Author: Helen Alice Springs

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.

How to Manage a Pandemic and How Not To

December 12, 2022

Professor Harvey Risch, Professor of Epidemiology at Yale University’s School of Public Health gives this two minute lesson in Infectious Disease Epidemiology 101. What he doesn’t say, because his point is made so succinctly, is that the chart he shares is the “case fatality rate”, which means the number of people who died of the … More How to Manage a Pandemic and How Not To

Science vs Science Fiction in an Upside Down World

December 6, 2022

A cardiac surgeon in NZ has claimed the parents wishing to have Covid-unvaccinated blood for their baby who needs to receive donor blood during heart surgery, “believe in science fiction“. It is starting to look as though science and science fiction have flipped on their heads. This form was recently removed from the NZ Blood … More Science vs Science Fiction in an Upside Down World