Master of Public Health & Tropical Medicine. Long standing experience with infectious disease surveillance (including influenza-like-illness monitoring), outbreak control, case management, vaccination program management. There is no health without liberty and justice. Ask anyone existing in poverty.
Is there any reason more worthy of reconsidering lockdown as a policy, than the mass harms caused to children? Perhaps reviewing our own motivations is another key consideration. Nick Hudson suggests these three features are common to lockdown proponents and I tend to agree:1. An income that doesn’t go away under lockdown.2. A life that … More Reconsidering A Bad Idea
Do we need to fear different variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus? One of the most basic concepts students of Virology learn is that virus mutation is an evolutionary process which affects a virus’ chances of survival. Lethal viruses render their hosts too unwell for human contact, limiting the virus’ ability for ongoing transmission. Milder viruses, … More Vanquishing Variants
Imitating China on a policy that every single health policy guideline had explicitly warned against. ~ Nick Hudson, Co-Founder and Public Face of Panda, on Lockdown Nick articulates public health concepts with skill, from virus evolution and variant emergence, to seasonality, geographical differences, immunity, vaccines, complex systems and human factors. In this recent interview with … More The Law of Unintended Consequences
This is an edited version of an article I wrote recently for Pandemics Data and Analytics. I have added some personal opinion in the first two paragraphs. It is yet to be edited/published by Panda. Dynamics between viruses and human populations are complex and not well understood. Each year across the globe between 3 million … More Where Is Influenza?
A documentary and interview series covering the information needed to understand where we are today. The full-length film is coming early February. Until then, watch the full interviews and subscribe to our newsletter. https://planetlockdownfilm.com/ Asymptomatic Transmission: “Lie number 1: there can be infections without symptoms, so that everybody here is afraid of everybody, even though … More Planet Lockdown
This article by Robert E. Wright discusses the history of medical quackery as it evolved in early US history, defining quacks as those who “put profits or power ahead of the scientific method”, breaking the Hippocratic oath to “sell a system or nostrum”. He compares age-old quackery to that we are all victims of today … More Quackery and Corruption
I’d been dancing Tango with my radiator for six months ~ Claudia Adela Nye Claudia is an award winning filmmaker and relationship counselor who enjoys dancing the Tango. An Argentine living in the UK, she travels to Sweden to explore their pandemic way of life, interview Anders Tegnell and compare pandemic responses between Sweden and … More Covid, Tango and the Lagom Way
Debating vaccines is a part of the role and interest of those working in the arena of infectious disease. When a new vaccine appears it is never merely administered to everyone. Vaccines are recommended based on an array of considerations such as safety, efficacy, cost of disease/vaccine against benefit of vaccine/disease, who is high risk … More On Immunity, Vaccines and Lockdown
Sunetra Gupta, one of the world’s leading Infectious Disease Epidemiologists, lunched with journalist Alec Marsh in Covent Garden in early December. He published his account of their conversation a couple of days ago in this article, Sunetra Gupta: ‘There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of how we live with germs’. I search for references … More Living With Germs
If mainstream media were taking notice and reporting these events instead of focusing on scary mutant viruses and other fear mongering which keeps chaos alive and obstructs evidence based public health responses, then Christian Drosten would be a globally recognised name. Instead most appear to never have heard of him. He is well known in … More Pandemic Pandemonia
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