We've looked very carefully at case control data and also those with severe disease and those without severe disease and there's no difference at all between these children regarding dog contacts, i don't think we're ruling out Covid completely.

Calum Semple

Malcolm Gracie "Calum" Semple is a British physician and academic. He is Professor of Child Health and Outbreak Medicine at the University of Liverpool and a consultant respiratory paediatrician at Alder Hey Children's Hospital Liverpool.Semple was an undergraduate medical student the Middlesex Hospital Medical School when he met Richard Tedder at the hospital Burns supper, both playing their bagpipes. This led to Semple interrupting his medical studies to read an intercalated bachelor's tripos in cell pathology, immunology and virology supervised by Lewis Wolpert, Ivan Roitt, and Richard Tedder. He continued to study clinical virology as a doctoral student supervised by Richard Tedder and Dr Clive Loveday at University College London. Semple completed his medical degree at Merton College, Oxford. Semple led a clinical trial of Ebola convalescent plasma in Sierra Leone and a follow-up study of Ebola survivors with Dr Janet T Scott and Paul J Steptoe.

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