Category Archives: Lockdown

Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don’t spread the virus at all?- Kai Kupferschmidt asks in a sciencemag article

Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don’t spread the virus at all? Kai Kupferschmidt, May 19https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/why-do-some-covid-19-patients-infect-many-others-whereas-most-don-t-spread-virus-all Some takeaways:Researchers in China … identified 318 clusters of three or more cases between 4 January and 11 February, only one of which originated outdoors. A study in Japan found that the risk of infection… Read More »

Sunetra Gupta: Covid-19 is on the way out

The author of the Oxford model defends her view that the virus has passed through the UK’s population. “I think that the epidemic has largely come and is on its way out in this country so I think it [Infection Fatality Rate] would be definitely less than 1 in 1000 and probably closer to 1… Read More »

Coronavirus – Fear is more deadly than the virus, says Prof. Karol Sikora

Freddie Sayers, of UnHerd.com, interviews Professor Karol Sikora, the Founding Dean and Professor of Medicine at the University of Buckingham Medical School and an ex-director of the WHO Cancer Programme. Professor Karol Sikora has become something of a celebrity in the UK over the past months for his expert commentary on the pandemic. We had… Read More »

Peter Robinson, P. J. O’Rourke and Andrew Ferguson discuss distancing, journalism, US-China

Great discussion between the host Peter Robinson, P. J. O’Rourke, pro-libertarian political satirist and journalist and journalist and author Andrew Ferguson from The Atlantic. COVID-19, their wasted youth, Trump versus Biden, the state of journalism “In this special plague-time episode of Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, two of the nation’s most brilliant and accomplished humorists… Read More »

Beyond the models and curve flattening. Great podcast from The Economist.

Beyond the models and curve flattening. Great stuff from The Economist, once again. 01:45 – Pascal Soriot, Astra Zenec´s CEO interviewed. He mentions 3 major approaches to fight the pandemia: The virus itself and how it acts. They are working on a monocle antibody. Our immune system’s response. This seems to be what kills people… Read More »