Three eminent epidemiologists – Dr Sunetra Gupta (Oxford), Dr Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford) and Dr. Martin Kulldorff (Harvard) – met in Massachusetts on October 4th to plan a better response to the pandemic.They call it “Focused Protection” as opposed to the current general lockdown. Key points: “Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and… Read More »
Neste momento, já sabemos o suficiente sobre o sars-cov2 para não ser aceitável que nos deixemos guiar pelo medo. A estratégia de defesa face à pandemia sars-cov2 mereceria uma reflexão profunda por quem de direito. Algumas notas, suscitadas pelo acompanhamento dos últimos desenvolvimentos que tenho visto sobre o tema, do ponto de vista científico. Estamos… Read More »
By Dr. Beda M. Stadler, emeritus professor of immunology and former director of the Institute of Immunology at the University of Bern. The corona virus gradually disappears. What has actually happened in the past few weeks? The experts have overlooked fundamental connections. The immune response to the virus is much stronger than you thought. Interview… Read More »
Scott Atlas Professor of Medicine at Stanford and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, specializing in Health Care, interviewed for Uncommon Knowledge. https://www.hoover.org/research/doctor-scott-atlas-and-efficacy-lockdowns-social-distancing-and-closings For several weeks, Dr. Atlas has been making the case in print and in other media that we as a society have overreacted in imposing draconian restrictions on movement, gatherings, schools, sports,… Read More »
School shutdowns caused by COVID-19 could exacerbate existing achievement gaps this study from McKinsey shows.Inequality will grow inevitably. [Também em Portugal, os estudantes de famílias mais desfavorecidas serão muito mais afectados que os outros. A desigualdade vai aumentar, com efeitos a longo prazo.] “… persistent achievement disparities across income levels and between white students and… Read More »
Máscara obrigatória num Alfa vazio. Distanciamento – melhor, isolamento – social forçado.Um sinal claro do desastre económico em que estamos metidos. Mandatory face mask in an empty train. Social distancing –or rather isolation. A sign of the economic disaster caused by the lockdown.
“COVID-19. Here’s Why You Can’t Trust Any of the Statistics on the Number of Victims.” Thanks to Piers Corbyn for pointing this article. Dr. Malcolm Kendrick is a MD GP in the NHS and authored the book ‘Doctoring Data – How to Sort Out Medical Advice from Medical Nonsense” Excerpts:As an NHS doctor, I’ve seen… Read More »
The ‘economic cost’ of lockdowns in developing nations ‘outweighs’ health benefit.Great interview by Bjorn Lomborg to Sky.au The “significant cost” of the hard-line closure of world economies may do more overall damage than good. “We have good studies from the US that actually indicate a moderate sustained reduction in social interaction probably makes sense in… Read More »
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 »
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 »