There's no reason to believe nothing will be revealed until March. Where are you getting that?
What they've posted 'promises to' "reveal recent advances in the testing and screening of the blood supply".
I think the word "reveal" may be revealing.
You can't reveal something that is already public knowledge.
And if you were going to present a summary of the latest state of play, and didn't yet know for sure whether you would know anything by that date, you would say you were going to "present" or "summarise" the "latest state of play" regarding testing and screening.
It would seem incautious to talk of "recent advances" that haven't happened yet on the basis that they would be "recent" at the time you will be presenting them, and on the assumption that you will have made such advances by that time. Especially in such a highly uncertain field.
Furthermore, any advances made would have to be thoroughly reviewed, vetted, patented and published, with the extra scrutiny appropriate to the extreme seriousness of the issues around blood supply protection. Before going public you would have to go through that whole process. That would all probably take something like 4 months anyway, judging on the speed these things seem to be moving at present. So my firm guess is that they are making this announcement now because they've recently figured out those advances and the 4 months is the time scale before they will be solid enough to be ready for public announcement.
Aside from which, we know that there was a big meeting of all the major players at which all were sworn to secrecy, and nothing has been announced about that; there's a sense in the tea leaves that breakthroughs have been made recently, lots of information should now be in, and that information is being kept somewhat more quiet than expected; and there is already a timetable to unload a big info-dump on us round about April-May 2011 anyway at a conference planned round about that time.
I'm not saying nothing else will be revealed till March, I very much hope it will be and I hope we get something re: BWG Phase II on Dec 15, and something from Dr Singh asap (preferably with lots of videos
) but my reading of that announcement is to theorise that advances made recently will be firmed up and prepared over the coming months and unveiled in March.
