I cover in this presentation the effectiveness of the different types of masks and face shields at protecting the wearer and at preventing the spread of COVID-19. You may be shocked to learn what the science has to say about this. The summary of that: N95 masks work best, face shields are great, then hospital…
Day: July 9, 2020
Washington Post reports “Trump administration sends letter withdrawing U.S. from World Health Organization over coronavirus response”
The Trump administration has begun the process of withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization, a move that could hurt the U.N. agency’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and reshape public health diplomacy. The notice of withdrawal, effective July 6, 2021, was sent Monday to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres. Under the terms of…
Children’s Health Defense reports “New Docs: NIH Owns Half of Moderna Vaccine”
New documents obtained by Axios and Public Citizen suggest that the National Institute of Health (NIH) owns half the key patent for Moderna’s controversial COVID vaccine and could collect half the royalties. In addition, four NIH scientists have filed their own provisional patent application as co-inventors. Little known NIH regulations let agency scientists collect up to $150,000.00 annually in royalties from vaccines upon…
Stanford Medicine reports “actual IFR from Covid-19 range from 0.02% to 0.40%”
Twelve studies were identified with usable data to enter into calculations. Seroprevalence estimates ranged from 0.113% to 25.9% and adjusted seroprevalence estimates ranged from 0.309% to 33%. Infection fatality rates ranged from 0.03% to 0.50% and corrected values ranged from 0.02% to 0.40%. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20101253v1.full.pdf
Bloomberg reports “China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says”
China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths it’s suffered from the disease, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three U.S. officials. The officials asked not to be identified because the report is secret, and they…