The New York Times describe Scott Atlas as having “unorthodox” ideas, and “pushing a suite of disputed policy prescriptions” in this article https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/us/politics/trump-scott-atlas-coronavirus.html#click=https://t.co/0jLWPfUQ7g. Yet for anyone who has read a little bit of public health and heard Atlas speak, this seems to be very far from the truth. Atlas recommends an evidence based public health … More Turning Tides
Politicians and the media have become our public health advisors and experts in 2020. This has been incredibly painful to watch. So much so that I have not looked at a newspaper or turned on the television in months. Public health appears to have folded to pressure from ill informed sources instead of following existing … More Fallacies and Fatality Rates
The Good: A Great Read Available at Taylor & Francis Online, “Critical Public Health is an international journal publishing innovative research into public health and health promotion, including health and policy issues“. According to Wikipedia “Critical Public Health is a quarterly peer-reviewed public health journal. It was established in 1979 as Radical Community Medicine, obtaining … More Face Mask Policies: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
More than 200 respiratory viruses are responsible for what is colloquially called “the common cold”. All of them are seasonal to some degree. Enveloped viruses (so called because they are surrounded by an envelope of lipid) peak in winter because the cold dry air provides an optimal environment for viral transmission. Heat, humidity and possibly … More Pandemic Proportions
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
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