Um bom artigo na Atlantic, que reconhece a inevitabilidade da endemização do sars-cov2. Com base em experiências passadas e no histórico de outros coronavirus, descreve o processo pelo qual o vírus se torna endémico. Infecções sucessivas treinam o nosso sistema, imunitário prevenindo sintomas graves, mas não reinfecções.Do mesmo modo que as vacinas.O efeito destas é… Read More »
The role of vitamin D in preventing viral infections, including COVID-19, is gaining attention as more studies are released. In this video, Dr. Seheult of https://www.medcram.com discusses a recent vitamin D review article published in the peer-reviewed journal Nutrients which has compelling implications for COVID-19 and overall vascular and endothelial health. Studies mentioned in the… Read More »
Another highly qualified scientist voices dissent against the pandemic histeria and lockdown. “As with all respiratory diseases the only thing that stops it is herd immunity.”“I’m not paid by the government, so I’m entitled to actually do science.” Professor Knut Wittkowski has headed The Rockefeller University’s Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology for 20 years. Before that… Read More »
Os superspreading events e a propagação do coronavirus – porque não começar com medidas preventivas destes eventos antes de usar logo a bazuca do confinamento geral? Muitos surtos de coronavirus, em diversos locais, resultaram de eventos especiais, que reuniram muitas pessoas – o que os epidemiologistas designam de “superspreading events” (SSE). Pelos dados que vamos… Read More »
Covid-19 – Evolução na Suécia vs Portugal Por curiosidade, comparei a evolução da epidemia na Suécia e em Potugal. O número de habitantes é semelhante, embora a densidade seja muito distinta. Vale o que vale. É uma comparação simples. Considerei apenas os indicadores Novos Casos e Mortes, dia a dia. Dados da worldometers. Como é… Read More »
Great interview with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. An honest and candid view of what we know and do not know about this epidemic. Dr. Bhattacharya is professor of medicine at Stanford University and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He co-authored with a colleague from Stanford a remarkable opinion article in the Wall… Read More »
Lockdown: is economic meltdown a price worth paying to halt or delay what is already amongst us? Say Carl Heneghan and Director and Carl Heneghan, Senior Fellow of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford “Lockdown is going to bankrupt all of us and our descendants and is unlikely at this point to slow… Read More »
Open Letter to Chancellor Merkel Dear Chancellor, As Emeritus of the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz and longtime director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology, I feel obliged to critically question the far-reaching restrictions on public life that we are currently taking on ourselves in order to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. It is expressly… Read More »
Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say? Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high by orders of magnitude. https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464 In this article on the WSJ two Stanford University professors of medicine conclude:”A universal quarantine may not be worth the costs it imposes on the economy, community and individual mental and… Read More »
A thought provoking article from a top epidemiologist from Stanford University, John Ioannidis. “A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data” “The current coronavirus disease, Covid-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco.”https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/ His conclusion: “If we… Read More »