Tag: Infectious diseases and global panic

Summarising a Pandemic

March 15, 2021

This Letter to the Editor in the British Medical Journal offers a summary of the pandemic and our public health response. The author states “no competing interests”, an important consideration but which always needs double checking. Christian Drosten stated no conflicts of interest in his Eurosurveillance paper recommending a faulty PCR test which was taken … More Summarising a Pandemic

An Epidemic of Panic

March 7, 2020

A global epidemic is currently rocking humanity’s sanity.  Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2, shortened to SARS-CoV-2, is the official name for the virus that causes the disease known as Covid19.  The virus is genetically related to two previous Coronavirus outbreaks. SARS first caused global panic in 2003.  That outbreak lasted from November 2002 until July … More An Epidemic of Panic