THE frantic scrounging for face masks in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak has reached new lows in Ireland, with an unscrupulous thief stealing boxes of the protective face wear from St Luke's Hospital in Dublin.
A surge in panic buying of surgical face masks has led to empty shelves across the country, sending wholesale prices soaring by 500%, and evidently, pushing some people to desperate measures.
There is no word yet on whether the thief has been apprehended, but at least we know they clearly weren't wearing a mask at the time of the robbery.
SCIENCE is working on many admirable projects, curing cancer, working on vaccines, but on occasion you have to question if some studies really are time well spent.
A team of biologists from Dartmouth in New Hampshire, who recently concluded that British comedian John Cleese's 'funny walk' is precisely six times sillier than a regular person's walk.
The team found Cleese's knees would bend through 110 degrees, compared to the 20 of a normal person.
We hope they win the Nobel Prize for meaninglessness.
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