There are some truly inspiring medical doctors using Twitter to share information about Covid-19. One of the most impassioned I follow is Dr Thomas Binder. He earned a PhD in Virology/Immunology before specialising in Cardiology, has over 30 years medical experience and works as an Associate Professor at a medical university in Austria. There are … More Clickbait and Kludge
Clare Wills is an English lawyer representing elderly care home residents and their families through devastating consequences of enforced isolation which is leading to unnecessary suffering and death. She talks about her experiences with these lockdown victims at Episode 15 of Alex McCarron’s podcast, Escape From Lockdown. Dan Wootton highlights the plight of Mary Fowler … More Documenting Abuses
Nick Hudson, founder of PANDA, sat down with Clare Craig for a chat about the pandemic a couple of days ago. Two rational, ethical scientists both locked down and using their time to deploy skills in proper analysis and communication. The first half of this discussion may be more technical than some can handle, although … More The Spirit of Science
Apparently mainstream media are leading the charge of claims that “this virus is unique”. It’s been hard to understand what they mean by this, given that it is such a close relation of Coronaviruses we are already familiar with and exposed to. This exposure seems to be the reason that the majority of people infected … More Traveling Salesmen, Traveling Viruses
The constant horror I feel as the world’s poorest are being plunged into unspeakable desolation due to untruthful reporting and politicisation of a public health issue drives these blogs, which are really my only recourse for now. One of the tenets of Public Health is to offer truthful, proportionate and calm messages. This is not … More Black Death, Censorship, Rationality
With morning television no longer in my work day routine, I get on Twitter and find out what the latest lion hearts have been up to overnight. Today’s half hour distraction was Dr Roger Hodkinson in Canada having a yarn with my latest favourite journalist, Anna Brees in the UK. Dr Roger Hodkinson Speaks to … More Dr Roger Hodkinson
Something you learn when you study infectious disease epidemiology is the potential problems with all screening tests. Every test comes with some risk of false negative and false positive results. It is quite complicated and I only understand it in quite a simplistic way, but I do understand it. More so since following the information … More Profit in the Time of Covid
Australia has claimed elimination of Covid-19 across locations who spent months locked down over winter. Apparently lockdown has been a highly effective disease control strategy. There are jubilant scenes as people leave their houses and reclaim their freedoms. It is pandemic sacrilege but I am really struggling to buy into the collective belief that viral … More What If …..?
PANDA are a multidisciplinary group of scientists and professionals who have been trying to grapple with the bad science characterising the public policy response to Covid-19. Starting with a small group of South African actuaries and doctors, very early on they spoke out about the negative consequences of lockdown which were not being considered by … More PANDA to the Rescue
A Nursing Home in British Columbia, Canada, had 160 staff members and 142 residents. 53 of the staff (33%) experienced symptoms of respiratory infection but none of them died. 95 of the residents (67%) experienced symptoms of respiratory infection and eight of them died. It turned out to be an infection with Human Coronavirus OC43, … More Coronavirus Outbreak in a Nursing Home
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