Here, we demonstrate that HIT may be greatly reduced if a fraction of the population is unable to transmit the virus due to innate resistance or cross-protection from exposure to seasonal coronaviruses. The drop in HIT is proportional to the fraction of the population resistant only when that fraction is effectively segregated from the general…
Category: Epidemiology
Bloomberg reports “Sweden Unveils ‘Promising’ Covid-19 Data as New Cases Plunge”
As other countries face renewed outbreaks, Sweden’s latest Covid-19 figures suggest it’s rapidly bringing the virus under control. “That Sweden has come down to these levels is very promising,” state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell told reporters in Stockholm on Tuesday. The Health Agency of Sweden says that since hitting a peak in late June, the infection…
Business Insider reports “Sweden’s coronavirus death toll is now approaching zero, but experts are warning others not to hail it as a success”
By all accounts, Sweden’s high rate of coronavirus deaths was evidence that the country had made a horrendous error. Sweden — which did not impose a strict lockdown — suffered 543 deaths per million of its population, compared to just 105 in neighboring Denmark. The Swedish death toll has been roughly 11 times worse than Norway’s,…
America’s Frontline Doctors Summit tackles “massive Covid disinformation campaign”
American life has fallen casualty to a massive disinformation campaign. We can speculate on how this has happened, and why it has continued, but the purpose of the American Frontline Doctor’s Summit is to empower Americans to stop living in fear. Join the summit live as we: – Create the opportunity for frontline doctors to…
Medium reports “Coronavirus: Why everyone was wrong the immune response to the virus is stronger than everyone thought”
Beda M Stadler is the former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and professor emeritus writes: The coronavirus is slowly retreating. What actually happened in the past few weeks? The experts have missed basic connections. The immune response against the virus is much stronger than we thought. This…
The Intercept reports “Scientists pin blame for some coronavirus on air pollution, PFAS, and other chemicals”
The link between Covid-19 and air pollution is particularly strong. A study set to publish in July linked six air pollutants in 120 Chinese cities with cases of the viral disease. Researchers in Italy have also shown that long-term exposure to air pollution is “significantly correlated with cases of Covid-19” in up to 71 provinces in that country. And…
FRN reports “The Truth About The 1918 ‘Viral Influenza’ Pandemic”
What if the story we have been told about this pandemic isn’t true? What if, instead, the killer infection was neither the flu nor Spanish in origin? Newly analyzed documents reveal that the “Spanish Flu” may have been a military vaccine experiment gone awry. https://fort-russ.com/2020/05/did-psychopath-rockefeller-create-the-spanish-flu-pandemic-of-1918/
Medical XPress reports “UK ‘overestimates’ coronavirus death toll: study”
Britain ordered an urgent review Friday into how coronavirus deaths are counted after a study suggested health authorities are overestimating the toll by counting people who died long after recovering. More than 45,000 deaths have been recorded in patients who tested positive for COVID-19 in Britain and many more died without being tested, making the…
UnHerd reports “Oxford epidemiologists: suppression strategy is not viable”
We wanted to learn more about the current state of the pandemic and the direction it was headed. Joining Freddie Sayers was Prof Heneghan and his Centre for Evidence Based Medicine colleague Tom Jefferson who shared their thoughts in this wide-ranging discussion
Conservative Review reports “If the panicmongers were consistent, we’d close the schools every flu season”
The reality is that every flu season, many more children die from this common ailment than have from COVID-19. And unlike with COVID-19, where the rare pediatric deaths are among those who have serious conditions, many of the flu deaths occur in perfectly healthy children. According to the CDC, “influenza is dangerous to children,” and during…