Subramanian, S. V. and Kumar, Akhil. Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States, European Journal of Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7 From the findings: “At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the lastContinue reading “No Discernible Relationship”
Tag Archives: #Covid
Trump’s Gone and Suddenly CoVid Data Improves – Hilarious!!!
The case against high-cycle PCR tests as a pandemic metric has long been known in the scientific community – except among those on the Leftscreaming “The Science!” while implementing crushing election year economic lockdowns. And so on the very day The Party installs their selected president, we have WHO taking belated action to address theContinue reading “Trump’s Gone and Suddenly CoVid Data Improves – Hilarious!!!”
Questioning the Lockdowns
Back in September, Donalid Luskin (CIO, TrendMacro) penned an opinion piece in the WSJ regarding uncontrolled experiments of government lockdowns (https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-failed-experiment-of-covid-lockdowns-11599000890): The lesson is not that lockdowns made the spread of Covid-19 worse—although the raw evidence might suggest that—but that lockdowns probably didn’t help, and opening up didn’t hurt. This defies common sense. In theory,Continue reading “Questioning the Lockdowns”
RNA Vaccine
Vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna are the marquee developments of RNA technology that can potentially immunization programs targeting HIV, malaria, influenza and other viral pathogens. RNA vaccines employ a messenger RNA (mRNA) that encodes the full-length SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Upon injection into a vaccine recipient, the mRNA enters cells and is translated by theContinue reading “RNA Vaccine”
Econo-Bio Warfare
“A Personal Financial Disaster”
Quite a year: Socialist governments have slaughtered small businesses by the thousands, with more than 70 million new claims for unemployment benefits have been filed since the COVID pandemic first started. A brutal, government-mandated economic depression. A Federal government carrying over $27 trillion in debt. A OnePoll survey reports 55% of Americans consider 2020 aContinue reading ““A Personal Financial Disaster””
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/
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?”
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”
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