Considerable decline in trust of the CDC, large survey shows
Rather than fix the root cause problems, the CDC will enlist public relations consultants and fix this with a propaganda campaign – and the CDC will continue business as usual:…
CDC mostly drops the surface cleaning guidance
People can be infected with SARS-CoV-2 through contact with surfaces. However, based on available epidemiological data and studies of environmental transmission factors, surface transmission is not the main route by…
What is the NNT and efficacy for face masks?
NNT is the number needed to treat to result in one positive outcome. Stated another way, how many people need to wear a face mask to eliminate one new case…
9 months ago outdoor assemblies of people were not mass spreader events but now they are mass spreader events?
Outdoor protests in June of 2020 said not to be a source of Covid-19 spread. There isn’t evidence that Black Lives Matter protests have led to a noticeable increase in…
I make observations and ask stupid questions
Just an observation about the “4th wave”. The first 3 waves had similar upwards slopes in the epicurves (yellow lines at left). This curve, so far, for the supposed 4th…
Surge in good news: “Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine is 100% effective in children ages 12-15”
Source: Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine is 100% effective in children ages 12-15 Is “Surge” a militaristic white supremacy verb? No, it is not but that didn’t stop a politician…
The world is consuming 3 million face masks PER MINUTE
No one gave any thought to this side effect of face masks – there was and is no plan for mask recycling: Recent studies estimated an astounding 129 billion face…
Well good: Covid vaccination likely protects those around you too
This would be the idea, of course, as the surge in good news grows: In fact it is becoming increasingly clear the jab is a very big step towards protecting…
Boondoggle: Oregon’s smart phone contact tracing app failure
Smart phone contact tracing apps are a technology whose time never arrived: Months after agency officials said they were actively “assessing the results” of a trial conducted at Oregon State…
Chart of trend in published Covid-19 papers is now linear
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