Off Topic SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19

Absolutely nothing to do with finding a vaccine for this virus. Many years ago, I read the obituary of the chemist who came up with the formula for dissolvable disprin/aspirin. Hmmm, got to be worth a few quid after that I thought. No, he was a chemist employed by Reckitts, he died at home if i remeber, in a house on Garden Villaga.

So, yes, back on topic, someone will find a vaccine, but I somehow doubt he will receive the billions.

 

You can have it without any effect of symptoms and you can have it with some symptoms, like a cough, and not others, like a fever.
Bit of a twat isn’t it

 

So am I. But I don’t think it will

 

I worked with a chap who had a cheque for $1 on his wall. He had his name on a patent which made loads of money, for his employers. Apparently, he had to receive $1 according to US rules, but he framed the cheque rather than cash it.

 

Yes I believe the rushing to spend big to ensure you have a big budget the following year is a thing of the past .
My misses works for the council and it has changed there.
You often saw increased activity on road maintenance in March time to use up budgets .

 

The NHS, universities and, I presume, most big companies, do have intellectual property lawyers to ensure that they are paid a share of any profits arising from their research contributions. Where money is paid to such organisations a small percentage may be paid to the individuals who actually performed the work - it varies but is usually about 1 percent.

 

It's not so much to 'use up' budgets, but works budgeted for or funded by governments, have to start in that financial year or they can't go ahead unless they can be accounted for out of the following years budget, and the previous money can't be carried over. That would leave a knock on effect for future funding and budgets.

 

Yes which my point it can reduce the next financial year

 

It may have changed from over twenty years ago, but a clause in a contract I signed had the company holding all intellectual property rights. May have been a one off discretionary bonus.

 

Aren’t France the country our Government are tracking?

 

Good luck with that.

 

Or car dealerships hopefully, I’m quite chilled now.

 

Of course it won't be a 'he', it'll be a company with shareholders/directors. They'll be the beneficiaries and we might just find that some of them are also the same philanthropists who speculated in the first place.

 

This is the daily reported figures
You can see it always drops over the weekend
I suppose less people might die on a weekend, but it’s much more likely that hospital admin processes for registering deaths have stayed the same as they have been and maybe many don’t tend to register deaths on a weekend.
Sadly it looks like every weekend there’s a downturn in numbers and then they go back up again. If it is an administrative thing then that’s likely to be even more pronounced across a BH weekend.

ONS data including care homes comes out this morning

 

this was informative. horizon prog from bbc last thursday.

might help with some of the doom mongers on here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episo...-[SL02]-[PS_IPLAYER~C~~P_Horizon:Coronavirus]

 

It was, thanks for the reminder.
Would have been better had I included a link to the site (See post # 3757 page 188)
Assume Part 2 is scheduled for next Thurs ?

 

sorry to steal your thunder! i'm afraid the thread is a bit long for me to have read all of it. i can't find any mention of part 2 on the bbc website. it's not scheduled for this thursday.

 

This part is interesting, and worrying.

"The provisional number of deaths registered in England and Wales in the week ending 3 April 2020 (Week 14) was 16,387; this represents an increase of 5,246 deaths registered compared with the previous week (Week 13) and 6,082 more than the five-year average."

59% increase on the 5 year average weekly deaths!