“In 2013, scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology collected horseshoe bat feces at a cave 1,000 miles away infected with a coronavirus 96.2% identical to the virus which causes COVID-19 (Nature). “Peng Zhou, Wuhan Institute of Virology’s head of Bat Virus Infection and Immunization, was researching “the molecular mechanism that allows Ebola and SARS-associated coronaviruses to lieContinue reading “The Easiest Game of Connect-the-Dots”
Category Archives: #Covid
Visualizing Pandemics
Death toll from the COVID-19 virus relative to other historic pandemics all the way back to Roman times. Black Death is still the winner – hands down. Courtesy of Visual Capitalist: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/
Chris Macintosh responds to Lord Klaus Schwab
A sample of Chris’s points before you read the article: “Those that have thrived are unsurprisingly the very same clutch of folks that are your buddies from Davos. Enormous corporations that benefit from the tyrannical lockdowns. It comes as no surprise that Bezos’ Amazon, Zuckerberg’s Facebook and Dorsey’s Twitter have all sucked up more power,Continue reading “Chris Macintosh responds to Lord Klaus Schwab”
Corrupt Joe’s Business Associates
How China’s ‘Army of Paid Internet Trolls’ helped censor COVID-19. https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/leaked-docs-reveal-how-chinas-army-paid-internet-trolls-helped-censor-covid-19
What Risk?
Chris Hamilton (Econimica.com) is known for his insightful statistical analysis of the economy. And, last week, Chris did a great job poking through the CoV data in response to Oregon’s lockdown order. But, first, the order. Last week State Potentate Kate Brown issued the following statement: “As we near 100,000 cases of COVID-19 in Oregon,Continue reading “What Risk?”
Covid Phylogeny Update
Still remarkably stable since erupting early this year. Remarkable for a coronavirus that is supposed to be “novel”, that is. https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global
The Myth of Asymptomatic Spread
Here’s “The Science”: “The screening of the 9,865,404 participants without a history of COVID-19 found no newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, and identified 300 asymptomatic positive cases with a detection rate of 0.303 (95% CI 0.270–0.339)/10,000. The median age-stratified Ct-values of the asymptomatic cases were shown in Supplementary Table 1. Of the 300 asymptomatic positive cases,Continue reading “The Myth of Asymptomatic Spread”
Vitamin D and Covid
In a comment reported in The Lancet, Adrian R Martineau and Nita G Forouhi observe: “The striking overlap between risk factors for severe COVID-19 and vitamin D deficiency, including obesity, older age, and Black or Asian ethnic origin, has led some researchers to hypothesise that vitamin D supplementation could hold promise as a preventive orContinue reading “Vitamin D and Covid”
On Viral Loads for SARS-CoV-2
From Sender et al. Reference: Sender, R., et al. (2020). The total number and mass of SARS-CoV-2 virions in an infected. htpps://doi.org/10/1101/2020.11.16.20232009
Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine Results
“When data from the various dosing regimens were combined, the study found that the vaccine was 70% effective at preventing symptomatic coronavirus infections. The standard regimen — two doses of the same strength administered a month apart — had an efficacy of 62%, whereas the regimen with a lower initial dose yielded an efficacy ofContinue reading “Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine Results”
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