-coronavirus-develops-antibodies-study-finds.html

Possibly great news ? - "A coronavirus antibody test kit has been approved by Public Health England (PHE), The Telegraph has learned, in a breakthrough that could be key to easing the UK's lockdown restrictions. The Telegraph understands that the Department of Health is in negotiations with the Swiss healthcare company Roche to buy millions of the kits. The accuracy of the test was given approval by experts at PHE’s Porton Down facility last week. "

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/13/exclusive-first-coronavirus-antibody-test-given-approval-public/

Michael - yes - that was just the sum . . . or the math ? (what is that ?) I agree otherwise 100%
Ruck - agree - let's just get IT to fly - for CV-19 and cancer.

(This is better - for years we were just not allowed to talk about 'funding'. ATB

Michael - check the sums but GBP10 million at 6 pence requires approx 170 million new shares to be issued and a dilution of 40%. I'm still hoping for some 'left field' action to help. Post rec.

That's right Crumbs - we've been here before have we not ? But nil desperandum ! Surely CV-19 has SUCH ultra priority that even the Scancell stone, will not this time, go unturned ! GLA

Inan - have you seen A. E-P in full cry in the DT ? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/05/12/governments-handling-covid-19-british-disaster/ (not to everyone's taste maybe).

And Inan, thanks for the Covidity insights and comparisons with other vaccine projects. I'm convinced. So it should be just a matter of time before Prof. Lindy's vaccine project attracts funding ? Let's hope so. GLA

Without something 'left field' appearing, funding will be needed soon. When we started discussing this many moons ago, I plumped for this coming June/July rather than the idea that we could soldier on until 2021. You ? One thing is for sure - we may not see it coming ! Re. Trinity Delta - thorough work as you say.

When I saw this in the DM it rang some bells - Inan often mentions inflammation in Scancell processes and I was interested to see headings like 'Inflammation and the virus' and 'And there is a link to cancer' in the article. As Prof.Lindy battles to produce Covidity based on Immunobody, I thought that apposite enough. Just in case you missed it :-

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8308883/Is-inflammation-link-dementia-cancer-coronavirus.html