Island nations, and isolated rich countries stopped Covid spread
This is not new – the World Health Organization documented this trend of pandemic control, in an October 2019 report – before the Covid-19 pandemic. Tweet link. Of course, this…
CDC Director suggests vaccines do not work, need to wear masks
Conspiracy theorist cannot make up stuff like this. The CDC Director says, apparently, that masks are more effective than vaccines. This is mind blowing idiotic public messaging. Public health communication…
Follow up: Evidence supports that vaccinated people unable to spread Covid-19
Except this subsequently turned out to be false: Can we say with any degree of certainty that vaccinated people are unlikely to spread COVID to unvaccinated individuals? The emerging data…
Public health acknowledges that voluntary measures more effective than mandatory measures?
“The new cases have fallen since that point and they’ve really been pretty stable over the last week or two,” said Chris Van Deusen, director of media relations for Texas…
Why wear a mask on a zoom call?
Not sure what he thinks the message is, however. I can think of some interpretations… his full vaccination months ago doesn’t work? Uh, don’t think that is the message he…
Pfizer vaccine dose #2 side effects – my personal log
Saturday Afternoon Saturday, 3 pm: Pfizer BioNTech dose #2 administered for the vaccine. Mildly sore arm started within minutes. Saturday, 9 pm: instant onset of a feeling of malaise, like…
CDC determines airborne transmission is primary vector
This has been obvious since a year ago. But WHO stated it was droplet transmission. We adopted DIY face masks to stop droplets. When all this time, per many studies,…
The Failure of Imperial College Modeling
Disease models: The Failure of Imperial College Modeling Is Far Worse than We Knew – AIER True: The exaggerated forecasts of this modeling team are now impossible to downplay or…
MIT study says masks, distancing don’t work
Everything you know is wrong: The risk of being exposed to Covid-19 indoors is as great at 60 feet as it is at 6 feet — even when wearing a…
Nice explanation of the false positive problem and Bayes Theorem
Len Cabrera explains the math behind estimating the number of true positive and false positive COVID-18 test results Source: Estimating the number of false positive tests – Alachua Chronicle And…