No idea! All four could be about either. Now I have to read the substack to find out.

Every time Sweden comes up, I think aha, they mean the Swedish approach of free healthcare, generous public services and mandatory paid sick leave.

Then I remember who they are. And what they are.

I often wonder how many nefarious things EBV gets up to without drawing attention. Interesting to finally see a mechanism associating it with SLE.

Nat Microbiol recently did a short summary of EBV, CMV and HSV vaccine development. Not as encouraging as we might like.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The report on the Milan study is:
www.rff.org/publications...

How about a genuinely intelligent analysis of the reasons for school absence and a properly resourced set of approaches to address them?

Though we'd have to start with a government that doesn't need to outsource thinking to an algorithm

No wonder they spend so little time in office.

But were any of them nicknamed Bunny? Or is it only boarding schoolboys who become lifelong bunnies?

If only.

They're having to close schools in Japan, which is what happens when schools are designed as infection incubators and you care about getting a lid on an outbreak.

I fear that only the first part of that is true in Britain.

The ghost of Ayn Rand is very hard to avoid on many of the most popular platforms.

Isn't this just doing what funding committees have always done?

Heard it from a grant administor years ago. We want lots of first author papers in high profile journals and no, we don't care that human cohort studies take years. No quantity, no funding.

Now that view is training data.

Thanks again. Looks like it may not go as high as I was fearing and hopefully next week's half term will help. Still far too high for comfort and I'm not regretting buying that box of respirator masks quite yet.

Thanks for monitoring this. Been nice to have a break but time to start being careful again.

Always a good plan. Preferably a respirator (FFP2 or N95 ) with loops that go round the back of the head instead of the ears.

I'd say it's even less logical than that. We'll do a lot to protect children from outdoor air pollution but indoors, anything goes. Buildings so damp the air is full of mould spores? No problem. Lock 'em in with airborne viruses? Bring it on.

Then we wonder why so many kids miss so much school.

It's almost as if outsourcing late-stage pharmaceutical development to the private sector doesn't lead to the best outcomes for public health.

I wonder if we'll ever learn.