The US’s daily coronavirus cases have declined 65% in the last month — a record drop in the course of the nation’s outbreak. New cases reached an all-time high of 312,000 on January 8. Since then, they’ve fallen to a weekly average of around 73,000 per day. Dr. Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at…
Category: Epidemiology
IPAK reports “COVID-19 Data Collection, Comorbidity & Federal Law: A Historical Retrospective”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on August 23, 2020, “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19 , on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.” For a nation tormented by restrictive public health…
Nature Medicine reports “Is presymptomatic spread a major contributor to COVID-19 transmission?”
Recent reports have shown COVID-19 transmission prior to disease onset, raising concerns that people who appear healthy maybe major contributors to the COVID-19 pandemic. Few studieshave directly determined the proportion of transmission eventsthat occur before symptom onset, but a recent modeling studyby He et al. inferred that 44% of secondary cases were infectedduring presymptomatic stages…
WGN9 reports “COVID-19 may eventually be no worse than childhood cold, study finds”
COVID-19 is known to cause life-threatening, and sometimes fatal, outcomes today. But in the future, contracting the virus may be akin to coming down with a common childhood cold. Using data from other human coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-1, researchers from Emory University and Pennsylvania State University have determined that, eventually, COVID-19 will resemble other common childhood…
Millions Against Medical Mandates reports “PCR Test Untrustworthy”
Did You Know? What’s Wrong with PCR Covid Testing The PCR test is the main test being used to detect the SARS-COV2 virus, & diagnose COVID-19. PCR stands for a polymerase chain reaction. In the case of the SARS-COV2 virus, the PCR test serves to amplify fragments of viral DNA for easier detection. The steps are: Swab…
Newsweek reports “COVID Lockdowns May Have No Clear Benefit vs Other Voluntary Measures, International Study Shows”
Astudy evaluating COVID-19 responses around the world found that mandatory lockdown orders early in the pandemic may not provide significantly more benefits to slowing the spread of the disease than other voluntary measures, such as social distancing or travel reduction. The peer reviewed study was published in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation on January 5, and…
Lifesite News reports “Asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 didn’t occur at all, study of 10 million finds”
A study of almost 10 million people in Wuhan, China, found that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 did not occur at all, thus undermining the need for lockdowns, which are built on the premise of the virus being unwittingly spread by infectious, asymptomatic people. Published in November in the scientific journal Nature Communications, the paper was compiled by 19 scientists,…
New York Times reports ” Growing Number of Countries Find Cases of the New Virus Variant”
Japan, Spain, France, Sweden and Canada have found small numbers of infections involving a new, potentially more transmissible variant of the coronavirus, most linked to travel from Britain, where it was first detected. The rapid spread of the variant led to the lockdown of London and southern England this week, prompted a temporary French blockade of the…
Corman-Drosten Review Report reports “External peer review of the RTPCR test to detect SARS-CoV-2 reveals 10 major scientific flaws at the molecular and methodological level: consequences for false positive results”
The published RT-qPCR protocol for detection and diagnostics of 2019-nCoV and the manuscript suffer from numerous technical and scientific errors, including insufficient primer design, a problematic and insufficient RT-qPCR protocol, and the absence of an accurate test validation. Neither the presented test nor the manuscript itself fulfils the requirements for an acceptable scientific publication. Further,…
Lifesite News reports “Minnesota lawmakers claim 40-percent inflation in state COVID death numbers”
State senator Scott Jensen, a practicing physician who is calling for an audit, noted that ‘doctors and hospitals have an incentive to, if you will, massage the numbers.’ Two Minnesota lawmakers have called for an investigation of the state’s COVID-19 mortality data after finding that hundreds of recent deaths may have been misattributed to the…