Updated September 10, 2020: The Infection Fatality Ratio parameter has been updated to include age-specific estimates The parameter for Number of Days from Symptom Onset to Seeking Outpatient Care—which was based on influenza care seeking data—has been replaced with the Median Number of Days from Symptom Onset to SARS-CoV-2 Test among SARS-CoV-2 Positive Patients A…
Category: Public Health Reform
Lifesite News reports “New org appealing for scientists, lawyers to help ‘combat the growing totalitarian health tyranny’”
Originating from a public appeal issued by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to ‘Save the Church and the World,’ the professional association is constituted upon the three pillars of science, ethics, and law. An Italian non-profit association is appealing for scientists and lawyers to help it develop a worldwide networked-campaign to combat the growing totalitarian health…
AARP reports “Is Extended Isolation Killing Older Adults in Long-Term Care?”
Five months of COVID-19 lockdowns have created a mental health crisis In February, Lorri Evans’ mom was walking the equivalent of four blocks, twice a day, around her memory care facility in Santa Cruz, California. “She used a walker for support,” Evans says, “but her legs worked fairly well for someone who is 99.” “Just…
NY Post reports “Elon Musk says he won’t take coronavirus vaccine, calls Bill Gates a ‘knucklehead’”
SpaceX founder Elon Musk stirred the pot yet again after claiming that neither he nor his family would take a COVID-19 vaccine even if it was readily available. The 49-year-old billionaire dropped the bombshell during a Monday appearance on the New York Times opinion podcast “Sway.” “I’m not at risk, neither are my kids,” Musk told host Kara Swisher…
ResearchGate reports “Evaluation of the virulence of SARS-CoV-2 in France, from all-cause mortality 1946-2020”
We are certain that this “COVID-peak” is artificial because it: i. occurs sharply (one-month width) at an unprecedented location in the seasonal cycle of all-cause mortality (centered at the end of March), 2 ii. is absent in many jurisdictions (34 of the USA States have no “COVID-peak”), and iii. varies widely in magnitude from jurisdiction…
Medical Xpress reports “Study: 35% of excess deaths in pandemic’s early months tied to causes other than COVID-19”
Since COVID-19’s spread to the United States earlier this year, death rates in the U.S. have risen significantly. But deaths attributed to COVID-19 only account for about two-thirds of the increase in March and April, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Yale…
Investment Watch report “CDC publishes new survival rates for Covid … MSM Goes Silent”
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/cdc-publishes-new-survival-rates-for-covid-msm-goes-silent/
Times Union reports “Cuomo: ‘I wouldn’t recommend’ trusting a pre-election COVID-19 vaccine”
Governor calls for investigation into what Trump knew about lethality of virus ALBANY — In a wide-ranging Thursday press conference, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo discussed the state’s plans to prepare for an eventual COVID-19 vaccine, called for Congressional investigations into Trump administration’s COVID-19 response, and continued his pitch to the federal government for relief funding…
Physicians for Informed Consent delivers statement “Opposing UC Regents’ Flu Vaccine Mandate”
On behalf of hundreds of physician and scientist members of Physicians for Informed Consent, I am writing out of our concern that the bodily integrity of UC students, faculty, and staff is being potentially sacrificed by the recent UC Regents’ flu vaccine mandate,1 with no robust scientific justification. Patients have reported becoming ill following flu vaccination….
Boston Magazine reports “Could COVID-19 Have Escaped from a Lab?”
The world’s preeminent scientists say a theory from the Broad Institute’s Alina Chan is too wild to be believed. But when the theory is about the possibility of COVID being man-made, is this science or censorship? In January, as she watched the news about a novel virus spreading out of control in China, Alina Chan…