One person wrote: 'As daft as it sounds, a lot more people are killed each year driving a car than flying. When you do your pilots license you have to log hours to prove you have experienced a certain amount of practice. The DVSA have no way at all of knowing which learners to priorities for test.' … [Read more...] about ‘It’s asking for more accidents!’ Petition to allow driving instructors to pass students unable to book a test during Covid wins 27,000 signatures – but critics say it will put ‘unsafe’ drivers on the road
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State-by-state breakdown of COVID cases, deaths and vaccine rollout: 100,000 Americans are expected to die in next month but cases and hospitalizations ARE slowing across some states – as Fauci says plan to vaccinate 100m in 100 days ‘will work’
It's unclear, however, if they all shipped prior to the Trump administration's announcement early this week that states should open up vaccination to more people. He said states are getting the required second doses they need and the number of first doses is stable. … [Read more...] about State-by-state breakdown of COVID cases, deaths and vaccine rollout: 100,000 Americans are expected to die in next month but cases and hospitalizations ARE slowing across some states – as Fauci says plan to vaccinate 100m in 100 days ‘will work’
This Morning’s Dr Ranj Singh reveals grim insight into overwhelmed intensive units ‘devastated’ by new Covid strains
"What does that mean? It means that firstly we are unable to provide intensive care to those extremely sick people that are coming in with coronavirus that need it but secondly it has a knock on effect on all the other services that we are able to provide. … [Read more...] about This Morning’s Dr Ranj Singh reveals grim insight into overwhelmed intensive units ‘devastated’ by new Covid strains
UK drugs watchdog is waiting for Pfizer to send over full results on breakthrough Covid vaccine so it can be approved for December roll-out after trial shows it’s safe, 95% effective and works in vulnerable older people
The NHS's Professor Stephen Powis said in a TV briefing today: 'The NHS has been working incredibly hard to ensure that we are ready to deploy vaccines and to make sure vaccines can be delivered as soon as the vaccine trials have finished, and the regulators have looked at the data and given an approval for the use of vaccines. … [Read more...] about UK drugs watchdog is waiting for Pfizer to send over full results on breakthrough Covid vaccine so it can be approved for December roll-out after trial shows it’s safe, 95% effective and works in vulnerable older people
CIA declassifies trove of UFO documents for online ‘Black Vault’ that reveals ‘mystery explosions’ and ‘alien contact’
The Fermi Paradox isn't strict evidence for alien life – but more of a thought experiment It's a famous contradiction posed by physicist Enrico Fermi Fermi suggested that the enormous size of the universe – and the billions of Sun-like stars in the galaxy, and their planets – makes it highly likely that there is intelligent life out there Some of these civilisations may have developed interstellar travel But Fermi also noted that there's a significant lack of evidence for life on other planets The chances of aliens being able to reach us are high, but there's no evidence that aliens ever have This paradox has baffled scientists for decades … [Read more...] about CIA declassifies trove of UFO documents for online ‘Black Vault’ that reveals ‘mystery explosions’ and ‘alien contact’
