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.
Donald Henderson was an American Epidemiologist who led the World Health Organisation campaign that eradicated Smallpox. This was a highly infectious disease with airborne transmission (meaning fine particles that remain suspended in the air for significant periods of time after they’ve been coughed out) as well as other transmission routes. A comprehensive overview of the … More Evidence and Epicurves
If you are interested in the virus – human immune system interplay, below are two worthwhile links. One is a 1h15m YouTube podcast with a molecular biophysicist, Creon Levit. The other is a 1h24m audio podcast with a team of immunologists at New York University. Both cover some known specifics of coronaviruses and both try … More Discussing Immunity
Sometime in February or March a friend recommended that I take a look at what John Ioannides had to say about the Covid-19 pandemic. Busy with other things, I took a quick look via Google which led me to some news items, and then put it aside. It was confusing that such a charlatan could … More Fear Isn’t Healthy For Science
The Role of Public Health I’ve worked in public health for 20 years and hold public health qualifications which influence my practice on a daily basis. I understand that SARS-CoV-2 has entered the human transmission chain and is causing a global pandemic. I understand that a public health response has to be mounted and that … More I Think She Didn’t Nail It
Click here for an excellent public health presentation followed by Q&A on some of the questions, issues and evidence relating specifically to Covid-19. According to his profile at Stanford University’s website, Professor John Ioannides is Professor in Disease Prevention in the School of Medicine, Professor of Medicine, of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology) and by … More Professor of Disease Prevention Nails It
Beda Stadler, Biologist, Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Institute for Immunology at Bern University in Switzerland, talks here on “the tragic failure of science and the immunology behind Covid-19“. He discusses the science of Covid-19 in a way that seems very easy to understand. He also gives an excellent explanation of the dynamics … More Professor of Immunology Nails It
One of the first and funniest encounters I had with use of face masks for potentially infectious patients was in 1999 when the hospital ward I worked on accommodated two elderly sisters from a very remote community in northern Australia, who were thought to possibly have Tuberculosis (as it turned out they did not). Because … More The Mask Maze
Scott Atlas is a Senior Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His views on using evidence to drive public health policy, rather than fear, and the damage being caused by current policies, are worth 24 minutes of your time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PZTLDmLgbA
Professor Francois Balloux is Director of the University College London Genetics Institute and a professor of Computational Systems Biology. He’s someone else I’ve discovered recently on Twitter who is a voice of calm and common sense. Below is a copy-paste of his latest series of 13 tweets, comparing Covid-19 to Influenza. It supports the relevance … More Comparing Covid: A Copy-Paste
Last year the World Health Organisation’s Global Influenza Programme published Non-pharmaceutical public health measures for mitigating the risk and impact of epidemic and pandemic influenza. Coronavirus is not an influenza but it is a respiratory virus with similar genetic material, similar transmission with epidemic/pandemic potential and similar human illness, so this document is highly relevant … More Public Health vs Panic
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