Will Savage is a four month old twin born in New Zealand with severe pulmonary valve stenosis requiring urgent heart surgery. His mother knew something was wrong, but was repeatedly told “it’s just reflux”. She insisted, and he had two echocardiograms which showed no abnormalities. She continued to worry and upon her insistence a third … More Babies Needing Blood Transfusions
Many people claim that they “don’t buy” that putting masks on children’s faces, or on the faces of the adults caring for children, has any negative impact. This response ignores the developmental needs of children who rely on emotional expression far more than spoken words to make sense of the world. There are places in … More On Masking Children and Mandates
She is one of the most calm, common sense filled voices of reason and established public health practice throughout this crisis. Here she speaks with a Swedish podcaster for half an hour on her epidemiology and immunology research, the impact of lockdowns compared with focused protection of the vulnerable, herd immunity, the ad hominem attacks … More Professor Sunetra Gupta
As of today, the Coronavirus pandemic in the UK seems out of control. Everyone is talking about it. Nationwide lockdowns have been imposed, mass testing of the city of Liverpool by the military is underway, anti-lockdown protests are breaking out and there are hundreds of Covid-diagnosed deaths everyday. If you Google “Coronavirus UK” this graph … More Disease Detecting
Anders Tegnell is chief epidemiologist with the Swedish Public Health Agency. Unlike many western countries whose health departments respond directly to elected ministers, Swedish law does not allow political intervention in agency decision making. This lack of ministerial rule seems to explain why evidence based pandemic plans were followed with minimal controversy in Sweden. Much … More Interviews Worth Hearing
When I posted my Turning Tides blog two days ago it was distinctly American focused. My personal thoughts were that Australia did not appear to have any leadership able to help us through the ongoing mire of misinformation, confusion and division. Turns out that I was very wrong. Happily so! If you are an Australian … More Australia’s Turning Tide
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
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
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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