“Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don’t mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.” –Kary Mullis, Inventor of Polymerase Chain Reaction What do we mean when we say somebody has ‘tested positive’ for the Corona Virus? The answer would…
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New England Journal of Medicine reports “widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.”
We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or…
Penn State reports “Initial COVID-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater than originally reported”
Now, a new study from Penn State estimates that the number of early COVID-19 cases in the U.S. may have been more than 80 times greater and doubled nearly twice as fast as originally believed The implication is that death rates are much lower than initially believed. https://news.psu.edu/story/623797/2020/06/22/research/initial-covid-19-infection-rate-may-be-80-times-greater-originally
Ben Swann reports “Multiple Scientists: Coronavirus Altered in Lab to Better Attach to Humans”
Exclusive information. Multiple highly regarded scientists who have studied C0R0NAVlRUS say that the VlRUS has been manipulated in labs to better attach to human cells. Turns out, research on that very thing was conducted here in the United States until the research was banned in 2013. In 2014, the research appears to have resumed through…
The Scientist reports on “Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate” in 2015
Ralph Baric, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published a study on his team’s efforts to engineer a virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. The…
Jerusalem Post reports “COVID-19 is weakening, could die out without vaccine, specialist claims”
The coronavirus has weakened over time, and it could die out without the need for a vaccine, a leading Italian infectious diseases specialist told The Telegraph. https://www.jpost.com/health-science/covid-19-is-weakening-could-die-out-without-vaccine-specialist-claims-632324
USA Today reports “When there’s a coronavirus vaccine, how will we make sure everybody gets it? That’s the job of state immunization registries.”
A collection of 62 obscure state and local agencies may end up being crucial players in the fight against coronavirus once vaccines become available. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/06/12/coronavirus-vaccine-state-immunization-registries/5321892002/
UnHerd op-ed: “Coronavirus will change nothing”
The Black Death shows that after a pandemic, life goes on as before
Wales Online report “Dr Hilary reveals what the chances of children aged between 5-14 dying of coronavirus are on GMB”
Dr Hilary has revealed that the risk of children dying from coronavirus is “less than being struck by lightning”. Appearing on today’s instalment of Good Morning Britain, the medical expert said there is strong evidence to suggest children between five and 14 years old are more resilient to the virus. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/dr-hilary-reveals-what-chances-18392942
2005 Study found “Chloroquine Is a Potent Inhibitor of SARS Coronavirus Infection and Spread”
The study concludes: Chloroquine is effective in preventing the spread of SARS CoV in cell culture. Favorable inhibition of virus spread was observed when the cells were either treated with chloroquine prior to or after SARS CoV infection. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1232869/