Other than these minor points, it’s a great study :)
https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1383063525854224389
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…
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…
Chart of trend in published Covid-19 papers is now linear
https://twitter.com/RichardTol/status/1376078197117358085
Mitigation measures are lacking in evidence
The next time your local politician or public health director tells you it’s Based on ScienceTM, show them this: Non-drug interventions should be based on evidence. We need to generate…
Fabric from 1903 Wright Flyer sent to Mars
This is so cool! A piece of the Wright brothers’ first airplane is on Mars. NASA’s experimental Martian helicopter holds a small swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer,…
Surge in good news: AstraZeneca Covid vaccine 79% effective in U.S. trial
The safety and efficacy analysis of the vaccine was based on 32,449 participants in a phase 3 trial. Source: AstraZeneca Covid vaccine 79% effective in U.S. trial
Former CDC Director Redfield’s honesty problem
The reasons for spelling “vaccine” as “vacksine” is to slide past the Twitter auto-censor bots. This finding is interesting and unfortunate. Some more background here.
Surge in good news: “Pfizer Covid vaccine blocks 94% of asymptomatic infections and 97% of symptomatic cases”
Pfizer said its Covid-19 vaccine blocked 94% of asymptomatic infections in an Israeli study – a result CEO Albert Bourla called “extremely important.” Source: Pfizer Covid vaccine blocks 94% of…
This describes disease models too: “The risks of communicating extreme climate forecasts”
The same for 2020/2021’s Covid-19 disease models: For decades, climate change researchers and activists have used dramatic forecasts to attempt to influence public perception of the problem and as a…